Web Dashboard
The web dashboard is a browser based UI for managing your Hermes Agent installation. Instead of editing YAML files or running CLI commands, you can configure se
The web dashboard is a browser-based UI for managing your Hermes Agent installation. Instead of editing YAML files or running CLI commands, you can configure settings, manage API keys, and monitor sessions from a clean web interface. This starts a local web server and opens in your browser. …
What this page covers
- Quick Start
- Options
- Managing multiple profiles
- Prerequisites
- Pages
- Status
- Chat
- Connecting Hermes Desktop to a remote backend
- Config
- API Keys
- Sessions
- Logs
- Analytics
- Cron
- Profiles
- Skills
- MCP
- Webhooks
- Pairing
- Channels
- System
- /reload Slash Command
- REST API
- GET /api/status
- GET /api/sessions
- GET /api/config
- GET /api/config/defaults
- GET /api/config/schema
- PUT /api/config
- GET /api/env
- PUT /api/env
- DELETE /api/env
- GET /api/sessions/\{sessionid\}
- GET /api/sessions/\{sessionid\}/messages
- GET /api/sessions/search
- DELETE /api/sessions/\{sessionid\}
- GET /api/logs
- GET /api/analytics/usage
- GET /api/cron/jobs
- POST /api/cron/jobs
- POST /api/cron/jobs/\{jobid\}/pause
- POST /api/cron/jobs/\{jobid\}/resume
- POST /api/cron/jobs/\{jobid\}/trigger
- DELETE /api/cron/jobs/\{jobid\}
- GET /api/skills
- PUT /api/skills/toggle
- GET /api/tools/toolsets
- Admin endpoints
- Authentication (gated mode)
- When the gate engages
- Fail-closed semantics
- Default provider: Nous Research
- Username/password provider (no OAuth IDP)
- Self-hosted OIDC provider
- Public URL override
- OAuth flow
- Cookies set
- Logout
- Audit log
- Custom providers
- Verifying the gate is on
- Connecting Hermes Desktop to a remote backend
- On the backend (the remote machine)
- In Hermes Desktop
- Environment-variable override
- Troubleshooting
- CORS
- Development
- Automatic Build on Update
- Themes & plugins
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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