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πŸš€ Hermes Agent Just Added a Kanban Board β€” And It Changes Everything

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Write About Hermes Agent

Most AI agent frameworks have a problem.

You can create agents.

You can give them tools.

You can even make them collaborate.

But as soon as your workflow gets complex, things start breaking down.

πŸ“Œ Tasks become difficult to track.

πŸ“Œ Dependencies become messy.

πŸ“Œ You lose visibility into what’s running.

πŸ“Œ Outputs become disconnected.

πŸ“Œ Coordination becomes manual.

The new Hermes Agent Kanban Board solves exactly that problem.

And after spending time with it, I genuinely think this is one of the biggest upgrades Hermes Agent has shipped so far.

To test it, I decided to orchestrate an entire product launch campaign using multiple specialized AI agents working together inside a single workflow.

What happened was pretty impressive.


πŸ€” Why Most AI Workflows Fall Apart

Most AI tools today are conversation-driven.

The workflow usually looks like this:

πŸ’¬ Open a chat

✍️ Write a prompt

πŸ“„ Copy the output

πŸ“‹ Paste it somewhere else

πŸ”„ Repeat 20 more times

Eventually you’re juggling:

  • Multiple chat windows
  • Notion pages
  • Google Docs
  • Spreadsheets
  • Task trackers

The AI may be smart.

But the workflow isn’t.

And that’s where Hermes Kanban enters the picture.


🎯 What Exactly Is Hermes Kanban?

Hermes Kanban is a visual workflow orchestration system built directly into Hermes Agent.

Instead of managing agents through separate chats, you coordinate everything through a task board.

You get:

βœ… Task assignment

βœ… Dependencies

βœ… Parent-child relationships

βœ… Parallel execution

βœ… Live logs

βœ… Workflow visualization

βœ… Artifact management

Think of it as:

🧠 AI Agents + πŸ“‹ Trello + 🎯 Workflow Automation

all inside a single system.


πŸŽ₯ Watch The Full Walkthrough

In the video, I cover:

βœ… Installing Hermes Agent

βœ… Creating specialist agents

βœ… Setting up web search

βœ… Building Kanban workflows

βœ… Managing dependencies

βœ… Running tasks in parallel

βœ… Reviewing outputs

βœ… Publishing final deliverables


πŸ”₯ The Feature That Immediately Got My Attention

Task Dependencies.

This sounds simple.

But it’s incredibly powerful.

Imagine you’re launching a product.

Before creating content, you need:

πŸ” Audience Research

Then:

πŸ“Š Messaging & Positioning

Only after that can you create:

✍️ Blog Posts

πŸ“§ Email Sequences

πŸ“± Social Content

πŸŽ₯ YouTube Scripts

With Hermes Kanban, those relationships are explicitly defined.

Audience Research
       ↓
Messaging & Positioning
       ↓

Landing Page
Blog Posts
Emails
Social Posts
YouTube Scripts
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Every downstream task can reference outputs generated by upstream tasks.

This creates a true workflow rather than a collection of isolated prompts.


⚑ Parallel Agent Execution Is Where Things Get Interesting

Once positioning was complete, I launched five content-generation tasks simultaneously.

Suddenly I had:

✍️ Landing Page Creation

πŸ“ Blog Writing

πŸ“§ Email Sequence Generation

πŸ“± Social Media Content

πŸŽ₯ YouTube Script Creation

all running at the same time.

Not one after another.

Not manually triggered.

The system orchestrated everything automatically.

Watching multiple AI agents execute work in parallel felt less like using an AI tool and more like managing a real team.


πŸ‘₯ Building a Team of Specialized AI Agents

For this demo, I created four specialist agents.

πŸ”¬ Researcher

Responsible for:

  • Competitor analysis
  • Audience discovery
  • Market research
  • Pain point analysis

βΈ»

πŸ“Š Analyst

Responsible for:

  • Positioning
  • Messaging
  • Strategic narratives
  • Market differentiation

βΈ»

✍️ Writer

Responsible for:

  • Landing pages
  • Blogs
  • Emails
  • Social content
  • Video scripts

βΈ»

πŸ” Reviewer

Responsible for:

  • Quality control
  • Consistency checks
  • Accuracy validation
  • Brand alignment

Each agent had its own:

🧠 Memory

βš™οΈ Configuration

πŸ“– Instructions

🎯 Responsibilities

This specialization dramatically improves output quality.


πŸ‘€ Seeing What Your Agents Are Doing

One thing I really appreciated was transparency.

Every task provides:

πŸ“œ Execution logs

πŸ“Š Status updates

πŸ“‚ Generated artifacts

⏱️ Progress tracking

Instead of wondering:

β€œWhat is my agent doing right now?”

You can actually see it.

For complex workflows, this is incredibly valuable.


πŸš€ My Demo Workflow: Launching Momentum

To showcase the Kanban board, I created a launch workflow for a fictional product called Momentum.

Momentum is an AI-powered habit tracker that adapts to your natural energy patterns.

The workflow looked like this:

πŸ” Audience Research

↓

πŸ“Š Messaging & Positioning

↓

✍️ Landing Page

πŸ“ Blog Posts

πŸ“§ Email Sequence

πŸ“± Social Posts

πŸŽ₯ YouTube Scripts

↓

πŸ” Content Review

↓

βœ… Final Revisions

The marketing campaign itself wasn’t the interesting part.

The interesting part was watching Hermes Kanban coordinate the entire process.


🧩 The Reviewer Agent Was Surprisingly Useful

Once all content was generated, I handed everything over to the Reviewer agent.

It analyzed:

πŸ“§ Emails

πŸ“„ Landing Pages

πŸ“ Blog Content

πŸ“± Social Posts

πŸŽ₯ Scripts

and checked for:

βœ… Consistency

βœ… Clarity

βœ… Accuracy

βœ… Tone

It identified several issues and produced actionable feedback.

Then I created one final task.

The Writer agent consumed that feedback and automatically updated all assets.

This created a genuine feedback loop between agents.

Exactly how real teams operate.


🌎 This Goes Far Beyond Marketing

The marketing workflow was simply a demonstration.

The same approach could be used for:

πŸ’» Software Development

Research β†’ Design β†’ Code β†’ Review β†’ Documentation

πŸ“ˆ SEO Operations

Keyword Research β†’ Content Brief β†’ Writing β†’ Optimization

πŸ§ͺ Research Projects

Data Collection β†’ Analysis β†’ Reporting

πŸš€ Startup Execution

Research β†’ Strategy β†’ Outreach β†’ Growth

πŸ“° Content Teams

Research β†’ Writing β†’ Editing β†’ Publishing

Anywhere you have a repeatable workflow, Hermes Kanban becomes interesting.


πŸ’‘ Why I Think Hermes Kanban Is A Big Deal

Most AI products focus on conversations.

Hermes Kanban focuses on workflows.

That’s a major difference.

Instead of:

πŸ‘€ Human β†’ πŸ€– AI

you get:

πŸ‘€ Human β†’ πŸ‘₯ AI Team

One agent researches.

One analyzes.

One writes.

One reviews.

The workflow coordinates everything.

You supervise.

That feels much closer to the future of AI systems than simply chatting with a chatbot.


πŸ’¬ What Would You Build?

The most exciting part of Hermes Kanban isn’t marketing automation.

It’s the ability to coordinate teams of AI agents through structured workflows.

I’m curious:

πŸ‘‰ What workflow would you automate first?

Product development?

Content operations?

Research?

Customer support?

Let me know in the comments.

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