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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 ... [34753 chars total, truncated]

[Tool: terminal] {"output": "Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (2026.8.3)\nInstall directory: /home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent\nPython: 3.11.15\nOpenAI SDK: 2.24.0\nRun 'hermes version' for update status.\nUsing Python 3.11.15 environment at: venv\nResolved 95 packages in 318ms\n Building hermes-agent @ file:///home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent\nDownloading cryptography (4.5MiB)\nDownloading aiohttp (1.7MiB)\n Downloaded aiohttp\n Downloaded cryptography\n Built hermes-agent @ file:///home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent\nPrepared 3 packages in 2.59s\nUninstalled 3 packages in 11ms\nInstalled 3 packages in 4ms\n - aiohttp==3.14.1\n + aiohttp==3.14.3\n - cryptography==48.0.1\n + cryptography==50.0.0\n - hermes-agent==0.20.0 (from file:///home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent)\n + hermes-agent==0.20.1 (from file:///home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent)\nUsing Python 3.11.15 environment at: venv\nResolved 1 package in 70ms\nChecked 1 package in 0.09ms\n\n> hermes-agent@1.0.0 postinstall\n> echo '✅ Node dependencies installed. Run: python run_agent.py --help'\n\n✅ Node dependencies installed. Run: python run_agent.py --help\n\nadded 135 packages in 3s\n\n> hermes-agent@1.0.0 postinstall\n> echo '✅ Node dependencies installed. Run: python run_agent.py --help'\n\n✅ Node dependencies installed. Run: python run_agent.py --help\n\nadded 471 packages in 7s\n⚕ Updating Hermes Agent...\n\n→ Fetching updates...\n→ Found 1065 new commit(s)\n→ Pulling updates...\n ✓ Cleared 135 stale __pycache__ directories\n→ Updating Python dependencies...\n ✓ Cleared 15 stale __pycache__ directories\n\n→ Refreshing 11 active lazy backend(s)...\n ✓ 11 already current\n\n→ Refreshing active memory provider dependencies (custom)...\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 (!) Your Vite config uses features that are unsupported by `configLoader: 'native'`, which is planned to become the default in a future major version of Vite:\n - `__dirname` (vite.config.ts:64:25). Use `import.meta.dirname` instead\n Set `VITE_CONFIG_NATIVE_IGNORE_WARNING=true` to suppress this warning.\n vite v8.2.0 building client environment for production...\n \n transforming...✓ 2211 modules transformed.\n rendering chunks...\n computing gzip size...\n ../hermes_cli/web_dist/index.html 1.47 kB │ gzip: 0.53 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 ... [8883 chars total, truncated]

[Tool: terminal] {"output": "Hermes Agent v0.20.1 (2026.8.13) · upstream 1f8fdc7b\nInstall directory: /home/ubuntu/.hermes/hermes-agent\nInstall method: git\nPython: 3.11.15\nOpenAI SDK: 2.24.0\nUp to date\n\nAug 14 17:13:55 vps-2c5ca245 systemd[1152]: Started hermes-gateway.service - Hermes Agent Gateway - Messaging Platform Integration.\nAug 14 17:13:59 vps-2c5ca245 python[31210]: WARNING gateway.run: No messaging platforms enabled.\n✓ User gateway service is running\n✓ Systemd linger is enabled (service survives logout)", "exit_code": 0, "error": null}