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Shepherdr

https://imperialai.ai/apps/shepherdr/

Published 5th October 2026

Shepherdr app icon and phone screenshots
Shepherdr lets developers check in on, unblock and steer the AI coding agents running on their servers, from their phone. Techarge designed and built it for Imperial AI, for Android and iOS from a single Flutter codebase.

Built with

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The brief

Teams running AI coding agents on remote machines with herdr needed a way to see which agents were blocked and answer them without opening a laptop. Imperial AI asked Techarge to build a secure, native-feeling mobile client.

  • Flutter and Dart: one codebase for Android, iPhone and iPad.
  • SSH speaking herdr's own protocol: a live tree of workspaces, tabs and panes, with agent status updating as it happens.
  • Security first: host-key verification, secrets in Android Keystore and iOS Keychain, an optional biometric app lock, and no analytics or accounts.
  • Store-ready: Google Play Billing and StoreKit for a one-time unlock, an offline demo mode for App Review, and Codemagic CI for signed releases.
Shepherdr workspace tree on Android

Features

Observe or take control: open any pane as a read-only terminal, then take control when an agent needs an answer and release it again.

Built for phones: an extra keys row (Esc, Tab, sticky Ctrl and Alt), pinch to zoom, and a plain SSH shell when herdr isn’t installed.

Multiple servers: password or SSH key sign-in, Ed25519 key generation in the app, and import of OpenSSH/PEM keys.

Shepherdr taking control of an agent pane

Shepherdr is available from Imperial AI. More details: Shepherdr app page.