NEW Hermes Agent Web UI is INSANE 🤯 (FREE!) artwork

NEW Hermes Agent Web UI is INSANE 🤯 (FREE!)

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

June 4, 2026

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Speakers: Julian Goldie
**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Hermes Agent have just dropped a brand new web UI for their agent, and this just makes it 10 times easier to manage everything in one single place. You can see, for example, you can switch between sessions, model, and they also added a new section here called chat, where you can chat directly with your AI agent inside the UI here, which is really cool. You can also see the model that you're using. You can manage everything from one place, and we've already plugged it into the agent operating system. So this is the announcement, the Hermes web dashboard just got a major overhaul. It's now a feature complete admin panel that manages everything entirely from your browser. So what this means essentially is like instead of having to go to the terminal or to the Hermes desktop app, you can see everything in one place, makes it easier to manage, saves time, and saves a lot of energy going through everything. The other cool thing as well is you may have a mission control where you chat with your agent. Normally, you've got your whole workspace, but then also how do you manage all your models and your sessions? How do you see everything across all different platforms? You can do that using this. You can see, for example, we can see our recent sessions. We can see the models we've got plugged in right here, and we can actually switch between them, which is pretty cool as well. We can actually select, okay, we want to use this as the main model or auxiliary tasks. Now, what that means essentially is you can use this for subagents, and then you can have this as a main agent model right here. It's super easy to switch between your different AI agents and different models here as well. We can switch between the models inside the list, and then we can configure an agent for our subagents as well. What that means essentially is it's really easy to switch between models, and no longer do we need to go into terminal and then start typing Hermes model and switching between everything, which is quite time consuming and not fun at all for most people. And also the other thing I would say here is like, this is now way better for being adopted across people who are non-techie, right? So for example, previously AI agents were limited to people who were willing to use a terminal or willing to set this up locally with Claude Code or something like this. Whereas now you can use Hermes Agent directly inside a browser and you don't need to have to use terminal or switch between things. So it's a really cool idea. You can see the new details right here on the web dashboard. I'm going to break it down for you and explain exactly what's different. And I call this the Goldie Command Deck, so you can run your whole AI from one single screen. And until now, really setting up your AI agent meant editing different technical files, type in terminal commands. But Hermes have just released a clean browser dashboard that turns all of it into a point and click option. We've already wired it into the agent operating system as well. So the cool thing about this is if you're running an agent operating system, you can actually give your setup plus the documentation for web dashboard and then say embed this inside my agent operating system like you see right here. And then that's great because it gives you another option to manage your AI agents and it makes everything easier to control, particularly for switching models and chatting. So this is really cool. And also you can see here, you can manage all of your channels in one place. So if you want to configure Telegram inside the agent operating system before we had to do that manually inside the terminal, now we can just configure it with one click and we can just put in the details right here. So that's great as well because then we can configure everything in one place. We can change the channels we use it. We can organize this way better and way easier and it's faster now as well. So this is really cool. And the thing that I would say is you shouldn't need to be a coder to run your own AI agent. The new dashboard puts every control in front of you and the agent operating system puts that whole command deck on one screen. Now why did running an AI before feel scary? It was intimidating, right? Especially if you've never used AI before, because Hermes is so powerful, but until now managing it was like fixing a car by climbing under the hood with a wrench. So if you wanted to change a setting, you would open a settings file or your terminal full of code and hope you don't break it. If you wanted to add a key or schedule a task or check what it did, we have to type commands into a terminal window. For a normal business owner, that's a wall. And it's the reason most people never get past hello or just use it for a day and then stop using it, right? The AI was always ready, but the wrench and terminal set up was the thing that was scaring most people are. So with this new dashboard in plain words, Hermes have just shipped a new dashboard, which is a clean control panel that opens in your browser. Now I really like this as well because then I can manage all my agents in one place. I don't have to switch between tabs or apps or terminals. I've got everything in one place. And it's just getting easier and easier to manage everything in one place, which is great as well. You can also see it's responsive on mobile, which is great too. So if you're using a mobile device, you can use it like that. And like I mentioned before, we've got this framework, which we call the Goldie Command Deck. So you see it, you steer it and you set it. So this means that you don't need to crawl under the hood anymore. You don't have to manage your terminal. You can run your whole AI from one command deck, which is short enough and fast enough to start using immediately. So move number one is see it. So you've got one screen that shows you everything. Is it running? What's it doing? Every past conversation, how many tokens you're using? You don't need to guess anymore. So for example, we open this up, we can see our previous chats here. We can see how many messages we've sent. We can see all our models, we can see all the logs, etc. We can see the chat, way easier. And then you can steer it, right? So the great thing about this is if you need to change any settings, add a key, switch to AI's model, turn skills on and off. You can do that all by clicking. You don't need to use terminal command anymore. So you can switch between all of these. And also, if you want to update the latest version or restart the gateway, you can do that too. You're going to see what version you're on to, and then you can manage your MCPs, you can manage your channels, you've got your plugins, you've got your skills, and you can switch between categories inside the skills as well. You've got your tool sets, the Browse Hub as well. So this is really cool because you can actually search for skills. So if we search for skills here, like social media, for example, you can see loads of different skills that we can actually just one click install here.

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