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Adds the checks that make the constraints from Phase 001-007 mechanical
instead of tribal knowledge, and clears the legacy brand text that was still
reachable at runtime.
New red-line tests:
- no-legacy-brand mirrors the harness scan under vitest, and asserts its
allow-list has not drifted from harness-check.mjs
- hermes-db-readonly classifies every new DatabaseSync call site by
following the path it opens, and fails if a state.db handle drops
readOnly. It also pins the one legitimately writable database.
- i18n-parity compares the raw zh/en locale objects both ways. The
existing coverage test merged en into zh at import time, so a key
missing from zh could never fail there.
harness:check gains the four missing gates from the phase brief - retired
package directories, retired package scripts, a single UI library, and the
required root files. Each was verified to fail by mutating the repo.
The online-update channel had hardcoded upstream URLs. It now reads
HERMES_WEB_UI_VERSION_MANIFEST_URL and friends and degrades with a named
error, because a reimplementation has nowhere to pull releases from.
The remaining legacy strings are deliberate and each carries a reason in the
allow-list: the global-agent relay address and the OpenRouter referer are
load-bearing, the socket role identifier is a wire contract, and the pre-rename
DB filenames would orphan existing deployments if changed. AGENTS.md now says
so explicitly, so a future agent does not "clean them up".
Also removes a dead electron mock alias, an i18n exemption that had stopped
exempting anything, and a teardown race in plugins-view.test.ts where a-spin
animation frames outlived the jsdom environment.
Verified self-contained: with reference_code/ moved aside, harness:check,
build, test and test:e2e all pass, so the directory can now be deleted.
hermes-ui
Self-hosted web dashboard for Hermes Agent — chat, session history, skills, MCP servers, model management, IM channels, file management, and usage analytics in one browser UI.
This project is under active rebuild. Feature work is being staged phase by phase; see
docs/phases/README.mdfor the current plan.
Prerequisites
hermes-ui runs as a plain Node.js server. It does not bundle a runtime.
- Node.js
>=23 - Python with
hermes-agentinstalled
Install hermes-agent, then either put hermes on your PATH or point HERMES_BIN at the
executable:
export HERMES_BIN=/path/to/hermes
If the CLI cannot be found, the UI shows an install hint instead of failing silently.
Getting Started
npm ci --ignore-scripts
npm run build
npm start
Then open http://localhost:8648 and log in with the default credentials printed on first start.
For development with hot reload:
npm run dev
The client runs on http://localhost:8649 and the Koa server on port 8647.
Layout
packages/client Vue 3 client: views, components, Pinia stores, i18n, API helpers
packages/server Koa API, Socket.IO chat runtime, SQLite stores, Hermes integration
packages/skills Built-in skills injected into the Hermes skills directory
tests Vitest unit/integration tests and Playwright browser tests
scripts Build and repository harness scripts
docs Architecture, harness docs, and the phased build plan
Docker
docker compose up -d
The image is based on nousresearch/hermes-agent, so Python and the Hermes CLI are already
present in the container.
Configuration
| Variable | Purpose |
|---|---|
HERMES_BIN |
Path to the hermes executable. Falls back to hermes on PATH. |
HERMES_HOME |
Hermes profile directory. Used to isolate profiles. |
HERMES_WEB_UI_HOME |
Web UI state directory. Defaults to ~/.hermes-web-ui. |
HERMES_WEBUI_STATE_DIR |
Alternate override for the Web UI state directory. |
PORT |
Server port. |
The HERMES_WEB_UI_* prefixes and the ~/.hermes-web-ui data directory are kept from the
0.6.x line on purpose, so existing deployments and data directories keep working.
Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
npm run dev |
Run client and server with hot reload. |
npm run build |
Type-check and build client and server bundles. |
npm start |
Serve the production build. |
npm run test |
Run Vitest tests. |
npm run test:coverage |
Run Vitest with coverage. |
npm run test:e2e |
Run Playwright browser tests. |
npm run harness:check |
Validate repository docs, workflows, and package scripts. |
npm run openapi:generate |
Regenerate docs/openapi.json. |
License
BSL-1.1. See LICENSE.