Leave the desk
Your Agent keeps running. Open its real terminal from your iPhone when it needs you.
100% self-hosted · Open source
Leave the desk.
Keep the session.
Run Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents on machines you control. Herden puts their live sessions on your iPhone—without a Herden account or hosted application backend.
Apache-2.0 · Read every line on GitHub
- Runs on your hardwareYour agents and terminals stay on your machines.
- Connects directlyYour iPhone reaches the Host over SSH.
- Open sourceAudit it, fork it or build the app yourself.
Away from the keyboard
Keep the work moving.
See what needs you, answer it and send the missing context.
Dictate instructions
Speak your next instruction, review it and send it. Transcription stays on your iPhone.
Share the evidence
Send screenshots, photos and documents from Herden or the iOS share sheet.
Glance at your Agents
Compatible AR glasses can show Agent status and recent output in a read-only HUD.
Install once · Scan once
Tailscale first.
Then Herden.
Give your iPhone a private route to the machine running your agents. Do not expose SSH to the public internet.
- 1
Connect privately
Confirm both devices can reach each other through Tailscale. Already run Headscale? That works too.
- 2
Install the Host
Run this on the Linux or macOS machine that runs your agents.
curl -fsSL https://herden.app/install.sh | shOpen a new Terminal afterwards, or run
exec "$SHELL" -l. - 3
Scan the QR code
Run
herden pair, then open Herden → Hosts → Add Host on your iPhone and scan.
No Herden cloud
Your agents. Your machines. Your source.
Herden is open source under Apache-2.0. Prompts, terminal output and shared files travel directly between your devices.
Built on herdr andHeeler.Attribution and licences.