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  1. How to keep Hermes Agent costs downGuide · Models, providers & costWhere Hermes spends tokens, how to measure it, and the documented settings and habits that keep your provider bill predictable.
  2. Hermes Agent subagents and delegation explainedGuide · Automation & schedulingHow Hermes's delegate_task tool spawns isolated child agents, what they can and can't do, the settings that cap concurrency and depth, and how to keep the cost sensible.
  3. How to set up Hermes Agent on SlackGuide · Messaging & the gatewayCreate a Slack app from the Hermes manifest, save both tokens, restrict access and start the gateway for DMs, channels and threads.
  4. Moving to Hermes Agent from OpenClaw and other agentsGuide · Getting startedUse the built-in, preview-first importers to bring your persona, memory, skills, model settings and bot tokens across, then finish the handful of things that never migrate automatically.
  5. Hermes Agent goals and loops: keep it working on its ownGuide · Automation & schedulingWhen to use /goal to keep working until something is done, /loop to repeat a check on a timer, and cron for work that must run when you are away.
  6. Hermes Agent messaging gateway explainedGuide · Messaging & the gatewayWhat the Hermes gateway process does, how to set it up and keep it running, who is allowed to talk to your bot, and how chat sessions behave.
  7. Hermes Agent messaging: Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, moreGuide · Messaging & the gatewayCompare messaging platforms, setup needs, feature notes and official documentation.
  8. Hermes Agent profiles: separate agents for separate jobsGuide · Running & deployingHow Hermes profiles give you independent agents on one machine, what they isolate (and what they don't), and the commands for creating, switching, sharing and running them.
  9. Hermes Agent security: approvals, allowlists, sandboxingGuide · Security & permissionsHow Hermes's layered defences fit together, from dangerous-command approval and the hardline blocklist to file-write guards, container backends and gateway authorisation, and what each layer does not protect against.
  10. Hermes Agent sessions: search and resume past workGuide · Memory & contextHow Hermes stores every conversation, how to name, resume, export and prune sessions, and how the agent searches its own history.
  11. Hermes Agent setup: your first 24 hoursGuide · Getting startedAn opinionated, documentation-grounded checklist for a new Hermes install: one working model, deliberate tools and approvals, memory you can trust, one skill, one scheduled job and a paired phone.
  12. Hermes Agent skills vs plugins vs MCP: which to useGuide · Skills, plugins & MCPMatch the extension to the missing capability instead of installing three different things to solve one problem.
  13. Hermes Agent SOUL.md and personalities explainedGuide · Models, providers & costUse SOUL.md for the durable identity and tone of your agent, /personality for temporary modes, and AGENTS.md for project rules, so each layer does one job.
  14. Hermes Agent terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, cloudGuide · Running & deployingWhat each of Hermes's seven terminal backends does, what it isolates, what persists between sessions, and how to pick one for your situation.
  15. Hermes Agent vision: send it screenshots and imagesGuide · Skills, plugins & MCPHow to attach images in the terminal or from chat apps, how Hermes routes them for vision and text-only models, and the settings that keep image-heavy sessions affordable.
  16. Hermes Agent web dashboard: a quick tourGuide · Running & deployingWhat the local dashboard can do, which pages save you the most time, and how to reach it from another machine without exposing your API keys.
  17. How Hermes Agent memory works (and where it stops)Guide · Memory & contextA plain-English tour of Hermes's two built-in memory files, the frozen snapshot they load into, their hard size limits, and when an external memory provider or session search is the better tool.
  18. How to choose a model for Hermes AgentGuide · Models, providers & costSeparate model selection, provider access and tool configuration, then compare them using a representative task.
  19. How to install Hermes Agent on LinuxGuide · Getting startedHermes Agent officially supports 64-bit Linux on x86_64 and ARM. Run the one-line installer as your normal user, then set up a model to start.
  20. How to install Hermes Agent on MacGuide · Getting startedHermes Agent officially supports Apple Silicon Macs. Install the desktop app or run the one-line terminal installer, then pick a model to start.