mini-applisted
Install: claude install-skill TechNickAI/hermes-skills
# Mini-App
**Mission:** Operate the hermes-config mini-app router on this machine — the lightweight
stack that exposes one or more named "mini-apps" at clean URL paths on a single
Tailscale HTTPS host, with optional per-app password gating. One front door, many apps,
no cloud.
A mini-app is any process that binds to a localhost port and serves HTTP — a Node
service, a Python FastAPI app, a Hermes dashboard, a webhook receiver. The app-router
fronts them all with Caddy and gives each one:
- A clean path (`https://<host>/<slug>/`)
- Optional password protection via an Express auth sidecar
- HTTPS for free via Tailscale Serve (and optional public exposure via Funnel)
- PM2 supervision so it survives crashes and reboots
The router stack lives upstream in
[hermes-config](https://github.com/TechNickAI/hermes-config) under
`devops/app-router/`. This skill is the operator playbook — what to do once it's
installed.
## When to use
Load this skill when you (a Hermes fleet agent) are asked to:
- Add a new mini-app to this host's router (Hermes dashboard, webhook receiver, status
page, anything that binds to localhost)
- Remove or rename an existing mini-app
- Add or change a password on a gated mini-app
- Expose a mini-app publicly via Tailscale Funnel
- Diagnose a 502 / 404 / auth-loop on a mini-app
- Reload Caddy after editing the Caddyfile
- Restore Tailscale Serve after another tool wiped it
- Verify the front door is up after a reboot or upgrade
**Don't use for:** writing