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- Do I have to restart the gateway after changing settings?FAQ · TroubleshootingSometimes. Many settings apply without a restart: `model.context_length` and `compression.*` take effect on the next message, `approvals.deny` changes apply immediately, and…
- How can I keep token costs down?FAQ · Models, providers & costFirst find out what's expensive. `/context` breaks down what fills each request (system prompt, tool schemas, skills, MCP, memory, conversation), `hermes prompt-size` shows the…
- How can I tell if a third-party skill or plugin is safe before installing it?FAQ · Security & permissionsCheck where it comes from. Skills: built-in and `official/...` skills are fully trusted, a few well-known registries are "trusted", and everything else is community. Every hub…
- How do I back up my Hermes setup?FAQ · Running & deployingRun `hermes backup`. It writes `~/hermes-backup-<timestamp>.zip` with your config, credentials, memories, skills, sessions and profiles, and it's safe to run while Hermes is…
- How do I move Hermes, or a single profile or bot, to another computer?FAQ · Running & deployingFor a whole setup, run `hermes backup` on the old machine. It creates `~/hermes-backup-<timestamp>.zip` with config, credentials, memories, skills, sessions and profiles (not…
- How do I run Hermes in Docker?FAQ · Running & deployingMount a data folder and run the setup wizard once: docker run -it --rm -v ~/.hermes:/opt/data nousresearch/hermes-agent setup. Then start a long-running gateway with docker run…
- How do I schedule recurring tasks or use automation blueprints?FAQ · Automation & schedulingJust ask in plain language, like "every morning at 9am, send me an AI news summary on Telegram," and Hermes creates the cron job itself. You can also use `/cron add "every 2h"…
- How do I set up a team of bots that work together?FAQ · Automation & schedulingThe easiest way is Bot Mode in Hermes Desktop, on by default as the Bots tab. Click New Agent, give it a name, title and description, and optionally its own model, SOUL.md,…
- How do I switch from Claude Code or Codex to Hermes?FAQ · Getting startedStart with `hermes import-agent`. It auto-detects `~/.claude` or `~/.codex`, or you can name one: `hermes import-agent claude-code` or `hermes import-agent codex`. It shows a…
- How do I watch the agent, or take over for a login, 2FA or CAPTCHA, and does it keep going afterwards?FAQ · Running & deployingWhen the bot hits a step it shouldn't do itself (a login, a 2FA prompt, a CAPTCHA, a payment), it says so in chat and ends its turn. On a hosted gateway with Bot Screen, open…
- Is there an official Hermes mobile app for iOS or Android?FAQ · Running & deployingNot yet. The current release has no official iOS or Android app; there's no mobile app in the official repository and none in the docs. The Nous team has said on X that one is…
- Should I use native Windows or WSL2?FAQ · Getting startedEither works. Native Windows needs no WSL, Cygwin or Docker: the PowerShell installer puts Hermes in `%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes` without admin rights, and the CLI, TUI, messaging…
- 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 Hermes Cloud, how is it priced, and is storage persistent?FAQ · Running & deployingHermes Cloud is Nous Research's hosted Hermes Agent: an always-on agent on a dedicated cloud instance with its own workspace and dashboard, managed from the agents page in Nous…
- 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…
- 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…