* feat(desktop): add Cron Blueprints to the GUI
The desktop app had a Cron jobs panel but no Blueprints tab, so the
parameterized automation templates the dashboard offers were unreachable
there (parity matrix: Dashboard=Y, GUI=N).
Adds a Jobs/Blueprints segmented toggle to the cron panel. The Blueprints
tab renders the catalog from the existing GET /api/cron/blueprints endpoint,
one card per template with a typed form (time/enum/weekdays/text slots).
Submitting POSTs to /api/cron/blueprints/instantiate, which fills the slots
and creates a real cron job via the same create_job path as a hand-written
one. The new job is merged into the shared atom so the Jobs tab
and sidebar reflect it immediately.
Backend already served both endpoints; this is desktop frontend only.
Strings added to all four locales.
* fix(desktop): stop cron blueprint cards clipping and tabs overlapping close X
Blueprint cards were wrapped in PanelBlock (a max-h-48 overflow-auto <pre>
for monospace code), which capped each card and forced an inner scroll,
clipping the copy. Use a plain auto-height card div so rows grow with their
content and the gallery scrolls as one.
PanelHeader actions sat under the overlay's absolutely-positioned close X
(no layout space reserved). Reserve pr-8 clearance when actions are present.
* refactor(desktop): narrow blueprint card i18n dep, document intentional scoping
Address review nits on the Cron Blueprints PR:
- BlueprintCard's submit useCallback depended on the whole t.cron object; it
only uses the blueprints slice. Bind const b = c.blueprints and use it (plus
narrow the dep) throughout the card.
- Document the intentional GET-vs-POST profile asymmetry on the blueprint
endpoints (global catalog vs per-profile instantiate) — the prior comment
claimed both were profile-scoped.
- Note why the blueprints tab collapses 'all' scope to 'default' (a blueprint
creates a real per-profile job; 'all' is not a writable target).
* fix(desktop): default blueprint delivery to This desktop, not origin
The blueprint catalog is shared with the dashboard, so its deliver slot
defaults to 'origin' (the chat/home-channel a dashboard or gateway job was
created from). Desktop has no origin chat and no home-channel picker, so the
seeded 'origin' rendered unlabeled and, at delivery, fell through the
home-channel fallback to nowhere when no gateway was configured.
Seed the deliver slot to 'local' (This desktop) when the backend default is
'origin' or empty, drop the origin option from the desktop dropdown, and label
the remaining options with the desktop's own delivery labels — matching the
manual cron editor (local/telegram/discord/slack/email). Also skip the
backend's origin-centric deliver help, which contradicts desktop semantics.
* refactor(desktop): align blueprint cards with the Panel/settings idiom
Address PR review (UI consistency with neighboring surfaces):
- Card container: drop the standalone-card look (bg-foreground/5) for the
shared in-panel grouping token bg-(--ui-bg-quinary), matching the cron
editor's in-surface groupings so blueprints sit in the Panel family.
- Form fields: replace the bespoke <label>+<Input> rows with the shared
ListRow primitive from settings/primitives (label+help on the left, control
on the right, stacks in a narrow pane) — same idiom as settings/messaging.
No behavior change; blueprint deliver remap and $cronJobs merge untouched.
* fix(desktop): satisfy eslint on the cron blueprint files
CI check:lint failed on import/export ordering and an unused import in the
blueprint changes:
- hermes.ts: sort AutomationBlueprint before AuxiliaryModelsResponse in the
type import + re-export blocks, and drop the unused AutomationBlueprintField
import (still re-exported for blueprints.tsx).
- cron/index.tsx: alphabetize the dialog/segmented-control imports and the
./blueprints vs ../shell/statusbar-controls group.
- blueprints.tsx: add the required blank lines between statements.
eslint --fix only; no behavior change. typecheck + blueprint tests green.
* refactor(desktop): blueprints reuse the cron editor dialog + shared card
Address review: the blueprint UI was still going its own way on the card and
form. Reuse the app's canonical pieces instead of a bespoke surface.
- CronEditorDialog gains a 'blueprint' mode: EditorState carries the blueprint
+ target profile, the dialog renders the typed slots with the same
Field/FieldHint/DialogFooter/error-block chrome as manual New cron, and
submit routes to instantiateAutomationBlueprint. One dialog, one editor state
machine. Resolves the accordion, the border-t divider, ListRow-vs-Field, the
ad-hoc buttons, and the plain error <p> in one move.
