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Herdr Companion

Herdr Companion

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Herdr AI coding agent integration for VS Code: status bar monitor, fast switcher, and focus-on-blocked.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Herdr Companion (VS Code extension)

A fast, lightweight VS Code extension for managing AI coding agent conversations (opencode, claude, codex, grok, agy, copilot, etc.) backed by Herdr.

Agent Status Mapping

  • 🟡 working – yellow dot / active processing
  • 🔴 blocked – red dot / waiting for your input (triggers notification and brings terminal to foreground)
  • 🟢 done – green dot / completed
  • ⚪ idle – grey dot / waiting
  • unknown – plain shell / no dot

Features

  • Status Bar Live Overview: Shows active agent conversations and their live statuses directly in the VS Code status bar. Highlights in red when an agent is blocked and waiting for user input.
  • Fast Switcher (Alt+A / Cmd+Alt+A): QuickPick menu to jump between agent terminals, sorted by status priority (blocked first).
  • Previous / Next Navigation (Alt+[ / Alt+]): Cycle through active agents quickly without touching the mouse.
  • Focus on Blocked: Automatically brings the relevant agent terminal into view when it requires input.
  • Single Master Terminal: Automatically hosts and connects to Herdr in your workspace folder.

Keybindings

  • Alt+A (macOS: Cmd+Alt+A) – Switch Agent Conversation
  • Alt+] (macOS: Cmd+Alt+]) – Next Agent Terminal
  • Alt+[ (macOS: Cmd+Alt+[) – Previous Agent Terminal

Requirements

  • Herdr installed and running (herdr in a terminal, or curl -fsSL https://herdr.dev/install.sh | sh).
  • Linux or macOS.

Configuration

  • herdr.focusOnBlocked (default true) – When an agent becomes blocked, bring its VS Code terminal to the foreground and show a notification.

Build

npm install
npm run compile
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