bighelp update: Workflows, instant alerts, Quiet Hours and more
Colt, maker of bighelp
Hey all! A new bighelp build is live in the public TestFlight. The big one is Workflows, and I am super excited about it. Your agents can now work as a team on your Hermes computer, and you approve the result.
Everything stays 100% free and 100% open source. Here is what is new since my last post.
Workflows
A workflow is a list of steps that your agents complete in order. For example: one agent researches, one agent writes and one agent reviews. You can add decision points, made by an agent or by a simple rule, that send the work back into a loop when the criteria are not met. And you can sign off before the result counts as complete.
- Build a flow on a canvas or start from a template. You can save your own templates too.
- Add checks that no agent can argue with, like a word limit.
- A reviewer agent can return the work for changes.
- Runs continue on your Hermes computer when you close the app.
- Start a run yourself or give it a schedule.
- Ask your agent in chat, and it can build and run workflows for you.
- Stages stay quiet. You get an alert only when a run needs you or ends.
Workflow stages cannot send messages, schedule jobs or start other work. Nothing runs until you tell it to.
The next build adds more:
- Several agents can work at the same time.
- A decision can read every verdict.
- Files and pictures can move from stage to stage.
- Results can go where you choose.
Instant alerts and Quiet Hours
- Alerts arrive in about one second while bighelp is open.
- Tap an alert, and its chat opens right away.
- Quiet Hours: pick a time window, and your host will not send notifications in it.
- Agents that talk to each other through peer chat stay quiet by default, unless you turn those alerts on in Settings › Notifications.
Template Catalog
Blueprints and agent templates now live in one Template Catalog. Search it, sort by Newest or Most used, and complete the blanks before you send. Your agents can find and use templates too.
Usage, rebuilt
Usage is now one page with your plans, tokens, cost and trends. Turn on All hosts to see every computer. Tap Share to export the page.
Chat and Feed
- Tap a subagent to watch it work live.
- A message with several pictures shows them as a stack that you can swipe.
- Feed posts can carry files. Open a post to preview, save or share them.
- bighelp keeps unsent drafts in new chats on your device.
- Tool folders tell you what the agent does, in plain-word summaries.
- Agents can ask where you are, but only after you allow it.
- Voice turns end sooner when you stop talking. Hold music plays while your agent works.
- A new bottom menu with names, and a Liquid Glass message box.
Avatars and settings
- The avatar picker has a massive avatar catalog: bighelp, hermes, petdex and more. We also added seasonal Halloween avatars, and the catalog will keep updating regularly through our new dynamic delivery system.
- Fleet settings update Hermes, update the plugin and restart every computer at once.
- Pick the default model and reasoning level for every agent, or for one agent.
- Vault items have names, addresses and linked sites, just like the Hermes vault.
- bighelp for Mac now gets the same updates in parallel.
Fixes from your feedback
Thank you to everyone who wrote in after my last post. These came straight from your comments:
- “Workspace is unavailable”: you can now pick the workspace folder when Hermes cannot find it because of a unique host configuration.
- Opening screen: use the Open on setting to start bighelp on your chats.
- Recent chats: chats keep their real last-activity time. Pinned chats no longer hide older chats.
- Nous Portal sign-ins stay signed in.
To get all of this, update the bighelp app, then update your bighelp plugin from Settings.
Try it, break it, and tell me what you want next. Bugs and ideas go to our GitHub!
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