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.

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, +39 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: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Use When

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: 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 stop condition or a decision the user owns ends the turn, offer the next action as a question rather than declaring what will not be done.

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: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.