A persistent terminal for Codex and Claude side by side
Run coding agents across tabs, panes, and remote machines. Shepherd keeps terminal sessions alive when the app closes, tracks which agents are working or waiting, and lets you return to their files and changes without losing context. Agents understand the current Shepherd context, control tabs and panes, and collect feedback through browser reviews, while you monitor every agent’s status in real time.
I built Shepherd because running multiple coding agents quickly became harder to manage than the code itself. Codex and Claude were spread across terminal windows, and I kept losing track of which agent was working, waiting for input, or already finished.
Shepherd is a persistent macOS workspace designed around coding agents: - Run Codex and Claude across tabs, panes, and remote machines - Keep terminal sessions alive even after closing the app - Monitor every agent’s status in real time - Let agents understand and control the current Shepherd workspace - Open connected browser reviews from an agent and return your visual annotations as structured feedback - Resume previous agent sessions and inspect their files, diffs, and Git history - Connect to remote development machines over SSH and access their terminals, files, and local services - Provide local STT model to vibe-code using your own voice
The macOS app is available today for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. I’m also building an iOS companion for monitoring agents, receiving completion or attention alerts, give feedback to agent, control a terminal and reconnecting when away from the Mac.
I’d especially appreciate feedback on the agent-monitoring experience and whether Shepherd makes parallel agent work easier to follow.
This is Shepherd’s first public beta, so you may encounter bugs or rough edges. I’ll keep fixing them and exploring better ways to connect coding agents with Shepherd Terminal. Please try it, use it in your real workflow, and leave plenty of comments if you run into a problem or have an idea. Your feedback will directly shape what I build next. Thank you!
Thanks for trying it!
About Shepherd Terminal on Product Hunt
“A persistent terminal for Codex and Claude side by side”
Shepherd Terminal launched on Product Hunt on August 18th, 2026 and earned 89 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Run coding agents across tabs, panes, and remote machines. Shepherd keeps terminal sessions alive when the app closes, tracks which agents are working or waiting, and lets you return to their files and changes without losing context. Agents understand the current Shepherd context, control tabs and panes, and collect feedback through browser reviews, while you monitor every agent’s status in real time.
On the analytics side, Shepherd Terminal competes within Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and Change Management — topics that collectively have 995k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Shepherd Terminal performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Shepherd Terminal?
Shepherd Terminal was hunted by Junseo (Chato) Ko. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Junseo (Chato) Ko
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built Shepherd because running multiple coding agents quickly became harder to manage than the code itself. Codex and Claude were spread across terminal windows, and I kept losing track of which agent was working, waiting for input, or already finished.
Shepherd is a persistent macOS workspace designed around coding agents:
- Run Codex and Claude across tabs, panes, and remote machines
- Keep terminal sessions alive even after closing the app
- Monitor every agent’s status in real time
- Let agents understand and control the current Shepherd workspace
- Open connected browser reviews from an agent and return your visual annotations as structured feedback
- Resume previous agent sessions and inspect their files, diffs, and Git history
- Connect to remote development machines over SSH and access their terminals, files, and local services
- Provide local STT model to vibe-code using your own voice
The macOS app is available today for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. I’m also building an iOS companion for monitoring agents, receiving completion or attention alerts, give feedback to agent, control a terminal and reconnecting when away from the Mac.
I’d especially appreciate feedback on the agent-monitoring experience and whether Shepherd makes parallel agent work easier to follow.
This is Shepherd’s first public beta, so you may encounter bugs or rough edges. I’ll keep fixing them and exploring better ways to connect coding agents with Shepherd Terminal. Please try it, use it in your real workflow, and leave plenty of comments if you run into a problem or have an idea. Your feedback will directly shape what I build next. Thank you!
Thanks for trying it!