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OpenRig Herdr Terminal Wall

Open live, interactive OpenRig agent terminals as a herdr tile wall via the rig CLI

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mvschwarz/openrig
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8,553
Licence
Apache-2.0
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1 file

What it does

It teaches an AI agent how to open groups of OpenRig agents (a whole rig, a pod, a mission, a slice, or a saved view) as live terminal tiles in the herdr terminal multiplexer, using the rig terminal command. Tiles are interactive for rig and pod views and read-only for mission, slice, and cross-rig views, and the agent is told how to read partial results and failures honestly.

Great for

  • Developers running multiple OpenRig agent rigs who want to watch or drive them side by side
  • Operators who want an agent to open a mission's agents as a read-only monitoring wall
  • Teams already using herdr as their terminal surface

Skip it if

  • Users without OpenRig installed or without the herdr binary, since the skill only drives the rig CLI and cannot work without it
  • Situations where you need to type into agents working on a shared mission or slice, because those views are read-only by design
  • Hosts registered over HTTP, which cannot be tiled and are skipped with a reason

Try asking

  • “Open all my rigs plus the site-relaunch mission as views”
  • “Open the acme-web rig as a terminal wall”
  • “Show me the agents working slice search-filters in herdr”
  • “List the openable terminal views and check herdr status”
Step-by-step guide: how to use OpenRig Herdr Terminal WallInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    openrig-herdr.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip openrig-herdr.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip openrig-herdr.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Ask for mission: or slice: views when you want a read-only watch wall, and rig or pod views when you need to type into agents
  • Read the --json output to see opened, absent, and degraded seats instead of relying on the exit code alone
  • Use same-size panes when showing the same agent in two views, since different sizes cause a known tmux resize mismatch

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from mvschwarz/openrig under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.