NEW Hermes Desktop App is Insane FREE!

New Hermes desktop app is insane and it's free. The safest, easiest way to run your Hermes agent on a Mac. Period. Hermes desktop v0.6.0 is here.

Bookmarks for your host files. Real chat workbench for people who hate the command line. Full support for the new Naus Research Kanban orchestration. So if you've been running Hermes agent and you've been stuck inside a black terminal screen typing commands like a hacker from the 1990s, that part is over.

Here's what just happened. The team behind Hermes desktop just shipped v0.6.0. It's a free Mac app. It's open source and it turns your Hermes agent, the self-improving agent from Naus Research, into something you can actually click around in.

No gateway. Sync layer. No fake copy of your files sitting on your laptop. Just connects to your Hermes host over SSH and it gives you a clean native Mac window to work in.

Before I show you the new features, let me give you the why. Most people hit the same wall with Hermes agent. The agent itself is amazing. Learns from you.

Builds skills as you use it. Saves memories. Runs on a small server for almost nothing. The way you talk to it has been a terminal.

Black box. Type a command, hit enter, read the output. That's fine if you're a developer. It's a wall if you're a business owner.

Hermes desktop just took that wall down. Let me walk you through the big stuff in v0.6.0. There are three things that matter most. First, bookmarks for your host files.

This sounds small. It's huge. Hermes agent keeps a bunch of important files on the host machine. Your skills.

Your memories. Your project notes like agents.md. Before this update, if you wanted to read or edit one of those files, you had to SSH in, find the file, open it in a terminal editor, save it, and hope nothing broke. You bookmark the file once.

It shows up inside the app. You click it. It opens. You edit it.

You save it. The app even checks if someone else changed the file before you save so you don't wipe out work. Files are capped at 10 megabytes which is plenty for skills, prompts, and notes. Here's a real example.

You write a brand voice file that tells your agent how you talk to your customers. You bookmark it. Three weeks later your offer changes. You open the app, click the bookmark, edit two lines, save.

Hermes worker on your host now uses the new voice. No editor mess. Second, a real chat workbench. This is the one for people who hate the command line.

The new session workbench gives you richer search across all your past chats. You can pin sessions you care about. You get readable transcripts instead of raw terminal output. You get short summaries of tool calls so you can actually see what your agent did without scrolling through walls of text.

You can continue a chat right inside the app and if you want to drop into a real terminal you can resume the session there too. Click around if you want. Drop to terminal if you need to. Now stop for a second.

Think about what that means in real life. If you've been running Hermes agent to handle inbound leads, follow up with prospects, write social posts, or research clients, you used to have to hunt through old terminal logs to remember what your agent did three days ago. Now you open the app, you search lead follow up, and every chat about that pops up. You pin the good ones.

You pick up where you left off. And this is the big one. Full Kanban board support. Search recently shipped a Kanban system inside Hermes agent.

It's a multi-agent task board. Tasks get created, assigned to a Hermes profile, run, blocked, unblocked, completed, archived. Until version 6.0 of the desktop app you had to manage all of that from the command line. Now it's all inside the Mac app.

You can create tasks, assign them, comment on them, block, unblock, complete, archive, delete. You can see the run history, the event history, from worker logs, and you can nudge the dispatcher, which is the part of Hermes that hands tasks out to workers. Here's a simple way to picture it. Your Hermes agent is one worker.

With Kanban orchestration you can have many workers, each one with its own profile, each one picking up tasks off a shared board, like a small team, except the team doesn't sleep, and you watch the whole thing from one app window. Practical example. You drop a task on the board, reply to every new inbound lead from yesterday using my brand voice file. One Hermes worker picks it up, runs it, marks it done.

You drop another, write five social posts for this week from my latest customer wins. Another worker picks that one up. You're not typing commands, you're moving cards. Real quick, if you want to actually use Hermes desktop and the new Kanban orchestration to run agents in your business, that's exactly what we're doing inside the AI Profit Boardroom right now.

We've got 2,800 business owners in there, four live coaching calls every week where you can ask questions about your Hermes agent setup, your Mac install, your Kanban board, your worker profiles. We've built a 30-day roadmap on how to use multi-agent boards to handle leads, follow-ups, content, and customer outreach for your business. There's a prompt library full of prompts that work specifically inside Hermes, and there's a member map so you can find people near you who are already running this stuff. Link in the comments and description or go straight to AI Profit Boardroom.

