Kanban tutorial
Kanban tutorial A walkthrough of the four use cases the Hermes Kanban system was designed for, with the dashboard open in a browser. If you haven't read the Kan
A walkthrough of the four use-cases the Hermes Kanban system was designed for, with the dashboard open in a browser. If you haven't read the Kanban overview yet, start there — this assumes you know what a task, run, assignee, and dispatcher are. The dashboard is the most comfortable place for you to watch the system. …
What this page covers
- Setup
- The board at a glance
- Flat view
- Story 1 — Solo dev shipping a feature
- Story 2 — Fleet farming
- Story 3 — Role pipeline with retry
- Story 4 — Circuit breaker and crash recovery
- Circuit breaker — permanent-looking failure
- Crash recovery — worker dies mid-flight
- Structured handoff — why summary and metadata matter
- Inspecting a task currently running
- Next steps
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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