The official desktop app

01 / What it was

We tried the official Hermes Agent desktop app, made by the Hermes team. On 1 September the first install failed, and we fixed it.

A week later we looked for its Kanban task board and used it to follow agent work. The app later showed a “sessions failed to render” error, and we uninstalled and reinstalled it from scratch.

02 / How it worked

• Launched with the hermes desktop command, which installs the app's dependencies on first run.
• The first install stopped because the package lock file was out of date.
• The task board view in the app was used to check what agents were doing and what was blocked.

03 / What we saw

We liked the task board but not seeing it inside a browser with a URL bar.

04 / Where it led

That led to a separate always-on window for the board.

Sources

1. Session transcript (the builder's messages). session transcript, 1 Sep 2026 please get it working
2. Session transcript. session transcript, 7 Sep 2026 i am actually testing where it is, i just want to know where in the desktop app the hermes kanban is
3. Session transcript. session transcript, Sep 2026 for the hermes desktop can u fix the desktop hermes bug i tsays sessions failed to render
4. Session transcript. session transcript, Sep 2026 i like [the local board] but i odnt like how it has the url etc. can you load this into a linux app ? that is on 24/7