The video showcases the new Hermes Agent local web dashboard, highlighting its comprehensive management features, customizable themes, and support for plugins, including a community plugin called Kronos Forge. It also details the presenter’s creation of a custom wallet plugin for tracking crypto assets securely, demonstrating its functionality and inviting viewers to explore and contribute to the expanding Hermes ecosystem.
The video begins by introducing the new local web dashboard feature released in a recent Hermes Agent update. This browser-based dashboard allows users to manage Hermes Agent locally, offering functionalities such as configuring settings, monitoring sessions, browsing skills, and managing the gateway. The presenter demonstrates how to start the dashboard on Windows using WSL and highlights its clean, user-friendly interface with sections for sessions, analytics, logs, skills, configuration, keys, and documentation. The dashboard also supports restarting the gateway and updating Hermes directly from the UI, making it a comprehensive management tool.
Next, the presenter explores the dashboard’s analytics and logs features, showing how users can track token usage, session counts, API calls, and model usage over time. The dashboard provides detailed insights into agent activity, including skill usage and error logs, which help users monitor and troubleshoot their Hermes Agent instances. The skills section lists all available tools and plugins, and the configuration area allows users to adjust settings such as agent personality, memory, and API keys directly through the web interface, enhancing ease of use and customization.
The video then shifts focus to the dashboard’s customization options, particularly themes and plugins. Several built-in themes are showcased, including Hermes Teal, Midnight, Ember, Cyberpunk, and Rosé, with the presenter favoring the Cyberpunk theme for its dark aesthetic. The presenter also installs a community-created plugin called Kronos Forge, which adds a command center to the dashboard displaying detailed metrics like token burn, model usage, and skill heatmaps. This plugin installation is straightforward, demonstrating the extensibility of the Hermes dashboard through third-party contributions.
In the latter half of the video, the presenter embarks on building a custom plugin for the Hermes dashboard: a wallet plugin designed to manually track crypto wallet addresses and display their balances and token metadata. The plugin supports Solana and EVM wallets and aims to provide a simple, secure way to monitor agent wallets without relying on external servers or seed phrases. Using a detailed specification generated by another Hermes agent, the presenter guides the system to build the plugin, which fetches token prices and metadata via Jupiter and filters out dust tokens to present a clean portfolio view.
Finally, the presenter demonstrates the wallet plugin in action, adding a Solana wallet address and viewing the aggregated portfolio with token balances and USD values. Despite a minor token lookup error that was quickly debugged, the plugin works smoothly and is available as an open-source project on GitHub for others to install. The video concludes with an invitation for viewers to explore more plugins and themes, share their discoveries, and stay tuned for future projects involving Hermes Agent and its dashboard. The presenter encourages subscriptions and engagement, highlighting the ongoing development and community-driven nature of the Hermes ecosystem.