# Cowboy for Herdr — Watch your coding agents > Watch your coding agents (iPhone/iPad app by Carl Erik Stromberg.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cowboy-for-herdr/id6811943070 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Carl Erik Stromberg](https://appshunter.io/developer/6795656498) - Category: Developer Tools - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 20 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-19 - Data updated: 2026-09-30 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cowboy-for-herdr/id6811943070/reviews.md ## What is Cowboy for Herdr? Cowboy is the phone companion for Herdr, the terminal workspace manager for AI coding agents. It answers one question at a glance: does any agent need me? WHAT YOU SEE Every agent running in Herdr on your machine, ranked by what matters. Blocked agents waiting for an answer come first, in red you cannot miss. Finished turns you have not looked at come next. Working and idle agents stay calm below. Each card shows the agent's title, its workspace, the last lines of its terminal output and a plain-language line: "Waiting for your answer", "Finished, review the result", "Working, nothing needed". Open an agent for its full output, and when it is asking a question, its options are laid out as buttons. READ-ONLY BY DEFAULT Cowboy never types into an agent by accident. Input is off until you switch it on, the bar turns amber while it is on, and it switches itself off after ten minutes without a send. When it is on, quick keys (Esc, Enter, y, n, Ctrl-C, arrows) and a prompt field go straight to the live agent. YOUR MACHINE, YOUR NETWORK Cowboy connects over SSH to the machine where Herdr runs, and talks to Herdr's local socket from there. Over Tailscale SSH no key is needed at all. There are no accounts and no servers in between: nothing leaves your own connection. Private keys, if you use them, stay in the phone's keychain. WHAT YOU NEED Herdr (herdr.dev) running on a computer you can reach over SSH, for example your laptop or a development server. Cowboy does not run agents itself; it watches and drives the ones Herdr already manages. Works with the agents Herdr supports, including Claude Code and Codex. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4.0 — 2026-09-29 Cowboy has been redrawn. • Agents sit on cards that name their state in a word as well as a colour — Blocked, Done, Working, Idle — so the one waiting for you stands out at a glance, and still reads if colour is hard to tell apart. • Write mode is unmistakable: the top bar turns amber while input is on, names the pane you are typing into, and counts down to switching itself off. • Terminal output keeps its own monospaced type, so what the agent printed still reads like a terminal. • New type throughout, with buttons, fields and dialogs that look like the rest of your phone instead of a terminal pastiche. Nothing about how Cowboy works has changed: read-only until you say otherwise, straight to your own machine over SSH, no account and no cloud. ### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-28 Cowboy can now tell you when an agent stops and waits for an answer. Switch it on under hosts. You get one notification per agent, and it goes away by itself when the agent stops waiting or when you open Cowboy. Only agents waiting for an answer are announced, so nothing else interrupts you. iPhone decides how often it wakes Cowboy to look, so a notification can arrive a while after the agent asked. Also fixed: a host that wants an extra browser check, as Tailscale SSH does, used to leave Cowboy trying to connect for a long time without saying why. It now shows you the link, keeps waiting while you approve, and connects. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-24 Cowboy is free to try for three days, then a one-time $9.99 unlock. No subscription. If you already have Cowboy, your three days start when you open this version — nothing is taken away before then. Adding hosts and checking connections stay free either way, and the built-in demo session stays free to poke at. Nothing else changed in this version. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-21 Agent output now keeps itself up to date, and fits the screen. Live output. While an agent works, its output refreshes on its own every couple of seconds, and again when you come back to the app. The refresh button is gone: tap the status band to read again, and the time beside the folder tells you how fresh what you're reading is. Wrapped to the screen. Long lines fold at the edge instead of running off to the right, and a wrapped line lines up under the text it belongs to. Tables, file trees and box drawings keep their columns and scroll sideways on their own. More output in view. The space the toolbar took went back to the output. Long-press the output for the exact terminal text, and again to go back. Stays where you are. New output only pulls you to the bottom if you were already there, so you can read further up while an agent works. Fixed: after an agent finished, the output you could scroll back through shrank to a few lines until you refreshed. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-19 No release notes. ## More apps by Carl Erik Stromberg - [Yatzy Pop!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yatzy-pop/id6795656496) All apps by Carl Erik Stromberg: https://appshunter.io/developer/6795656498 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-30.*