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[Tool: skill_view] {"success": true, "name": "hermes-agent", "description": "Configure, extend, or contribute to Hermes Agent.", "tags": ["hermes", "setup", "configuration", "multi-agent", "spawning", "cli", "gateway", "development"], "related_skills": ["claude-code", "codex", "opencode"], "content": "---\nname: hermes-agent\ndescription: \"Configure, extend, or contribute to Hermes Agent.\"\nversion: 2.0.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent + Teknium\nlicense: MIT\nmetadata:\n hermes:\n tags: [hermes, setup, configuration, multi-agent, spawning, cli, gateway, development]\n homepage: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent\n related_skills: [claude-code, codex, opencode]\n---\n\n# Hermes Agent\n\nHermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research that runs in your terminal, messaging platforms, and IDEs. It belongs to the same category as Claude Code (Anthropic), Codex (OpenAI), and OpenClaw — autonomous coding and task-execution agents that use tool calling to interact with your system. Hermes works with any LLM provider (OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, local models, and 15+ others) and runs on Linux, macOS, and WSL.\n\nWhat makes Hermes different:\n\n- **Self-improving through skills** — Hermes learns from experience by saving reusable procedures as skills. When it solves a complex problem, discovers a workflow, or gets corrected, it can persist that knowledge as a skill document that loads into future sessions. Skills accumulate over time, making the agent better at your specific tasks and environment.\n- **Persistent memory across sessions** — remembers who you are, your preferences, environment details, and lessons learned. Pluggable memory backends (built-in, Honcho, Mem0, and more) let you choose how memory works.\n- **Multi-platform gateway** — the same agent runs on Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix, Email, and 10+ other platforms with full tool access, not just chat.\n- **Provider-agnostic** — swap models and providers mid-workflow without changing anything else. Credential pools rotate across multiple API keys automatically.\n- **Profiles** — run multiple independent Hermes instances with isolated configs, sessions, skills, and memory.\n- **Extensible** — plugins, MCP servers, custom tools, webhook triggers, cron scheduling, and the full Python ecosystem.\n\nPeople use Hermes for software development, research, system administration, data analysis, content creation, home automation, and anything else that benefits from an AI agent with persistent context and full system access.\n\n**This skill helps you work with Hermes Agent effectively** — setting it up, configuring features, spawning additional agent instances, troubleshooting issues, finding the right commands and settings, and understanding how the system works when you need to extend or contribute to it.\n\n**Docs:** https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/\n\n## Quick Start\n\n```bash\n# Install\ncurl -fsSL https://raw.githubuserco ... [33791 chars total, truncated]

[Tool: terminal] {"output": "Using Python 3.11.15 environment at: venv\nResolved 95 packages in 411ms\n Building hermes-agent @ file:///home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent\n Built hermes-agent @ file:///home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent\nPrepared 1 package in 2.02s\nUninstalled 1 package in 0.94ms\nInstalled 1 package in 3ms\n - hermes-agent==0.18.2 (from file:///home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent)\n + hermes-agent==0.19.0 (from file:///home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent)\n\n> hermes-agent@1.0.0 postinstall\n> echo '✅ Browser tools ready. Run: python run_agent.py --help'\n\n✅ Browser tools ready. Run: python run_agent.py --help\n\nadded 76 packages in 3s\n\n> hermes-agent@1.0.0 postinstall\n> echo '✅ Browser tools ready. Run: python run_agent.py --help'\n\n✅ Browser tools ready. Run: python run_agent.py --help\n\nadded 670 packages in 9s\n⚕ Updating Hermes Agent...\n\n→ Fetching updates...\n→ Found 750 new commit(s)\n→ Pulling updates...\n ✓ Cleared 100 stale __pycache__ directories\n→ Updating Python dependencies...\n\n→ Refreshing 30 active lazy backend(s)...\n ✓ 30 already current\n→ Updating Node.js dependencies...\n ✓ repo root + ui-tui, web workspaces (desktop skipped)\n→ Building web UI...\n \n > web@0.0.0 build\n > tsc -b && vite build\n \n vite v8.1.0 building client environment for production...\n \n transforming...✓ 495 modules transformed.\n rendering chunks...\n computing gzip size...\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/index.html 0.51 kB │ gzip: 0.32 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/Mondwest-Regular-CWscgue7.woff2 23.82 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/RulesExpanded-Regular-l8uVympt.woff2 33.82 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/RulesExpanded-Bold-DZA7s8Pa.woff2 35.01 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/RulesCompressed-Regular-BSXFyF4x.woff2 37.76 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/RulesCompressed-Medium-CA76_CrB.woff2 38.84 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/Collapse-Bold-mgICk9-_.woff2 59.14 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/Collapse-Regular-DysayoTY.woff2 62.81 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/index-BbJ3HYO2.css 115.57 kB │ gzip: 18.25 kB\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/assets/index-BxxFYFhq.js 1,985.17 kB │ gzip: 567.14 kB\n \n [plugin builtin:vite-reporter]\n (!) Some chunks are larger than 500 kB after minification. Consider:\n - Using dynamic import() to code-split the application\n - Use build.rolldownOptions.output.codeSplitting to improve chunking: https://rolldown.rs/reference/OutputOptions.codeSplitting\n - Adjust chunk size limit for this warning via build.chunkSizeWarningLimit.\n ✓ built in 1.59s\n ✓ Web UI built\n\n✓ Code updated!\n ✓ Model catalog cache refreshed from checkout\n\n→ Syncing bundled skills...\n + 5 new: tui-widgets, docx, pdf, xlsx, hermes-themes\n ↑ 4 updated: google-workspace, ocr-and ... [3660 chars total, truncated]