Hermes Agent Dashboard (Setup Guide and Overview)

The Hermes agent live web dashboard replaces terminal-only config and session debugging with a browser UI on port 9119.

Setup in Two Commands

Run hermes dashboard in your terminal — the web UI builds in roughly a minute and exposes a 9119 link. On a VPS, SSH-tunnel the port with ssh -L 9119:localhost:9119 <vps-ip> (the creator uses their fleet commander Stark as the example host); clicking the raw link otherwise returns site can't be reached. The creator notes that exposing the dashboard without auth is risky and warns never to share the SSH IP publicly.

Sessions and Cron Jobs

The sessions tab merges chat history with system messages — scheduled cron deliveries, command invocations, and notifications all stream into one log. The creator's instance shows 183 sessions, most of them hi yo, hi Loki, are you there. The cron jobs tab is what flips the creator back to Hermes over Claude Code: pick a name, write a per-run prompt, set a schedule (09 = 9:00 a.m.), and route delivery to local, Discord, Telegram, or email.

Analytics and Logs

analytics shows API calls and token usage over 7 days or 90 days, with a per-model breakdown so you can spot which mid-session model switch burned the most tokens. log session is the debug surface — Discord API failures from cron jobs show up here, and you can copy the failure text straight back into Hermes or Claude Code and ask it to fix the cause.

Skills, Config, and Memory

skills lists categorized native tool sets: cloud code, codeex, dev ops, GitHub, Obsidian note-taking, MCP inference, and Loki resource recovery (Stark's sub-agent job). Under config, fallback providers let you swap in another API key when the primary hits its limit (e.g. MiniMax 2.7 after a cloud-plan cap); default gateway timeout is 1,800 seconds; smart model routing is disabled by default; and the display field acts as a mini SOUL.md — the creator's agent ships with a kawaii personality. memory shows a peer-card profile of the user, overlapping with what Honcho memory does separately.

Verdict

This is the quality-of-life upgrade that pushes the creator off Claude Code and back onto Hermes for daily use — the dashboard is the only sane way to manage cron delivery, debug failed jobs, and edit config without touching the terminal.