Kanban Video Pipeline

What Kanban Video Pipeline does

The pipeline is a recursive demonstration: the Hermes Kanban system creates a video explaining itself. One hermes kanban create command assigns a brief to the director, which decomposes it into nine tasks. The cinematographer designs the visual language, seven renderers run in parallel using ASCII video and p5.js, and the editor reviews clips with AI video analysis and assembles the final cut with ffmpeg into output/final.mp4. Each stage promotes automatically when its dependencies complete.

Agents communicate through three built-in Kanban channels: structured handoffs with a summary and metadata that child tasks receive in context, comments written with kanban_comment, and a shared workspace directory. A setup.sh script creates the four profiles, writes their personalities, sets up the project structure and initializes the board. Progress can be watched with hermes kanban watch, hermes kanban list or the Kanban tab of hermes dashboard. The repository also holds ARCHITECTURE.md, RUN.md, a brief, taste documents, and the render scripts the agents wrote as reference.

Key features

• Four profiles: director, cinematographer, renderer and editor
• Director decomposes the brief into nine tasks; seven renderers run in parallel
• Handoffs, comments and a shared workspace as the three communication channels
• setup.sh creates the profiles, personalities and Kanban board
• Editor assembles the final cut with ffmpeg and AI video analysis
• Monitoring through hermes kanban watch, list and the dashboard

When to use it

• Learning how multi-profile Hermes Kanban workflows hand work between agents
• Reusing the setup as a template for another multi-stage creative pipeline
• Watching an unattended agent team produce a video end to end

Who it is for: Hermes Agent users who want a working example of multi-agent Kanban orchestration.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Published in the NousResearch organization as a demonstration built on Hermes Agent and its Kanban system.

How to install Kanban Video Pipeline

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

chmod +x setup.sh
./setup.sh

Requirements: Hermes Agent installed, an OpenRouter API key (for claude-opus-4.6), and the gateway running with hermes gateway start

Note: The repository has no license file, and the README requires an OpenRouter API key for claude-opus-4.6.

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