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63PythonAudience · developerComplexity · 3/5LicenseSetup · moderate

TLDR

A local web app that runs a team of AI agents, each with its own role, coordinated by a Leader agent, all data staying on your machine.

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    What it does
      Leader assigns tasks
      Specialist agents work
      Web dashboard shows progress
    Tech stack
      Python and Flask
      SQLite
      Plain HTML and JS
    Use cases
      Coordinate multi-agent tasks
      Watch agent conversations live
      Track work on a Kanban board
    Audience
      Developers
    Platforms
      Linux and macOS
      Windows via WSL2

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Assign a task to a Leader agent and let it break the work into steps for specialist agents.

USE CASE 2

Watch agent conversations, tool calls, and subtask status in real time through the web dashboard.

USE CASE 3

Write custom personality, skill, and memory descriptions for each specialist agent yourself.

USE CASE 4

Track task progress automatically on the built-in Kanban board.

What is it built with?

PythonFlaskSQLiteHTMLJavaScript

How does it compare?

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires the Hermes Agent CLI already installed and configured, Windows needs WSL2.

Released under the MIT license, which allows free use, modification, and redistribution as long as the copyright notice is kept.

In plain English

Hermes Agent Team is a local web system that lets you run a small team of AI agents on your own computer, with each agent playing a specific role and working together to complete tasks. The project is built on top of the Hermes Agent framework and is a community experiment, not an official product from the framework's creators. All agent configurations and data stay on your local machine and are never sent to a remote server. The team is organized into two tiers. A Leader agent receives a task, breaks it into steps, assigns those steps to specialist agents, reviews the results, and produces a summary. Specialist agents can represent different functions: product management, software development, testing, design, or operations. Each agent has its own personality description, skills, memory, and tools. You write those descriptions yourself in plain text. A web interface lets you watch all of this in real time. You can see the conversation between agents, the tools each agent calls, the status of each subtask, and the final output. Agents communicate through a hub using two protocols (MCP and ACP), and task status is tracked on a Kanban board that the system manages automatically. The backend is Python-based, using Flask and an ASGI server. Storage is a local SQLite database. The frontend is plain HTML and JavaScript with no external framework. You start everything with a single command and open a browser to localhost. The system runs on Linux and macOS only. Windows users need to use WSL2. You must have the Hermes Agent CLI installed and configured before running this project. The README is written in Chinese. The project is released under the MIT license and maintained on a best-effort basis by a solo developer.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Explain how the Leader agent and specialist agents divide up work in this system.
Prompt 2
Walk me through setting up Hermes Agent Team locally and starting the web dashboard.
Prompt 3
What do the MCP and ACP protocols do in how these agents communicate with each other?
Prompt 4
Help me write a personality and skill description for a new specialist agent role.

Frequently asked questions

What is hermes-agent-team?

A local web app that runs a team of AI agents, each with its own role, coordinated by a Leader agent, all data staying on your machine.

What language is hermes-agent-team written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Flask, SQLite.

What license does hermes-agent-team use?

Released under the MIT license, which allows free use, modification, and redistribution as long as the copyright notice is kept.

How hard is hermes-agent-team to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is hermes-agent-team for?

Mainly developer.

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