A walkthrough of hermes-bootstrap — an open-source CLI + Web UI that takes a fresh, unconfigured VPS from zero to a hardened, production-ready Hermes Agent in one guided deploy: swap, Docker, SSH hardening, UFW, Fail2Ban, Telegram alerts, and the agent itself, with automatic rollback on failure.
A complete, copy-paste path to a Hermes Agent you message from your phone over Telegram — one that keeps running after you close the laptop and comes back on its own after a crash or reboot. Written from two real builds: a cheap Hetzner VPS and a Mac Mini M4. One route, with the box only changing two things: the install command and the layer that keeps the gateway alive. Verified against Hermes Agent v0.16.0.