How To Build a PREMIUM Hermes Agent Mission Control Dashboard — Transcript

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1. 0:00This is my Hermes Agent Mission Control
2. 0:03Dashboard. From one screen, I can see
3. 0:06what Hermes is doing, what needs my
4. 0:08approval, which workflows are running,
5. 0:11what shipped, and what I should do next.
6. 0:13And the most important part is I can
7. 0:16control my Hermes Agent straight from
8. 0:18this dashboard and [music] talk to all
9. 0:20of my different sub agents. So, in this
10. 0:23video, I'm going to show you how I built
11. 0:26this, what I included, and how you can
12. 0:28build your own version today. And if you
13. 0:31keep watching till the end, I'll [music]
14. 0:33even give you a free template of my own
15. 0:36dashboard for you to steal. Let's get
16. 0:38started.
17. 0:40Hermes is powerful because it does not
18. 0:42only live in one chat window. It can run
19. 0:45in Telegram, it can work in your
20. 0:47terminal, it can read files, it can use
21. 0:50tools, it can run in the background
22. 0:52while you are not sitting there
23. 0:54babysitting it.
24. 0:56And that is amazing, but it creates a
25. 0:59new problem. Once the agent starts doing
26. 1:02real work, chat becomes a terrible place
27. 1:05to manage it. A normal chat thread tells
28. 1:08you what happened in the
29. 1:11one conversation. It does not show you
30. 1:13the full system. It does not show every
31. 1:16open loop, every failed run, every
32. 1:19approval waiting, every scheduled job,
33. 1:23so on and so forth. And every task,
34. 1:25essentially, your agents are carrying
35. 1:27out. That is why I wanted a mission
36. 1:30control. Not because Hermes needed
37. 1:32another pretty interface, but because I
38. 1:35needed visibility. Hermes does the work.
39. 1:38Hermes HQ, which is what I call my
40. 1:41mission control, lets me see the work.
41. 1:44And once you understand that difference,
42. 1:46the dashboard becomes much easier to
43. 1:48design because you're not building a
44. 1:51homepage, you're building an operating
45. 1:54room. Any premium mission control needs
46. 1:57five main layers. First is the command
47. 2:01layer. This is where I can send tasks to
48. 2:04Hermes from my mission control. I can
49. 2:07use a command palette or the Hermes bar,
50. 2:10type the task and the bridge sends it
51. 2:13into what is called a message bus.
52. 2:16Second is the approval layer. Safe tasks
53. 2:19can run, but anything external has to
54. 2:23wait for approval.
55. 2:25This is the most important part if you
56. 2:27want agents to be useful without
57. 2:29becoming dangerous. And then third is
58. 2:32the visibility layer. I can see agents,
59. 2:35I can see tasks, cron jobs, costs, and
60. 2:39failures. If something breaks, I do not
61. 2:42want to discover it three days later
62. 2:44because a Telegram thread went quiet.
63. 2:47Then fourth is the memory layer. My
64. 2:50long-term memory wiki is mirrored here
65. 2:53inside of Hermy HQ.
66. 2:56This allows me to browse and edit it.
67. 2:59That means the dashboard is not only
68. 3:01showing activity,
69. 3:03it is also showing what the agent is
70. 3:05learning. And fifth and finally is the
71. 3:08operator layer. This is the daily brief,
72. 3:12the next actions panel, the content OS,
73. 3:15and the places where Hermes tells me
74. 3:17what needs my attention. These are the
75. 3:20five pillars that take any mission
76. 3:23control from a cool-looking dashboard
77. 3:25into a useful one. Command, approval,
78. 3:28visibility, memory, and operator
79. 3:31decisions.
80. 3:32The first thing I wanted was simple. I
81. 3:35should be able to send work to Hermes
82. 3:38without leaving the dashboard. This is
83. 3:40why Hermy HQ has a dispatch flow.
84. 3:44I can open the command palette, for
85. 3:47example, and type in something, send the
86. 3:50task straight from the site. Summarize
87. 3:54my YouTube
88. 3:56performance this week.
