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witcheer's Wingtips #9: a profile is a whole separate agent, not a setting

Republished in his own words, with credit.

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#9 · a profile is a whole separate agent, not a setting

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Hermes Wingtips #9: a profile is a whole separate agent, not a setting

a Hermes profile is a second agent in its own right: its own memory, sessions, skills and bot token. spin one up and it knows nothing your main agent does.

two things to understand:

(1) you want one agent across Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp? that's a single profile with several gateways: they share one SOUL.md and one memory, so it behaves as one agent everywhere.

vice versa, a profile per platform splits it into strangers.

(2) you want a fresh agent that starts from your current one? hermes profile create new --clone-all. without it the new profile is blank.

SourcesHermes docs: Profiles

All tips are written by witcheer and collected here with credit. Card images stay on his X posts.

witcheer says each tip ran on a real Hermes box before it shipped. Hermes changes fast, so check your version and the linked doc.