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Herdr vs T3 Code

Herdr rates 68 against T3 Code's 67 in this edition. The table lines up every dimension we record; the leading value in each numeric row is marked. Add a third or fourth entry.

Dimension	68of 100 HerdrHerdr (Can Celik; YC F26)	67of 100 T3 CodePing Labs (ping.gg / T3 Tools)
Rating
AgentsWisdom score	68	67
Confidence	high	high
Rank in category	No. 3 of 7	No. 4 of 7
Pillars
Adoption & momentum	79	67
Experts (independent reviews)	75	64
Crowd (community sample)	47	70
Community posts sampled	12	22
Experts vs crowd	Crowd cooler by 28	Crowd warmer by 6
Adoption
GitHub stars	41k	24k
npm weekly downloads	n/e	20k
PyPI monthly downloads	n/e	n/e
VS Code installs	n/e	n/e
Reported users	n/e	n/e
Reported customer organisations	n/e	n/e
Releases, last 90 days	8	14
Benchmarks (shown, not scored)
Terminal-Bench 2.0	not listed	not listed
SWE-bench	not listed	not listed
Independent reviews	3	8
Trust & safety
Overall grade	B	B
Permission model	n/e	C
Data access scope	n/e	n/e
Data storage	A	A
Data retention & training	n/e	n/e
Incident history	A	A
Compliance	D	D
Transparency	A	A
Price
Price	Free	Free
Plans	Herdr runtime (open source): Free	Free (open source): Free
Product
Category	Orchestrators & meta-harnesses	Orchestrators & meta-harnesses
Maker	Herdr (Can Celik; YC F26)	Ping Labs (ping.gg / T3 Tools)
Licence	Apache-2.0	MIT
Use it via	CLI	Desktop app, Web app, Mobile app, CLI
Runs on	macos, linux, windows	macos, windows, linux, web
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), Cursor models (via Cursor CLI), Grok (via Grok Build), Gemini (via Antigravity), any provider supported by OpenCode
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	Drives locally installed agent CLIs: Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Antigravity Separate git worktree per agent thread Inline diff review and one-click commit, push and pull request Per-thread permission modes: Supervised, Auto-accept edits, Auto, Full access Remote control from iOS/Android/web via T3 Connect, LAN pairing or Tailscale Can run as a background service (`t3 service install`) Switch model/provider mid-thread
Verdicts
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)	Free and open source; uses the subscriptions you already pay for (Thalhammer, Better Stack, HN comments) Remote/mobile control of agents running on your own machine (Thalhammer, Geniar, HN and Reddit users) Worktree per agent makes parallel agents easier (HN user, Better Stack)
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)	Early software with rough edges and bugs, acknowledged by the project itself (Geniar, AICodeKing, HN comments) Default permission mode for new threads is Full access (no approval prompts) Missing conveniences such as queuing multiple messages (Geniar)
Evidence
Evidence collected	26 Sept 2026	26 Sept 2026
Sources cited	4	4