01What Hermes Agent Kanban is and how it works

Hermes Agent Kanban is a feature in Hermes Agent that lets you run teams of AI agents on Kanban boards without freezing. It fixes the old problem where running more than one or two agents broke the system.

Imagine hiring 10 AI workers who share one assistant. The assistant writes everything in a single notebook. Every time one worker needs a save, the other nine wait.

If a save is slow, everyone freezes.

This update changes that. It hands slow saves to a back office helper. So your workers never stand around waiting.

You can finally run a whole team of agents at once.

02What’s new in the Hermes Kanban update

This update brings three main improvements.

  • Scaling huge multi-agent Kanban runs: The thing that used to break, running a whole board of agents at once, now works.
  • Large concurrent sessions: You can have loads of agents or chats running at the same time without breaking Hermes. More agents in parallel, less freezing.
  • Database concurrency fix: Slow saves stopped freezing everyone. Now they go to a back office helper.

The main point is you don’t need a smarter AI. You just need agents that don’t trip over each other. This update fixes that, and it’s pretty huge.

03How to update Hermes Agent to get the Kanban fix

Before you can use the new features, you need the latest version. Here’s how to update Hermes Agent.

  1. Open your terminal.
  2. Type Hermes update and press Enter.
  3. Or go to the manage section inside your Hermes dashboard.
  4. Scroll down and click Update Hermes.

Once updated, you’ll have access to the newer version of Hermes. Then you can build multi-agent Kanban teams without freezing.

04Step-by-step: Build a content factory with Kanban boards

In this episode, Julian shows a real use case called the content factory inside the Agent OS. Here’s how it works.

  1. Go to the Kanban board section in your Hermes dashboard.
  2. Create multiple boards, each for a separate project. For example, one for videos, one for a game, one for a website.
  3. Add multiple agent profiles per board. For SEO, you might have an SEO writer, SEO backlink builder, SEO keyword generator, and SEO outline writer.
  4. Drop a task into the Kanban. A head agent automatically triages it.
  5. The task moves to the right section: triage, ready, or done.
  6. Agents claim cards and work in parallel, because concurrency is now supported.
  7. Use one button to deploy all articles or videos at once.

That’s the flow Julian used to publish five articles to his website, all created and formatted automatically.

05Real results: Five articles published without login

Julian shows the results of the content factory. They created five different articles and published them all to their website. All were created, formatted, and auto-deployed.

He says, “I can’t log into this website. The agents did it for me via a Kanban board.” The planner broke a topic into five SEO articles. The builder wrote each article.

Each card was claimed exactly once because of concurrency. One button deployed all of them.

This is the part the freeze fix unlocks. A team of agents can create and publish articles or videos at once. Instead of one agent at a time, you get a whole team working together.

06How the Kanban update compares to Claude and Ultra Code

Julian compares the Kanban system to Claude and Ultra Code. In those tools, you have a team of multiple agents. Claude acts as the orchestrator and delegates tasks to sub-agents.

A Kanban board works the same way. A head agent triages tasks and assigns them to relevant agents. Each agent works on its part without tripping over others.

The old way was running one agent at a time, watching everything freeze, waiting for it to come back. The new way is a team of agents on one board, nothing freezes, and tasks finish at the same time. You can scale across multiple boards and profiles.

07Tips to save tokens and avoid common mistakes

Worried about token usage? Julian says you can use free local models, free APIs, or CLIs you already use. For example, you can plug GLM 5.2 into your agent profiles.

Here are some tips from the episode:

  • Use free local models to cut costs.
  • Use free APIs when possible.
  • Reuse existing CLIs.
  • Follow the “unfreezable loop”: find what freezes your agents, move slow jobs out of the way, keep the team moving, stop two agents doing the same job, and lock it in.

A common mistake is trying to run more agents than the old system could handle. With this update, that cap is off. But you still need to plan your agent profiles and boards.

08Who should use Hermes Agent Kanban and why it matters

This update is for anyone who wants to run teams of AI agents without freezing. It’s especially useful for agencies, content factories, research teams, and anyone doing SEO automation.

Julian says the cap on multi-agent work just came off. For a long time, running a team of agents on a Kanban with Hermes was broken. Now it runs faster and can handle multiple teams on the same board.

You can build anything you want and automate it whenever you need. It’s a powerful update that’s quite underrated. If you’re already using Hermes, updating gives you a big boost in what you can automate.