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- planner/remote deployer: hermes-webui is an isolated Dankclaw service
- tests: deployment integrity seam (loopback, auth, volume, healthcheck,
  planner narrowing, deployer dispatch)
- docs: Hermes-WebUI page with the iOS SSH-tunnel access pattern
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Hermes-Dashboard

The Hermes web dashboard is a browser UI for managing the agent. It shows config, API keys, and sessions. It is a management tool. It is not a chat window. Chat happens over Signal or the CLI. See Hermes.

Host: Dankclaw — Port: 9119 — URL: http://192.168.0.143:9119

Facts

Item Value
Image docker.io/nousresearch/hermes-agent:latest (same as the gateway)
Command hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9119 --no-open --skip-build
Port 9119 (published to the LAN)
Auth HTTP basic auth (username + scrypt password hash)
Data shares /home/dank/hermes-data with the gateway

Why a separate container

The gateway container runs hermes gateway run (the Signal platform). That entrypoint does not start the dashboard. The dashboard is a separate process. So it runs in its own compose service (hermes-dashboard). Both services mount the same data volume. Both restart at boot (restart: unless-stopped).

Authentication

The dashboard refuses to bind to a non-loopback address without an auth provider. There is no unauthenticated public bind. This repo uses basic auth:

  • dashboard.basic_auth.username and dashboard.basic_auth.password_hash live in the live /home/dank/hermes-data/config.yaml; the tracked backup at dankclaw/hermes/config.yaml.example intentionally omits the password hash.
  • The stored value is a one-way scrypt hash. The plaintext password is never written to a file or the repo.
  • The hash is generated with plugins.dashboard_auth.basic.hash_password.

Access

Open http://192.168.0.143:9119 in a browser on the LAN. Log in with the configured username and password.

Gotchas

  • The dashboard and the gateway share one data volume. A config change made in the dashboard takes effect when the gateway restarts.
  • If the shared password is reused elsewhere, treat it as exposed. Rotate it and regenerate the hash.
  • --skip-build uses the prebuilt web assets in the image. Do not remove it unless the assets are rebuilt.

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