A real agent dashboard answers four questions without you typing anything: what’s running, what did it produce, what’s scheduled, and what does it know about me. Here’s the dashboard I run my business through and the six tabs I actually open.
Short answer
- A dashboard should answer what’s running, what it built, what’s scheduled and what it knows.
- The Agent OS puts Hermes, Claude and OpenClaw on one screen with shared memory.
- The six tabs that get daily use: SEO, outreach, workspace, memory, local engine, Kanban.
- Terminal and dashboard aren’t exclusive — the same agent is behind both.
What a dashboard has to actually do
Most things called an agent dashboard are a chat window with a sidebar. That’s not a dashboard, that’s a chat client.
A real one answers four questions without you typing anything: what’s running, what did it produce, what’s scheduled, and what does it know about me?
If you have to open a terminal to answer any of those, the dashboard isn’t doing its job.
The best Hermes agent dashboard: the Agent OS
This is the one I built and run my business through, and it’s the answer I’d give anyone asking.
- Chat — the everyday line to the agent, with profiles saved per kind of job.
- Voice — talk instead of type, ask what’s running, fire off a build.
- Agent teams — a full team of agents working together with sub-agents managing each other.
- A Kanban board — assign a task and agents triage and deliver it.
- A workspace — every build lands somewhere you can find it again, per agent.
- The memory galaxy — your Obsidian vault visualised, shared by every agent in the stack.
- A local engine — free and local models with swap-in-swap-out switching.
- Workflow tabs — SEO, outreach, video, images and voice, each with its own screen.
The screens that matter most day to day are the workspace and the memory. The workspace means nothing you build disappears — every agent’s output lands in one place, per agent, ready to come back to. The memory view means you can see what your agents actually know rather than trusting that it’s working.
And it isn’t Hermes-only. Claude, OpenClaw and free Claude Code sit on the same board with the same memory underneath.
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Terminal vs dashboard, honestly
| Terminal | Dashboard | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed once learned | Fast | About the same |
| Discoverability | None — no menu tells you what’s possible | Everything visible |
| Seeing what’s running | Guesswork | At a glance |
| Finding old builds | Scrollback | A workspace |
| Handing it to your team | Hard | They click |
| Multiple agents | A tab each | One screen |
I’m not anti-terminal. If you live in it, keep using it — the two aren’t exclusive and the same agent is behind both. The dashboard earns its place the moment somebody else needs to use your setup, or the moment you’re running more than one agent.
The tabs that actually get used
Feature lists are cheap. These are the ones I open daily:
- The SEO tab — wired to Search Console, pulling the keywords where you get impressions and no clicks.
- The outreach tab — lead generation, email verification and campaigns without touching a separate tool.
- The workspace — every build from every agent, findable.
- The memory galaxy — the vault every agent reads, visualised so you can see what it knows.
- The local engine — free and local models with a dropdown to switch.
- The Kanban board — drop in a ticket, agents pick it up and deliver.
Everything else is nice. Those six are why I don’t go back to the terminal.
Alternatives worth knowing about
| Option | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Hermes built-in web UI | Good, free, and enough if you run exactly one agent |
| Hermes desktop app | Same shape with OS-level access — strong since the browser update |
| Bot Mode | A roster of named bots with a model each — excellent, still beta |
| Paperclip | Good for orchestrating a team of agents as an org chart |
| Agent OS | Everything above on one screen with shared memory |
They’re not mutually exclusive, which is the point. Bot Mode and the desktop app both sit happily inside the wider dashboard rather than competing with it.
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FAQ
What is the best Hermes agent dashboard?
An Agent OS — one screen holding chat, voice, agent teams, a Kanban board, a workspace and shared memory, with Hermes running next to Claude and OpenClaw.
What should a dashboard show me?
Four things without typing: what’s running, what it produced, what’s scheduled, and what it knows about your business.
Is the built-in Hermes web UI enough?
If you run one agent, yes, and it’s free. It stops being enough when you’re running several and jobs on a schedule.
Terminal or dashboard?
Both work — the same agent is behind each. The dashboard wins on discoverability, finding old builds, and handing your setup to someone else.
Does the dashboard hold non-Hermes agents?
Yes. Claude, OpenClaw and free Claude Code plug into the same board with the same memory underneath.
Can I build my own dashboard?
Yes, and asking Claude to build one is a reasonable start. The time goes into deciding what belongs on it, not the code.
Do scheduled jobs need the dashboard open?
No. Scheduling runs through cron jobs underneath, so work continues whether the window is open or not.
How does it relate to Bot Mode?
Bot Mode is a roster inside the Hermes desktop app. The dashboard sits above it, holding Hermes alongside your other agents.
The bottom line
The best Hermes agent dashboard is the one that answers what’s running, what got built, what’s scheduled and what it knows — without you opening a terminal. That’s an Agent OS: chat, voice, teams, Kanban, workspace and one shared memory, with Hermes sitting beside every other agent you run.
About Julian Goldie
I run Goldie Agency, a 7-figure SEO agency, and teach this daily on a 400K+ subscriber YouTube channel. 240+ client projects on Upwork at a 100% job-success score, 10+ years through every major Google update. My systems are in the AI Profit Boardroom; my link building book is free here.
