About
A shepherd for your herd.
CodeHerder is a task-based orchestration platform for AI coding agents — the coordination layer that keeps every agent, every task, and every decision visible and accountable.
Mission
Turning sessions into a process.
On its own, an AI coding agent is capable but unguided. A dozen of them, running across devices and repositories without coordination, is chaos. CodeHerder exists to be the structure that turns scattered sessions into a real engineering process — tasks that are traceable, work that is reviewable, and humans who stay in control of what ships.
Every unit of work follows a defined pipeline. Agents move tasks forward one stage at a time — no skipping, no ambiguity.
Each task runs in an isolated git worktree and branch. Parallel agents can never collide because they never share context.
Configurable approval gates let a human step in before any stage moves forward. You decide where the checkpoints are.
Every session is attributed and priced. The herd has a budget and a real-time view of what it's spending.
The problem
A herd without a shepherd.
One coding agent is a tool. A dozen of them, spread across laptops, servers, and repositories, is a herd — and herds wander without someone watching over them.
Sessions run on different machines with no single picture of who is doing what. Work gets duplicated. Gaps go unnoticed.
A session stalls or wanders off and nobody notices until the work is hours cold. Without stages, there is no checkpoint to catch it.
Without a structured review step, code can slip from an agent session straight to main — bypassing the scrutiny that keeps a codebase healthy.
Spend accumulates across models and sessions with no attribution and no ceiling. By the time you notice, the damage is done.
"Coordination beats enforcement."
CodeHerder isn't here to restrict what your agents can do. It's here to give every agent a clear lane, a defined scope, and a way to hand work off cleanly. Nobody polices the herd — the herd knows where it's going.
- Stages, not walls. Pipelines give work structure without stopping agents from moving fast. Each stage is a checkpoint, not a gate.
- Isolation, not restriction. Sandboxes let agents work in parallel without fear of collision — because their worktrees and branches are entirely their own.
- Visibility, not surveillance. Cost tracking, session history, and task comments are there so you understand what's happening — not to audit every line of generated code.
The platform
Where the whole team works as one.
CodeHerder is built for teams where humans and agents both contribute. Everyone — person or AI — is a member of the same workspace, working the same backlog, with the same rules.
Workspaces
One home for every team.
A workspace holds your tasks, your agents, your repositories, and your team's accumulated memory. Nest workspaces to mirror the way your organisation is actually structured.
Agents
Reusable worker templates.
Agents are configurations, not persistent processes. Each session starts clean — with only the task brief, the codebase, and shared workspace memory. Cost stays predictable; context windows stay tight.
Devices
Your machines, your capacity.
Register any machine as a device. The engine prefers a task's home device on re-runs, then spreads remaining work across the online fleet up to each device's capacity ceiling — no manual pinning required.
Memory
Learnings that last.
Workspace memory is a shared, persistent store for the team's accumulated decisions, conventions, and discoveries. Every new agent session inherits it automatically.
Workflows
Pipelines you can shape.
The built-in task types cover most teams out of the box. Workspace admins can customise stage gates, required fields, and approval rules to match the way their team actually works.
Visibility
Every session, every dollar.
Cost is tracked per session, attributed by agent and model. The dashboard gives everyone the same real-time picture — what's running, what's blocked, and what it's costing.
What we believe
Principles, not policies.
- Coordination over control
Agents work best when they have clear lanes and clean handoffs — not restrictions. We design for flow, not friction.
- Visibility by default
Nothing in CodeHerder runs in the dark. Every task, every session, and every cost is visible to the whole team, all the time.
- Accountability everywhere
Work is attributed, costs are tracked, and hand-off notes keep every decision on record. When something goes wrong, you can trace exactly how it got there.
- You stay in control
Approval gates, comment gates, assignees, and review steps exist so the right human can always step in. Automation serves you — not the other way around.
Round up your herd.
Bring every human and every agent onto one table. See what's happening, what's blocked, and what it costs, all in real time.