AgentsAutonomy & tool use
Paid AI community sells a 'Hermes Project Manager' agent workflow that closely matches Nous Research's open-source Kanban board
A video promoting the AI Profit Boardroom's paid 'Agent OS' bundle shows one-line ideas being sorted, planned by agents and built after a single human approval. The pipeline closely matches the multi-agent Kanban board Nous added to its open-source Hermes Agent.
From the r/AISEOInsider (via last30days) article of October 13, 2026 and cited sources: The workflow has five stages. [1] [3] [7]
SOURCES[1] Ideas Don’t Fail, Time Does: My Hermes Project Manager Agent reddit.com[3] Linked video: Ideas Don’t Fail, Time Does: My Hermes… youtube.com[7] OpenClaw Database: Hermes Idea Foundry openclawdatabase.com
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- When
- October 13, 2026 article published
- Covered
- Oct 13 edition
- Evidence
- 12 sources across 10 sites
- 1Ideas Don’t Fail, Time Does: My Hermes Project Manager Agentreddit.com
- 2NEW Hermes Project Manager Agent is WILD!reddit.com
- 3Linked video: Ideas Don’t Fail, Time Does: My Hermes…youtube.com
- 4Hermes Kanban docs (Nous Research)hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
- 5Agentic AI docs: Hermes Agentagentic-ai.readthedocs.io
- 6Hermes Agent v0.13.0 releasegithub.com
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The workflow has five stages. A one-line idea goes into an inbox. An agent classifies it and writes a plan with milestones and an assigned agent. A person approves or rejects it once. Then sub-agents build it, and the notes are saved to an Obsidian vault as context for later tasks. [1] [3] [7]
Hermes Agent's MIT-licensed Kanban feature, which shipped in May 2026, already covers most of this pipeline. It includes triage states, automatic or manual task breakdown, block and review checkpoints, SQLite-backed tasks, Git worktrees and directory workspaces that can point to an Obsidian vault. That suggests the paid bundle is mainly a configuration or interface layer. [4] [6]
agent-written plans with one human approval step are a documented, free Hermes capability. Implication: teams can test this pattern without buying a bundle, but output quality and failure rates still need measuring on their own work.
Executive brief
The "Hermes Project Manager Agent" is not a Nous Research product. It is a workflow promoted by the "AI Profit Boardroom" Skool community, which sells it as a downloadable "Agent OS" zip file (Reddit post; video). Its features (an idea inbox, agent triage, an agent-written plan, one approve/reject step, then sub-agent builds) closely match the multi-agent Kanban board that Nous added to the open-source, MIT-licensed Hermes Agent in May 2026 (Nous docs). The video names no model, links no code and shows no measurements.
What changed and event timeline
Hermes Agent launches
Nous Research released Hermes as an open-source, MIT-licensed personal agent that keeps memory across sessions and works with many models ().
Multi-agent Kanban ships
Release v0.13.0 ("Tenacity") added durable boards with heartbeats, reclaim of crashed tasks, per-task retry budgets and "hallucination gates" ().
The "Idea Foundry" pitch appears
A Julian Goldie SEO video described the same five steps (capture, classify, plan, approve, build) and Obsidian storage. The writeup notes no repository and no outside confirmation ().
Kanban gets a Desktop plugin
A third-party guide describes this as the first official Hermes Desktop plugin ().
The Reddit post and video recirculate the pitch
The demo shows a one-line landing-page idea being triaged in about 15 seconds, approved, then building in the background (;).
Capabilities and access
- What the demo shows: a left-to-right board from inbox to shipped, a "Shape it" button, a "human gate" with approve and reject, and agent-written plans listing the approach, milestones and assigned agent (video).
- Not disclosed: which model or Hermes version is used.
- Access: sold through a paid community as a zip file, with a 30-day roadmap and coaching calls (video).
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- What the demo shows: a left-to-right board from inbox to shipped, a "Shape it" button, a "human gate" with approve and reject, and agent-written plans listing the approach, milestones and assigned agent (video). Outputs mentioned include landing pages, small apps and games, which can be improved through comment-and-rebuild loops (video).
