91 results for “mcp”
- 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…
- 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.
- Hermes Agent OAuth login stuck or expiredTroubleshooting · Models, providers & costDiagnose expired or revoked subscription logins, MCP OAuth that never returns, and logins that worked but landed in the wrong Hermes home.
- GitHub: inspect repositories before automating changesTool & integration · Development & operationsBuild repository research and review workflows through documented GitHub CLI or separately configured MCP routes.
- config.yamlGlossaryThe main settings file in your Hermes home. It holds the model, terminal backend, memory, approvals, MCP servers, display options and more, and you can edit it directly or use hermes config set.
- Tool SearchGlossaryAn opt-in feature that loads tool schemas only when relevant, saving context when many MCP or plugin tools are attached.
- 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.…
- Where are skills stored?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPAll skills live in ~/.hermes/skills/. Bundled skills are copied there on install, and hub-installed and agent-created skills land there too. You can also point Hermes at extra…