89. 3:59There we go. I can search things up and
90. 4:01if they're not there, I can send it
91. 4:03straight as a task. And as you can see,
92. 4:06it sends it to Hermes and it gets on it
93. 4:09right away. Behind the scenes, the site
94. 4:11is writing the request into Postgres. My
95. 4:15Mac mini, which is my local machine,
96. 4:17runs a local bridge called Hermes
97. 4:19Bridge. I know, creative. That bridge
98. 4:22pulls the database, picks up queued
99. 4:25work, runs Hermes through the CLI, and
100. 4:28writes the result back. The important
101. 4:31part is that my local machine is still
102. 4:33doing the actual work. I'm not exposing
103. 4:36my Mac mini to the internet. I'm not
104. 4:38giving the website direct shell access.
105. 4:41The dashboard sends structured work into
106. 4:44a message bus and the local bridge
107. 4:46decides what to do with it. That gives
108. 4:49me the feeling of a web command center
109. 4:51without turning my computer into a
110. 4:53public API.
111. 4:55>> [snorts]
112. 4:55>> And if you're building your own version,
113. 4:57this is the first big design decision.
114. 4:59Do not start with cards and charts.
115. 5:02Start with the dispatch path. Ask
116. 5:05yourself, how does a task get from
117. 5:08my mission control to Hermes and how
118. 5:10does the result get back to me? Once
119. 5:13that works, the rest of the dashboard
120. 5:16becomes much more useful. The second
121. 5:18layer is approvals and honestly, this is
122. 5:21the part I care about the most. If an
123. 5:24agent can only talk, it is limited. If
124. 5:26an agent can act without approval, it is
125. 5:29risky. The sweet spot is an agent that
126. 5:32can prepare the work, explain the
127. 5:34action, and wait for a human tap before
128. 5:37doing, you know, anything consequential.
129. 5:40This is why Hermes HQ has an approval
130. 5:43inbox. Safe tasks can run immediately.
131. 5:48But, if Hermes wants to, for example,
132. 5:50send an email, buy something, delete a
133. 5:52file, or commit anything externally,
134. 5:55that shouldn't not happen automatically.
135. 5:58It gets parked over here. I see what
136. 6:01Hermes wants to do, why it wants to do
137. 6:03it, what the output is, and then I
138. 6:06approve or reject it. This changes the
139. 6:09way you think about AI automation. The
140. 6:11question is not can I make the agent
141. 6:14fully autonomous? The better question is
142. 6:16where should the agent be autonomous and
143. 6:18where should it ask for permission? That
144. 6:21one question makes the whole system a
145. 6:24whole lot more useful. Because now
146. 6:26Hermes can move fast on research,
147. 6:29briefs, internal updates, crons that
148. 6:31I've approved, while still slowing down
149. 6:33before public or
150. 6:35expensive actions. A mission control
151. 6:38dashboard without approvals is basically
152. 6:42what I like to think of as a fancy
153. 6:43status page. Approvals are what turn it
154. 6:46into an operating system you can
155. 6:48actually trust. Once dispatch and
156. 6:51approvals work, the next thing you need
157. 6:53is visibility. I want to know what is
158. 6:55currently alive in the system, which
159. 6:58workflows are running, what failed, and
160. 7:00what is waiting on me. That is why the
161. 7:03dashboard has agent and workflow cards.
162. 7:05For my setup, that means things like
163. 7:08seeing what each of my agents are doing,
164. 7:11if there are any blockers, if any of
165. 7:13them have failed, have gone offline. I
166. 7:16can even decide to chat with any of my
167. 7:18specific sub agents. For example, I have
168. 7:23Technically, Hermes, I need to update
169. 7:25the name. It's still based on my very
170. 7:27old AI agent that I've just never
171. 7:29updated. I can speak to Hermes, which is
172. 7:32my chief of staff, directly.
173. 7:35That would be useless to do here.
