paneherd

For Claude Code · in VS Code and Cursor

Herd every agent
from one place.

Paneherd opens your Claude Code sessions side by side as a grid of terminals, collects every permission prompt in one inbox, and asks before two agents edit the same file.

Install free Pro is coming

Free for up to 4 sessions at once.

Illustration: four sessions in a grid; one waits for permission and is answered from the sidebar inbox, one is flagged for looping.

The real thingFour Claude Code agents on one project.

VS Code with four Claude Code sessions in a two-by-two grid. The Paneherd sidebar shows usage limits, three permission requests with Allow, Always and Deny, the four open panes with their status, and one queued prompt.
A screenshot, not a mock-up: three agents wait for permission in the inbox, one has finished, and a follow-up prompt is queued for the first.

What it doesKeep many agents moving without babysitting each terminal.

  1. 01 · Grid

    Every session in view

    New sessions and resumed conversations open as real terminals in the editor area, laid out in a grid of up to four columns. One command tidies them up again.

  2. 02 · Status

    Know who is waiting

    Each pane shows Working, Needs permission, Has a question or Your turn, straight from Claude Code’s own hook events rather than guesses about terminal output. Panes that need you are counted in the sidebar and the status bar, and one command jumps to the next.

  3. 03 · Permission inbox Pro

    Answer every prompt in one place

    Permission prompts from all panes collect in the sidebar, with the command, file or URL in question. Allow, Always, or Deny there. Claude’s own dialog stays open in the pane, and whichever you answer first wins.

  4. 04 · Conflict guard Pro

    No silent overwrites

    Before a pane edits a file that another open pane changed in the last ten minutes, Claude stops and asks you, and the inbox says which pane changed it. Changes made through shell commands are not detected.

  5. 05 · Task queue Pro

    Line up the next task without interrupting this one

    Queue a prompt instead of sending it. The first selected pane to finish its turn takes it, so prompts for one pane run one after another, and prompts for several panes are shared out among them.

  6. 06 · Usage

    See your limits before you hit them

    The top of the sidebar shows how much of your plan’s five-hour session and weekly limit you have used, and when each resets. Claude Code reports these on Pro and Max plans.

  7. 07 · Alarms

    Catch agents going in circles

    A pane that repeats the same tool call, fails several calls in a row, or goes silent while working is flagged in the sidebar.

  8. 08 · Broadcast

    Type once, send to many

    Send one prompt to any set of panes. Multi-line text arrives as a single paste, and a pane that is still starting gets it once its prompt is ready.

  9. 09 · Sessions

    Every conversation, one click away

    Browse and search all your saved Claude Code conversations by title, prompt, folder, or what was said in them, and resume any of them in a pane. After a reload, the panes you had open are offered back.

PricingFree to start. Pay once for Pro.

Free

$0

  • Up to 4 sessions open at once
  • Live status, sidebar and status bar
  • Session browser and search
  • Broadcast to several panes
  • Usage limits
  • Loop and stall alarms
Install free

Pay once

Pro

$29 one-time

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited sessions at once
  • Permission inbox
  • Conflict guard
  • Task queue
  • Notifications when a pane needs you

Pro is not on sale yet. Follow the GitHub page to hear when it opens.

Local by designNothing about your work leaves your machine through Paneherd.

FAQQuestions

What do I need?

VS Code 1.95 or later, or Cursor; the Claude Code CLI, signed in; and curl, which ships with Windows 10 and later, macOS and most Linux distributions. Paneherd runs Claude Code for you. It does not provide access to Claude.

How do I run several Claude Code sessions at once?

Open one terminal per session and start claude in each; give sessions that change code their own git worktree (claude --worktree) so they do not edit the same checkout. Paneherd does the terminal part for you in VS Code and Cursor: New Session opens each one as an editor-area terminal and lays them out in a grid, and the sidebar shows which session is working and which is waiting for you.

Does it work in Cursor?

Yes. Paneherd is a regular VS Code extension and runs in VS Code 1.95 or later and in Cursor and other editors built on VS Code. It is on the Visual Studio Marketplace.

Is Paneherd free?

Yes, for up to four sessions at once, with live status, the session browser, broadcast, usage limits and loop alarms. Pro adds unlimited sessions, the permission inbox, the conflict guard, the task queue and notifications.

How is it different from Claude Code’s own agent view and the official extension?

Anthropic’s tools show the status of your sessions, run several in tabs or in agent view, queue a prompt within a session, and can start sessions in worktrees. Paneherd adds what they do not: one inbox that answers permission prompts from every session, a guard that asks before two sessions edit the same file, sending one prompt to many sessions, and sharing a queue of prompts out among several sessions.

Is Paneherd made by Anthropic?

No. It is an independent product that works with the Claude Code CLI you already use.