Every Hermes Agent tip from witcheer at Nous Research, in his own words. Collected in one place and updated daily.
witcheer says each tip ran on a real Hermes box before it shipped. Hermes changes fast, so check your version and the linked doc.
Latest tip #113 · switch projects from the chat · Oct 29, 2026
is your Hermes Agent on a server in another timezone? give it yours:
hermes config set timezone America/New_York
the agent clock and your cron schedules follow that zone, so a job set for 8am runs at 8am where you are.
use your zone's IANA name, like Europe/London or Asia/Kolkata.
set it once, before your first morning brief or daily reminder!
docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/configuration#timezone
on a fresh install, this one command logs your Hermes Agent in to Nous Portal and sets Nous as your provider. it turns on the Tool Gateway too:
hermes setup --portal
your browser opens for the login and you pick a model. then you're back in the terminal, ready to chat.
with any paid Nous Portal plan, that same login gives your agent web search, image generation, text-to-speech and a cloud browser, without one extra API key to set up!
to see what got switched on, run hermes portal info.
docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/integrations/nous-portal
Hermes Wingtips #54: session, project, profile, bot
the four words everyone meets, and what each one holds:
(1) a session is one conversation. your Hermes Agent keeps many, and every surface can open them.
(2) a project is a workspace: the folders your agent works in, grouped under one name.
(3) a profile is a whole separate agent. its own config, memory, skills, and history.
(4) a bot is a profile with a name and an avatar in the Desktop app. same thing underneath, one click away.
two of these hold your work, two of them are agents.
Hermes Wingtips #45: if you ever want to bring an existing OpenClaw setup into Hermes Agent, there is a command for that.
hermes claw migrate imports your settings, memories and skills. you can add --dry-run and it only shows you the plan, nothing is touched.
worth knowing:
(1) API keys and tokens stay behind unless you explicitly pass --migrate-secrets
(2) before anything is applied a restore-point zip of your Hermes home is written, so the move itself is undoable.
Hermes Wingtips #37: hermes project
real work rarely fits in one folder: an api repo, a web repo, an infra repo, all one product. a project gives that group one name.
(1) hermes project create "My App" ~/code/api ~/code/web creates one
(2) hermes project add-folder grows it
(3) hermes project use sets it as active
what is super cool is that the Desktop app groups your sessions by project automatically, and binding a kanban board with bind-board gives every task a deterministic worktree and branch convention.
Hermes Wingtips #36: hermes import-agent
if you already run Claude Code or Codex CLI, your setup can move over to Hermes Agent in one command:
hermes import-agent
it auto-detects ~/.claude or ~/.codex and maps everything to its Hermes equivalent:
global instructions become memories, skills come across as skills, MCP servers goes in your config, and Claude's permission rules become the command allowlist. API keys and credentials are never touched.
it always shows you the full plan before writing anything, and --dry-run previews without touching disk at all.
there is no need rebuilding the setup you already tuned!
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.
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