Hermes Agent — VS Code / Antigravity IDE Extension

Autonomous AI coding agent with chat, kanban task management, and native editor integration via ACP.

Features

• Chat sidebar — talk to Hermes (Grok 4.3) directly in your editor
• Kanban task board — create, track, and dispatch tasks to specialist agent profiles
• Multi-agent swarms — parallel workers → verifier → synthesizer pipelines
• ACP integration — native editor features: file ops, terminal, browser, approvals
• Status bar — connection status, active task count

Requirements

• Hermes API server running on http://localhost:8642 (managed by hermes gateway)
• Hermes CLI at /Users/varunpratapbhardwaj/.local/bin/hermes (for ACP + kanban)
• VS Code or Antigravity IDE ≥ 1.85

Configuration

Setting	Default	Description
hermes.apiUrl	http://localhost:8642	Hermes API server URL
hermes.autoConnect	true	Auto-connect on startup
hermes.acpEnabled	true	Enable ACP subprocess (native editor integration)
hermes.acpPath	/Users/.../.local/bin/hermes	Path to hermes binary
hermes.pollIntervalMs	5000	Kanban poll interval (ms)

Commands

Command	Description
Hermes: Connect	Connect to Hermes API server
Hermes: Disconnect	Disconnect from Hermes
Hermes: Open Chat	Open chat sidebar
Hermes: Create Task	Create a new kanban task
Hermes: New Swarm	Spawn a multi-agent swarm
Hermes: Dispatch Tasks	Run dispatcher on ready tasks
Hermes: Refresh	Refresh kanban tree

Development

npm install
npm run compile
npm run watch        # watch mode
npm run package      # build .vsix

Architecture

extension.ts
├── HermesClient (HTTP → port 8642)
│   ├── /health
│   └── /v1/chat/completions
├── StatusBarManager
├── KanbanTreeProvider (hermes kanban * CLI)
├── SidebarChatProvider (webview)
├── AcpManager (hermes acp --accept-hooks subprocess)
└── commands.ts