Hermes Agent Goes Live: Multi-Agent Dashboard — tasks appear on the board and you can claim work from it, so you don’t need to open a bunch of terminals anymore

According to Beating Monitoring, Nous Research’s open-source agent framework Hermes Agent added a Kanban multi-agent collaboration system in v0.12.0. The core idea is to place tasks on a shared Kanban board, where each agent acts as an independent operating system process that claims and executes tasks in parallel, replacing the scheduling approach of groups of sub-agents within a single process.

The entire system runs on a local SQLite database. Each claim is an atomic transaction. When multiple agents compete for the same task, only one can acquire it. After an agent crashes or times out, the scheduler automatically recovers and reassigns the task via process liveness detection. Three consecutive failures trigger a circuit breaker; the task is automatically locked and waits for manual intervention to prevent the board from idling.

The framework includes two built-in skills: an orchestrator and a worker. The former is responsible for breaking down goals and assigning them to expert roles (such as researchers, engineers, reviewers, etc.), while the latter handles execution. Between tasks, parent-child dependencies can be established: once upstream completes, its summaries and metadata are automatically passed to downstream agents. It supports 9 collaboration modes, including fan-out parallelism, pipelines, voting arbitration, and human-in-the-loop reviews.

The accompanying Web dashboard pushes events in real time via WebSocket. All operations simultaneously support CLI and slash commands through gateways such as Telegram and Discord.