Product guide

How Drover fits around your agents.

Drover is a remote control plane for work that remains inside Herdr on your own machine. This guide explains the model without hiding its current beta boundaries.

The system model

Drover for iPhone
The native iOS 18+ interface for viewing state and sending supported input.
Drover Host
droverd, a standalone macOS/Linux process beside Herdr. Drover has no macOS or iPadOS app, and neither is planned.
Herdr
The authoritative orchestrator and terminal-session source. Drover does not create a parallel hosted workspace.
Cloud control plane
Minimal signaling, short-lived relay credentials, generic push hints, and entitlement checks. Terminal payloads remain end-to-end encrypted.

Objects you navigate

Drover mirrors Herdr’s hierarchy instead of flattening every process into an invented chat thread:

HostHerdr sessionWorkspaceTab / paneAgent

The verified hostname is always visible where host identity matters. A user nickname may accompany it, but never replace it.

Connection order

  1. LAN direct: local discovery and an encrypted direct session.
  2. WAN direct: peer-to-peer WebRTC when the network permits it.
  3. Managed TURN fallback: an encrypted blind relay when a direct path cannot be established.

Capability status

Drover beta capability status
CapabilityStatusBoundary
Session and agent stateBeta scopeMirrors the authoritative host.
Prompt / terminal inputBeta scopeConnected sessions only.
Off-network + pushProEntitlement-gated at launch.
Approve / deny exact requestsPlannedNever inferred from ambiguous terminal text.
Interrupt / stop / manage agentPlannedNot represented as available until end-to-end verified.

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