Hermes agent refuses to expose its dashboard without an auth provider

The service project-hermes-agent-1 did not start (unhealthy), so the application was not started either. It printed: Refusing to bind dashboard to 0.0.0.0 — the auth gate engages on non-loopback binds (0.0.0.0), but no auth providers are registered. Configure an auth provider before exposing the dashboard: • Password: set dashboard.basic_auth.username + password_hash in config.yaml (hash with: python -c "from plugins.dashboard_auth.b… The full output is in the deploy log.

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Why it happens

github.com/outsourc-e/hermes-workspace's compose file binds the Hermes agent dashboard to all interfaces, and the current agent image refuses to start that way until a dashboard login is configured in its config.yaml. The stack also needs an LLM provider API key.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
error: service project-hermes-agent-1 did not start (unhealthy): Refusing to bind dashboard to 0.0.0.0 — the auth gate engages on non-loopback binds (0.0.0.0), but no auth providers are registered. Configure an auth provider before exposing the dashboard: • Password: *** dashboard.basic_auth.username + password_hash in config.yaml (hash with: python -c "from plugins.dashboard_auth.basic import hash_password; print(hash_password('your-password'))") • OAuth: *** `hermes dashboard register` (…Container project-hermes-agent-1 Error dependency hermes-agent failed to startdependency failed…

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