Hermes Agent Bot Mode vs Kanban: When to Use Each (and Why I Use Both)
Hermes Agent gives you Bot Mode and Kanban for working with teams of AI agents. At first, they can look like two different ways of solving the same problem: How do I get multiple AI agents to work together? But they solve different layers of the problem. Use the wrong one and you can easily end up with a group chat that becomes difficult to follow or a full task board for something that could…
Hermes Agent provides two modes for managing teams of AI agents: Bot Mode and Kanban. Bot Mode treats the team as a whole while Kanban focuses on the work itself. Bot Mode creates persistent specialist bots that can communicate with each other. Kanban adds structure to the workflow by organizing tasks, assigning owners, defining dependencies, and tracking review stages.
Use Bot Mode for persistent specialists, direct conversations, recurring routines, and agent-to-agent handoffs. Use Kanban for parallel execution, task owners, dependencies, review stages, recovery from failures, and visibility into larger assignments. Combine Bot Mode and Kanban when using persistent specialists to execute a repeatable, multi-step workflow.
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