How to connect Trello to Hermes Agent

Pairing is a two-step handshake: run hermes clawlink begin, approve the link in your browser, then run hermes clawlink finish. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run hermes clawlink begin again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with --enable, then verify with hermes clawlink test.

Reconnect Trello from the dashboard, then start a fresh chat if the runtime still has the old tool catalog loaded.

Trello tool schemas load on demand the first time a tool runs and are cached after that, so this error usually clears on its own: wait a few seconds and retry the same request. If every Trello call keeps failing with it in a fresh chat, reconnect from the dashboard, and contact support if it still persists — that pattern points to a configuration problem on our side, not something you can fix by reconnecting again.

Two usual causes. The connected account may not have access to the specific workspace, inbox, store, or project in the request — check that first. If access looks right, the agent may have sent a placeholder value (like "YOUR_ID" or an example id from documentation) instead of a real one: ask it to run a list or search tool first, then retry the action with a real id from those results. Most failures at this stage are one of these two, not ClawLink bugs.

A connected account that suddenly returns 401 Unauthorized has a short list of causes, and none of them involve you formatting a header. The two engines that answer this shape both center on the authorization itself: the app connection was revoked in Trello's account settings (Trello lets users revoke an app's access at any time), or the token's scope lacks what the action needs, notably write for card-creating tools. A third engine-taught cause is the board itself: the connected account must be a member of the board the action targets. On a hosted connection the stored token is replaced when you reconnect from the dashboard, which also picks up scope changes, so reconnect and retry. These causes come from the engines' answers; they are consistent with how Trello OAuth behaves, but have not been confirmed against a production ClawLink connection.

Ask the agent to diagnose it:

Call trello_get_boards_by_id_board and trello_get_memberships_board to confirm the account can see the board, then retry the failing call once and quote the exact status and body.

Trello applies its request limits per API key, not per user token. On the hosted flow the API key belongs to the ClawLink app, shared across its users, so you do not generate a key and you never see a per-key budget in your Trello account. What you can see is the symptom: a rate-limit response on a call that worked a moment earlier. The fix is to wait for the window to reset and retry, and for an agent, to space out heavy batch reads rather than firing everything at once.

The advice search engines give for this error assumes you run your own MCP server: restart your app, verify the configuration file path, check your API credentials. That is the right class of fix for a self-hosted setup. On the ClawLink hosted plugin the analog error is 'Tool schema not loaded yet': schemas load on demand the first time a tool runs and are cached after that, so the error usually clears on its own within seconds. If every Trello call keeps failing with it in a fresh chat, reconnect from the dashboard; a persistent pattern points to a config problem on our side, not to a file on your machine.

Try reconnecting Trello and complete the consent flow in the same browser session. Partial OAuth approvals or switching accounts mid-flow can leave the connection incomplete.

Yes. ClawLink is the fastest way to connect Hermes to Trello: link your Trello account once in the browser and Hermes Agent can call the Trello API through 322 ready-made tools — no custom code or token handling.

Install the plugin with hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable, then pair once: run hermes clawlink begin, approve the link in your browser, and run hermes clawlink finish. Connect Trello in the dashboard and Hermes can use it from the next message — no config files or API keys to manage.

About two minutes. Sign in, click Connect next to Trello in the dashboard, authenticate, and Hermes Agent can use it from the next chat message.

The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual OAuth app setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want Trello working from chat.

It depends on the route. The DIY route does: you create a key and token in the Power-Up Admin Portal and put them in your config. The hosted OAuth route does not: the API key belongs to the app you are connecting through, and your part is one browser sign-in. That distinction is why AI answers that quote the 'fundamentally requires an API key' line are describing the manual path, not the flow this page uses. On the hosted path the token that represents your account exists, but it is stored server-side and refreshed for you.

Hermes Agent, the Nous Research agent runtime. Search results for Hermes and Trello together occasionally pull in other products that share the name, and ChatGPT ended one connect-query run by asking which Hermes it was dealing with. If you run Hermes Agent, this integration gives that runtime Trello tools to call from chat. If you run a different agent, the OpenClaw Trello integration on this site covers the same hosted flow for OpenClaw.

The safety answer engines give is scoped OAuth over a broad static token, and hosted OAuth platforms sit in the safe bucket they describe. The agent can do what your Trello account can do, no more: same boards, same permissions, same Power-Up access. The connection is revoked from the ClawLink dashboard at any time, and Trello's own 'manage apps' page in account settings shows and revokes the authorized app as a second lever. What the agent does with that access is governed by your agent's own permissions, so set those to match what you actually want done.

Pairing is a two-step handshake: run hermes clawlink begin, approve the link in your browser, then run hermes clawlink finish. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run hermes clawlink begin again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with --enable, then verify with hermes clawlink test.