I run a local LLM agent (Hermes) on my own machine. The problem was never the model — it was the interface. I had a Telegram tab open all day just to talk to it: type a command, wait, read a wall of text back, scroll. It felt like texting a very capable stranger.
So I built Ghost Vessel — a monitor-resident, video-call-style avatar that fronts the agent. The name is the whole idea: the ghost is your agent, the vessel is the body it borrows. It's not a waifu toy; it's a real agent client that happens to have a face.
Here's what actually turned out to be interesting to build.
The reply is a script, not a string
The core idea is an output contract. Instead of treating the agent's reply as text to print, I split every reply into three planes:
