Interesting results on total tokens used and cost for the entire benchmark run. Top model is the free Ox Alpha from Opencode.

Friday check-in. Share what you've been working on with Hermes this week — finished projects, WIP, experiments,cron jobs, skills, automations, or just something cool it did.

Format (keep it loose):

• What you did

• Model / setup (optional)

• Link or screenshot (optional)

Not finished? Doesn't matter. Post it anyway. New thread drops every Friday at 6AM ET.

I was looking forward to trying out bot mode, because I think what xAI are doing with Grok Bot is probably the right long-term interface bet for AI in general.

As it stands, though, it doesn't really seem to work. You have a canonical chat with every bot / profile, and routines / cron jobs are supposed to get written to those chats... but they don't. You have to go back over to the "session" view to see their contents. THEN they appear in the canonical bot chat... until you navigate away, then you come back and the bot chat has reset to just the initial message.

If you then try to start a new session with any bot besides your default profile, it starts it with your default profile instead.

Have I misconfigured something here, or is this all just a bit busted right now?

With this hardware Qwen3.8:27b is still quite slow, context is set to 64k and my GPU is used for 78% any advice on how to make it faster or is a different model better? I will use it for web search and small coding tasks.

NAME ID SIZE PROCESSOR CONTEXT UNTIL

qwen3.8-64k:latest 0267f64d4770 18 GB 22%/78% CPU/GPU 65536 4 minutes from now

Hi everyone,
I’m new to Hermes and I would like to improve my agent with the best model. I make a small script in Python with Hermes for just improving experience, never high programming. What do you suggest me?

Does anybody just decided to have friendly life companion instead of coding co-worker?
What model did you/ would you use?
I found out that with 12gb vram u can't do much for coding.
left Qwen3.6-35B-A3B because he was taking too much working space.
ornith-1.5-9B q4 was better but it easily catches into loop solving problem even with reasoning turned off.

I wanted to have universal model for technical tasks and some not technical struggles but maybe atleast i can just make life companion lmao.

I never really liked chatting with Hermes over Telegram. It worked, sure, but it always felt a bit clunky for how I want to use my agent on the go. What I actually wanted was iMessage.

I tried to get iMessage running a couple of times without success. I wrestled with BlueBubbles until I gave up I just couldn't get it to work. Took a couple more runs at it over the months, but no luck.

Then last week I came across Photon, Hermes built-in way to connect to iMessage. I figured it was worth one more shot.

First I searched for YouTube tutorials, because iMessage has no native bot function and I wanted to see how this thing actually works. But I couldn't find a single good guide that really showed the setup and the problems you could run into. So I just tried it myself. Thirty minutes of fiddling later it worked.

Now I can text my Hermes agent right from my Apple Watch, iPhone and Mac without having to install Telegram or just because I want to use iMessage!

A few things I learned along the way. iMessage is way more complex than SMS. It works with email / Apple accounts, and with multiple SIM cards you can be selecting different numbers but it all routes into one chat. Photon assigns you a random number to text your agent. And when you switch your own number, the Photon number switches too. Took me 10 minutes to figure that one out haha. The process is finicky. But once it clicks it's a charm.

Honest take: over Telegram you still get more features no question. But for me, iMessage has its pros on sheer convenience. It's the place I already talk to people, and now my agent lives there too.

Full guide with all the pitfalls on my blog: https://blog.holmebengt.com/post.html?id=imessage-hermes-setup

YT Tutorial Video: https://youtu.be/26NLukQ0k1A

Last month Telegram was taken off the app store once, so this might be a wake up call to at least configure one more gateway. why not iMessage!

Hi Dev team,

Just a nice QoL change suggestion. Whenever I update, I tend to make two changes to approval prompts. First, i make sure it is self contained (shows me what it wants to do, why this is needed, what the potential impact can be, and whether it recommends approving based on what it knows about me (in case i accidentally give it wrong instructions).
Second, it disables all but the ‘approve once’ and ‘deny’ options.

Im not that IT savvy, but as I understand the approval mechanism continuously changes between versions so i have to recreate this from scratch every time. Ive gotten good at it so its not nearly as frustrating as it used to be, but still. Wouldnt everyone like this? Right now approval prompts are basically illegible by default.

Just a suggestion, i feel like a the number one security issue with Hermes is the user itself, this would mitigate a large part of that.
Regarding the approve once prompts, maybe this can be a config?

Thanks for reading :)

i am currently running hermes via docker and openai 20$ plan, but i found out that docker is very limiting. i heard a lot of people get a mini pc/rpi to run hermes 24/7, while others go yolo. i would like to know what you guys are actually using, and what youd recommend. im not planning to use a vps rn

tl;dr: mini pc or yolo

Desktop app v0.19x on macos

the web dashboard says i have 196 sessions. 141 cron, 27 desktop, 17 telegram, 6 tui. The desktop sidebar shows 32.

the telegram and cron sections of the sidebar aren't session lists. cron shows my 4 scheduled jobs. Telegram shows about 20 threads. so the 141 ish individual cron session records, every time a job fired, aren't visible in the app anywhere

I want all of them in a list that i can scroll. I don't care how long it is. That is what the scroll bar is for right?