174. 7:37However, what is useful to do here is I
175. 7:40can speak to Sage, my ex-content
176. 7:42specialist. I can speak to Nova, my
177. 7:45YouTube specialist. I can speak to Knox,
178. 7:48my trading specialist. I can speak to
179. 7:50Pixel,
180. 7:51my web design specialist. So on and so
181. 7:55forth. That also means things like I can
182. 7:57see our own uh
183. 8:00Hermes performance together. I can go to
184. 8:02client pulse. I can go to client pulse
185. 8:05for client monitoring. I can go to
186. 8:08pipeline and see, you know, what are the
187. 8:11ex- content ideas that I've approved,
188. 8:14that I've not approved, that are in the
189. 8:16pipeline, that aren't. I can see what
190. 8:18articles we have in the pipeline. I can
191. 8:20see what YouTube videos we have in the
192. 8:22pipeline, what tasks are currently
193. 8:24pending in the pipeline or needing my
194. 8:27approval and being blocked. Uh I
195. 8:29literally just went through this, so I
196. 8:32maybe should have left a few tasks, but
197. 8:34I can go ahead and add a new task over
198. 8:36here. So on and so forth. Each card
199. 8:39should answer a few questions quickly.
200. 8:42What is this workflow? What is the
201. 8:43status? What is the next action? And is
202. 8:46there a blocker? If a card cannot answer
203. 8:48those four questions, it is probably
204. 8:50decoration. This is where a lot of AI
205. 8:53dashboards go wrong. They show a bunch
206. 8:56of impressive-looking activity. It looks
207. 8:59fancy. It looks nice, but the operator,
208. 9:01you, still do not know what to do with
209. 9:05that information. So for every module in
210. 9:08your dashboard,
211. 9:09for every model in my dashboard, I ask
212. 9:11myself the same question. If I saw this
213. 9:14at 8:00 a.m. before I've had my morning
214. 9:16coffee and was able to properly open my
215. 9:19eyes,
216. 9:20would this piece of information help me
217. 9:22make a decision? Is it simple enough for
218. 9:24me to just look at and know what to do
219. 9:27next? If it's a yes, it stays. If it's a
220. 9:30no, it gets cut. The next layer is
221. 9:33scheduled work, which is over here.
222. 9:38Hermes supports cron jobs, which means
223. 9:40you can tell it to run work on a
224. 9:42schedule. Daily briefs, content checks,
225. 9:45client alerts, anything that needs to
226. 9:48happen without you manually asking it
227. 9:50every single time.
228. 9:52But, scheduled work has
229. 9:54a hidden problem. If you do not watch
230. 9:57it, it quietly becomes still. I'm sure
231. 9:59you've had annoying cron jobs you've
232. 10:01scheduled weeks ago that still run in a
233. 10:04chat since deserted. A cron job can
234. 10:07fail, a credential can expire, a
235. 10:10delivery can break, a model can error,
236. 10:13and if all of that lives in logs
237. 10:15somewhere, you will not notice until the
238. 10:18workflow was supposed to save you time
239. 10:19and it didn't. So, the dashboard needs a
240. 10:23cron monitor, not just a list of
241. 10:25schedule, a real monitor that shows you,
242. 10:28you know, what crons ran, what happened.
243. 10:31For example, the thing I just literally
244. 10:34asked it to do has erred, which tells me
245. 10:37I need to look into it. Now, lucky
246. 10:40enough, we have a cron that is dedicated
247. 10:43to seeing which errors are happening so
248. 10:46that it can fix them on its own every
249. 10:49single hour.
250. 10:50Um but that being said, we need to know
251. 10:53these things in case say even that cron
252. 10:55failed. What do I do then? Everything
253. 10:57just breaks and, you know, I never get
254. 11:00to find out about it until it's been
255. 11:02days where it's been broken.
256. 11:05For my setup specifically, this matters
257. 11:07a lot because so much of Hermes' value
258. 11:09comes from scheduled intelligence. It
259. 11:12checks my YouTube competitors, my
260. 11:14YouTube opportunities. It watches my
261. 11:17notion and monitors all of our clients,
262. 11:19and it prepares things before I ask it
263. 11:22to. But the moment scheduled work
264. 11:24becomes invisible, it becomes fragile.
