/ˈeɪdʒənt ˌhɜːr.dər/ (noun) — a practitioner who orchestrates fleets of AI coding agents; one who makes sense of parallel, asynchronous agent work without losing the plot.
Running one Claude Code session is using AI.
Running fifteen at once, on purpose, without losing control, is a practice.
We call that practice Agent Herding. This is where to learn it.
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For the last 40 years, software engineering assumed one human, at one terminal, writing code. We built our tools, our workflows, our mental models around that shape.
AI coding agents broke that shape. A single developer running 10+ Claude Code sessions in parallel is not just a faster developer. They're doing a qualitatively different job. The bottleneck moved from "how fast can I write code" to "how well can I brief, supervise, and coordinate autonomous workers."
No one taught us how to do that. There's no book. No conference talk. No training program.
Until now.
Agent Herding is the practice of:
It looks, honestly, a lot like managing a small team of junior engineers — except the juniors cost pennies, never sleep, and produce code faster than you can read it.
Getting to 2–3 parallel sessions is usually self-taught — common sense and a weekend. The wall most people hit is the jump from 3 to 4–12, where the coordination overhead changes shape entirely. That's the step this practice is about.
Agent Herding has three natural stages. Each one sets up the next.
1–3 parallel sessions. The baseline. CLAUDE.md, skills, context management, briefing a single agent well. This is common sense plus a bit of craft — most developers can learn it alone. Curriculum is here for reference, but you probably already have this.
For: reference, or if you've never run a Claude Code session before.
3–8 parallel sessions. Where the practice actually begins. Decomposing work into independent streams, briefing a cohort at once, git workflows that don't collapse under merge conflicts, catching agents that are quietly off-course. This is the jump most people plateau at.
For: senior engineers, leads, and solo founders who have tried to scale beyond 3 sessions and hit a wall.
10+ parallel sessions. Exam-grade. Agents spawning agents, forked sessions for alternative approaches, cross-repo coordination, and staying the coordinator instead of becoming the bottleneck. This is what the certification exam actually tests.
For: the practitioners at the frontier — and anyone preparing for the certification exam.
Cert curriculum is free. Read it as the self-paced AgentHerder Course — no gate, no drip wall. The paid thing is the exam.
The exam is ~3 hours, live, observed by a Principal AgentHerder — someone who already runs 10+ parallel sessions daily. You operate 10+ parallel sessions against a test repo we provide, delivering specified outcomes inside the window. Practice-tested, not knowledge-tested.
What gets graded:
Pass = Certified AgentHerder. Listable on LinkedIn, recognized across the AgentHerder community. Not-yet = Apprentice — includes one free re-take within 6 months.
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You can't herd 15 sessions from a keyboard and a pile of terminal windows. You need a tool that lets Claude open its own tabs, know which tabs are running what, and coordinate across them.
We built one. It's open source, MIT, npm install -g cctabs.
cctabs ≠ AgentHerder. The tool is the lever. The practice is what you're learning to do with it.
Built by Fredrik Wollsén — Agentic Software/Growth Engineer at Augmented Mind, previously Mozilla. Twenty-two years as a professional software engineer; the last decade making AI genuinely useful, personally and professionally.
Currently AI Engineer Principal Tech Lead at F-Secure, where the 4-engineer team he works on has been operating AI-native since August 2025 — sustaining 400+ PRs/month against shipping product, with each engineer running 8–20 parallel Claude Code work streams. Former Claude Code Coach at DNV Cyber. Runs 12–15 parallel sessions daily across product work and independent products (Remember This, My Transcriber).
Everything you'll learn in this program is something the curriculum author does every day, with a real fleet, against a shipping product. Not theorised. Not from a deck.
On stage at: GOSIM AI Vision Forum Paris 2026, Panel 1 — Agentic AI Systems & Human-AI Symbiosis (May 4, 2026).