Hermes-AgentMesh

What Hermes-AgentMesh does

Hermes-AgentMesh is a peer-to-peer asynchronous message bus built on Redis queues, written by a Hermes agent persona called Bobo according to its README. Instead of waiting on a synchronous HTTP call that times out after 5 to 10 minutes, a sender pushes a task to a node's inbox list and returns immediately, and a resident worker pulls it, calls the LLM over HTTP and posts the result to an outbox.

The design uses no cross-machine SSH. A central Mac mini hosts Redis, the Hermes API on port 8642 and a file server on port 8080, while other Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi or WSL nodes run worker_node.py as systemd user services or LaunchAgents. An orchestrator script drives a four-step protocol for multi-round debates between agents. The README says it works with other frameworks such as OpenClaw, LangGraph, AutoGen and CrewAI, and documents a case that cut a 300 second timeout to 8 seconds. The README is written in Chinese.

Key features

• Redis inbox and outbox queues per node instead of synchronous HTTP calls
• Resident workers run as systemd user services or macOS LaunchAgents
• No SSH needed between machines
• Orchestrator script for multi-round agent debates
• Reports land on the machine that started the orchestrator
• Adapters described for OpenClaw, LangGraph, AutoGen and CrewAI

When to use it

• Sending a task that takes 10 minutes or more to a Hermes agent on another machine
• Running multi-round debates between agents on separate devices
• Letting a worker survive a restart without losing queued tasks

Who it is for: People running several Hermes agents across home or lab machines who need reliable long-task hand-offs.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It is built around Hermes Agent's API server on port 8642 and framed as infrastructure for Hermes agents, while remaining usable by other frameworks.

Requirements: A Mac mini running Redis and the Hermes Gateway on :8642, plus one or more Mac, Linux, Pi or WSL nodes on the same local network

Note: The quick start binds Redis to 0.0.0.0 with protected mode off and assumes all machines share one local network.

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