Hermes Agent dashboards come in nine flavours, and no single free one shows everything, so the right pick depends on what you want to see.
My verdict is that the built-in web dashboard is the one to open first, because one command, hermes dashboard, gives you sessions, costs, cron jobs and a kanban board.
Hermes Desktop and Hermes Workspace cover the most views of the free options, and Hermes Pixel Office is the simplest way to watch several agents at once.
Below I go view by view and then dashboard by dashboard, with a coverage table that shows exactly who shows what.
What Counts As A Hermes Agent Dashboard
Hermes Agent is the free, open-source AI agent from Nous Research.
A Hermes Agent dashboard is any screen that reads that agent's state and shows it to you, whether it is an admin panel, a native app or a pixel office.
The official docs say the front-ends all talk to the same agent and share state, so you can run several at once.
I have included nine, which are the built-in web dashboard, the kanban board, Hermes Desktop, Herald OS, Hermes Workspace, Hermes WebUI, Hermes Pixel Office, Hermes3D and my own Agent OS.
How I Judged Them
I did not invent a quality score for this one.
Instead I counted which of six views each dashboard shows, using the official docs and each project's own README on 14 October 2026.
The six views are sessions, costs and tokens, kanban and tasks, memory, cron jobs and a multi-agent office.
A full view counts as one point, and a partial view counts as half a point.
I have used every dashboard here on my own machine except Hermes3D, which I have not tested.
So the coverage count is a documented fact check, and the verdicts under it are my own first-person opinion.
The Coverage Table: Which Dashboard Shows What
| Dashboard | Sessions | Costs and tokens | Kanban | Memory | Cron | Agent office | Views covered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web dashboard | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | No | 4.5 of 6 |
| Hermes Desktop | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | 5 of 6 |
| Hermes Workspace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Partly | 5 of 6 |
| Hermes WebUI | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Yes | Yes | No | 4 of 6 |
| Herald OS | Partly | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | 3.5 of 6 |
| Hermes3D (not tested) | Partly | Not described | Yes | Not described | Not described | Yes | 2.5 of 6 |
| Hermes Pixel Office | Partly | No | No | No | No | Yes | 1.5 of 6 |
| My Agent OS (my own product) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 6 of 6 |
The kanban board is not a separate row, because it is a tab inside the web dashboard and a page inside Hermes Desktop.
My Agent OS tops the count, but it is my own product and it is not a free download, so weigh that.
The Best Dashboard For Each View
| What you want to see | My pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Sessions | Web dashboard | It has filters, full-text search, export and a resume button. |
| Costs and tokens | Web dashboard | Its Analytics page breaks spend down by day and by model. |
| Kanban and tasks | Web dashboard | The Kanban tab is the official board, with drag and drop and live updates. |
| Memory | Hermes Desktop | Its Memory Graph maps skills and memories on a timeline. |
| Cron jobs | Web dashboard | Its Cron page creates, pauses, edits and triggers jobs. |
| A multi-agent office | Hermes Pixel Office | It shows every session as a character and flags approvals. |
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The 9 Hermes Agent Dashboards, Reviewed
1. The Built-In Web Dashboard
The web dashboard ships with Hermes, and hermes dashboard opens it at 127.0.0.1 on port 9119.
The docs list pages for Status, Chat, Config, API Keys, Sessions, Logs, Analytics, Cron, Profiles, Skills, MCP, Webhooks, Pairing, Channels and System.
The Status page shows the agent version, the gateway state, active sessions and the 20 most recent sessions, and it refreshes every five seconds.
The Analytics page shows total tokens, cache hit rate, cost and a per-model table for 7, 30 or 90 days.
What it does well: It covers four views fully with nothing to install.
Where it falls short: Its Chat tab embeds the terminal interface, and its memory controls only pick a provider and reset the built-in stores.
Verdict: This is the dashboard to open first.
2. The Kanban Board
The kanban board is a bundled dashboard plugin, and it appears as a Kanban tab after you run hermes kanban init.
It has columns for triage, todo, ready, running, blocked and done, with drag and drop between them.
The docs say updates arrive live, cards open a side drawer for editing, and a board switcher appears once you have more than one board.
A task in triage can be decomposed into child tasks and routed to the best-fit profile.
What it does well: It is the same board the command line and Hermes Desktop use, so the three can never drift apart.
Where it falls short: The docs warn that its routes are reachable from the network if you bind the dashboard publicly.
