Minions: app and UI for Hermes Agent

Mission control for Hermes Agent: kanban board, live streaming and review queue for autonomous tasks

What Minions does

Each task in Minions is a persistent Hermes root session. You describe the work in chat and walk away, and the board shows where each task stands: in progress, in review or done. Successful agent runs move cards into a review queue, and agents only propose completion, so nothing is closed without your sign-off. Chat transcripts stay in the Hermes session database, while Minions keeps task metadata, status and per-task settings in its own local SQLite database under ~/.minions/.

You can watch tool calls, reasoning and responses stream live, override the model and reasoning effort for individual tasks, create and manage recurring Hermes scheduled tasks with history and output, and browse files that agents created in the workspace directory. The server opens at http://localhost:6969. The adapter interface exists, but the first release supports Hermes only, and an OpenClaw adapter is next on the roadmap. A hosted access option is offered through Agent37.

Key features

Kanban board with in-progress, in-review and done states
Live streaming of tool calls, reasoning and responses
Human sign-off before a task moves to done
Per-task model and reasoning-effort overrides
Scheduled Hermes tasks with history and output
File browser for workspace output

When to use it

Supervising several long-running Hermes jobs from one screen
Delegating research or writing and reviewing the results later
Seeing which scheduled tasks finished and which need attention

Who it is for: Hermes Agent users who run many sessions or long-lived tasks and need one place to track them.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Built for Hermes Agent: every task is a Hermes session, and the launch version supports Hermes only.

How to install Minions

These commands are copied from the project's README. Check the repository for the latest steps before you run them.

npx minionsai

Requirements: Node.js 18+ and Hermes Agent

Note: Roadmap items such as notifications, a skills library and an OpenClaw adapter are not yet available.

FAQ

What is Minions?

Minions is a mission-control dashboard for Hermes Agent. It lets you create, supervise and review autonomous Hermes work on a kanban board, with live streaming and a review queue.

Does Minions work with Hermes Agent?

Yes, it is built for Hermes Agent, and each task is a persistent Hermes session. It does not work with other agents yet: an adapter interface exists, but the launch is Hermes-only and OpenClaw is next.

How do I install Minions?

Run npx minionsai with Node.js 18 or newer and Hermes Agent installed, then open http://localhost:6969. State is kept in ~/.minions/ in a local SQLite database.