Hermes Agent complete course, zero basic pedestal guide

Step one:Hermes Agent What is it

Hermes Agent is onefree and open sourceof AI Intelligent Body(AI Agent), developed by the Nous Research team. It's not like a regular chat robot (such as ChatGPT), it's gonna:

• Remember all your past conversations
• Learn from each mission and create new skills automatically
• Help you do your job: execute orders, browse pages, write documents, manage tasks, etc
• Supporting the connection to Telegram, flybook, Discord, etc., can direct it on the phone
• The more smart the better

It's especially for people who want to have a "Personal AI Assistant" and many people migrate from OpenClaw because it learns better。

Official network document (recommended collection):

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/

GitHub Project:

https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Step 2: Preparation (computer environment)

Hermes Agent supports:

• Linux (recommended, simplest)
• macOS
• Windows + WSL2 (available for Windows users)

You need:

1. A computer with Internet access (preferably a terminal)
2. An API Key (used to call large models, such as Grok, Claude, GPT, etc.) recommends new hands for OpenRouter (support 200+ models, more free of charge) or local models (Olama), but new hands first use cloud API more stable

A simple way to get API Key (as in OpenRouter):

• go to https://openrouter.ai/registered account number
• It's worth a little
• Copy your API Key in dashboard

Step 3: Install Hermes Agent

Open your terminal (command line):

• Mac/Linux: Open directly Terminal
• Windows: recommends installation of WSL2 (search for "Windows Installer WSL") and then operate in Ubuntu; or direct test PowerShell (some tutorial support)

Copy the following command, one-click installation (30 seconds or so):

you're gonna have to go back to work

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh

After installation, refresh the environment (important!):

~/.bahrc

# If you are a zsh user, use the following line:

~/.zshrc

Validate installation success: input

shemes-help

It works when you see the help

Step 4: First Configuration ( Feeding Wizard)

Enter the following command to start the configuration wizard:

she's setup

It'll ask you step by step:

• Select Model Provider
• Enter your API Key
• Select the default model (recommended by beginner: Claude Sunnet / GPT-4o / or a cheap and good model in OpenRouter)
• configure tools (tools) - defaultly start a common tool

After the configuration, you can change the model at any time with the following command:

♪ hermes model ♪

Step 5: Start chatting

Enter at terminal:

shemes

Then you can talk to your AI Agent

For example, try input:

• "Hello, introduce yourself."
• Help me search for today's weather
• "create a folder called test and write a hello.txt file"

It'll use tools to do your job, and it'll remember this conversation。

Step six: Put it on the phone. Connect Telegram or Flying Book)

So you can always direct it on the phone。

Take Telegram as an example (simple):

1. Open Telegram, search
2. send /newbot
3. Name the robot and the user
4. BotFather will give you a Bot Token, copy it

Enter at the terminal:

♪ hermes gateway ♪

Or set up Telegram Token with a configuration command。

Specific configurations can be entered:

here's your token

Launch gateway:

i'm sorry

Then search your robot in Telegram and start talking! It'll be 24/7 online。

Flying books have similar access to official documents and a lot of hands-on courses。

Step 7: Common commands

• heremes poach into interactive chat
• hermes setup one-stop configuration wizard
• hermes model → switch model
• hermes tools configuration available tools
• set a single configuration for hermes config set KEY values
• if you used to use OpenClaw, you could move data by one

Step 8: Common White Issues & Recommendations

Installation stuck

• It'll be a lot of downloads for the first time

No. What about API Key

• It's free of charge, or a local Ollama (but it needs a good computer)。

Think 24/7's been on line

A cheap VPS (Digital Ocean, Ariyun, telecommunication cloud 5-10/month) is offered for installation on VPS。

You want to learn more

• Official document: YouTube/B searches for "Hermes Agent" or "Hermes Agent Flying Books" with many videos starting with simple tasks: it helps you organize documents, monitor RSS, write weekly newspapers, etc
• https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/

Moving from OpenClaw

• directly using hermes claw migrate command, very smooth。