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Hermes Agent Tool System Internals: How Tools Load and Run

Hermes Agent tool internals — how tools self-register, load on demand, and dispatch via the central registry, so you can extend and debug your own agent.

Hermes Agent Memory: How Persistent Memory Actually Works

Persistent memory is a frozen snapshot: MEMORY.md (2,200 chars) and USER.md (1,375 chars) in ~/.hermes/memories/, §-separated, injected once per session…

Hermes Gateway Internals: Routing, Fallback, and Failover

How the Hermes Agent gateway works — see how platform adapters route messages, authorize users, and fail over between AI providers so your session never dies.

Beginner's Guide to Hermes Local Models 2026

Learn to run Hermes Agent with local models using Ollama or llama.cpp, choose a tool-calling model, and fix setup mistakes so you can run fully offline today.

Parallel Subagent Delegation in Hermes Agent

Run concurrent subagents in Hermes Agent with the delegate_task tasks array — cut wall-clock time from the sum of all tasks to the slowest single one.

Self-Host Your Meeting Transcriber: Complete Meetily Setup Guide

Self-host Meetily, the privacy-first MIT-licensed meeting transcriber. Docker Compose + native install, Whisper and Parakeet engines, and Ollama summaries.

File Operations in Hermes Agent — Read, Write, Search, and Patch

Master Hermes Agent's four core file tools — read_file, write_file, search_files, and patch — with practical examples for efficient, safe file work.

Hermes Agent Late July Update: Headed Browser Persistence, Desktop Zoom Polish, Curator Guardrails, and Gateway Refactoring

Desktop zoom and crash-safe persistence, headed session turn survival, curator manual skill protection, gateway reconnect dedup.

Build Log: Using Hermes Agent @-References for Smarter Code Context

Explore Hermes Agent's @-reference system — @file:, @folder:, @diff, @git:, and @url: — for faster code review, debugging, and project exploration.

Hermes Agent Tool Execution: From Intent to Action

Hermes Agent runs a synchronous loop: user → LLM → tool call detection → dispatch → results appended. Toolsets (file, terminal, web, browser, memory,…

Hermes Agent Mid-July Update: v0.18.1/.2 Ship WhatsApp Dashboard, MCP Reliability Overhaul, and Desktop Polish Wave

Hermes v0.18.1/.2 ship WhatsApp dashboard, MCP reliability, PTY keep-alive, memory provider switching, desktop drag-sort, simplify-code skill, and more.

Build Log: Wiring Shell Hooks into Hermes Agent for Tool-Event Automation

Build a shell-hooks pipeline with Hermes Agent — audit-log tool calls, validate file paths, notify on subagent stop. Real scripts, config, and test output.

Hermes Agent Backup, Restore & Safety Net: Never Lose Your Config

Hermes Agent's three protection layers: quick snapshots (`--quick --label`) with `manifest.json` (8 files, state.db ~39 MB), full backups (`-o…

Hermes Agent v0.18.0 'Judgment Release' Clears Zero P0/P1 Issues — MoA Becomes First-Class, Agent Verifies Its Own Work

Hermes Agent v0.18.0 closes all P0/P1, graduates MoA to first-class, adds work verification, /learn, /journey, background subagents, desktop coding cockpit.

Build Log: Creating a Hermes Agent Cron Pipeline for System Health Monitoring

Creating a no-agent Hermes cron job that runs a shell script, monitors system health, and delivers snapshots — zero LLM cost per tick.

How to Manage Multiple Profiles and Cron Jobs in Hermes Agent

A step-by-step guide to creating isolated Hermes profiles and scheduling automated tasks with cron jobs — from setup to production workflows.

Hermes Agent v0.17.0 'Reach Release' Lands — iMessage, Raft Network, and 200K GitHub Stars

Hermes Agent crosses 200K GitHub stars, ships iMessage without a Mac relay, joins the Raft network, and deepens the desktop app with background subagents.

How to Build Self-Improving Skills with Hermes Agent

Create, manage, and maintain procedural skills that make your Hermes Agent smarter over time — with real commands from the curator and skills system.

How to Run Multiple Hermes Agents on One Machine with Profiles

Set up independent Hermes Agent profiles — each with its own config, API keys, memory, skills, cron jobs, and gateway — all on the same machine.

Hermes Agent Crosses 192K Stars, Mobile App Hits Play Store, and Community Momentum Surges

Hermes Agent hits 192K GitHub stars (#25 globally), a community Android app lands on the Play Store, and the ecosystem accelerates.

Build Log: Writing a Custom System Info MCP Server for Hermes

Build a stdio MCP server from scratch in Python, register it with Hermes Agent, and call it from a live session — real code, real output.

Build Log: Using the Hermes Agent MCP Catalog for One-Click Tool Integration

How Hermes Agent's built-in MCP catalog lets you install GitHub, Linear, n8n, and other tool servers with a single command — no config YAML to write.

Hermes Desktop Is Here: v0.16.0 'Surface Release' Ships Native App, Admin Panel, and 简体中文

Hermes Agent v0.16.0 ships Hermes Desktop — a native macOS/Windows/Linux app — plus web admin panel, Simplified Chinese UI, and NVIDIA skills tap.

Building the Nous Portal Tool Gateway — Integration Log

How Hermes Agents Tool Gateway collapsed 5+ API subs into one OAuth login — web search, image gen, TTS, and browser through a single Nous Portal sub.

Hermes Agent's Velocity Release: v0.15.0, NVIDIA Partnership, and 140K GitHub Stars

Hermes Agent v0.15.0 slashes core 76%, makes session search 4,500× faster, adds Kanban Swarm. NVIDIA features Hermes on RTX and DGX Spark.

How session_search Got 4,500× Faster — Build Log

How Hermes Agent's session search went from a 90-second LLM grind to a 20ms SQLite FTS5 query — 4,500× faster, zero cost.

Hermes Curator: An Autonomous Skill-Maintenance Agent

The Hermes Curator runs in the background on a 7-day cycle, grading, consolidating, and pruning your skill library without any manual effort.

Hermes vs LangChain vs CrewAI: Choosing Your Agent Framework in 2026

Hermes vs LangChain vs CrewAI vs AutoGen: compare deployment, hosting, tools, and costs. Hermes daemon vs Modal/Docker vs LangSmith vs CrewAI Cloud.

Hermes Agent Community Ecosystem: Skills Hub, Third-Party Tools, and What the Community Is Building

Skills Hub with 310+ workflows, VS Code extension, Go framework, merchant tools — the Hermes Agent ecosystem is exploding. What the community is building.

Building a Custom Plugin for Hermes Agent

Build a Hermes plugin from scratch — timezone converter, pomodoro timer, slash command, and logging hook in ~150 lines of Python.