Hermes Progress Tail — Communication skill for Claude Code

hermes-progress-tail


Compact Hermes gateway plugin for live progress tails.

What it does

• Shows latest tool calls, sticky todo state, delegated subagent progress, reasoning/thinking, and background jobs in compact progress bubbles.
• Updates one editable progress message instead of spamming chat.
• Keeps completed turn progress bubbles visible as history.
• Starts a fresh progress bubble for a new user turn after the prior final answer, while true interrupts keep updating the active bubble.
• Keeps running background jobs visible after the parent turn finishes.
• Falls back conservatively on no-edit platforms.
• Redacts common secrets before rendering progress.
• Suppresses conflicting Hermes built-in gateway progress/reasoning display plugin-side on owned gateway sessions.

Clarify decision checkpoints

• Normal work keeps the compact live tail unchanged.
• clarify freezes a bounded, decision-complete checkpoint rather than an activity transcript.
• Editable platforms freeze the current bubble; no-edit platforms send one checkpoint snapshot.
• A response updates that checkpoint at most once, and later activity starts a fresh progress bubble.
• Checkpoint data is runtime-only and redacted; it never includes raw chain-of-thought.
• This release adds no new configuration.

Before / after


Install

Installing or updating requires Python 3.12 or newer. During the compatibility-removal window, uninstall remains available with the previously supported Python 3.10 and 3.11 (and newer); `python3` is still required.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tickernelz/hermes-progress-tail/v0.2.20/install.sh | bash

Restart Hermes manually after install/update:

/restart

Uninstall:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tickernelz/hermes-progress-tail/v0.2.20/uni