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  • Public docs and repo page cleanup
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    documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#107 ·

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  • Community files for outside contributors
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    documentation

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#106 ·

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  • First-run Claude Code card: the install command is not on PATH
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    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#105 ·

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  • Docs: palette first
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    documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#104 ·

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  • Remove the menu bar panel; the icon opens the palette
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#103 ·

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  • Palette: visual pass
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#102 ·

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  • Palette: Shepherd commands
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    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#101 ·

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  • Palette: status and first-run page
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#100 ·

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  • Palette: triage, move to the next waiting agent after a send
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#99 ·

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  • Palette: answer approvals from the list
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#98 ·

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  • Palette: preview of the highlighted agent
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#97 ·

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  • Notch bar: cleaner and simpler
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#96 ·

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  • Remove the built-in Usage and This Mac gadgets
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#95 ·

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  • Plugin gadgets
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#94 ·

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  • Only blocked agents turn the paw orange
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#93 ·

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  • Notch pill: show on a new block, not for as long as it lasts
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#92 ·

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  • Notch new task: Return in the prompt field does not start the task
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    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#85 ·

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  • Weekly recap
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#65 ·

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  • Replaceable sounds
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#64 ·

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  • Cloud agent sources
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#63 ·

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  • Process source for agents outside tmux
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#62 ·

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  • Settings window
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#61 ·

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  • Tagged release with a changelog
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#60 ·

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  • README: the GIF
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    documentation

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 57/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#58 ·

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  • The sheepdog mascot
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#57 ·

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  • Release workflow: signed, notarised DMG and a Homebrew cask
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#56 ·

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  • Flaky snapshots: palette text fields render off under load
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    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#54 · 1 comment ·

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  • Read `rows_by_agent` from herdr's sidebar config
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#53 ·

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  • Ask herdr for a global, event-driven agent status subscription
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    enhancement upstream

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 47/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#52 ·

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  • Claude Code without herdr: close the gaps
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#51 ·

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  • Spike: App Intents under the SwiftPM build
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#50 ·

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  • Services menu: Send to agent
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#49 ·

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  • Drop onto the notch to send to an agent
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#48 ·

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  • Scouts: tasks whose answer comes back to the palette
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#47 ·

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  • New task from the palette into a Claude Code background session or a new terminal
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#46 ·

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  • Claude Code as a source through its session interface
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#45 ·

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  • One key to act on finished work
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#44 ·

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  • Facts on finished work, as checks
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#43 ·

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  • Saved questions for finished agents
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#42 ·

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  • Plugins: checks and gadgets
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#40 · 1 comment ·

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  • Manual check: tmux source with real agents
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    manual-check

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 24/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#29 · 2 comments ·

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  • Manual check: plugin events with real agents
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    manual-check

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#28 ·

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  • Manual check: palette
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    manual-check

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#27 ·

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  • Manual check: notch bar and stage with real agents
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    manual-check

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#26 ·

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  • Manual check: panel, project cards and tokens on a real herdr
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    accessibility manual-check

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 54/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#25 ·

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  • Manual check: floating bar without a notch, pill on a second display
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    manual-check

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    Flexipie/shepherd#24 ·

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  • Merged tmux row: a stale report outlives what the screen shows
    Possibly taken Open
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    bug

    Flexipie/shepherd#88 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Show a Codex agent's final message
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    enhancement

    Flexipie/shepherd#76 · 1 assignee ·

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