36 results for “cost”
- How do I change models in the CLI or the Desktop app?FAQ · Getting startedIn a terminal, `hermes model` is the full picker: add providers, sign in or enter keys, and set your default model. Inside a chat, `/model` switches between providers you've…
- How do I connect work tools like Outlook, Jira or an ERP without over-granting access?FAQ · Security & permissionsPrefer official, scoped connections. The MCP catalog includes vendor-hosted servers (Atlassian for Jira and Confluence, plus Linear, Notion and others) that sign in with OAuth…
- How do I find, choose and install skills and plugins?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPSkills: use `hermes skills browse` or `hermes skills search <query>`, preview with `hermes skills inspect <id>`, then `hermes skills install <id>`, which runs a security scan…
- How do I fix a Nous Portal subscription or billing problem, such as adding VAT details?FAQ · Models, providers & costBilling and account details are managed on Nous Portal itself, not in Hermes. `hermes portal open` opens the subscription management page, and `hermes portal info` shows your…
- How do I let family members or coworkers use my agent while keeping their data separate?FAQ · Security & permissionsGive each person their own profile (`hermes profile create <name>`). A profile has its own memory, sessions, skills, keys and cron jobs, and each gets its own messaging bot,…
- How does using my ChatGPT plan in Hermes work?FAQ · Models, providers & costIn `hermes model`, choose ChatGPT or Codex Subscription. Hermes signs in with ChatGPT's device-code login (or `hermes auth add openai-codex --browser` for a browser login),…
- What are skills?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPSkills are on-demand instruction documents, each a folder with a SKILL.md file, that teach the agent how to do a particular task. They follow the agentskills.io open standard.…
- What are terminal backends?FAQ · Running & deployingA terminal backend decides where the agent's shell commands actually run. Hermes has seven: local, docker, ssh, singularity, modal, daytona and vercel_sandbox. Set one with…
- What happens when my model provider goes down or rate-limits me?FAQ · Models, providers & costHermes has layers of resilience. A credential pool, meaning several keys for the same provider, is tried first. Then a fallback chain switches to a different provider and model…
- What is Bot Screen, where does it run, and how heavy is it?FAQ · Running & deployingBot Screen gives each bot its own desktop on a headless Linux gateway host (a server, cloud VM or Hermes Cloud), which the bot's computer use and browser act on, streamed live…
- What is Nous Portal and do I need it?FAQ · Models, providers & costNous Portal is Nous Research's paid subscription service. One OAuth login gives you access to 300+ models plus the Tool Gateway, which handles web search, image generation,…
- Which AI models and providers can I use?FAQ · Models, providers & costHermes works with any OpenAI-compatible API. The docs list OpenRouter, Nous Portal, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, z.ai/GLM, Kimi/Moonshot, MiniMax and others, plus local…
- Which model is best for Hermes, and for side tasks like compression or the background review?FAQ · Models, providers & costFor the main agent, pick a strong tool-calling, agentic model; Hermes runs a fast loop of tool calls, so that matters more than chat polish. The Nous Portal docs suggest…
- Why do side tasks add to my bill, and can I give them, subagents and fallbacks their own models?FAQ · Models, providers & costHermes uses auxiliary models for side jobs such as context compression, session titles, image analysis, web extraction, approval checks, the skills curator and Kanban planning.…
- Why does Hermes lose track in long sessions, and what does “context is over the compression threshold” mean?FAQ · Memory & contextLong conversations fill the model's context window, so Hermes compresses older history automatically, by default at 50% of the context limit (`compression.threshold`). Run…
- Why is Hermes slow or laggy, and should I reinstall?FAQ · TroubleshootingReinstalling rarely helps. Slowness usually comes from the model (large reasoning models and busy providers are slow), a long session, or a heavy prompt with many tools. First…