Verdict: It is the best task view, and it costs nothing.
3. Hermes Desktop
Hermes Desktop is the official native app for macOS on Apple Silicon, Windows and Linux, and hermes desktop launches it.
It has a session list, a Kanban page, a Cron pane, a Memory Graph, and Agents and Command Center surfaces for multi-agent work.
Its status bar has a context meter with a token breakdown, plus optional cache hit rate and tokens per second.
What it does well: It is the only free option that pairs a real chat window with five of the six views.
Where it falls short: The docs describe token meters rather than a cost ledger, and voice permissions were hit and miss on my Mac in June.
Verdict: It is the best all-round screen for one person.
4. Hermes Workspace
Hermes Workspace is a community command centre by outsourc-e, and it is MIT licensed.
Its README lists a Dashboard with sessions, model mix, a cost ledger and an attention card.
It also lists a memory browser, a Kanban TaskBoard, an Operations view for several agents and a Swarm Mode.
What it does well: It has the richest free multi-agent tooling, and I use its kanban board as an AI to-do list.
Where it falls short: It needs Node 22 or later, the Hermes gateway and hermes dashboard all running, or it drops into a limited portable mode.
Verdict: It is the best free pick for someone running several agents.
5. Hermes WebUI
Hermes WebUI is a community browser app by nesquena, and it is MIT licensed.
It has a three-panel layout, with sessions on the left, chat in the middle and a file browser on the right.
Its panels include Tasks for cron jobs with run history, Memory for editing MEMORY.md and USER.md, Skills, Profiles and Todos.
A context ring shows token count, cost and a fill bar, and a per-conversation cost display can be switched on in Settings.
What it does well: It is light, it has no build step, and it has a mobile layout.
Where it falls short: Its feature list does not describe a kanban board, and you secure remote access yourself.
Verdict: It is the best pick for a phone or a server.
6. Herald OS
Herald OS is an independent agent OS by Luke The Dev with Hermes as the interface, and it is not affiliated with Nous Research.
Its pages are Overview, Hermes, Missions, Memory, Files, Automations, Connections and Settings.
The Overview offers a "Pick up where you left off" card with up to three threads of work.
Its README lists a Usage view showing what Hermes used this week and this month, with a warning at 90% of your model plan.
What it does well: Honestly, I think it is the nicest-looking screen on this list.
Where it falls short: It is an alpha at version 0.1, it has Missions rather than a kanban board, and its Connections page did not sync for me.
Verdict: It is the best-looking overview, but I would not build a process on it yet.
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7. Hermes Pixel Office
Hermes Pixel Office is a free, MIT-licensed plugin by Teknium.
Every session and every delegated subagent becomes a pixel character at a desk, and it opens at 127.0.0.1 on port 8113.
A red exclamation mark appears over any agent that needs your approval.
What it does well: It tells you at a glance which agent is stuck.
Where it falls short: Its README says it is visual only, so it never blocks or changes anything, and it shows no costs, memory or schedules.
Verdict: It is the best office view I have used.
8. Hermes3D (Unofficial, Not Tested By Me)
Hermes3D is an MIT-licensed project by LukeTheDev, and its README calls it a 3D virtual office for AI agents that you run on your own infrastructure.
I have not tested Hermes3D, so this entry is a summary of its README and not a review.
The README says you can watch agents work in a shared 3D office, switch to a 2D pixel office, run standups, review pull requests and use fleet management with agent chat.
Its code also includes a kanban board screen for the Hermes board.
The README calls it an independent, community-driven frontend that is not affiliated with the teams behind the agent backends it connects to.
What the docs promise: It promises the most immersive office view of any option here.
What to check first: It has one release, version 1.0.0 from August 2026, and no pushes since late August 2026.
Verdict: I can't give one until I have used it, and my Hermes3D guide covers the docs in full.
9. My Own Agent OS (Not On Public GitHub)
My Agent OS is the dashboard I use every day, and I'm biased because I built it.
It gives one Hermes thirteen rooms next to Claude and my other agents, with a kanban board, an Office tab and an Obsidian vault for memory.
Its Manage room embeds the full Hermes dashboard, which is how it shows sessions, models, logs, cron jobs and skills.
It is not on public GitHub, and access is inside the AI Profit Boardroom as an installable zip.
Verdict: I rank it first for my own work in my best UI for Hermes Agent list, and the free dashboards above are where most people should start.
