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  1. 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…
  2. Why don’t all my skills show up in Telegram’s command menu?FAQ · Skills, plugins & MCPTelegram allows at most 100 bot commands and also limits the menu's total payload size, so a long skill list can overflow it. Run `hermes skills config` to disable skills per…
  3. 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…
  4. Hermes Agent not using your skillTroubleshooting · Skills, plugins & MCPWhat to check when Hermes ignores a skill you wrote or installed, from file location and frontmatter to platform filters, trust and session timing.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. How to set up Hermes Agent with Open WebUI and the API serverGuide · Messaging & the gatewayUse Open WebUI with the Hermes API server. Set a strong key, keep loopback private and understand Docker reachability and host tool access.
  9. How to write your first Hermes Agent skillGuide · Skills, plugins & MCPA step-by-step walkthrough of creating a SKILL.md, where to put it, how Hermes discovers and loads it, and how to keep agent-written skills under review.
  10. 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.
  11. API server: use Hermes from any OpenAI-compatible clientTool & integration · Running & deployingExpose Hermes as an OpenAI-compatible HTTP endpoint so chat frontends and scripts can talk to your agent.
  12. Code execution: let the agent script multi-step tool workTool & integration · Skills, plugins & MCPThe execute_code tool lets Hermes write and run a Python script that calls its own tools, collapsing many steps into one.
  13. Home Assistant: let Hermes see and control your smart homeTool & integration · Skills, plugins & MCPInstall the official homeassistant plugin to give Hermes smart-home tools and react to entity state changes.
  14. IDE integration (ACP): run Hermes inside your code editorTool & integration · Skills, plugins & MCPStart Hermes in Agent Client Protocol mode so editors like VS Code, Zed and JetBrains IDEs can use it as a coding agent.
  15. Image generation: create images from a text promptTool & integration · Skills, plugins & MCPPick an image backend such as FAL.ai, OpenAI, OpenRouter, xAI or Krea so the agent can generate images on request.
  16. Plugins: add tools and lifecycle behaviorTool & integration · Development & operationsExtend Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and integrations when instructions alone cannot supply the needed capability.
  17. Voice and TTS: spoken replies and voice-note transcriptionTool & integration · Skills, plugins & MCPChoose a text-to-speech and speech-to-text provider so Hermes can talk back and understand voice messages.
  18. qmdSkill · Skills directoryHybrid local search over notes, docs, and transcripts.
  19. A Hermes skill ran his mushroom tent through two Lion's Mane harvests on a Raspberry PiCommunity report · Skills, plugins & MCPReported by setasoma. Original source retained.
  20. Agent-to-agent commerce via MerxexCommunity report · Skills, plugins & MCPReported by @enigma-zeroclaw. Original source retained.