Upstream gap: Herdr integrations don't report pane titles — metadata-first naming is crucial

[RaviTharuma]

Summary

Herdr pane renaming / task-title metadata is missing from the default agent loop, and it's crucial.

I'm filing this across title/rename tools because they are all compensating for the same gap.

The gap

Herdr already exposes:

• herdr pane report-metadata --title ... --display-agent ...
• herdr pane rename
• herdr agent rename

But official Herdr integrations (Pi, Claude, Codex, OpenCode, OMP, etc.) only report lifecycle state (report_agent / report_agent_session). They do not report a task-derived pane title.

So users get many panes named claude / pi / codex with no task identity.

Why this is crucial

1. Multi-agent sidebars become unreadable.
2. Focus/attach/wait requires guessing.
3. Outer terminal-title tools must scrape session JSONL instead of reading Herdr metadata.
4. Every agent ecosystem reinvents renamers/title hooks.

Task identity is core UX for an agent multiplexer, not a cosmetic extra.

What I'm asking each project

If you are a Herdr-facing title/rename plugin

• Please treat missing upstream pane metadata titles as a first-class dependency gap.
• Prefer Herdr pane.report_metadata titles when present.
• Document that without upstream integration title reporting, you are forced into fragile session-file scraping / prompt heuristics.
• Consider linking/supporting a core Herdr issue asking official integrations to report titles by default.

If you are a terminal-title hook outside Herdr

• Same product need: task-based naming is essential for parallel agents.
• When running under Herdr, ideally push titles into Herdr metadata too (not only OSC window titles), so the Herdr UI and outer terminal stay aligned.

Related core report

I filed this against Herdr core / official integrations:

• Official integrations never report pane titles — task-based renaming is missing and crucial herdrdev/herdr#1723

Concrete ask

Please acknowledge that pane/task renaming is currently missing from the default path and is crucial, and either:

1. add/keep strong support for Herdr metadata titles, and/or
2. help push official integrations to report titles natively so plugins don't have to reverse-engineer them.

Happy to test patches.

[RaviTharuma]

Update: the Herdr-core report was redirected from issues to Discussions (Herdr only accepts bugs as issues). Canonical upstream thread is now:

herdrdev/herdr#1725

Please consider linking/supporting that discussion if you also depend on integration-reported pane titles.