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ServerCC 2.0: Sandbox Trial, herdr integration, and a new iPad layout

2026-08-26

2.0.0 is on the App Store. It adds three things: a free cloud sandbox you can claim inside the app, integration with herdr, and a new layout for iPad.

Sandbox Trial

2.0 provides a sandbox host for trying ServerCC: a free temporary cloud server, no machine of your own required. The claim button is on the empty server list, and on the last page of the Quick Start guide.

The last page of the Quick Start guide with the Try a Sandbox Server button

Claiming is one tap. The app requests the machine, stores the credentials, connects, and opens a workspace with a sample project checked out. The sandbox comes with Claude Code, Codex, and Pi preinstalled and signed in — no API key, no login — plus tmux and git, so persistent sessions and the git diff view work the same as on a real server.

The sandbox is time-limited. A countdown shows on the server row and in the workspace, and a notification fires shortly before expiry. When it expires, the machine is destroyed with all data on it; the row stays in the list marked Trial ended, and tapping it offers to add your own server or delete the trial host. Sandboxes don’t count against the free server limit.

What’s installed and how expiry behaves, in detail, is in the Sandbox Trial docs.

herdr

herdr runs several coding agents side by side on one machine: one space per project, tabs and panes inside, each agent labeled working, blocked, done, or idle. 2.0 integrates with it — if a server in your list runs herdr, its spaces appear on the server page with those states.

The server page on iPad: herdr 0.8 in Installation Status, agent sessions with state badges in the takeover section, and workspaces carrying herdr badges

Tap a running agent to attach to the live session — the same terminal herdr shows. Attaching is free. A space can be adopted as a regular ServerCC workspace with a swipe; after that, session history, files, git diff, and worktrees all work on it. In the other direction, starting a new session in a directory herdr manages offers herdr Mode: the agent launches in a new herdr tab instead of a plain tmux session, and worktrees go through herdr’s own worktree open, so checkouts appear under the repo’s space.

ServerCC also manages herdr itself: install it from the server page, update it, and toggle the per-agent status hooks herdr reads states from; an outdated hook shows an Update button. The integration is built against herdr 0.8. Details in the herdr docs.

Designed for iPad

2.0 replaces the scaled-up iPhone layout with one built for iPad: a sidebar with servers and running sessions, content in columns, and the panels that were sheets on iPhone staying open next to the terminal. All orientations are supported, portrait included.

A Codex session on iPad: the sidebar shows servers and the running session, the terminal fills the rest with a key row underneath

Tapping another session in the sidebar switches the view; the session you leave keeps running and can be reopened anytime. The feature set is identical to the iPhone app’s.

Get started

2.0.0 is a free update. To try ServerCC without setting anything up, claim the sandbox. When you’re ready for a real server, the Quick Start covers adding one.