Herdr — Engineering Agent Orchestration

Reliable autonomous engineering

Herdr coordinates coding and engineering agents so a task can use an appropriate execution path and retain evidence of what happened. It addresses routing, escalation, isolation, and independent verification around autonomous development.

What I worked on

• Route work between local and hosted coding agents while avoiding unnecessary hosted-model usage.
• Reuse prepared Git worktrees to preserve isolated changes and keep primary working directories unchanged.
• Separate implementation from independent review and preserve failure evidence.
• Use automated test suites as acceptance evidence rather than treating the agent’s completion message as sufficient.

Representative validation workflows

• Local-only work completed with zero hosted turns in a validated workflow. This is a specific observed path, not a universal cost or performance claim.
• More difficult work could escalate to a hosted coding model.
• Results could be independently reviewed; failed or unavailable review did not become an approved result.
• Git worktrees retained isolated changes while primary working directories remained unchanged.

What this demonstrates

The project explores how to keep autonomy accountable: choose a route, bound the working area, preserve evidence, and require a separate acceptance decision.