- Blueprint cards use selectableCardClass({ prominent: true }) (the shared
theme/pet/gateway card idiom), caller owns padding (p-2), whole card is a
button that opens the dialog pre-filled. No inline form.
- Gallery renders via PanelDetail, not PanelBody's master/detail row.
- i18n: drop the now-unused blueprints.setUp/cancel, add blueprints.dialogDesc
across en/ja/zh/zh-hant + types.
- Dropped the stray \u2014 literal comment.
Logic (origin->local deliver, desktopDeliverOptions, merge into $cronJobs) is
unchanged and stays unit-tested. typecheck + eslint + tests green.
* fix(desktop): dropdown no longer closes the cron dialog; unify deliver targets
Two cron-dialog bugs:
1. Dismissing any Select dropdown inside the cron editor dialog closed the whole
dialog. Radix portals Select/Popover content outside the dialog, so the
dismiss pointerdown reached the Dialog's DismissableLayer as an
outside-interaction. Guard DialogContent.onInteractOutside: swallow
interactions originating from a [data-radix-popper-content-wrapper] (a
dropdown dismiss inside our own dialog), compose with any caller handler. Fix
is at the shared Dialog level so every dialog benefits.
2. Blueprint deliver only offered 'This desktop'. The blueprint used the backend
blueprint field.options (configured gateways only) while the manual editor
hardcoded local/telegram/discord/slack/email regardless of what's connected.
Wire the desktop to GET /api/cron/delivery-targets (the documented single
source of truth, already used by the dashboard) via getCronDeliveryTargets,
and render both the manual editor and the blueprint deliver slot through one
shared DeliverSelect. Now all three surfaces agree and only offer connected
platforms; unconfigured-home-channel targets show a hint.
i18n: add cron.deliverNeedsHomeChannel across en/ja/zh/zh-hant + types.
typecheck + eslint + vitest green.
* fix(desktop): clicking away from an open dropdown no longer closes the dialog
The onInteractOutside guard only caught pointerdowns whose target was inside
the popper wrapper. But dismissing an open Select by clicking elsewhere inside
the dialog also closes the popover, which moves focus — and Radix Dialog reads
that as focusOutside and closes the whole dialog. (Radix Select 2.3.1 has no
modal prop, so that escape hatch isn't available.)
Guard both paths at the shared DialogContent level: onInteractOutside AND
onFocusOutside now swallow the event when it originates from a Radix popper OR
when any [data-radix-popper-content-wrapper] is open at event time (covers the
focus/re-dispatch case where the target is no longer the popper). A genuine
backdrop click with no dropdown open still closes the dialog. Export
isInteractionFromPopper + unit-test the three cases.
typecheck + eslint + vitest green (7 dialog tests).
* fix(desktop): portal popovers into their dialog so dropdowns don't close it
Root cause (affected every dialog, not just cron): Radix Select/Popover/
DropdownMenu portal to document.body — a SIBLING of the dialog, outside its DOM
subtree. Dismissing a dropdown (or clicking another field) moves focus out of
the dialog subtree, which the Dialog's modal FocusScope/DismissableLayer reads
as an outside interaction and closes the whole dialog. Separate body-level
portals also make z-index across the two fragile.
The earlier onInteractOutside/onFocusOutside guards treated symptoms and didn't
hold (and Radix Select 2.3.1 has no modal prop to disable its layer). Real fix
is a layering system: DialogContent publishes its content node via
DialogPortalContainerContext; SelectContent/PopoverContent/DropdownMenuContent
call usePopoverPortalContainer() and portal INTO that node when inside a dialog
(document.body otherwise). The popover is then a true DOM descendant of the
dialog — focus stays in, dismissal no longer closes the dialog, and both share
one stacking context so z-index is deterministic.
Test: with a Dialog open, an open Select's item is a descendant of the dialog
(portalled in), verified in jsdom. typecheck + eslint + component tests green.
