# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Remote and local agent execution backend features

## Open now

- 4 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #11014: \[Feature\]: Local machine as agent execution backend (SSH-proxied TUI)
- #18715: Support remote Hermes agent with local tool execution
- #42807: \[Feature\]: Remote Tool/Workspace Backend — per-tool execution routing for thin-client workflows
- #64249: Desktop: add a local capability bridge for browser, Docker, terminal, and app testing workflows
- PR #21791: feat: add API server LLM proxy mode
- PR #63966: Split runtime

These issues and pull requests propose various approaches to splitting or bridging agent execution between remote and local environments, including WebSocket terminals, SSH proxies, LLM proxy modes, and desktop capability bridges. The members share a theme of enabling flexible execution routing across thin-client, desktop, and remote backend configurations.

## TL;DR

- 7 member(s): 4 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.19`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #11014: \[Feature\]: Local machine as agent execution backend (SSH-proxied TUI)
- #18715: Support remote Hermes agent with local tool execution
- #42807: \[Feature\]: Remote Tool/Workspace Backend — per-tool execution routing for thin-client workflows
- #64249: Desktop: add a local capability bridge for browser, Docker, terminal, and app testing workflows

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#21791: feat: add API server LLM proxy mode**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `c22967d31568`
  - files: `.github/workflows/lint.yml`, `gateway/platforms/api_server.py`, `scripts/release.py`, `tests/gateway/test_api_server.py`, `website/docs/developer-guide/memory-provider-plugin.md`, `website/docs/guides/cron-script-only.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/messaging/open-webui.md`
- **#41876: feat(gateway): client-side remote execution — terminal + file transfer over WebSocket**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
- **#63966: Split runtime**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `4efea4a82f53`, `#18715`, `#21791`, `#63966`, `#63966`, `#21791`, `#63966`, `#18715`, `#21791`, `#63966`, `#21791`, `#63966`, `#63966`, `#21791`, `#63966`, `#18715`, `#374151`, `#18715`, `#63966`
  - files: `agent/inline_tool_executors.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`, `cli-config.yaml.example`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/platforms/api_server.py`, `gateway/platforms/api_server_client_tools.py`, `gateway/platforms/api_server_runs.py`, `gateway/session_api_turn.py`, `tests/agent/test_client_tool_dispatch.py`, `tests/gateway/test_api_server_split_runtime.py`, `tests/gateway/test_api_split_runtime_canonical.py`, `tests/tools/test_client_tool_gateway.py`, `tools/client_tool_gateway.py`, `tools/mcp_tool_agent.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/api-server.md`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`