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iMessage with Photon

Feature · Built into Hermes ·  · 0:06

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A soft sound at the start and a click as it ends. No speech or music. Below: what's on screen, beat by beat.

  1. At 0:00

    A still graphic on a dark blue background: the headline "Connect Your Hermes Agent to iMessage" and the line "Same Hermes. Same setup. New way to reach it." A flow runs left to right from "Your Hermes Agent" ("Your machine. Your setup.") to "Photon" ("Secure connection layer") to "iMessage" ("On your iPhone").

  2. On the right, an iPhone shows a Messages chat with "Hermes". The request "Set up iMessage for me using Photon." gets the reply "iMessage is now connected via Photon!", which notes the same models, skills, tools, memory and configuration as before and asks "How can I help you today?" A last message, "Summarize my latest research and draft a post.", is marked "Delivered".

  3. Script lettering in the lower left reads "Your Hermes. Everywhere." with "BUILD", "AUTOMATE" and "GO FURTHER" stacked in the corner and the HermesWatcher handle at the top.

  4. At 0:01

    Light pulses run along the arrows from "Your Hermes Agent" to "Photon" to "iMessage" while the graphic slowly brightens. Nothing else changes before the clip ends at 0:06.

Text your own Hermes from iMessage through Photon's hosted service, with no Mac relay to run. Photon's shared lines are free with a Photon account and a number that can receive iMessage.

Set it up with the command below, then pick Photon iMessage.

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HermesWatcher @HermesWatcher ·
Did you know you can connect your own Hermes Agent to iMessage in just a few steps? 📱No complicated setup. No rebuilding your agent somewhere else.Just tell Hermes:Set up iMessage for me using Photon and walk me through anything I need to approve.Then:1. Hermes starts the Photon setup2. You connect and approve your Photon account and number3. Text your Hermes from iMessageThat’s it.Same Hermes. Same machine or server. Same models, skills, tools, memory, and configuration.You’re just giving your existing Hermes another way to reach you.Send it a task from your phone, let it work through your normal setup, and get the result right back in Messages.

The post as written on Sep 17, 2026, with any sign-up offers and pointers to replies left out. Figures in it are from that day. The summary above follows the official docs, so check the docs (opens in a new tab) for the version you run.

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