How I Deploy a Hermes Agent on a Blank VPS in 2 Minutes
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.
Hermes Flightplan #1: The Ultimate Zero to Always-On Telegram AI Agent
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.
My Hermes & Obsidian Setup and Use Cases
A deep dive into many personal workflows and use cases documented here — collecting business ideas, a content engine, a personal fitness coach, recipes, agent payments, plus the principles, hardware, software, and security tips behind the whole setup.
Hermes + Polymarket: A Self-Learning Up/Down Trading Agent
A step-by-step guide to building a self-learning Hermes agent that trades Polymarket 5-minute up/down crypto markets — VPS setup, Telegram control, CLOB v2 execution, and a self-improving loop that adjusts probability estimates from live results.
Grok + Hermes + Telegram: A Real-Time X Intelligence Stack
Pair Grok's native real-time X access with Hermes Agent's persistent scheduling and Telegram delivery to build a 24/7 intelligence agent that drafts a morning brief before you wake up — using your existing SuperGrok subscription.
The Complete Hermes Agent /goal Playbook
21 copy-paste /goal commands across 6 categories — research, lead gen, content, email, operations, and development — plus a Chief of Staff setup that runs your entire morning ops autonomously.
10 Hermes Agent Hacks That Turned My Chat Agent Into a 24/7 System
Ten domain-agnostic Hermes setups — mission control, event triggers, cron jobs, structured /goal, sub-agents, Telegram workspaces, Kanban, skills, webhooks, and separate agents — that turn a chat window into a system that runs while you sleep.