Step away.
Answer from anywhere.
Your coding agents keep working when you step away. When Claude Code, Codex or any other agent stops to ask, Lochan opens its real terminal on your phone so you can read what it did and answer. Calmly.
Answer the one that asked.
Blocked first, always.
Every project, loudest first.
How it works
Paired in one scan.
Run one line on your computer
On the Mac or Linux machine your agents run on:
curl -fsSL lochan.app/herdr-setup | shScan the code it shows
Your phone makes its own key and keeps it in the Keychain. Nothing to type, no private key to copy.
Your agents appear
Every agent on that machine, with a line on where each one left off. Save every machine you own and switch from the title bar.
Pairing guide. No account, and no Lochan server in between: your phone talks to your computers over SSH. Away from home you need a route to them, and Tailscale is the two-minute version.
Any agent can join the herd
It opens the terminal, not a plugin.
Lochan does not plug into your agent. It opens the terminal the agent is already running in, so a new agent works the day it ships.
Claude Code
Plan, edit, approve.
Codex
Every prompt it stops on.
Gemini CLI
Snapshot updates and all.
Grok, OpenCode, Aider
And anything else that runs in a shell.
A calm view of a busy herd
See who needs you, and nothing else.
Board
Blocked, Working, Done and Idle as columns you swipe through.
Projects
Agents grouped by the project they are working in, loudest first.
Categories
Projects sorted into your own groups, like Work and Personal.
Recaps
A line on where each agent left off, so you know before you open it.
Work here, Personal there.
Ask the Shepherd
One question, the whole herd.
The Shepherd is an agent on your computer that reads every other pane. Ask it what needs you, what changed or whether anything is stuck, and it answers from what is on the screens, with a link to each pane it mentions. Then tell it what to answer, and it types your answers into each agent's terminal.
Reads every pane
It looks at each agent's screen and scrollback before it answers, so it quotes the real question, not a guess.
One tap to the pane
Every pane it names is a link. Tap it to open that agent and answer.
It answers for you
Say "tell ios both, link first" and it sends the answer. It can also start agents, prompt them and close panes, but only when you ask.
Your choice of agent
Claude Code by default, or Codex, Pi, OpenCode or Grok, running in a pane on your own computer.
Ask what needs you.
Tell it what to answer.
Chat with the agent on your Mac
Your Claude plan, in your pocket.
Pick Claude Code or Codex in the model picker and chat with it from your phone. It runs on your Mac, in the project folder you choose, on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for. No API key, and nothing in between.
Your plan, not a key
It uses the login Claude Code or Codex already has on your Mac.
In your project
Each chat has its own folder. The agent reads, runs and edits there.
Asks before it acts
Edits and commands wait for your Allow or Deny, or allow edits for the whole chat.
Keeps going
Lock the phone or lose signal. The turn keeps running on the Mac and the chat catches up.
Debug from the couch.
Remote desktop
When the Mac itself needs you.
Some prompts never reach a terminal: a keychain dialog that stalls a build, a sign-in window, an app waiting for a click. Open your Mac's screen from your phone and use it like a trackpad. It uses the Mac's own Screen Sharing, over Tailscale when you are away.
A real trackpad
Drag to move the pointer, tap to click, two fingers to right-click, hold to drag.
Pinch to zoom
Zoom into the dialog you need and the rest of the desktop waits around it.
Mac keys on hand
A key bar with Command shortcuts, arrows and your own keys, plus the full keyboard.
Every display
Pick the screen you want on a Mac with more than one.
Click Allow from anywhere.
A real terminal, in your pocket
Built for answering with a thumb.
Make the keys your own
Two rows of keys above the terminal. Add text keys for /compact or /model sonnet, and chord keys for your tmux prefix or Ctrl-R.
Share a screenshot
Pick a photo, take one of the screen in front of you, or send a file. Its path goes straight into the prompt.
Say it. Check it. Send it.
Dictate a long instruction, read the transcript, and send it only when it reads right.
Run the herd
Start a new agent in any project, rename it, and close it when the work is done.
Make the keys your own.
One tap for the commands you repeat.
Share a screenshot.
Say it. Check it. Send it.
Run the herd from your phone.
Built for a phone
Short answers, on purpose.
Lochan tells each agent it is being driven from a phone, so it leads with the answer, keeps replies short and batches its questions. Your code and keys stay on your own hardware.
Lochan works with Herdr, the terminal workspace for AI coding agents. Herdr is not a Lochan product.
Apps
Keep an eye on what you ship.
Open Apps from the sidebar for website traffic, GitHub checks, Vercel deployments and App Store status in one place. See what needs attention, check reviews and TestFlight feedback, or jump into an app's linked Herdr workspace.
Also in Lochan
And a quiet place to think.
A private AI chat: Apple's on-device model, open models downloaded to your phone, or cloud models with your own API key. Conversations branch instead of overwriting, and you can share one with an encrypted link we cannot read.
Private by default.
Questions
Do I need an account?
No. There is no Lochan account and no Lochan server between your phone and your computers.
What do I need on my computer?
A Mac or Linux machine running Herdr. The setup line installs what is missing and shows the pairing code.
Does it work away from home?
Yes, as long as your phone can reach the computer. Tailscale is the easiest way.
Will I get notifications?
Not yet. Open Lochan and the agents waiting on you are at the top.
Managing agents is noisy. Keep it calm.
