Extending the Dashboard
The Hermes web dashboard ( ) is built to be reskinned and extended without forking the codebase. Three layers are exposed: 1. Themes — YAML files that repaint t
The Hermes web dashboard () is built to be reskinned and extended without forking the codebase. Three layers are exposed: 1. Themes — YAML files that repaint the dashboard's palette, typography, layout, and per-component chrome. Drop a file in ; it appears in the theme switcher. 2. …
What this page covers
- Table of contents
- Themes
- Quick start — your first theme
- Palette, typography, layout
- Layout variants
- Theme assets (images as CSS vars)
- Component chrome overrides
- Color overrides
- Raw customCSS
- Built-in themes
- Full theme YAML reference
- Plugins
- Quick start — your first plugin
- Directory layout
- Manifest reference
- The Plugin SDK
- Shell slots
- Replacing built-in pages (tab.override)
- Augmenting built-in pages (page-scoped slots)
- Slot-only plugins (tab.hidden)
- Backend API routes
- Custom CSS per plugin
- Plugin discovery & reload
- Combined theme + plugin demo
- API reference
- Theme endpoints
- Plugin endpoints
- SDK on window
- Troubleshooting
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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