AndrewMcLachlan

CodeHerd — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Management and persistence of multiple Claude Code CLI instances.

How to install CodeHerd

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open AndrewMcLachlan/CodeHerd and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What CodeHerd does

Management and persistence of multiple Claude Code CLI instances.

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README

CodeHerd

A desktop app for managing multiple Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI instances. Think VS Code meets Windows Terminal, but purpose-built for coding agents.

Features

Tabbed interface - Run Claude Code and Codex sessions side by side
Agent-aware new tabs - Choose any detected CLI agent and configure your preferred default
Session persistence - Tabs auto-resume when you restart the app
Session sidebar - Browse and resume each agent's past sessions per project folder
Named and coloured tabs - Supports agent /rename metadata and a /color palette for both Claude Code and Codex
Status bar - Shows current folder, git branch, dirty state, and terminal status
Graceful shutdown - Cleanly exits agent processes before falling back to a process-tree kill

Installation

Download the latest release from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/AndrewMcLachlan/CodeHerd/releases). Builds are unsigned — [docs/INSTALL.md](docs/INSTALL.md) covers the SmartScreen/Gatekeeper prompts you'll see, how to verify downloads (`SHA256SUMS` and GitHub build-provenance attestations), and upgrade/downgrade/uninstall steps for each platform.

Supported platforms

Platform	Architecture	Status
Windows 10/11	x64	Supported
macOS 14+	Apple Silicon (arm64)	Supported
Linux (Ubuntu 24.04+ or equivalent)	x64	Supported

Other platforms and architectures (Windows arm64, Intel macOS, other distros) may work from source but are not built or tested.

Supported agents

CodeHerd drives the [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) and [OpenAI Codex](https://github.com/openai/codex) CLIs, discovered on your PATH. It tracks the **latest stable release** of each CLI: every CodeHerd release is tested against the agent versions current at that time (recorded in the release notes), with fixture tests pinning the session formats it parses. Older CLI versions generally still launch and resum