Supported agents
Mastery HQ drives nine agent types. Seven are CLI agents that run locally with your own accounts; OpenRouter is an HTTP backend (any model, one key); Hermes is the built-in orchestrator. Settings → Agents shows live detection of what’s installed.
| Agent | Runs via | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | claude CLI |
The default agent brand |
| Codex | codex CLI |
OpenAI’s coding agent |
| Cursor Agent | cursor-agent CLI |
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| Gemini CLI | gemini CLI |
Google; multimodal models |
| Aider | aider CLI |
Pip-installed pair-programmer |
| GitHub Copilot CLI | copilot CLI |
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| OpenCode | opencode CLI |
Open-source agent; a model picker in the window header switches its model per window (opencode run -m) |
| OpenRouter | HTTP (no CLI) | Any OpenRouter model; needs OPENROUTER_API_KEY |
| Hermes | Built-in | The orchestrator — dispatches to other agents and drives the workspace |
How sign-in works
Section titled “How sign-in works”CLI agents use their own authentication (whatever you’ve signed into in that CLI) or an API key from Mastery HQ’s local .env — keys are forwarded to the CLI at launch and never leave your machine. Each brand’s window carries its own accent color so you can tell a Claude from a Codex across the canvas at a glance.
Picking a default
Section titled “Picking a default”Settings → Agents → Default agent sets which brand “open an agent” spawns.