--- title: "Nous Research's Hermes Agent Drops a Visual Builder for Multi-Agent Setup" subtitle: "Nous Research adds a guided Profile Builder to Hermes Agent's web dashboard, letting you configure identity, model, skills, and MCP servers in one visual flow instead of editing YAML" url: "https://alphasignal.ai/news/nous-research-s-hermes-agent-drops-a-visual-builder-for-multi-agent-setup" author: "AlphaSignal Newsroom" author_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/editorial-team" company: "Nous Research" company_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/company/nousresearch" published: "2026-06-10T17:23:02.000Z" updated: "2026-06-10T18:01:41.331Z" type: "News" topics: - "Agents" - "Development" subtopics: - "Agent Frameworks" - "Mcp" - "Tool Use" upvotes: 3191 read_time: "4 min" source_url: "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/web-dashboard" comments: 0 --- # Nous Research's Hermes Agent Drops a Visual Builder for Multi-Agent Setup > Nous Research adds a guided Profile Builder to Hermes Agent's web dashboard, letting you configure identity, model, skills, and MCP servers in one visual flow instead of editing YAML [Hermes Agent](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/), the open-source self-improving agent from Nous Research, just shipped a Profile Builder directly inside its web dashboard. What used to require hand-editing YAML files and running a sequence of CLI commands is now a single guided wizard: Identity → Model → Skills → MCPs → Review. This is a meaningful quality-of-life upgrade for anyone running multiple agent instances. Profiles in Hermes are not just configuration presets. Each profile gets its own directory containing its own `config.yaml`, `.env`, `SOUL.md`, memories, sessions, skills, cron jobs, and state database, letting you run separate agents for different purposes without mixing up Hermes state. ## What the Builder Actually Does The new flow lives at `/profiles/new` in the dashboard. You open the Profiles page from the sidebar, click the **Build** button in the header (distinct from the quick **Create** button), and step through five screens: - **Identity** -- set the agent's name and description (its SOUL) - **Model / Provider** -- pick the LLM and inference backend - **Skills** -- toggle built-in toolsets and install community skills from the hub - **MCPs** -- wire up Model Context Protocol servers - **Review** -- confirm everything before writing to disk The key word here is *complete*. Previously you could create a bare profile with a single command, but wiring in skills and MCP servers required separate CLI invocations or direct config edits. The builder collapses that into one coherent flow. ![Skills hub in the Hermes Agent dashboard showing search, install, and update options](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/assets/images/admin-skills-hub-28ba9342a928061ac63d5459bb6e8237.png) ## The Dashboard It Sits Inside The web dashboard is a browser-based UI for managing your Hermes Agent installation. Instead of editing YAML files or running CLI commands, you can configure settings, manage API keys, and monitor sessions from a clean web interface. It starts a local web server and opens `http://127.0.0.1:9119` in your browser, running entirely on your machine with no data leaving localhost. The dashboard is a full admin panel. Beyond profiles, it covers: - **Sessions** -- full-text search across all past conversations, export to JSON, rename, prune - **Analytics** -- token usage and cost breakdowns by day and by model - **Cron** -- create scheduled prompts delivered to Telegram, Discord, Slack, or email - **Channels** -- connect to any of 20+ messaging platforms without touching a config file - **MCP** -- add, test, enable/disable MCP servers with a one-click catalog browser - **System** -- live host stats, gateway lifecycle controls, memory management, and one-click updates ![Sessions management interface showing active sessions with timestamps and action buttons](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/assets/images/admin-sessions-677424bf69f04266372c786d9e089215.png) ## Who This Is For The profile builder is most useful when you are running Hermes as more than one agent. Profiles let you run separate agents for different purposes -- a coding assistant, a personal bot, a research agent -- without mixing up Hermes state. Think: one profile tuned for DevOps tasks with shell-heavy toolsets and a GitHub MCP server, another for research with web-browsing skills and a different model. It also matters for teams. A profile you built on one machine can be packaged as a git repository and installed with one command on another machine. The shared package includes the SOUL, config, skills, cron jobs, and MCP connections, while credentials, memories, and sessions stay per-machine. The builder makes it easier to produce a shareable profile that is fully configured from the start. ## Getting It Running The dashboard requires the `web` extra, which pulls in FastAPI and Uvicorn. Install it with: ``` pip install 'hermes-agent[web,pty]' ``` Then start it: ``` hermes dashboard ``` When the dashboard is bound to a public or non-loopback address, Hermes Agent engages an auth gate and every request must carry a verified session cookie. Three providers ship in the box: username/password, OAuth via Nous Portal, and self-hosted OIDC. For local use on loopback, no auth is needed. Hermes Agent is open source under the MIT license and free to self-host. It runs on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. The Nous Portal subscription is optional and bundles model access plus tool APIs (web search, image generation, TTS, cloud browser) under one account. ## The Bigger Picture Hermes is the self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research -- the only agent with a built-in learning loop that creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. It supports any model you want -- Nous Portal, OpenRouter (200+ models), NovitaAI, NVIDIA NIM, Xiaomi MiMo, Kimi/Moonshot, MiniMax, Hugging Face, OpenAI, or your own endpoint. The profile builder makes it straightforward to spin up a purpose-built agent on any of those backends without touching a terminal. For teams already using Hermes, it removes the last major friction point in the multi-agent setup workflow. ## Sources - [X post by @nousresearch](https://x.com/nousresearch/status/2064760263224504719) - [Hermes Agent Web Dashboard Docs](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/web-dashboard) - [Nous Research Hermes Agent GitHub](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) - [Hermes Agent Profiles Documentation](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/website/docs/user-guide/profiles.md) - [Hermes Agent Homepage](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/)