Automate Mural Board Creation with Hermes AI Agent

The Problem

Managing visual collaboration boards manually is tedious. Creating murals, organizing them across workspaces and rooms, populating them with widgets—it all takes time. What if your AI agent could handle it all?

The new Mural skill for Hermes AI agent brings programmatic control over your Mural boards, enabling intelligent automation of collaborative workspace management.

What's New

The Mural collaboration skill lets you:

• Create and manage workspaces & rooms across your Mural environment
• Build boards dynamically with full CRUD operations
• Populate murals instantly with sticky notes, shapes, text, images, and connectors
• Duplicate and organize existing boards
• Handle authentication seamlessly with automatic token refresh

How It Works

The skill integrates with Mural's official API, communicating via standard REST endpoints:

GET /workspaces                    # List all workspaces
POST /rooms/{roomId}/murals        # Create a new mural
POST /murals/{muralId}/widgets     # Add widgets (stickies, shapes, text, etc.)
PATCH /murals/{muralId}            # Update mural metadata
DELETE /murals/{muralId}           # Clean up when done

Authentication uses Bearer tokens stored in your .hermes/.env file:

MURAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_token_here
MURAL_REFRESH_TOKEN=your_refresh_token
MURAL_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
MURAL_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret

Tokens refresh automatically when they expire (15-minute validity), so your agent keeps working without interruption.

Using It with Hermes

Once installed, you can instruct Hermes to perform complex board operations in natural language:

"Create a retrospective mural in the Design room with columns for 'What went well', 'What didn't', and 'Action items'. Add sticky note templates for team feedback."

Hermes translates this into API calls:

1. Fetch the workspace and room IDs
2. Create the mural
3. Populate it with text headers (the three columns)
4. Add sticky note widgets ready for input

This is perfect for:

• Sprint retrospectives – auto-generate board layouts
• Design workshops – set up collaborative canvases with templates
• Process documentation – create visual workflows with connectors and shapes
• Team onboarding – standardized collaboration boards

Getting Started

The skill is production-ready and open-source. Head to the hermes-skills repository to integrate it:

→ github.com/RobinBeraud/hermes-skills

Instructions for setup and API documentation are in productivity/mural/SKILL.md.

Why This Matters

AI agents work best when they can manipulate real tools. By giving Hermes access to Mural, you're enabling intelligent workspace automation—no more manual board creation, no context switching. Your agent becomes a genuine productivity multiplier.

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Questions? Check out the skill documentation or open an issue on GitHub.