I've been using Herdr for a while now, but I'd like a multiplexer that's also a meta-harness that I can connect to remotely. I know others have setups that work, I just haven't quite figured it out yet.
Moshi has an integration with Herdr; you can connect to your herdr sessions over mosh, your touches register as mouse clicks in the UI (which is minimally rendered above the shell), and there’s a shortcut bar which can issue herdr-keymapped commands.
It’s not open source, and costs a few bucks, but it works well and has live Claude/Codex/etc notifications if you are willing to install a hook daemon on your hosts with homebrew. I was looking for batteries-included “code from my iPhone” after trying a bunch of self-hosted stuff, now I connect to my Macs over Tailscale and get dropped right into multiplexer sessions with rich status notifications.
I tried Moshi. Some things I did not like
- Despite the name, using mosh is a paid feature
- It was not clear what is and isn't a paid feature when using the app for the first time (after selecting which server to connect to, when you select which terminal/chat to connect to there's initially a counter that says 20/20 which decreases every time you connect)
- If you pair your phone to the server for push notifications a bunch of info regarding the chat is sent to their servers to produce the push (naturally), this makes it unsuitable for me at my job at least. IMO it would be sufficient to just get a "Agent needs your attention" push.
All in all, I did not find it worth it compared to using mosh or SSH in Termux. I have a colleague who loves Moshi though, for him its perfect. Among other things he likes the dictation.
My same line of thinking and apparently of several others, turns out herdr has a plug-in for this: https://github.com/nikok6/herdr-mirror which is close to what I need.
