Kanban (Multi-Agent Board)
Kanban — Multi Agent Profile Collaboration Want a walkthrough? Read the Kanban tutorial — four user stories (solo dev, fleet farming, role pipeline with retry,
Hermes Kanban is a durable task board, shared across all your Hermes profiles, that lets multiple named agents collaborate on work without fragile in-process subagent swarms. Every task is a row in ; every handoff is a row anyone can read and write; every worker is a full OS process with its own identity. …
What this page covers
- Two surfaces: the model talks through tools, you talk through the CLI
- Kanban vs. delegatetask
- Core concepts
- Boards (multi-project)
- Managing boards from the CLI
- Managing boards from the dashboard
- File attachments
- Quick start
- Gateway-embedded dispatcher (default)
- Idempotent create (for automation / webhooks)
- Bulk CLI verbs
- How workers interact with the board
- Why tools instead of shelling to hermes kanban
- Recommended handoff evidence
- The worker skill
- Pinning extra skills to a specific task
- Goal-mode cards (--goal)
- The orchestrator skill
- Dashboard (GUI)
- What the plugin gives you
- Auto vs Manual orchestration
- Architecture
- REST surface
- Dashboard config
- Security model
- Live updates
- Extending it
- Scope boundary
- CLI command reference
- Concurrency, scheduling, and child promotion config
- Scheduled task starts (scheduledat)
- Respawn guard
- Drag-to-delete and bulk delete (dashboard)
- Worker visibility endpoints
- Kanban Swarm topology helper
- /kanban slash command {#kanban-slash-command}
- Mid-run usage: /kanban bypasses the running-agent guard
- Auto-subscribe on /kanban create (gateway only)
- Output truncation in messaging
- Autocomplete
- Collaboration patterns
- Multi-tenant usage
- Gateway notifications
- Runs — one row per attempt
- Forward compatibility
- Event reference
- Out of scope
- Design spec
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