A guide to Hermes Kanban: the durable queue that Hermes Agent profiles work out of.https://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.devenhttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/llms.txthttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.devhttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.devHermes Kanban is a durable queue your agent profiles work out of. How the dispatcher claims cards and spawns workers, and how it differs from delegate_task.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:40:33 GMTA durable queue your profiles work out of. You create cards; the dispatcher claims them and spawns the assigned profile as a real process. You already run Hermes. This is the part of it that behaves differently.https://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/boardhttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/boardStep a simulated Hermes Kanban board one dispatcher tick at a time. Watch a card get claimed, spawned, completed, and promote its dependents.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:40:33 GMTSix columns. A card moves right as work happens. Swipe sideways. Open a card to read it. Nudge dispatcher runs one pass now.https://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/first-boardhttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/first-boardFour commands, in order, to get a Hermes Kanban card running on your own machine, with the two steps that most often leave a board silent.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:40:33 GMTYou know these commands. The order is what matters, and two steps are where boards get stuck.https://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/situationshttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/situationsTen shapes of real work on a Hermes Kanban board: fan out, chain, decompose, long runs, review gates, boards, lanes, and when to skip the board.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:40:33 GMTTen shapes of real work. Find the one that looks like yours, take the command, and read the part that says when not to bother.https://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/practiceshttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/practicesRules for writing Hermes Kanban cards, wiring dependencies, running a board and knowing when to stop, each naming the failure it prevents.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:40:33 GMTEvery rule names the failure it prevents. A rule with no consequence attached is an opinion, and you can ignore those.https://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/troubleshootinghttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/troubleshootingNine Hermes Kanban failure symptoms with their cause and the one command that diagnoses each, plus the five reasons a board sits completely still.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:40:33 GMTStart from the symptom, not the topic. Nine things you might be looking at, each with one cause and one command.https://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/referencehttps://hermes-kanban-guide.pages.dev/referenceHermes Kanban reference: the columns, the agent toolset, the CLI commands, the config defaults under kanban:, and where the board files live on disk.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:40:33 GMTQuoted from the repository, for when you are looking something up rather than learning it.