Okay, back to it. Let me explain why V1 6.0 is the version that finally makes Hermes feel normal on a Mac. The release notes call it the moment the app becomes a fuller native host workbench. That sounds boring.

It's not. Here's what it really means. Before this version, the desktop app was a polite shell over the terminal. Looked nicer, but you still had to think like a terminal user.

The app gives you four tabs that all matter. Sessions, files, Kanban, plus a real terminal embedded right inside the app if you want it, and the whole thing connects over SSH only. No extra service running on your host. Exposed port, no browser layer, no second database.

Your Hermes host stays the source of truth. The Mac app is just a window into it. That last part matters more than people realize. If agent tools want to install something on your server, run a sync daemon, or store a copy of your files locally, that's how data gets out of sync.

That's how things break. Hermes desktop just refuses to do any of that. On host, on truth, connection. That's the whole stance.

Let me hit a few smaller things in VO.61 that are actually a big deal once you start using them, which across your transcripts got way better. Sessions stay at the top so the work you care about doesn't get buried. The terminal got more reliable. No more weird resize bugs, no more SSH socket weirdness when the Mac cleans up temp files.

The app supports English, Simplified Chinese, and Russian out of the box, and it's one universal Mac archive that works on both Apple Silicon and Intel. The build was tested with 45 passing tests before they shipped. The version string is 0.6 much. Build number 71.

I'm telling you all this because Hermes is open source. An open source software that ships clean tests and clean version metadata is the kind of software you can actually trust to run inside your business. Now here's the part most people miss. Hermes agent, the thing this app talks to, is the only agent right now with a built-in learning loop.

That's not marketing. That's how it works. Every time you talk to it, it decides what to remember. Build skills from things you do over and over.

It searches its own past conversations, gets a deeper picture of you and your work over time. The longer you run it, the better it gets at your specific business. Picture what that looks like for a small business. Week one, you tell it how you handle inbound leads.

Week two, it remembers your tone, your follow-up timing, your offer. Week three, it builds a skill called lead follow-up without you asking. Week four, you put a task on the Kanban board, follow up with last week's leads, and it just does it the way you would do it. That's why the desktop app matters.

If you can't see the agent, you can't trust the agent. If you can't trust the agent, you don't give it real work. The desktop app makes the agent visible. You see the chats.

You see the files. You see the tasks. You see what got done, when and by which worker. Now you trust it.

Now you give it real work. The desktop app is free. The agent is open source. The whole stack is yours.

Quick word on what this is not. It's not a replacement for the Hermes web dashboard that News Research ships. The team behind Hermes desktop is very clear about that. Web dashboard is for admin work in a browser.

The Mac app is for daily host work in a native window. Two different jobs. Use both if you want. They both talk to the same host.

So, and this is important, the Mac app is ad hoc signed and not notarized yet. When you first open it, your Mac is going to give you a warning. You right click, you hit open, you confirm once, and you're in. After that, it just opens normally.

It's the same dance you do with most open source Mac apps before they get a full Apple developer signature. Okay, the takeaway. Hermes desktop v61 turns Hermes agent from a developer tool into something a normal business owner can actually use every day. You get bookmarks for your host files.

Real chat workbench with search, pinned sessions, and clean transcripts. And full Kanban support so you can run a team of agents from one window. All over plain SSH. Free.

All open source. If you've been on the fence about trying Hermes agent because the command line scared you off, this is the version that fixes that. Download Hermes desktop. Connect it to your Hermes host.

Open the Kanban tab. Drop one task on the board. See what happens. This stuff is moving fast.

Once ago, agent meant a chatbot in a browser tab. Now it means a worker on a remote machine, picking tasks off a board, learning your business, reporting back to a Mac app on your desk. People who learn this now are going to be miles ahead of the people who wait. If you want the full step-by-step on setting up Hermes desktop, building your Kanban board, picking the right model, and putting your first agent worker on real business tasks like lead replies, follow-ups, and customer outreach, come join us in the AI Profit Boardroom.

It's inside four coaching calls every week where we go deep on running Hermes for your business, daily new tutorials, a 30-day roadmap built specifically around multi-agent Kanban setups, a prompt library tuned for this exact stack, and a member map so you can find people running it near you. Link in the comments and description, or go to AI Profit Boardroom. And if you want the full notes from this video, every setup step, plus over 100 other AI use cases like this one, join the AI Success Lab. It's free.

Links are in the comments and description. You'll get all the video notes plus access to 68,000 members already using AI in their day-to-day work. Come hang out with us in there. See you in the next one.