Claude, Codex, Gemini, Hermes — they're all powerful, but they live in separate terminals, have their own configs, and you can't get to any of them from your phone. Herbie puts them under one roof: a tiny menubar app that lets you pick the right agent for the job, shares your tools and skills across all of them, runs them on a schedule, and bridges them to Telegram so you can keep working from anywhere.
Screenshot coming soon — the composer with the agent dropdown open, showing Claude / Codex / Gemini / Kilo / OpenCode / Pi all listed.
Pick claude, codex, gemini, hermes — or any other ACP-compatible CLI — from a dropdown. Switch between them mid-conversation. Each one keeps its own model and reasoning preferences. You don't relearn the UI when you swap.
Configure MCP servers and Skills once. Every agent inherits them. Wire your Notion, Linear, or custom MCP into one place and claude, codex, and gemini all see it — no more pasting the same JSON into three configs.
Screenshot coming soon — Settings → MCP, with a few servers configured and a note showing they're shared across agents.
Schedule prompts the way you schedule meetings. "Every weekday at 9am, summarise my GitHub notifications." "Every Sunday, draft a release-notes post from this week's merged PRs." Herbie wakes the agent up, runs the prompt, and ships the result to your inbox.
Screenshot coming soon — Tasks page, two or three scheduled tasks, one of them mid-run with a streaming output.
Connect a Telegram bot once and every agent suddenly works from your phone — including the ones with no mobile client of their own. Reply to messages while waiting for coffee, kick off a long-running task from a meeting, check on a scheduled task from bed.
Screenshot coming soon — Herbie on the desktop next to a Telegram chat with the same conversation on a phone.
The agents are great. The plumbing is a mess.
- Claude has its window, Codex has another, Gemini has a third.
- You configure your MCP servers three times.
- There's no way to schedule anything — you rerun the same prompt by hand every Monday morning.
- And none of them work from your phone.
Herbie fixes the plumbing. The agents stay great, they just stop fighting for your attention.
Public beta on macOS. Native menubar app (no dock icon, no Electron weight) built on Electrobun and the Agent Client Protocol. Local-first — your chats, tasks, and credentials live on your machine, not in a cloud.
Shipping today:
- Composer with model, reasoning, and workspace pickers per agent
- MCP servers shared across every agent
- Skills (Claude / Codex / Gemini)
- Cron, interval, and weekly task scheduling
- Telegram bridge (one or many bots, each pinned to a specific agent)
- Custom agents — bring your own ACP-compatible CLI
- 17 ACP-compatible agents detected out of the box
Coming next:
- File attachments on the composer
- More mobile bridges (Discord, Signal, …)
Binary releases are landing soon. In the meantime, build from source:
git clone https://github.com/DaniAkash/herbie
cd herbie
bun install
bun run startOn first launch, Herbie asks you to pick a default workspace folder (where your agents will spend most of their time). After that, click the tray icon to open the popover.
Screenshot coming soon — first-run flow with the workspace picker.
| Agent | How Herbie reaches it | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | @agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp (via npx) |
Tested |
| Codex CLI | @zed-industries/codex-acp (via npx) |
Tested |
| Gemini CLI | @google/gemini-cli |
Tested |
| Hermes Agent | hermes acp |
Experimental |
| Kilo, OpenCode, Pi, Cursor, Droid, Copilot, iFlow, Kimi, Kiro, OpenClaw, Qoder, Qwen, Trae | acpx built-in registry | Detected |
If your agent speaks ACP, Herbie can drive it.
A detailed contribution guide — stack, dev loop, architecture, how to
add a new agent / MCP / mobile bridge — is coming in CONTRIBUTING.md.
For now: issues and PRs welcome.
MIT — see LICENSE.
Built by @DaniAkash.