Phase 1 — The Dashboard

Status: ✅ complete · evolving (polish, bug fixes, TUI ergonomics ongoing)

Phase 1 is a tactical Strangler Fig bridge, not a philosophical compromise. It exists to deliver immediate value to existing Hermes users while preserving a clean migration path toward a pure Go runtime that owns the entire lifecycle end to end.

The hybrid is temporary. The long-term state is 100% Go. During Phases 1–4, Go is the chassis (orchestrator, state, persistence, platform I/O, agent cognition) and Python is the peripheral library (research tools, legacy skills, ML heavy lifting). Each phase shrinks Python’s footprint. Phase 5 deletes the last Python dependency.

Phase 1 should be read correctly: it is a tactical Strangler Fig bridge, not a philosophical compromise. It exists to deliver immediate value to existing Hermes users while preserving a clean migration path toward a pure Go runtime that owns the entire lifecycle end to end.

Deliverable: Tactical bridge: Go TUI over Python’s api_server HTTP+SSE boundary.

What shipped

• Bubble Tea TUI shell
• Kernel with 16 ms render mailbox (coalescing)
• Route-B SSE reconnect (dropped streams recover)
• Wire Doctor — offline tool-registry validation
• Streaming token renderer

What’s ongoing

• Polish, bug fixes, TUI ergonomics. No formal sub-phases remain.