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shepherd 0.1.0-beta

first beta of shepherd, a fork of herdr 0.9.5 (apache-2.0). forked at upstream commit ee5bfb5; the herdr history is preserved and upstream can still be merged. shepherd is not affiliated with the herdr project.

what it adds on top of herdr

• agents with roles (brain, coder, reviewer, docs, tester), vendors (claude, codex, gemini) and one git worktree per agent
• multi-agent patterns as yaml: orchestrator-worker, hierarchical, blackboard and market, with validation
• an event bus with topics, partitions, consumer groups and replay, exposed to agents as mcp tools
• tasks, gated runs, skills and local snapshots with safe restore
• a shepherd section in the terminal ui, a cli for everything, and a native iced app that shares the server
• english guides in docs/shepherd

demo

a 35 second walk through the native app: shepherd-demo.mp4 (also attached as a gif). recorded against a sample project with stand-in agents.

try it

build from source (no binaries in this release): see try it from scratch in the README.

known limits

• beta: expect rough edges; the package version is still 0.9.5 (herdr's), 0.1.0-beta is the release tag
• new agents may ask for trust or login in their terminal; a person has to answer
• shepherd never merges, pushes or opens pull requests on its own