Hermes Agent Operator Track

From install to always-on messaging agents — taught for builders who ship.

Developers, automation leads, and founders who want a self-improving agent on a VPS, laptop, or messaging gateway — not another IDE copilot.

Lessons

What Hermes Agent actually is — An autonomous, self-improving agent — not an IDE plugin wrapped around one API.
Install, setup, and verify a chat — Desktop installer or one-liner CLI — then hermes setup --portal and a real response.
Your ~/.hermes home and config.yaml — All settings live under ~/.hermes/ — learn the map before you edit YAML by hand.
CLI, TUI, and daily operating rhythm — Master the terminal interface you’ll use every day before you expose a public bot.
Tools, toolsets, and terminal backends — Tools are functions the agent can call — toolsets and backends decide how powerful (and risky) that is.
Skills system and persistent memory — Procedural skills + durable memory are Hermes’ closed learning loop — learn to steer them.
Messaging gateway — put Hermes where you live — One gateway process: Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Feishu, Teams, and more.
MCP integrations — borrow tools you already have — Connect stdio or HTTP MCP servers so Hermes can use GitHub, filesystems, DBs, and internal APIs.
Security layers and architecture map — Defense-in-depth before public bots — then a mental map of entry points and subsystems.