Hermes Desktop

A desktop assistant that builds and runs its own custom UI widgets

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Description

Hermes is a desktop application capable of generating its own functional UI elements, such as system monitors or live score trackers. The video demonstrates the assistant 'vibe coding' a floating memory monitor and a live baseball score widget directly into the desktop environment.

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Why this is interesting: Impressive demonstration of an AI assistant generating and injecting real-time functional UI widgets into a desktop OS.
Attributed to: @imbabybrooklyn
Built with: Hermes 3
Links: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
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Tags: #desktop assistant #widgets #custom-ui

Discovered: X
First posted: X · Jul 29, 2026
Listed: Added 80d ago
Build: Strong
Models: Strong

Prompts

Prompt 1

we have tons of kebab menus in the desktop gui. and lots of awesome cool stuff we can do but we're DEFiiTELY failing teh context menu in some ways. we need to make sure that if an item has a kebab menu , the right click menu mimics it. ideally in a very DRY/KISS way pattern that can be shared across the app. 🪄 work

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Prompt 2

Build me a floating desktop widget for Hermes at ~/.hermes/desktop-plugins/vitals/plugin.js — single ESM file, id vitals, title "Vitals". Live webcam rendered as ASCII, with a fake EKG under it.

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Hermes Desktop

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Hermes Desktop

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