Hermes Dashboard

What Hermes Dashboard does

Hermes Dashboard is a standalone web dashboard for the Hermes agent runtime, packaged as a reusable project for people who already have a working Hermes install. An interactive one-line installer clones it into ~/hermesdashboard, asks where your Hermes home, checkout and virtualenv live, detects whether a Hermes API is already running, writes launcher scripts and a per-install API key, and runs preflight checks for the Python version, dependencies and common path problems.

The dashboard either reuses your existing Hermes API or starts a bundled API-only launcher. The recommended defaults are 127.0.0.1:8642 for the Hermes API and 127.0.0.1:8081 for the dashboard, and host, port and HERMES_API values are kept in .env.local. A Docker launcher runs only the web dashboard in a container while the Hermes API stays on the host. On Linux the installer can create user-level systemd services so both start at login. Updates can be done from a terminal, GitHub Desktop, a ZIP download or by rerunning the installer, and the gear menu in the dashboard has Update Instructions.

Key features

• Web views for chat, sessions, memory, skills, secrets, config and graph visualization
• Interactive installer with preflight checks and a per-install API key
• Reuses an existing Hermes API or starts a bundled API-only launcher
• Docker launcher for the dashboard web app
• Optional Linux auto-start through user-level systemd services
• In-dashboard Update Instructions and a /api/status check

When to use it

• Browsing Hermes sessions and memory from a browser tab
• Reviewing skills, secrets and config through a web interface
• Running the dashboard in Docker while Hermes stays on the host

Who it is for: Hermes Agent users with a working install who want a browser-based dashboard for their agent.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Built for Hermes Agent: it connects to the Hermes API and reads from an existing Hermes home and virtualenv.

How to install Hermes Dashboard

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

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mojomast/hermesdashboard/main/install.sh)"
cd ~/hermesdashboard
./run-api-server.sh
./run-dashboard.sh

Requirements: A working Hermes install and a compatible Python version, which the installer checks

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