Agent Terminal: app and UI for Hermes Agent

Chrome side-panel terminal that lets coding agents, including Hermes, control your live browser tabs

What Agent Terminal does

Agent Terminal puts a real terminal in Chrome's side panel. From there you launch a coding agent and let it work on the Chrome tabs you are already using: open pages, click, fill forms and take snapshots, while you watch and can step in.

The extension does not touch page DOM itself. Browser actions run through Vercel's agent-browser CLI inside the terminal, and agents are pointed to it by an AGENTS.md file you can edit. Because it is a plain terminal, you can use Playwright, Puppeteer or another tool instead. The launcher offers Claude, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, OpenClaw or a plain Terminal, with up to 8 terminals per Chrome window, and sessions survive closing the side panel. Remote debugging is turned on once at chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging.

Key features

Terminal inside Chrome's side panel
One-click launcher for Claude, Codex, Cursor, Hermes and OpenClaw
Agents attach to your live Chrome, never Chrome-for-Testing
Up to 8 terminals per window, sessions survive closing the panel
Setup doctor that detects agent CLIs and writes AGENTS.md
Isolated browser session per concurrent agent

When to use it

Letting Hermes fill a form in a tab where you are already logged in
Watching an agent work in the side panel and taking over when needed
Running several agents at once, each with its own browser session

Who it is for: Developers who want coding agents to act on their real Chrome session while they supervise.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Hermes is one of the agents in the one-click launcher menu, alongside Claude, Codex, Cursor and OpenClaw.

How to install Agent Terminal

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

git clone https://github.com/rishiskhare/agent-terminal.git
cd agent-terminal
go build -o agent-terminal .
./agent-terminal install

Requirements: Go 1.24+, Node.js 20+ and Chrome; the extension is built from the extension folder with npm and loaded unpacked

Note: The README calls the project experimental and warns that agents can control your live Chrome and run shell commands on your machine.

FAQ

What is Agent Terminal?

Agent Terminal is a Chrome extension that provides a terminal in the side panel so AI coding agents can control your live browser tabs while you watch.

Does Agent Terminal work with Hermes Agent?

Yes. Hermes is one of the agents offered in the launcher menu, next to Claude, Codex, Cursor and OpenClaw.

What do I need to run Agent Terminal?

You need Go 1.24 or newer, Node.js 20 or newer and Chrome. After building, load the extension from the extension/dist/chrome-mv3 folder with Developer mode on.