ellian-eorwyn/hephaestus

Hephaestus is a desktop application that gives you a visual dashboard for managing and watching local AI agents running on your machine. Instead of checking on your AI agents through terminal windows or log files, you open Hephaestus, point it at a folder where your agents live, and it shows you everything in a single interface. The main things it does are: showing you which agents are currently running and what state they are in, letting you read their log files and output in real time without opening a file browser, and providing a workspace pane where you can drag a folder of files directly from your file system, then chat with an AI model about its contents and have it transform the files and data. Hephaestus reads directly from your existing file system and agent configuration files. It does not need a separate database or extra configuration of its own. The setup is zero-config: install the app, launch it, and point it at your agent directory. The app is built primarily to work with a companion project called pi-forge, but the README says it can connect to any custom agent harness setup. Prebuilt installers are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux from the releases page, so no build step is required to use it. This project is at an early stage. The README is brief and provides little detail about which AI models are supported beyond the pi-forge integration or how the harness communication protocol works.