24 results for “mcp”
- How do I connect an MCP server, including a custom one?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPFrom the curated catalog: run `hermes mcp` to pick interactively, or `hermes mcp install <name>` to add one; `hermes mcp login <name>` handles servers that need OAuth. In…
- What's the difference between plugins and MCP servers?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPPlugins are Python packages in ~/.hermes/plugins/ (a plugin.yaml manifest plus code) that add tools, hooks and integrations directly inside Hermes. Install them with hermes…
- Can Claude Code, Cursor or Codex use Hermes as a tool?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPYes. `hermes mcp serve` runs Hermes as a stdio MCP server, so other MCP clients can use its messaging side: list conversations, read message history and send messages across…
- 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 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…
- Is there a web interface for managing Hermes?FAQ · Running & deployingYes. `hermes dashboard` starts a local web server and opens `http://127.0.0.1:9119`. From there you can manage config, API keys, MCP servers, messaging pairing, webhooks, the…
- Should I use Composio for app connections?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPHermes has no built-in Composio integration, and it isn't in the official MCP or plugin catalogs. If a service offers an MCP server you trust, you can add it like any custom…
- Can Hermes see and control my phone?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPNot out of the box. Hermes' built-in computer use drives desktops (macOS, Windows, Linux), and your phone is normally just a chat client through Telegram, WhatsApp or another…
- 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…
- Does Hermes write its own skills or plugins, and how do I make it save a lesson reliably?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPYes. With its `skill_manage` tool the agent creates, updates and deletes skills, for example after working out a multi-step workflow, finding a fix after dead ends, or being…
- 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 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 install a ready-made agent or profile someone else built?FAQ · Getting startedIf it's published as a profile distribution (a git repository), install it with `hermes profile install github.com/<owner>/<repo> --alias`. It brings the author's SOUL.md,…
- How do I make Hermes use a specific skill or tool instead of its default?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPFor a skill, call it directly: every installed skill is a slash command (`/<skill-name>`, or `/skill <name>`), which loads it for that message. Naming it in your request also…
- 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 web search and fetch work, and do I need a paid key? Is DeepSeek supported?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPThe agent's `web_search` and `web_extract` tools run on a backend you choose with `hermes tools` (in Desktop, Capabilities > Tools > Web Search & Scraping). You don't need a…
- How many skills, tools and plugins can I add before performance suffers?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPSkills scale well. The agent sees only a short index of names and descriptions and loads a skill's full instructions when it needs one, so hundreds of installed skills cost little.
- 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 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.…