Kanban Graph for Hermes

A live, read-only dependency graph of your Hermes kanban boards, inside Hermes Desktop. Every board is a band, every task a card, every dependency an arrow. Click a task to light up everything it waits on and everything waiting on it, with its runs, last failure and the running worker's latest tool calls in a side panel.

Two boards in the graph, open work only

Features

All boards in one view. One band per board. Pan, zoom with the wheel, 0 fits.
Lineage selection. Clicking a task selects its upstream and downstream; the rest fades.
Only the arrows you need. An arrow A to C is not drawn when A already reaches C through B. The footer counts these as "implied hidden"; selecting a task still follows them.
Live. One WebSocket tails every board's task_events; the graph re-lays out as work moves. A 15 s poll takes over when the socket is unavailable.
Running work stands out. Running tasks show their duration and a highlight that travels their border, amber once the heartbeat goes quiet.
Deep links. hermes://open/kanban-graph?task=<board>/<id> opens the page with that task selected.
Static snapshot. snapshot/kanban_graph.py writes the same graph as one HTML file for CI or sharing, using only the Python standard library.
Read-only. Board databases are opened with mode=ro. The plugin never writes a board.

A selected task with its lineage and detail panel

Requirements

Hermes Agent 0.21.5 or newer, with Hermes Desktop for the live page.
Nothing else: no API keys, no model calls, no Python or npm dependencies.

Install

hermes plugins install Senci/hermes-kanban-graph --enable

Then, in Hermes Desktop, open Capabilities > Plugins and switch on Kanban Graph. The desktop half of a plugin package is opt-in and starts switched off; until you switch it on, the page does not exist.

Open the graph from the sidebar row Kanban graph, the command palette ("Open kanban graph"), or a deep link. Step by step: docs/tutorial/getting-started.md.

Documentation

Kind	Read this when you want to
Tutorial	install it and find your way around the page
How-to guides	open a task from a script, render a snapshot, update or remove it
Reference	look up deep-link parameters, REST routes, keys, snapshot flags
Explanation	understand how it is built and why

Development

git clone https://github.com/Senci/hermes-kanban-graph
cd hermes-kanban-graph
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v   # backend model and snapshot
node tests/layout.test.mjs                 # layout and transitive reduction
hermes plugins validate .                  # the plugin catalog's admission check

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the dev loop against a running Hermes Desktop.

License

MIT, Senad Ličina. Icons in snapshot/tabler-icons.json are Tabler Icons, MIT.

kanban-graph

Screenshots

README