Features

A tour of every screen and what it does. Screens live in src/renderer/src/screens/.

Chat

A streaming conversation UI: SSE streaming, tool-progress indicators, markdown rendering, and syntax highlighting. The footer shows live token usage and cost (prompt/completion counts). Long code blocks are collapsible, and a browser-style title bar holds open-conversation tabs.

Slash commands

Typed slash commands are routed through the gateway's slash.exec / command.dispatch pipeline — they are executed as commands, not sent as prompt text. There are 22+, including:

/new, /clear, /fast, /web, /image, /browse, /code, /shell, /usage, /help, /tools, /skills, /model, /memory, /persona, /version, /compact, /compress, /undo, /retry, /debug, /status.

In-chat model override

/model (or the model picker) switches the model — and its provider — for the current conversation only, without changing the global default. A per-model context-window override drives the context gauge and the agent's auto-compaction.

Context folder

Each session can be linked to a working folder on disk. The link is persisted in a desktop-owned state.db table, so re-opening a conversation restores its folder.

Sessions

Browse, search, and resume past conversations. History is stored in SQLite with full-text search (FTS5) and grouped by date. The Chat nav item also shows a recent-sessions list (capped at five, with "Show more" opening the full list).

Agents (profiles)

Create, delete, and switch between Hermes profiles — separate environments with isolated config, persona, and history. See Configuration → Profiles.

Skills

Browse, install, and manage skills — both bundled skills and ones installed from the registry. Registry skills are downloaded into <profile>/skills/<category>/<id>/. See Registry & marketplace.

Models

CRUD management for saved model configurations across providers — keep multiple model presets and switch between them.

Memory

View and edit memory entries and the user-profile memory, with capacity tracking. The app can also configure discoverable memory providers: Honcho, Hindsight, Mem0, RetainDB, Supermemory, and ByteRover.

Soul (persona)

Edit and reset your agent's personality — the active profile's SOUL.md. Installing a registry agent writes its AGENT.md as the new profile's SOUL.md.

Tools

Enable or disable individual toolsets (14): web, browser, terminal, file, code execution, vision, image generation, TTS, skills, memory, session search, clarify, delegation, MoA (mixture-of-agents), and task planning.

Schedules

A cron-job builder — minutes, hourly, daily, weekly, or custom cron expressions — with 15 delivery targets for where results are sent. Jobs are stored in ~/.hermes/cron/jobs.json.

Gateway (messaging)

Configure and control messaging-platform integrations so you can chat with your agent from anywhere. 16 gateways: Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix/Element, Mattermost, Email (IMAP/SMTP), SMS (Twilio/Vonage), iMessage (BlueBubbles), DingTalk, Feishu/Lark, WeCom, WeChat (iLink Bot), Webhooks, and Home Assistant. See Providers & integrations.

Office (Claw3d)

A visual 3D interface ("Hermes Office") with its own dev server and adapter management.

Kanban

A JIRA-style multi-agent board — a thin client over the hermes kanban CLI with canonical status columns, an archived toggle, and focus/poll refresh.

Discover

The in-app marketplace for the community registry — browse and one-click install skills, MCP servers, agents, and workflows. Covered in detail in Registry & marketplace.

Settings

Provider config, credential pools, backup / import, the log viewer (gateway + agent logs), network/remote settings, secrets provider, theme, and the auto-updater (check for and install updates via electron-updater; a startup upgrade button and an auto-upgrade preference are available).

Wallets & token balances

Profile-scoped Base mainnet wallets with encrypted recovery phrases, and on-chain ERC-20 token balance reads (via ethers v6). Managed through the wallet IPC handlers in the main process.

Analytics

Privacy-first, opt-out usage analytics: anonymous events POSTed to the in-house Hermes analytics service, keyed by a per-install UUID stored in localStorage. No third-party analytics SDK.

Internationalization

An i18n framework with a complete English locale across all screens, ready for community translations (src/shared/i18n/, src/renderer/src/components/I18nProvider.tsx).