- Not disclosed: which model or Hermes version is used.
- Access: sold through a paid community as a zip file, with a 30-day roadmap and coaching calls (video). Hermes itself is free and MIT-licensed (GitHub).
Technical analysis for researchers and developers
The official Kanban feature already covers the pipeline's main steps (Nous docs): This makes the "Idea Foundry" look like a configuration or interface layer on top of these features. The video describes no evaluation method. A separate open-source bridge between Obsidian and Hermes Kanban exists, but it is unrelated to this product (GumbyEnder/hermes-kanban).
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The official Kanban feature already covers the pipeline's main steps (Nous docs):
- Task states: triage, todo, ready, running, blocked, review, done and archived.
- Automatic planning: in "auto" mode, a decomposer model breaks triage tasks into dependent child tasks and routes them to specialist agent profiles. In "manual" mode, tasks wait in triage until a person triggers this.
- Human checkpoints:
kanban_blockandunblockpause and resume work, andkanban_request_reviewhands a card to a reviewer. - Storage and isolation: tasks live in a SQLite file (
kanban.db), and each worker runs as its own operating-system process. - Workspaces:
dir:<path>can point at an Obsidian vault, andworktreegives coding tasks their own Git worktree.
This makes the "Idea Foundry" look like a configuration or interface layer on top of these features. The video describes no evaluation method. A separate open-source bridge between Obsidian and Hermes Kanban exists, but it is unrelated to this product (GumbyEnder/hermes-kanban).
Claims and evidence
No independent test of this workflow was found in the reviewed sources.
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| Claim | Evidence |
| A one-line idea becomes a plan in about 15 seconds | Seller demo only (video) |
| When the user returns, the project is "built and running" | Seller assertion; no shipped output is inspected on screen (video) |
| Agents "learn" from saved Obsidian notes | Seller assertion: the markdown notes become context for later tasks (video) |
| The underlying orchestration exists | Documented by Nous (docs) |
No independent test of this workflow was found in the reviewed sources.
Context and prior work
Hermes is often described as a successor to OpenClaw (Agentic AI docs). Nous expanded Kanban in later versions. A third-party summary of v0.15 reports 104 pull requests adding automatic decomposition, swarm layouts and per-task model choice (Techsy). Coverage of v0.17 describes "verifier" agents that check work before a board is marked complete (Medium).
Limitations, safety and contested findings
- Exposed dashboard risk: the Kanban dashboard API has no authentication by design.
- Single-machine design: Kanban is built to run on one host.
- Vulnerabilities: a third-party tracker lists 40 Hermes Agent CVEs in 2026, including remote-code-execution flaws affecting versions up to 0.21.0 (stack.watch).
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- Exposed dashboard risk: the Kanban dashboard API has no authentication by design. Nous warns that binding it to
0.0.0.0(all network interfaces) gives anyone on the network read/write access to task bodies, comments and file paths (Nous docs). - Single-machine design: Kanban is built to run on one host.
- Vulnerabilities: a third-party tracker lists 40 Hermes Agent CVEs in 2026, including remote-code-execution flaws affecting versions up to 0.21.0 (stack.watch).
- Unaudited bundle: an agent that builds and deploys software from a downloaded zip adds supply-chain risk. The zip's contents are not public.
Business and practitioner implications
- The useful idea here is a design pattern: have agents write the plan and keep one human approval step.
- Before buying a bundle, compare it with the official docs.
- Treat claims of "built and running" output as untested until you have measured quality and failure rates on your own work.
Read the full section
- The useful idea here is a design pattern: have agents write the plan and keep one human approval step. Teams can build this themselves on the free Kanban feature by using manual triage mode or review handoffs.
- Before buying a bundle, compare it with the official docs. Pin to a patched Hermes version, keep the dashboard on localhost and limit worker permissions.
- Treat claims of "built and running" output as untested until you have measured quality and failure rates on your own work.
The source trail.
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Ideas Don’t Fail, Time Does: My Hermes Project Manager Agent
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