AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Shepherd Terminal
A persistent terminal for Codex and Claude side by side
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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A CLI agent that keeps working when you close your laptop
Apr 2026 · devin.ai · its alternatives →
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AgentManager▲125Never miss a Claude Code session waiting for your input
Jul 2026 · agentmgr.app · its alternatives →
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Harness by Autonomousfree tier, from $149/mo▲288Every coding agent, every machine, one command center.
6d ago · autonomous.ai · its alternatives →
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Claudebin▲258Hi HN, We use Claude Code a lot, and after a long session there isn't a simple way to share exactly what happened with someone else. Prompts, responses, file edits, and tool calls all stay inside the terminal. We built Claudebin to make that easier. It's a plugin that lets you export the current session as a URL containing: - the full message thread - file reads and writes - bash commands - web and MCP calls You can send the link to someone, attach it to a PR, embed part of it, or resume the session locally. It's open source. GitHub:…
Feb 2026 · claudebin.com · its alternatives →
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agent-manager▲102The fastest workflow for developing with AI
Aug 2026 · agent-manager.dev · its alternatives →
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Termexo▲98A local Windows workbench for Claude Code and Codex
Aug 2026 · termexo.com · its alternatives →
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APX Terminal▲99Encrypted terminal and SSH client with built‑in AI assistant
Jan 2026 · apxterminal.com · its alternatives →
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Shepherd▲1Stop your coding agents from stepping on each other
Jul 2026 · korsoai.com · its alternatives →
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Mantel▲75Stop confusing your Claude Code sessions & terminal windows
May 2026 · getmantel.app · its alternatives →
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spacecake▲79Run Claude Code agents in terminal with a visual editor
Feb 2026 · spacecake.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Small OSS project that i created for myself and want to share with the community. It's a declarative, scriptable, terminal-based IDE focussed on agentic engineering. That's a lot of jargon, but essentially its a multi-agent IDE that you start in your terminal. Why is that relevant? Thanks to tmux and SSH, it means that you have a really simple and efficient way to create your own always-on coding setup. Boot into your IDE through ssh, give a prompt to claude and close off your machine. In tmux-ide claude will keep working. The tool is intentionally really lightweight, because I think…
Mar 2026 · tmux.thijsverreck.com · its alternatives →
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Run Claude Code, Codex, AGY, and Grok Build side by side on your Mac. Every change gets reviewed by a second agent before you accept it.
18d ago · offrun.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! Hope you had a great day so far, and maybe its about to get just a little bit better (thanks Winter ;) So I had way to many terminal windows flying about when using Claude, and kept losing track of which terminal / session / project im in right now. So I built a solution for that, presented it to my team, and now we're using our new tool all the time, and developing it to be the most helpful agents organization tool we can think of. Unfortunatelly, Claude Code only for now, will do Codex soon tho. What it does for you: Main features: - Overview of your projects, with…
Aug 2026 · episko.dev · its alternatives →
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One terminal. Every agent. Total clarity.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sandockfrom $5/mo▲8Persistent Docker Workspaces for Coding Agents
Apr 2026 · sandock.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I built this because I wanted a little bit more organization around my Claude sessions, worktrees and plans while staying in the terminal and not relying on another SaaS tool. Since it's a command line tool, the added bonus is that Claude can use `td` directly. The td calendar was just a fun add-on but the Claude session stats have been pretty interesting! Let me know what you think!
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source agentic terminal. Finds the agent sessions already on your machine, keeps them alive after you close the app, and lets you reach them from a browser. Native Rust rendering, PTY daemon, no inbound port. - hydraterm/hydra-local
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built agentspace because I kept seeing tmux recommended for keeping Claude Code sessions alive over SSH. I find multiplexers painful because they subtly change shell behavior in ways I always forget. They also do not offer a standardized way to run highly permissive agents in a safe way. I also tried worktrees, but it just feels awkward to manage work in that way. Docker can help with all of this, so I thought up a workflow and used some shell aliases to automate spawning Claude/Codex agents into docker containers. I ended up creating a cli to wrap all these methods and would…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, AgentBox is an SDK for running coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) inside sandboxes (Docker, E2B, Modal, Daytona, Vercel). One API. Swap the agent or the sandbox and your code doesn't change. Think of it as what the AI SDK did for LLMs, but for agent + runtime. Most wrappers call agents in non interactive mode (claude --print, codex exec). AgentBox instead boots each agent's native server inside the sandbox (Codex app-server over JSON-RPC, OpenCode serve over HTTP/SSE, Claude Code's SDK WebSocket transport) and drives it from the host, behaving like an interactive…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Some time ago I built a simple app to run swarms of coding agents — I call it fleet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256389). It's based on centralized beads with a Python orchestrator and can run any coder (Claude, agy, Codex). Recently I added a UI to manage the whole agent lifecycle: adding new tasks, monitoring running ones, and a chat interface built on MCP with a centralized SQLite DB. From the UI I can spawn agents to run in any directory, define dependencies on other tasks, and specify which coder/model should do the job. Today I can run 10–15 agents…
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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