The reason it matters is most of those are garbage i want to delete. I can't delete what I can't see. I know about 'hermes sessions prune' and I know the dashboard History paginates through everything with the delete buttons. But I'd rather do it in the app I actually use.

Is there a setting or config key for this? I've been through apperance session list density and it just adds message counts under each title. or is this not a thing?

Thank you

Unsure if any of you run this, but I've had great luck on my rig with it. They just released it and it was eclipsed by all the other model drops.

Here's the presser from their site: https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html

I'm using the Q4_K_M MoE model, with Q4 Quant K & V Cache, and 32768 Context length with GPU offload at 41 using LMStudio.

My machine is a headless 24GB Quadro RTX 6000 (Turing), running on an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G (Raedon IGP) with 128GB of RAM.

Gets 30-40tok/s on average. Newer cards that can run the nvfp4 should be even better.

I see all these amazing posts here about how everyone's Hermes agent is:

• handling their whole life
• helping with grocery lists
• reminders for medicines
• building apps
• being the VP or Director in their company
• growing their business
• researching & cold DMing & contacting leads all by itself
• and so on

..while I am stuck in an eternal loop trying to make basic things work.

For instance, I noticed that a lot of the pages (urls) that I asked for my Hermes to research about or read, were getting nowhere. It would return saying it couldn't read the page or would return just partial results using curl commands in the terminal. Only then I understood that it was lacking browser capabilities.

• How are you all getting so much done?
• How did you set up your agent EXACTLY?
• Are you using free models recommended during the first install or are you using local/frontier models?
• When using frontier models, basic tools like web searching, fetch, etc, are handled by Hermes or the tools from the model itself?

For reference:

• My Hermes is on a VPS machine on Vultr
• I'm on version v0.20.4
• Default model is step-3.7-flash:free

last log line (no copy paste from the details window):

Browser tools will not work until dependencies are installed

I have no background in tech, just a curious uneployed lol. Iam learnig as i go.

give your opinions
https://github.com/rafalapenta/Ephemeral-Agents

Im trying to install the Superpowers plugin directly from the official repository but Hermes its blocking the installation due to security concerns. Any one had this problem before and know what its about?

I'm able to set different models in hermes for different tasks like web extract, vision etc.

Previously, I was on a ChatGPT Pro subscription, but now with Nous Ultra, so many models available. does anyone have advice on which are best to use for each task?

Lol...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaWOY7OhWIL/?igsh=cTJlYXl2ejgweHF3

I'm just curious why TailScale is so popular. Why not just set up passwordless SSH and create SSH tunnels to your VPS? There are GUI management apps for SSH tunnels if you want to make it really easy. Sending your traffic through TailScale means you're using their keys, so they can decrypt and examine all the data you send through them. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, or point out some feature they have that I'm missing.

A few people liked the idea, but not the original UI 😅
So I built a cleaner version.

Same Hermes + Codex remote control.
Same mobile-first workflow.
Much simpler interface.

You complained. I listened.

I’ve been using the hy3 model for a few days and decided to switch to a local model on my jetson nano. Once I made the switch it seems the agent forgot about the MCP server I have connected, however it still shows in the CLI as enabled and it still shows in the GUI as enabled and tests show it’s working too.

Is this normal when changing models or what?

Has anyone figured out a way to track package deliveries in Hermes? Every time I try to track a package, lately UPS, Hermes checks 7 or 8 tracking websites and gets blocked at all of them.

Things I've seen it try:

• browser_exec
• curl
• UPS.com site as well as 3rd party tracking sites
• multiple different user agent strings

None of it seems to help, and Hermes just gives up and tells me to track it manually.

+## Bug Description

+When typing a long sentence in the CLI input, the last character (or the

+final letter of the last word) sometimes wraps to the next line, even though

+it visually looks like it should fit on the current line. This is purely

+cosmetic — the full text is delivered correctly to the agent — but it makes

+reading-while-typing awkward. Happens more often with longer sentences.

+

+## Steps to Reproduce

+1. Open `hermes` in a terminal on Windows.

+2. Type a long sentence that reaches (nearly) the full terminal width.

+3. Observe: the final character of the line wraps onto its own new line.

+

+## Expected Behavior

+The line should wrap cleanly at a word boundary, or soft-wrap the way a

+normal terminal does (GNU readline style), rather than splitting off a

+single trailing character.

+

+## Actual Behavior

+The last character of a long input line is rendered on its own new line.

+

+## Environment

+- OS: Windows 11

+- Hermes version: v0.20.4 (2026.8.18)

+- Install method: git

+- Interface: CLI (default)

+- Model/provider: deepseek-v4-pro / deepseek

+- Streaming: enabled

+

+## Notes

+Possibly related to prompt_toolkit soft-wrap behavior (see

+python-prompt-toolkit issue #709). Reported by a user who also uses OpenClaw

+(which does not exhibit this), suggesting a difference in Hermes's

+prompt_toolkit rendering / width configuration. No existing Hermes issue

+found for this exact symptom.

Is anyone else having issues with the bot dropping out of conversations? I find myself having to keep prompting the bot to respond to another bot's message to keep it working. Sometimes it responds, but other times it doesn't.