herdr vs SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs
herdr is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑16.
herdr is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by iowarp. No marketplace we read lists it any more. SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs is an MCP server published by dwgx. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-20. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace iowarp/clio-kit | Removed on 2026-10-16 Version: 0.2.0 Forks (GitHub): 5 Stars (GitHub): 8 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.3.5 Downloads/month (PyPI): 720 Downloads/week (PyPI): 199 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 5 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | herdrno longer listed · | SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 8 | 5 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 5 | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (smartcli-toolkit) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not published | 3 |
| Licence (differs) | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/iowarp/clio-coder | github.com/dwgx/smartcli |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of herdr
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Patterns for designing CLIs that coding agents can run reliably: flags, help with examples, pipelines, errors, idempotency, dry-run.
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Live browser dashboard of every CLI agent session you're running on one screen. See what each session is doing in real time, organize them into named groups that persist across…
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Complete cmux integration for Claude Code. Includes full CLI reference (~130 commands), browser automation (~40 subcommands with element refs), multi-agent orchestration patterns…
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Multi-agent task orchestration for Claude Code. Decomposes complex development tasks into parallel Claude Code agents coordinated through dependency-aware waves with visual…
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10 slash commands and 3 agent definitions distilled from 6 months of daily Claude Code use. Not a framework -- just the patterns that survived: multi-agent build pipelines…
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Spawn and manage autonomous background agents with persistent state across sessions
What each says it does
herdr
Launches, drives, or inspects another agent or command in a Herdr pane, tab, or workspace, including a second Clio Coder instance; requires HERDR_ENV=1. Not for background work a plain shell or dispatch already covers.
SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs
Let agents drive vim, htop, lazygit: send keys, wait on screen state, read the rendered cell grid.
How to run each
herdr
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio smartcli -- uvx smartcli-toolkitCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: herdr · What it can do: SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.