herderp

A Claude Code plugin: a stdio MCP server wrapping the herdr CLI with curated one-shot tools, plus session necromancy — find and read a previous Claude Code agent session from a herdr "space."

What it does

• Curated herdr tools — MCP calls over the herdr CLI instead of hand-typing it. One tool per resource, each taking an action, so ~35 CLI subcommands cost six tools rather than thirty-five:

  • herdr_agent — list/get/read/send/focus/rename/start/wait/explain.

  • herdr_pane — list/get/run/close/rename/focus/split/swap/move.

  • herdr_tab and herdr_workspace — list/get/create/rename/focus/close.

  • herdr_worktree — list/create/open/remove.

  • herdr_session_list — herdr's own named server sessions (not Claude Code sessions).

  Every result carries a hint naming the natural next call, and a missing field is rejected by name (herdr_agent{action:"get"} requires "target") rather than falling through to herdr's usage text. herdr's own integration plumbing (pane report-agent/report-metadata/release-agent) and the interactive agent attach --takeover are deliberately not exposed.

• Necromancy — point at a space (a herdr workspace id, label, project cwd, session name, or nothing) and:

  • necromancy_find_spaces — scan ~/.claude/projects/* and live workspaces, present revivable candidates.

  • necromancy_search_all — search the content of many sessions at once when you know what happened but not where: one entry per matching session (its space, id, match count, a representative snippet, last activity), newest first. Bounded on both ends — how many sessions come back (truncated) and how many session files were read at all (scanned/scanTruncated).

  • necromancy_resolve — turn a herdr agent handle (upublish:1 = workspace label upublish, tab labeled 1) straight into the exact live session it addresses, in one shot. Ambiguity and misses come back as candidates / a typed reason to fall through, not a wrong guess.

  • necromancy_list_sessions — enumerate the sessions that lived in a space (disk is authoritative), ranked by recency, marked live vs dead, with a per-session preview and — for live sessions — their herdr handle. Degrades to a still-usable list (marked) if herdr is unreachable.

  • necromancy_anchors — deterministically regex-extract a session's "always grab" set (ask, final state, commits, PRs, versions, files touched, errors, test results, decisions) so a catch-up is grounded on evidence and misses nothing load-bearing. No model call.

  • necromancy_outline / necromancy_search / necromancy_read — read a past session's turns in place: outline its shape, search it by keyword or regex, and pull specific turns back verbatim, all capped on count and bytes.

• necromancy skill — drives the find-a-space → list → outline → search → read flow conversationally.

• /herderp:ghost command — a one-shot catch-up: reads the previous session, or point it at an agent/space name and/or a session id to read a specific one. Get a plain summary of what it did and where it stopped, plus resume questions. Reading only — it never revives.

Related MCP server: claude-code-mcp

How reading works

Claude sessions persist on disk at ~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<uuid>.jsonl independent of herdr pane life (the slug maps every non-alphanumeric character in the cwd to - — /, ., _, @ and the rest — without collapsing runs, so prod-_x becomes prod--x). Necromancy enumerates them from disk and reads their turns in place — no pane, no relaunch. The reader parses the raw jsonl, skips empty/oversized/malformed files by stat alone, and validates every session id against a strict UUID regex before touching the filesystem.

Requirements

• bun on PATH (the server runs under bun; dependencies auto-install on first launch — no bun install needed).

• A running herdr server and the Claude Code session store at ~/.claude/projects. Both degrade gracefully with a clear message if absent.

Install

Via the rtd marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add ryanthedev/rtd-claude-inn
/plugin install herderp@rtd

Development

bun install
bun test            # unit + integration (side-effect-free)
bun run start       # boot the MCP server on stdio

Scope (v1)

Claude agents only; reading only (find, list, and read past sessions in place). Non-Claude agent kinds are a later seam.