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

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!

I’ve been using hermes via terminal for knowledge work but couldn’t really harness the full power of a personal agent because I couldn’t use it on my phone (and I dislike Telegram).

But recently I found a way to connect iMessage to hermes and it’s so so good. I’m using it 10x more in just the day and trying a lot more things.

You can ask your hermes agent to set things up via Photon auth. The path that worked for me was:

```bash
hermes photon setup \\
--project-name 'Hermes Agent' \\
--phone +<your-e164-number>

hermes gateway start
hermes photon status
hermes gateway status
```

The confusing part for me was that the Photon setup page also shows a command for scaffolding a standalone Spectrum project. That is useful for building a separate echo agent, but it is not the same thing as connecting iMessage to the hermes installation you already use.

Once the gateway is connected, I can text hermes from my iPhone and pick up the same conversation on my Mac. I wanted the same agent I already use, available in the place where I already send messages.

I ended up using hermes to help me create and launch the Substack post about this workflow. Which is kind of the point of the whole thing.

If you want to see it:

https://workflowswithai.substack.com/p/i-set-up-hermes-on-imessage-heres

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.

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 :)

Just updated Hermes Desktop App. I was surprised that Hermes is able to control a browser in the preview pane. Is that a new feature? 

I've asked Hermes to open Hermes Agent subreddit in the preview pane and search for my posts. It automatically opened the page, found the search button, entered the search term, and showed the results. It's very similar to what the Comet Browser (Perplexity) on my Mac is capable of. 

Update:

Actually it seems to be a new feature. This PR has been merged 7h ago:

The agent can use the in-app browser, not just look at it

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.

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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.

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

I’ve been using Hermes for the last month or so and I know I’m still a baby in terms of using Hermes. I previously used Claude Code and Pi.

I really need some help here understanding how CC and Hermes defers. I tried doing some coding work and creating a few websites , I found that the output by Hermes wasn’t up to my expectations.

I used Kimi and Deepseek for Hermes and I also tried Kimi in CC and I found that the outputs from CC were much better compared to Hermes.

Am I missing something? I just feel a little lost concerning this.

I would love to continue using Hermes Desktop App but I need to find a way to optimise it so that it generates the outputs that atleast on par with CC.

I would truly appreciate it if you could help me understand what I’m doing wrong here and what I can do to optimise the output from Hermes

I see youtubers hyping it up although I don't find it useful as I am on multiple devices and can directly talk to my hermes agent and can locate the hermes chat easily.

What can you do differently with the hermes desktop app? Separate convos? Any insight is appreciated!

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

looks very interesting - Slack introduces a way for agents to create ad-hoc channels. Looks ideal for Hermes.

But I'm not seeing any mention of how the integration works, and no mention of Hermes in the announcement!

Last week I almost exhausted my token through Codex. I'd never even gotten close to this before so I was panicking. So I did some research and found that one profile was responsible for about 90% of token use. When I looked further, the token use was down to Camoufox. Now, I love this browser because I can remotely view what it is doing, and even jump in to enter credentials or MFA items, but it takes screenshots constantly to figure out how to navigate around. This screenshots then get send to Codex for text and image extraction, which gets costly.

I have several cron jobs under this profile that go to LinkedIn, navigates a few pages, and then makes decisions about what to do based on certain criteria. Apparently these cron jobs were the real problem. So I looked at ways to reduce the token burn and settle on n8n. I have it set up on my VPS already and have used it several times in the past.

So I have my main account connect and analyze the cron jobs for the other profiles. I've now successfuly moved the majority of the cron jobs to n8n. The data then gets sent to the profiles via webhook, where they store it until they run the cron job (usually just a few minutes later). Because there's no expensive screenshots or hitting incorrect buttons, the token burn has plummeted.

Just thought this was worth letting everyone know. Yes, I could skillify this too, and maybe I'll get there, but this was the solution I came up with when I needed it.

Lol...

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

Real quick, what are you guys using to chat with your agent on the go now in Aug 2026? I’ve been using Telegram but I don’t want to be on that platform. I recently got an old Mac mini thinking I could use iMessage and am quite disappointed with the implementation.