Bot HQ

What Bot HQ does

Bot HQ treats chat as one interface among several. Each bot writes its own Home, a dashboard built around what that bot does, and the bot owns the data while Bot HQ renders it. From a Home you can see status and metrics at a glance, trigger declared moves, run routines and click buttons such as Review or Escalate instead of typing the request again. A fleet page lists every local Hermes profile with no signup or register step.

Setup has four steps: install the plugin with hermes plugins install, switch the page on in Hermes Desktop under Capabilities, Plugins, run hermes hermes-bot-hq setup to enable the dashboard reader for every bot, then open Bot HQ from the sidebar. If a bot has no dashboard yet, Copy and open chat produces a prompt that makes the bot write its own Home. To refresh a Home on a schedule, add the skill with hermes cron edit --add-skill hermes-bot-hq:bot-home. A manual path symlinks the plugin into a single profile.

Key features

• A Home dashboard per bot, written by the bot itself
• Fleet page listing every local Hermes profile
• Buttons that trigger declared moves and routines
• One setup command that enables the dashboard reader for all bots
• Scheduled Home refresh through the bot-home skill and Hermes cron

When to use it

• Monitoring several purpose-built Hermes bots from one screen
• Reviewing or escalating a bot's findings with a click instead of a chat message
• Giving a monitoring or routine bot a status page with alerts and tasks

Who it is for: Hermes Desktop users who run several single-purpose bots and want dashboards instead of chat-only control.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Built as a Hermes plugin that adds a Bot HQ page to Hermes Desktop and reads dashboards from Hermes profiles.

How to install Bot HQ

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

hermes plugins install the-spirit-realm/hermes-bot-hq
hermes hermes-bot-hq setup

Requirements: Hermes Desktop with the Bot HQ page switched on under Capabilities, Plugins, and the dashboard reader enabled for each bot with hermes hermes-bot-hq setup

Note: The README calls this an early cut, and its install commands use the the-spirit-realm/hermes-bot-hq path.

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