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1. How much can Hermes remember? Is there a limit?FAQ · Memory & contextYes, built-in memory is deliberately small. MEMORY.md is capped at 2,200 characters (about 800 tokens) and USER.md at 1,375 characters (about 500 tokens). The limits are…
2. Is Telegram or Discord easier to connect, and do they get the same features?FAQ · Messaging & the gatewayTelegram is usually the quickest: one token from @BotFather, and Hermes Desktop can even create the bot from a QR code. Discord needs an application in the developer portal…
3. Is there a usage or rate limit, and can I tune how Hermes retries?FAQ · Models, providers & costHermes itself has no usage cap; limits come from your model provider or plan. `/usage` shows token use and, when the provider reports it, remaining quota, and `hermes usage`…
4. Which memory setup should I use: built-in, Honcho, Hindsight, Mem0, Obsidian or something else?FAQ · Memory & contextStart with built-in memory. It's always on, costs nothing extra, and together with session search covers most personal use. An external provider is additive: it runs alongside…
5. Ten fixes for running Hermes as an always-on Railway service with a Telegram botCase study · Skills, plugins & MCPThe author packaged Hermes in her own Docker image, deployed it to Railway as a persistent gateway, and connected Telegram, Notion MCP and fallback models. She wrote up the ten problems that cost her time. Most are general container lessons that apply to any Docker-based Hermes host.
6. Thirty skills in, three kept: a crypto investor's personal analyst setupCase study · Research & knowledge workA DeFi investor reports spending roughly $150-200 in tokens over two weeks experimenting with about 30 Hermes skills, and narrowing down to three that earned their place: a morning X briefing, a bookmark digest, and a daily reflection built on an external memory provider.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Models and providers: configure the actual inference routeTool & integration · Development & operationsUnderstand which model handles conversation and which auxiliary models handle supporting tasks before diagnosing quality or cost.
11. canvasSkill · Skills directoryFetch Canvas LMS courses and assignments via API token.
12. design-mdSkill · Skills directoryAuthor/validate/export Google's DESIGN.md token spec files.
13. evmSkill · Skills directoryRead-only EVM client: wallets, tokens, gas across 8 chains.
14. polymarketSkill · Skills directoryQuery Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history.
15. solanaSkill · Skills directoryQuery Solana wallets, tokens, txs, and NFTs in USD.
16. .env fileGlossaryThe file in your Hermes home (~/.hermes/.env) that stores API keys and tokens such as TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN. It holds credentials, not memory.
17. /goalGlossaryA standing goal Hermes keeps working toward across turns. After each turn a judge model decides whether it's done, and if not Hermes continues, up to a budget of 20 turns by default (`goals.max_turns`).
18. Bot ChatGlossaryA profile's canonical chat session with its own bot. The `bot-chat` cron delivery target posts output into it as an incoming message so the bot acts on it, costing one full agent turn per delivery.
19. Progressive disclosureGlossaryHermes' token-saving way of loading skills: the agent first sees only names and descriptions, and opens a skill's full content only when needed.
20. Secret sourcesGlossaryExternal secret managers (Bitwarden Secrets Manager, 1Password, or a command helper for other vaults) that inject API keys at startup, so only a bootstrap token sits in `.env`. They're configured under `secrets` in `config.yaml`.