Herald – AI Agent Control

Herald is the companion app for Hermes Agent — the open-source AI agent you run on your own computer. Connect once and every bot on your Hermes shows up as a chat on your phone, streaming replies in real time and asking for your approval before it runs anything that needs it.

Nothing goes through a Herald server. Your phone talks straight to your computer over your own network or your Tailscale tailnet, and your Hermes talks to whatever models you configured there. Herald never contacts a model provider and collects no analytics.

YOUR BOTS, AS CHATS
• Every Hermes profile is a bot with its own ongoing conversation.
• Streaming replies, live tool activity, and approve/deny prompts.
• Create a new bot with its own personality from your phone; switch which model a bot thinks with.
• A dot on each avatar shows who is awake, mid-turn, or unreachable.

GROUP CHATS AND MENTIONS
• Seat two or more bots in a room where they talk to you and to each other, taking turns.
• Type @ to tag another bot by name; the bot you are chatting with is told who you mean.
• Rooms are shared with the Hermes desktop app.

SEVERAL COMPUTERS, ONE ROSTER
• Save more than one Hermes connection — a home Mac, a VPS, a Mini on Tailscale — and every machine's bots show up together, each chatting with its own backend.

PICK UP ANY SESSION
• Your bots also talk on Telegram, in the terminal and on the desktop. Open a bot's Sessions list and resume any of those conversations from your phone.

IPAD AND APPLE WATCH
• On iPad, a three-column cockpit: your roster, the open chat and an inspector with the bot's plan, context and schedules. With nothing open, Mission Control shows the whole fleet, upcoming jobs and the week's usage on one screen.
• Open two chats side by side on a wide iPad window.
• On Apple Watch, your roster and each bot's latest reply, relayed from your iPhone.

VOICE
• Voice notes: tap the mic, talk, send. Your own Hermes transcribes the clip with the speech-to-text provider you configured, and the bot receives only the words.
• Dictation into the composer, and an optional "Hey Herald" wake word.

MADE FOR READING CODE
• Every code block has a one-tap Copy button. HTML and SVG blocks add Preview.
• Long-press any message for Copy or Select text.
• White on black by default; Light or follow-the-system in Settings.

PUSH THAT RESPECTS YOU
• Register once and the hermes-bot-push plugin on your computer sends a banner when a bot finishes or needs approval. Only the bot's name travels through the push service; the conversation stays on your machines.

SETUP IN MINUTES
• Run `npx herald-setup` on the computer that has Hermes. It configures a password, starts hermes serve, uses Tailscale when it is installed, and prints a QR code. Scan it and you are connected.

Herald requires a computer running Hermes Agent (github.com/NousResearch/Hermes-Agent). It is an independent, unofficial app made by @iamlukethedev and is not made, endorsed, or supported by Nous Research.

Terms of Use: https://heraldapp.dev/terms