comet vs herdr
Zeron: control Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Hermes and Pi from a local Rust daemon — sessions live on the device, with optional sign-in to drive them from another machine. — versus — Agent multiplexer for your terminal: every Claude Code/Codex session in real panes — blocked/working/done at a glance, detach and reattach over SSH, plus a socket API agents drive themselves.
Same problem, different surface: herdr multiplexes every agent into terminal panes you reattach over SSH, Zeron runs a daemon plus desktop app with optional account sync. Terminal-native versus device-native.
| comet | herdr | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 1.1k | 31k |
| Forks | 123 | 2.2k |
| Language | Rust | Rust |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Last activity | yesterday | 4 days ago |
| Topics | coding | coding, orchestration |
| Curated connections | 4 | 4 |
comet — the curator's take
The pick when you want agent sessions that outlive the laptop lid: a per-device engine owns the data directory, a fresh install is local-only with no account and no network, and signing in adds a synced workspace you can start on one box and follow from another — a VPS keeps agents working after you close the laptop. The profile boundary is unusually honest: login and logout refuse to touch credentials while an engine holds the data dir, and signing in never uploads or imports your existing local sessions. Caveats: the repo is named comet but the product is `zeron`, Linux installs via a `curl | sh` daemon, macOS wants the desktop release or a source build, and it's young enough that the docs are the architecture file.
herdr — the curator's take
tmux, rebuilt for the agent era: real terminal views (not wrapped reinterpretations), sessions that survive restarts and reattach over SSH, prefix keys AND mouse both first-class. The differentiator is the socket API — agents can spawn panes, read each other's output and wait on each other, which turns the multiplexer itself into coordination infrastructure, and the plugin marketplace suggests real ecosystem ambition. NOT an orchestrator: no task queues, no verification gates, no workflow graphs — it multiplexes and observes, you still decide. If you've already shaped your life around tmux, the marginal win is the agent-state awareness; weigh the switching cost honestly.