Using the Board with Hermes, OpenClaw and External Agent systems

GLAI bundles Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI, but the board is not limited to those. Any external coding agent that can run shell commands and read files — Hermes, OpenClaw, a Claude Code / Codex / Gemini session you run in your own terminal, or any custom agent — can drive the board too. You hand the agent two paths and it has everything it needs:

1. The board skill path — teaches the agent the board’s API and what it can do.
2. The media folder path — where the board reads and writes images, video, and audio.

Point the agent at those two locations and it can act on the board exactly like GLAI does.

Copy the board skill path

The board ships a skill that documents its API and workflows — creating frames, placing media, rendering motion presets, building video-editor projects, inspecting After Effects and Blender files, and so on. To hand it to an external agent:

1. In the desktop app’s top bar, click GLAI.
2. At the bottom of the menu, click Copy Board Skill Path. The full path to the skill’s SKILL.md file is copied to your clipboard.
3. Paste the path into your external agent and tell it to use the skill — for example:

Use the skill at /…/skills/greenlight-dash/SKILL.md to work with my GreenLight board.

The agent reads the skill, learns the board’s API, and can then read the board, place media, render, and run multi-step workflows on its own.

Copy the media folder path

External agents also need to know where the board keeps its media, so they can read your references and write generated files back to the board. The board exposes this in the Options menu:

1. Open the Options menu in the app menu bar.
2. Click Show Media Folder to reveal the folder in Finder / your file manager, or Change Media Folder… to point the board at a different location.
3. Copy the folder path and give it to your agent so it knows where existing board media lives and where to place new files.

The same menu also shows the Frontend and Backend API URLs (for example http://localhost:18000 and http://localhost:18000/api). Click either entry to copy it — your external agent uses the Backend API URL as the board’s API base.

Run a terminal inside the board

You don’t have to leave the app to use a terminal agent. The board can host one right inside the Agent Dock:

1. Click the AI chat icon in the bottom-right corner of the canvas to open the Agent Dock.
2. In the Agent dropdown at the top of the dock, select Terminal.
3. A shell pane opens inside the dock, already wired to the board. Type instructions there just like you would in GLAI.

This is the same board-aware terminal that GLAI launches from the top bar, but kept inside the canvas dock so you can watch the board and the agent side by side.

Where to go next

• GLAI
• Agent Types
• Telegram Terminal Bridge