265. 11:27So, this section of the dashboard is not
266. 11:30there to look technical, it's there to
267. 11:32protect the workflows I depend on the
268. 11:34most. The next piece is memory. Hermes
269. 11:38already has persistent memory, but for a
270. 11:41real operating system, I wanted
271. 11:43something bigger and
272. 11:44more inspectable. So, I added memory
273. 11:48wiki. It lives on my local machine. It
274. 11:50has projects, lessons, facts, logs, and
275. 11:54so much more.
276. 11:55Hermy HQ mirrors it into the dashboard,
277. 11:58so I can read it, search it, edit it
278. 12:00without digging through files myself. A
279. 12:03lot of people here can choose to install
280. 12:07a memory database for themselves and
281. 12:10mirror it over here on their dashboard
282. 12:13as well. That also works if you'd like
283. 12:15to do that.
284. 12:16A memory wiki matters so much because
285. 12:19the agent's job is not only to complete
286. 12:22tasks, it should also preserve the
287. 12:24decisions that made the tasks work. If I
288. 12:27correct Hermy's on how I want a YouTube
289. 12:29script written, that belongs in memory.
290. 12:32If we decide that side-effecting
291. 12:34dashboard actions needs approval, that
292. 12:37belongs in memory. The dashboard makes
293. 12:40that memory visible, and that changes
294. 12:43the relationship with the agent. It
295. 12:44stops feeling like
296. 12:46every session starts from zero because
297. 12:49you can see the system accumulating
298. 12:51judgment over time.
299. 12:53The rule I use is simple. Hot memory is
300. 12:56for the tiny facts Hermy's needs
301. 12:58constantly.
302. 12:59The wiki is for the bigger project
303. 13:02context, decisions, lessons, and
304. 13:05open loops. And the daily brief gets
305. 13:08sharper when the wiki is current. And
306. 13:12the best part is I can even go into here
307. 13:15and inspect the different memories. I
308. 13:17can edit them if I feel anything is
309. 13:20wrong about them,
310. 13:22and save them again to memory, just like
311. 13:25that. Okay, this is where the dashboard
312. 13:28starts to feel less like analytics and
313. 13:31more like a chief of staff. Every
314. 13:33morning, the bridge asks Hermes for a
315. 13:36structured brief. Things like
316. 13:38priorities, decisions needed, what
317. 13:41shipped, and what is being blocked right
318. 13:45now, and what should happen next next
319. 13:48actions.
320. 13:49That sounds simple, but it changes how
321. 13:51you use your system. Instead of waking
322. 13:54up and asking yourself, "What was I
323. 13:56doing again yesterday?"
324. 13:58the dashboard should already be telling
325. 14:00you what needs attention right now, and
326. 14:03what are your next action. For me, the
327. 14:06brief should pull from the wiki, recent
328. 14:08session, crons, content workflows, and
329. 14:11anything waiting for approval. So, my
330. 14:13approval inbox. The output should be
331. 14:15very specific. What video needs a
332. 14:18decision? What automation failed? What
333. 14:21client alert needs review? What approval
334. 14:24is waiting? And what is the one thing I
335. 14:27should do next? That is the difference
336. 14:29between a chatbot summary and a chief of
337. 14:32staff brief. One tells you what
338. 14:34happened, the other helps you decide
339. 14:37what to do. Because my business runs
340. 14:39heavily on content, I also have a
341. 14:42content OS. So, I can go, for example,
342. 14:45to X, to YouTube, to my pipeline,
343. 14:49articles, so on and so forth.
344. 14:51This is a pipeline essentially for
345. 14:52content ideas. Ideas move to approved,
346. 14:56scheduled, posted. The system can track
347. 14:59viral scores and help me decide what is
348. 15:01worth pushing forward. For For YouTube,
349. 15:05it connects to Nova, my YouTube agent.
350. 15:07For X, it connects to Sage, my X agent.
351. 15:11Your mission control should not be a
352. 15:12generic AI dashboard. It should show the
353. 15:16workflows that actually run your life or
354. 15:18business. For me, that means YouTube. X,
355. 15:23uh client monitoring, business
356. 15:25monitoring,
357. 15:27operations, approvals, scheduled
358. 15:29research. For someone else, it might be
359. 15:31sales calls, support tickets,
360. 15:34engineering tasks, hiring, invoices. I
361. 15:37don't know. Whatever it is that you do,
362. 15:40that should be the core of your mission
363. 15:44control. The framework is the same, but
364. 15:46the modules should be different. If you
365. 15:49copy my dashboard exactly, you might get
366. 15:53a cool interface, but if you copy the
367. 15:56logic behind my dashboard, then you
368. 15:58build something useful for your own
369. 16:01work. If I was building this from
370. 16:03scratch again, I would not start with
371. 16:06the design. I would start with five
372. 16:08questions. First, what should Hermes be
373. 16:12able to see?
374. 16:13That could be tasks, sessions, crons,
375. 16:16maybe Notion pages, maybe logs.
376. 16:19Second, what should Hermes be able to do
377. 16:23from the dashboard? This is dispatch.
378. 16:25Can it draft, update a page, create a
379. 16:28task?
380. 16:29What do you need it to be able to do?
381. 16:32Third, what actions need approval? This
382. 16:35is where you draw a safety boundary.
383. 16:37What do you think needs your approval
384. 16:40for it to happen?
385. 16:42Fourth, what memory should be visible?
386. 16:44If the agent is learning, you should be
387. 16:46able to inspect what it learned.
388. 16:50Maybe you don't care about that. Maybe
389. 16:51you've just started your Hermes journey,
390. 16:54and maybe, you know, your agent doesn't
391. 16:56have that complex of a memory just yet.
392. 16:59But that is something you will
393. 17:00eventually have to answer.
394. 17:02Fifth, what decision should the
395. 17:04dashboard help you make every morning?
396. 17:07That is the question that keeps the
397. 17:08design extremely useful, because the
398. 17:10goal is not to show you everything. The
399. 17:13goal is to show the things that impact
400. 17:17what you do next. Technically, my setup
401. 17:21uses a Vercel dashboard, a Postgres as
402. 17:26message bus, and a local bridge on my
403. 17:29Mac mini that runs Hermes through the
404. 17:32CLI. But, the exact stack matters less
405. 17:36than the logic behind my mission
406. 17:38control. The web dashboard is for
407. 17:40visibility, the message bus is for
408. 17:43requests, the local bridge is for
409. 17:45execution, the approval inbox for
410. 17:48safety, the wiki for memory, and the
411. 17:50daily brief for decisions. That is the
412. 17:54architecture.
413. 17:55The most common mistake I see people do
414. 17:59when setting up their mission control is
415. 18:01showing too much. Your mission control
416. 18:04should not create more noise for you. It
417. 18:07should help you focus and lock into the
418. 18:09work you want to get done. That's it.
419. 18:12Try to start with as little as possible.
420. 18:15Trust me, less is more when it comes to
421. 18:18mission controls.
422. 18:20Now, if you want to install or start off
423. 18:23with this very exact template, I have
424. 18:27open-sourced it on my GitHub. You can
425. 18:29copy the link, send it to your own
426. 18:32Hermes agent, and ask it to help you
427. 18:34install it. It has instructions for your
428. 18:37agent to read and help you onboard and
429. 18:40install it step by step.
430. 18:43The biggest shift I want you to take
431. 18:46from this video is this. At first,
432. 18:48Hermes feels like something you message.
433. 18:50Then, it becomes something that works
434. 18:53for you. But, once it starts working
435. 18:56across Telegram, Notion, cron jobs,
436. 18:59workflows, you need a place to manage
437. 19:02that system. That is what Hermes HQ is
438. 19:05for me. It's not Hermes, it's the
439. 19:07control layer around Hermes. It lets me
440. 19:10send work, approve risky actions,
441. 19:13monitor schedule jobs, track my content,
442. 19:17and see what actually needs my
443. 19:19attention. If you want Hermes to become
444. 19:22part of your or how your business runs,
445. 19:25then chat is not enough. You need
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