Shepherd
Ship more with AI coding agents. Spend less time managing them.
Shepherd brings your coding agents, tasks and pull requests into one place. See what's moving,
what needs you and what's ready to ship — from your browser, phone, or the new native macOS app.
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Shepherd for Mac ·
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More agents should mean more progress
One coding agent is easy to follow. Several can leave you juggling terminals, checking whether
someone is stuck and piecing together which changes are ready. Shepherd gives you a shared view
of that work, so you can spend your attention on decisions.
- Know where you're needed. See running, waiting and finished sessions together; open the
conversation and steer an agent when it needs direction.
- Move several tasks forward at once. Give each agent its own workspace and keep each task's
progress, changes and pull request connected.
- Review before you ship. Plan review, an independent code critic and a merge train help
catch weak plans, unresolved findings and stale branches before they land.
- Keep your workflow. Work with real interactive Claude Code sessions, your existing commands,
skills and plugins. Codex CLI support is available in alpha.
- Stay in control. Run Shepherd on your own server with your own agent login. Check progress
at your desk or from your phone, and choose how much work to automate.
From an idea to a reviewed pull request
Describe a task or pick an issue. Shepherd gives the agent a workspace, keeps its progress visible
and brings the resulting pull request back into the same workflow. Inspect changes, open a live
preview or send more direction while the agent works.
When you're ready for more automation, queue work and let agents pick it up within your configured
limits. Plan gates challenge the approach before implementation; the Critic reviews the result;
and the merge train checks that a pull request is current, conflict-free and CI-green before it
lands. You choose which automation to enable for each repo.
Your agents, now at home on your Mac
Shepherd for Mac is our native macOS app. Follow your sessions, inspect diffs and files, review
pull requests and talk to agents through a live terminal — in a dedicated Mac workspace with
native notifications.
The app connects to a Shepherd server on your Mac or a remote machine. It's an early preview,
already useful for daily work, with broader workflow coverage still available in the web UI.
⬇ Download Shepherd for Mac — open the newest Shepherd for Mac release, download
Shepherd-<build>.dmg, open it and drag Shepherd.app into Applications. Requires macOS 15 or newer.
The app is signed and notarized by Apple, and updates install automatically.
Explore Shepherd for Mac →
Built for the way you work
| When you want to… | Shepherd helps you… |
|---|
| Make progress across several tasks | Run agents in parallel and see their status in one place. |
| Spend less time chasing updates | Find sessions that need attention and inspect their work directly. |
| Delegate without losing oversight | Review plans and changes, steer live sessions and control automation per repo. |
| Step away from your desk | Follow the same work from the browser on your phone. |
Shepherd is actively developed and used in production by its authors. The browser experience
has the broadest feature set; the native Mac app is catching up. Linux is the fully supported
server platform; hosting the server on macOS currently has
reduced capabilities.
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Technical details
Configuration and integrations ·
Deployment, previews and operations ·
Architecture and development ·
Contributing · Product vision ·
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Shepherd is powered by herdr, the interactive agent multiplexer by
Can Celik. herdr keeps agent sessions running across Shepherd
restarts. Thank you, Can.
License
Business Source License 1.1 © 2026 Erwins Enkel GmbH
Shepherd is source-available, not open source. You may read, modify, and make
non-production use freely, and production use is permitted except offering
Shepherd to third parties as a competing hosted or embedded commercial service
(see the Additional Use Grant in LICENSE). Each version converts to
the Apache License 2.0 four years
after that version is published (its Change Date). For other arrangements,
contact Erwins Enkel GmbH.
