372 results for “skills”
- What happens to my data when I use models through Nous Portal?FAQ · Security & permissionsHermes itself sends no telemetry; your conversations, memory and skills stay on your machine, and requests go only to the provider you choose. Once you send a request through…
- What should I use Hermes for first?FAQ · Getting startedStart with something that recurs and that you'd otherwise do by hand, because that's where memory, skills and scheduling pay off. Good first projects: a morning briefing…
- Why do side tasks add to my bill, and can I give them, subagents and fallbacks their own models?FAQ · Models, providers & costHermes uses auxiliary models for side jobs such as context compression, session titles, image analysis, web extraction, approval checks, the skills curator and Kanban planning.…
- Three separate Hermes profiles for coding, research and illustration, each with its own Telegram botCase study · Development & operationsA tutorial that explains Hermes Agent's memory, skills and self-improvement features, then builds three specialist agents as separate profiles. One is a programmer that hands work to Claude Code, one is a researcher that sends a daily digest on a schedule, and one is a designer with a learned drawing style. Each agent has its own Telegram bot.
- 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.
- 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.
- Desktop: manage conversations and inspect artifacts visuallyTool & integration · Everyday administrationUse the native desktop interface to work with the same Hermes core, sessions, configuration, skills, and memory.
- Google Workspace: connect everyday work with explicit scopesTool & integration · Everyday administrationUse the documented Workspace skill route for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Docs, and related account data.
- bioinformaticsSkill · Skills directoryGateway to 400+ genomics and computational biology skills.
- openclaw-migrationSkill · Skills directoryImport an OpenClaw setup (memories, skills) into Hermes.
- CuratorGlossaryA background maintenance pass that tracks how agent-created skills are used, moves unused ones from active to stale to archived, and never auto-deletes them.
- Hermes AgentGlossaryAn open-source (MIT) AI agent from Nous Research that runs in your terminal, a desktop app or chat apps, uses tools for you, and learns over time through memory and skills.
- Hermes home (HERMES_HOME)GlossaryThe data folder where Hermes keeps config, keys, memory, skills and sessions. It's ~/.hermes on Linux and macOS, and the HERMES_HOME environment variable points Hermes at a different one.
- ProfileGlossaryA separate Hermes home under ~/.hermes/profiles/ with its own config, keys, memory, sessions and skills, letting you run several independent agents.
- 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.
- Write approvalGlossaryAn optional setting (memory.write_approval, and skills.write_approval for skills) that holds the agent's writes for your review. You manage them with commands like /memory pending and /memory approve.
- A learning plugin aimed at the human, not the agentCommunity report · Research & knowledge workReported by u/No_Skill_8393. Original source retained.
- 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…
- Can Hermes read ebooks, PDFs and scanned documents? Are big files loaded whole?FAQ · Research & knowledge workYes. Its file reader converts Word, Excel, PDF, EPUB, RTF, OpenDocument and older Office files to text (PDF, EPUB and the others need a converter that installs on first use).…
- 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…