Messaging Gateway
Chat with Hermes from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, SMS, Email, Home Assistant, Mattermost, Matrix, DingTalk, Feishu/Lark, WeCom, Weixin, BlueBubb
Chat with Hermes from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, SMS, Email, Home Assistant, Mattermost, Matrix, DingTalk, Feishu/Lark, WeCom, Weixin, BlueBubbles (iMessage), QQ, Yuanbao, Microsoft Teams, LINE, ntfy, or your browser. …
What this page covers
- Platform Comparison
- Architecture
- Intentional Silence Tokens
- Quick Setup
- Gateway Commands
- Chat Commands (Inside Messaging)
- Session Management
- Session Persistence
- Reset Policies
- Security
- DM Pairing (Alternative to Allowlists)
- Admins vs Regular Users
- Interrupting the Agent
- Queue vs interrupt vs steer (busy-input mode)
- Tool Progress Notifications
- Message timestamps in model context
- Background Sessions
- How It Works
- Background Process Notifications
- Use Cases
- Service Management
- Linux (systemd)
- macOS (launchd)
- Platform-Specific Toolsets
- Operating a multi-platform gateway
- /platform command
- Automatic circuit breaker
- Where to look when a platform is paused
- Restart notifications
- Session resume across gateway restarts
- Mobile-friendly progress defaults
- Progress bubble cleanup (opt-in)
- Next Steps
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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