Roadmap — where the familiar is going

Shipped

[ok]Native third-party plugin — official Hermes manifest, hooks, tool, slash command. No forks, no gateway patches.

[ok]Live nervous system — agent state from every platform; tap-to-resolve real dangerous-command approvals, with pulse + chirp until answered.

[ok]The agent can reach the desk — a familiar_notify tool: banner, chirp, optional speech.

[ok]Voice pipeline — the gateway's own TTS config, streamed over LAN into the speaker.

[ok]Evening ritual — a daily spoken digest of everything the agents did, composed by the gateway's own model.

[ok]Pip-Boy landscape UI — six tap/swipe tabs, vitals column, banner toasts, runtime rotation config.

[ok]Browser flasher — factory image flashed over WebSerial from this site, no toolchain.

PHASE 7

now

The speaker era: make her sound good, not just loud.

Volume & quiet hours — host-side gain and a do-not-chirp schedule
SD sound pack — real chimes replacing the square-wave chirps
Morning greeting — first touch of the day speaks the overnight: the evening ritual's mirror

PHASE 8

Today she wears portrait art adapted to the wide screen. This phase designs her for it: full 320×240 scenes with the vitals column composed in.

Artist canvas spec — dimensions, safe zones, animation state sets, so anyone can draw her a new face
Landscape pack export — the PNG→SD toolchain emits wide-format packs
Boot splash — a proper retro power-on sequence
Procedural CRT life — scanline drift, phosphor flicker, glitch transitions

PHASE 9

From "shows things" to "runs things".

THE DECK — a grid of programmable buttons: each one runs a script, a workflow, or fires a prompt at your agent. Labels, colors, hold-to-confirm for the dangerous ones
Message scrollback — drag through deeper history
Approval detail view — read the full command before you ALLOW
Fleet view — background worker activity at a glance

PHASE 10

later

Cut the cord: battery in the case, transport over Wi-Fi, sit her anywhere.

WebSocket transport — the full protocol over the network; USB becomes the fallback
Zero-config discovery — the plugin finds her by name, no IPs
Power discipline — backlight schedule, deep idle, honest battery telemetry

PHASE 11

in progress

Everything you need to build, flash, and dress your own familiar — from this site, with your agent's help.

Browser flasher — shipped, see FLASH
Printable case — snap-fit landscape stand; CAD + Bambu 3MF land in the repo, with a print-on-demand option for the printerless
PACK EXCHANGE — community face & sound packs: browse, download, submit your own. The pack format already exists; the exchange makes her a canvas
agent.md — machine-readable setup so your Hermes installs its own body — shipped, read it
Public repo + demo mode — runs standalone without a gateway, for the bench

PHASE 12

later

Once the protocol speaks WebSocket, the "device" stops needing to be an ESP32. The same plugin drives a second surface in your pocket.