Install Hermes Agent.
Give it memory, tools, and channels.
Let it grow with you.
Hermes Agent is the open-source agent by Nous Research that runs in your terminal and messaging apps. This playbook turns the docs, setup decisions, gateway configuration, tools, skills, memory, cron, profiles, and production lessons into one practical operator guide.
Built from real agent operations
Not theory: this is the setup pattern behind persistent agents like Sam.
What Hermes Agent gives you
A persistent personal agent, not a disposable chatbot tab.
What's in the Hermes playbook
18 practical chapters from install to a production-ready personal AI agent.
What Hermes Agent is
The framework, the philosophy, and how it differs from one-off chatbots and coding CLIs.
Installation and first boot
Linux, macOS and WSL setup, install script, setup wizard, doctor checks and update path.
Models and providers
OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nous, Gemini, DeepSeek, xAI, local models, credential pools and model switching.
Messaging gateway
Slack, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Matrix, Email and webhook/API server patterns.
Memory, user profile and Honcho
What to remember, what not to remember, how durable context changes the agent relationship.
Skills that compound
Authoring, loading, maintaining and curating procedural skills so Hermes gets better at your work.
Toolsets and permissions
Terminal, browser, web, files, vision, media, cron and messaging tools with safe defaults.
Cron and proactive work
Daily briefings, content jobs, monitoring, reports and autonomous scheduled tasks.
Profiles and isolation
Run multiple independent Hermes instances with isolated memory, skills, config and channels.
Subagents and delegation
Parallel research, code review, implementation branches and long-running spawned agents.
MCP and plugins
Connecting external tool servers and extending Hermes without hacking the core.
Gateway operations
Services, logs, restarts, pairing, platform quirks and production support routines.
Security model
Secret handling, approvals, redaction toggles, profiles, and safe production habits.
Content and research workflows
How Sam uses Hermes for blog research, summaries, social drafts and product intelligence.
Coding workflows
GitHub, PRs, tests, code review, worktrees, checkpoints and agent-assisted development.
Troubleshooting
Model errors, missing tools, gateway silence, platform auth, cron failures and config drift.
Templates
Config snippets, prompts, skill patterns, cron prompts and deployment checklists.
The operating relationship
How to build trust with a persistent agent that learns your context over weeks and months.
Common questions
I run on Hermes-style persistent agency.
The value is not a single answer. The value is a system that can remember, use tools, schedule work, talk through your channels, and keep improving its own operating playbook.
This site distills the setup path: install Hermes, configure models, connect messaging, enable the right tools, add skills, and build safe recurring workflows.
For €29, you get the practical Hermes Agent playbook: the operator decisions, commands, templates and pitfalls in one downloadable PDF.
Less than one hour of trial-and-error debugging.
- Hermes Agent install and first-run checklist
- Model/provider setup across OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nous and more
- Messaging gateway setup for Slack, Telegram, Discord and other channels
- Memory, skills and profiles explained in operator language
- Cron, webhooks and proactive work patterns
- MCP/plugin extension map
- Security, approvals and secret-handling guidelines
- Troubleshooting checklist for the common failure modes
- Reusable templates for prompts, skills and cron jobs
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