Hermes Desktop App v0.6: Kanban Board, File Bookmarks, and Visual Chat

Key Takeaways

• Hermes Desktop v0.6.0 is a free, open-source Mac app — connects to your remote Hermes host over SSH with no gateway sync layer or local file copy needed.
• File bookmarks: bookmark any host file (skills, memories, agents.md) once; click to open, edit in-app, and save — with conflict detection if the file changed between your read and save. 10 MB file size cap.
• Chat workbench: search all past sessions by keyword, pin important ones, read readable transcripts (not raw terminal output), and continue sessions directly from the app or drop to a terminal session.
• Tool call summaries now appear in the chat workbench — instead of scrolling through walls of raw output, you see short labels for what each tool call did.
• Full Kanban board support for the multi-agent task system: create tasks, assign them to Hermes profiles, comment, block/unblock, complete, and archive — all from the GUI.
• Kanban view shows run history and event logs from worker output, and lets you nudge the task dispatcher directly from the app.
• Designed explicitly for business owners who don't want to use a terminal — the terminal is still accessible, but optional.

File Bookmarks: Why It Matters

Hermes Agent stores its working files — skills, memory snapshots, project notes, the agents.md config — on the host machine. Before v0.6, updating any of those files meant SSH-ing into the host, navigating to the right path, opening a terminal editor, making changes, and saving carefully. One slip and you could corrupt a skill file or wipe a memory entry. File bookmarks in v0.6 reduce this to: open the app, click the bookmark, edit the text, save. The app checks whether the file changed on the host between when you opened it and when you're saving — preventing accidental overwrites if something else modified the file. The 10 MB cap covers all typical use cases: skill definitions, prompt files, and agent config are all well under that limit.

Kanban Board and the Multi-Agent Task System

Hermes recently shipped a Kanban-style task orchestration system for coordinating multiple agent workers. Tasks can be created, assigned to specific Hermes profiles, run, blocked (waiting on another task), unblocked, completed, and archived. Before v0.6 of the desktop app, managing all of this required terminal commands. The new Kanban view in the desktop app gives you a visual board: you can see task status at a glance, add comments, track run history, and review the event logs from worker sessions. You can also nudge the task dispatcher — the Hermes component that hands tasks to available workers — directly from the GUI when something is stuck.

Related on OpenClawDatabase

• Hermes Agent Setup Guide — installing Hermes on a VPS or local machine
• Hermes Tasks — scheduling and managing automated agent tasks
• Hermes Memory — how Hermes stores skills, memories, and project context
• Hermes vs OpenClaw — platform comparison for choosing your agent