What is hermes-pixel-ui?

Hermes Pixel UI is a pixel art dashboard that turns the activity of Hermes Agent, a coding assistant, into an animated office scene you can watch in real time. Instead of reading logs to see what an AI agent is doing, you see little pixel characters moving between rooms: coding happens at desks on the main floor, document work moves to an archive, planning and thinking goes to a meeting room, waiting periods happen at a brew bar, and finished work moves to a recharge area. The app receives live events from a Hermes plugin over a simple API endpoint, and if that live connection is not available it falls back to polling session files saved on disk. A backend built with FastAPI routes each kind of activity to the room that best represents it, and a React frontend renders the office and keeps it updated over a WebSocket connection. You can drag and drop furniture to customize the office layout, and your changes are saved locally in the browser so they persist between sessions. Agents that finish their work are automatically removed after a short delay to keep the scene from getting cluttered. It is designed to run entirely on your own machine, which the project describes as local first, meaning your session data does not need to leave your computer. This matters for anyone running multiple Hermes Agent sessions at once who wants a quick visual sense of what each one is doing without switching between terminal windows. The project requires Python 3.9 or later for the backend and a modern browser for the React frontend, and is intended specifically as a companion tool for people already using Hermes Agent for coding work.