Agent Board

This is a Hermes-native agent-board workflow skill.

Why This Exists

agent-board exists so Hermes users can ask for this workflow in chat and get a structured, checkable answer instead of an improvised one.

Do Not Use When

• The request is already handled by a narrower explicit skill with stronger evidence.
• The user asks OMH to secretly run external platforms, connectors, schedulers, file exports, or runtime agents.
• The only safe answer is to ask for missing authority, credentials, target, or observed evidence first.
• A multi-lane implementation of an accepted plan is ultrawork, which prepares its durable lanes through this board.
• The turn is a Kanban worker that the review dispatcher started on a review-lane task to verify a review-requested handoff; that worker loads Hermes' bundled sdlc-review skill, not this one.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: agent-board coordinate PM, CTO, QA, and release agents on this launch checklist.
• Expected behavior: Produce prepare_agent_board_card with required context, wrapper actions, and not-evidence boundaries.
• Why: The prompt names a real workflow surface that Hermes can orchestrate without hiding execution.

Bad example:

• Prompt: agent-board mark the other agent complete without an observed heartbeat or result.
• Expected behavior: Report the missing observed evidence or authority instead of claiming the external step happened.
• Why: Prepared OMH guidance is not platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.

Completion Checklist

• Choose the coordination from the request: durable (restart survival, cross-profile pickup) prepares a kanban_* action on the named board; bounded_research prepares one delegate_task action. Never substitute one route for the other when its surface is missing.
• Call omh_agent_board prepare, then invoke the returned native_action through the normal Hermes tool loop; OMH never calls a native tool itself and grants no host permission.
• Report the request state exactly: prepared, unavailable (named missing_capabilities, zero native calls), denied, observed, or failed. A complete receipt implies no review approval, CI, or merge; a running readback is a claim, not dispatch proof.
• Agent/operator reference: docs/AGENT-BOARD.md; wrapper actions example: examples/agent-board/native-actions.json.

Recovery Notes

• If prepare returns unavailable, name the missing capability (tool, schema, hook, host identity, board binding, or native compare-and-swap) and keep the card prepared-only.
• If a receipt is failed or requires_reconciliation, run an observed show on the same task before the next mutation; never retry a create automatically. Repeating a create with the same request_id returns the already observed task.
• No native kanban_dispatch tool exists: dispatch stays unavailable and an operator claim is the observed path. A positive request_changes needs a review-claimed run from the host's own review dispatcher.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Automation and status (achievements, workspace-audit, production-audit, live-incident-response, automation-blueprint, github-event-ops, github-issue-intake, buzz, +40 more) - schedules, status, health, and ops review.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: skill_view(name='omh-routing', file_path='references/skill-common-rail.md').

When to Use

Use when multiple Hermes profiles, agents, or targets need a board-shaped status contract for collaborative work.

Strong routing signals: `agent-board`, `agent board`, `kanban`, `multi-agent`, `multi agent`, `multi agent board`, `multiple hermes agents`, `multiple hermes profiles`, `hermes profiles`, `subagent`, `subagents`, `sub agent`, `sub agents`, `agent coordination`, `agent task board`, `task board`, `roles and board`, `role board`, `heartbeat`, `blocker`, `agent blocker`, `agent heartbeat`, `agent handoff`, `handoff board`, `interviewer reviewer builder`, `reviewer builder`, `칸반`, `멀티 에이전트`, `서브에이전트`, `서브 에이전트`, `여러 에이전트`, `Hermes agent 여러 명`, `여러 명이 같이 일`, `에이전트 보드`, `작업 배분`, `역할 배분`, `작업 보드`, `역할과 보드`, `역할 보드`

Catalog Metadata

Category: agent-coordination Phase: board-status Hermes role: tracker Quality tier: workflow-surface-gated Reasoning demand: standard

Quality bar:

• Name the user-facing workflow objective, required context, next action, and stop condition.
• Separate prepared guidance from observed platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.
• Expose missing tools, credentials, targets, or observations as user-visible gaps.

Handoff policy:

Keep this as Hermes-facing orchestration guidance first. Prepare executor, connector, gateway, or host-runtime handoff only when the user accepts that next step and observed evidence can be recorded.

Required inputs:

• user request
• target context
• delivery or status expectation
• known missing evidence

Expected outputs:

• agent-board/v1 card or guidance
• agent_board_request/v1 record from the omh_agent_board plugin tool
• next action
• prepared-vs-observed boundary

Artifact expectations:

• agent-board/v1 metadata-only runtime or wrapper card when recorded
• agent_board_state/v1 bounded board snapshot under the OMH home: request digests, receipts, and task references only; never raw bodies, comments, attachments, or host identity

Safety rules:

• An agent board card is not proof that another Hermes agent accepted, executed, heartbeat-ed, or completed work unless target-specific evidence exists.
• Do not claim connector, gateway, runtime, file generation, memory mutation, or host automation evidence from prepared guidance.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: agent-board.

omh runtime record --skill agent-board --harness agent-board --status started

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed. Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

• Treat wrapper memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof of opaque Hermes memory reads or changes. Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion. Reply in the user's own words and the host's own voice: its SOUL.md persona owns reply language, tone, speech level, and sentence endings, progress updates included (where it sets no language, use the one the user wrote in), and OMH shapes structure and content only; OMH's record terms (surface, lane, wrapper, handoff, evidence boundary, not_observed) stay in records and tool calls, never in the sentence the user reads unless they ask about one; and when a real unresolved user decision or a useful briefing discussion remains, offer one specific, content-linked question. Completed work needs no question; omit unrelated non-action footers and generic offers to continue.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: skill_view(name='omh-routing', file_path='references/skill-common-rail.md'). Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.