Your Hermes Agent works great for one task. Try managing 20 in parallel? It's chaos. Cron jobs fail silently, tasks are blocked and you're spending more time fixing your agent than getting results. Minions gives you a single task board to view it all. Every running task gets periodic check-ins, retry if stuck, and escalate only when it's genuinely exhausted alternatives Works with Hermes Agent today, more runtimes coming.
I built this after watching Hermes/OpenClaw power users hit the same wall: one agent task works great, but 10–50 long-running tasks become operations work.
The core idea is heartbeat supervision: every in-progress task gets periodic check-ins where the agent is asked to make progress, retry with a different approach if stuck, and only escalate to you when it has genuinely exhausted alternatives. Blocked tasks surface automatically. Completed work moves to your review queue.
Minions is an open-source mission control layer for agentic harnesses starting with Hermes Agent.
What it does today:
- Create and manage Hermes tasks from one board
- Track work across in progress, needs help, ready for review, and done
- Run heartbeat check-ins so stuck work surfaces automatically
- Stream agent work live while it runs
- Keep humans in the loop before anything is marked done
- See scheduled job history and output
- Run locally with SQLite, no account required
This is the local/open-source version of the agent management layer we’re building at Agent37. Hosted access opensMay 10, but Minions is usable locally today.
I’d especially love feedback from people running Hermes or OpenClaw agents. Where does your agent work break once you have more than one task running?
@vishnukool I was looking for something like this, 2 questions here - 1. Does it handle the long standing tasks? Is it sitting on top of the coding copilot/ 2. Whats the concurrency for the task execution can it support?
Congrats on the launch! It’s always refreshing to see makers ship something practical with a polished first impression. Interested to see how the community uses it.
This looks quite similar to Multica actually, which works great with Hermes
If someone is currently managing Hermes/OpenClaw work with a mix of terminal tabs + scripts + chat (Slack/Telegram), what’s the specific breaking point where switching to Minions becomes a no-brainer—and what does the first week of migration typically look like?
Love the idea of a single board for all parallel agent tasks. How's observability handled – logs/traces per task, or just status?
Loving the blend of automation and personality here! It would be interesting to see how this integrates with complex systems or more custom workflows. How are folks leveraging it in real-time problem-solving scenarios?
About Minions on Product Hunt
“Open source mission control for Hermes agent”
Minions launched on Product Hunt on May 8th, 2026 and earned 310 upvotes and 17 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Your Hermes Agent works great for one task. Try managing 20 in parallel? It's chaos. Cron jobs fail silently, tasks are blocked and you're spending more time fixing your agent than getting results. Minions gives you a single task board to view it all. Every running task gets periodic check-ins, retry if stuck, and escalate only when it's genuinely exhausted alternatives Works with Hermes Agent today, more runtimes coming.
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Vishnu,
Rohan Chaubey
Hey Product Hunt, I’m Vishnu, maker of Minions.
I built this after watching Hermes/OpenClaw power users hit the same wall: one agent task works great, but 10–50 long-running tasks become operations work.
The core idea is heartbeat supervision: every in-progress task gets periodic check-ins where the agent is asked to make progress, retry with a different approach if stuck, and only escalate to you when it has genuinely exhausted alternatives. Blocked tasks surface automatically. Completed work moves to your review queue.
Minions is an open-source mission control layer for agentic harnesses starting with Hermes Agent.
What it does today:
- Create and manage Hermes tasks from one board
- Track work across in progress, needs help, ready for review, and done
- Run heartbeat check-ins so stuck work surfaces automatically
- Stream agent work live while it runs
- Keep humans in the loop before anything is marked done
- See scheduled job history and output
- Run locally with SQLite, no account required
This is the local/open-source version of the agent management layer we’re building at Agent37. Hosted access opensMay 10, but Minions is usable locally today.
I’d especially love feedback from people running Hermes or OpenClaw agents. Where does your agent work break once you have more than one task running?