| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 68 | 58 |
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| Confidence | high | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 3 of 7 | No. 6 of 7 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 79 | 69 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 75 | 56 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 47 | 46 |
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| Community posts sampled | 12 | 21 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 28 | Crowd cooler by 9 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | 41k | 85k |
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| npm weekly downloads | n/e | 27k |
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| PyPI monthly downloads | n/e | n/e |
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| VS Code installs | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported users | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 8 | 10 |
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| Benchmarks (shown, not scored) |
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| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not listed | not listed |
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| SWE-bench | not listed | not listed |
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| Independent reviews | 3 | 6 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | B | B |
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| Permission model | n/e | C |
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| Data access scope | n/e | B |
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| Data storage | A | A |
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| Data retention & training | n/e | n/e |
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| Incident history | A | C |
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| Compliance | D | D |
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| Transparency | A | A |
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| Price |
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| Price | Free | Free |
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| Plans | - Herdr runtime (open source): Free
| - Open source, self-hosted: Free
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| Product |
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| Category | Orchestrators & meta-harnesses | Orchestrators & meta-harnesses |
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| Maker | Herdr (Can Celik; YC F26) | Paperclip (paperclipai) |
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| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
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| Use it via | CLI | Web app, CLI, API |
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| Runs on | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows, web |
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| Models it drives | any terminal agent CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, Copilot, Grok, Hermes, Pi and others; 22 detected by default) | Claude (via Claude Code), GPT (via Codex), Gemini (via Gemini CLI), Cursor, any agent reachable by CLI or HTTP heartbeat |
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| Key features | - Workspaces, tabs and panes with mouse support and tmux-style detach/reattach
- Automatic agent state detection (working, blocked, done, idle) with notifications
- Remote machines over OpenSSH from one client window (v0.9.0+)
- Socket API and CLI for scripting agents, panes, workspaces and worktrees
- Plugin marketplace and custom popup panes
- Session history and restore stored locally
| - Org chart of agents with roles, reporting lines and per-agent permissions
- Ticket-based task system with atomic checkout and goal ancestry
- Scheduled heartbeats and routines (cron, webhook, API triggers)
- Per-agent/project budgets with hard stops and cost tracking
- Board approval gates for hires, strategy and spend; audit log
- Adapters for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor/Gemini CLI, bash and HTTP bots (e.g. OpenClaw)
- Multi-company isolation in one deployment; export/import of company templates
- Isolated execution workspaces via git worktrees
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| Verdicts |
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| Praised for | - Users running many agents say it makes it easier to see which agent needs attention than plain tmux (HN comments, July-Sept 2026)
- Reconnect from several machines to the same running agents over SSH (HN, Bitdoze review)
- Reviewers credit the socket API for orchestration patterns tmux lacks (Bitdoze, Developers Digest)
| - Structured hierarchy, handoffs and task tracking for many agents (Villela, Reddit users)
- Useful for bootstrapping larger projects and drafts quickly (Ganglani, Villela)
- Free, MIT-licensed and self-hosted
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| Criticised for | - Several users do not see the added value over tmux or zellij (HN, r/commandline)
- Reports of lag, rendering and hotkey issues, e.g. with many remote machines or under WSL (HN Sept 2026, r/ClaudeCode)
- Agent detection relies on screen manifests and is probabilistic for unsupported agents (Developers Digest)
| - Heavy token consumption; users report subscription windows exhausted quickly (Reddit, Better Stack video)
- Marketing of 'zero-human companies' overstates what it can do (Ganglani, r/AI_Agents)
- Setup and adapter bugs; runaway retries hard to stop (r/PaperclipAI, HN)
- Repeated critical security advisories in 2026, and adapters skip agent permission prompts by default
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 4 | 4 |
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