Feature-By-Feature Reference
| View | Web dashboard | Hermes Desktop | Hermes Workspace | Hermes WebUI | Herald OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions | It has a Sessions page with search, filters and export. | It has a session list with archiving and search by id. | It shows sessions on its Dashboard. | It has a sidebar with pins, projects and tags. | It shows up to three recent threads on the Overview. |
| Costs and tokens | It has an Analytics page with cost by day and by model. | It has a context meter with a token breakdown. | It lists a cost ledger and a model mix. | It shows tokens and estimated cost per conversation. | It has a Usage view for the week and the month. |
| Kanban | It has a Kanban tab from a bundled plugin. | It has a Kanban page with a board switcher. | It has a Kanban TaskBoard. | Its feature list does not describe one. | It has Missions instead of a board. |
| Memory | It picks a provider and resets the built-in stores. | It has a Memory Graph with a timeline. | It has a memory browser with an editor. | It edits MEMORY.md and USER.md inline. |
It has a Memory page. |
| Cron | It has a Cron page with pause, edit and trigger. | It has a Cron pane across all profiles. | It reads jobs through the dashboard API. | It has a Tasks panel with run history. | It has an Automations page. |
| Agent office | It has profiles and kanban lanes, but no office. | It has a live Subagents frame and a Command Center. | It has Operations and Swarm views. | It has none. | It has none. |
How To Open Each One
| Dashboard | The route |
|---|---|
| Web dashboard | Run hermes dashboard. |
| Kanban board | Run hermes kanban init, then hermes dashboard. |
| Hermes Desktop | Run hermes desktop, or download the installer. |
| Hermes Workspace | Run the one-line installer from its README, then hermes gateway run and pnpm dev. |
| Hermes WebUI | Clone the repo, then run python3 bootstrap.py. |
| Herald OS | Install Hermes, download the build from the releases page, and run the xattr command from its README on a Mac. |
| Hermes Pixel Office | Clone it into ~/.hermes/plugins/pixel-office, then run hermes plugins enable pixel-office. |
| Hermes3D | Clone the repo, run npm install, copy .env.example to .env, then run npm run dev. |
| My Agent OS | Install the zip from inside the AI Profit Boardroom. |
The Combination I'd Actually Run
No single free dashboard covers all six views, so the real answer is a pair or a trio.
The built-in web dashboard plus Hermes Desktop covers sessions, costs, kanban, memory and cron between them.
Adding Hermes Pixel Office covers the office view, which gives you all six with three free tools.
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What I Left Out
I left out StarNet, because it is a separate agent harness that imports a Hermes agent rather than a dashboard for your live install.
I left out Hermes Cloud, because it is a hosted agent and not a dashboard you open on your own machine.
I left out the terminal itself, although hermes sessions list, hermes insights, hermes cron list and hermes kanban watch give you most of these views as text.
All three are in my earlier Hermes Agent UI ranking.
Related Reading
- My best UI for Hermes Agent list ranks the interfaces by what I use daily.
- My Hermes3D guide covers the 3D office from its README.
- My Herald OS review tours every page of the nicest-looking option.
- The best Hermes Agent memory options go deeper on what the memory views show.
Also On Our Network
- 🌐 The commands that open every Hermes dashboard
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- 🌐 A quick-start for the Hermes dashboards inside an Agent OS
- 🌐 The cost dashboards and the models worth paying for
FAQ: Hermes Agent Dashboards
Which of the Hermes Agent dashboards is best?
The built-in web dashboard is the best first choice.
Hermes Desktop and Hermes Workspace cover the most views of the free options.
What does the built-in Hermes dashboard show?
It shows status, sessions, logs, analytics, cron jobs, profiles, skills and settings, plus a Kanban tab.
It opens at 127.0.0.1 on port 9119.
Is Hermes3D an official Hermes dashboard?
No, it is not.
It is an independent project by LukeTheDev, and I have not tested it.
What is the difference between Hermes WebUI and Hermes Workspace?
Hermes WebUI is a light browser app with sessions, cron tasks and a memory editor.
Hermes Workspace is a heavier command centre with a kanban board and multi-agent views.
Is Julian Goldie's Agent OS on GitHub?
No, it is not on public GitHub.
Access is inside the AI Profit Boardroom as an installable zip.
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My final verdict is to open the built-in one first, add Hermes Desktop and Pixel Office, and treat the rest as extras among the Hermes Agent dashboards.