* fix(desktop): bump radix-ui so dismissing a dropdown can't close its dialog
Upstream bug, not app-layer: with radix-ui 1.6.0 (dismissable-layer 1.1.13),
an open modal Select sets pointer-events: none on the dialog body, so a click
anywhere inside the dialog hit-tests through to the overlay. The Dialog's
DismissableLayer defers its outside-pointerdown decision to the click, but the
overlay is a registered dismissable surface exempt from the interception check
— so the Select swallowing the press didn't count, the deferred onDismiss
fired, and the dialog closed along with the dropdown.
dismissable-layer 1.1.17 adds shouldHandlePointerDownOutside, which makes the
dialog's layer ignore the press entirely while a higher layer has its pointer
events disabled. Bump radix-ui ^1.4.3 -> ^1.6.5 (dismissable-layer 1.1.17,
dialog 1.1.21, select 2.3.5); lockfile diff is Radix-only.
Repro test fires the pointerdown/up/click sequence on the overlay with a
Select open inside the dialog: red on 1.6.0 (dialog closed), green on 1.6.5.
Counterpart test keeps a genuine overlay click closing the dialog.
typecheck + dialog/select component tests green. Full-suite failures on this
Windows host reproduce identically without the bump (pre-existing env issues).
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Hermes Agent ☤
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop — talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM.
Use any model you want — Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, your own endpoint, and many others. Switch with hermes model — no code changes, no lock-in.
| A real terminal interface | Full TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output. |
| Lives where you do | Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity. |
| A closed learning loop | Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. |
| Scheduled automations | Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language, running unattended. |
| Delegates and parallelizes | Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns. |
| Runs anywhere, not just your laptop | Six terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, and Daytona. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your agent's environment hibernates when idle and wakes on demand, costing nearly nothing between sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. |
| Research-ready | Batch trajectory generation, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models. |
Quick Install
Linux, macOS, WSL2, Termux
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
Windows (native, PowerShell)
Heads up: Native Windows runs Hermes without WSL — CLI, gateway, TUI, and tools all work natively. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux/macOS one-liner above works there too. Found a bug? Please file issues.
Run this in PowerShell:
iex (irm https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.ps1)
The installer handles everything: uv, Python 3.11, Node.js, ripgrep, ffmpeg, and a portable Git Bash (MinGit, unpacked to %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git — no admin required, completely isolated from any system Git install). Hermes uses this bundled Git Bash to run shell commands.
If you already have Git installed, the installer detects it and uses that instead. Otherwise a ~45MB MinGit download is all you need — it won't touch or interfere with any system Git.
Android / Termux: The tested manual path is documented in the Termux guide. On Termux, Hermes installs a curated
.[termux]extra because the full.[all]extra currently pulls Android-incompatible voice dependencies.Windows: Native Windows is fully supported — the PowerShell one-liner above installs everything. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux command works there too. Native Windows install lives under
%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes; WSL2 installs under~/.hermesas on Linux.
After installation:
source ~/.bashrc # reload shell (or: source ~/.zshrc)
hermes # start chatting!
Troubleshooting
Windows Defender or antivirus flags uv.exe as malware
If your antivirus (Bitdefender, Windows Defender, etc.) quarantines uv.exe from the Hermes bin folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\bin\uv.exe), this is a false positive. The file is Astral's uv — the Rust Python package manager Hermes bundles to manage its Python environment. ML-based antivirus engines commonly flag unsigned Rust binaries that download and install packages.
To verify your copy is authentic:
# Install GitHub CLI if needed
winget install --id GitHub.cli
# Login to GitHub
gh auth login
# Run verification
$uv = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\hermes\bin\uv.exe"
$ver = (& $uv --version).Split(' ')[1]
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
$zip = "$env:TEMP\uv.zip"
Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/$ver/uv-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -OutFile $zip -UseBasicParsing
gh attestation verify $zip --repo astral-sh/uv
Expand-Archive $zip "$env:TEMP\uv_x" -Force
(Get-FileHash "$env:TEMP\uv_x\uv.exe").Hash -eq (Get-FileHash $uv).Hash
If attestation says "Verification succeeded" and the last line prints True, you're good.
To whitelist Hermes:
- Windows Defender: Run PowerShell as Admin →
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\hermes\bin" - Bitdefender: Add an exception in the Bitdefender console (Protection > Antivirus > Settings > Manage Exceptions)
- Whitelist the folder, not the file hash — Hermes updates
uvand the hash changes every version
For more context, see the upstream Astral reports: astral-sh/uv#13553, astral-sh/uv#15011, astral-sh/uv#10079.
Getting Started
hermes # Interactive CLI — start a conversation
hermes model # Choose your LLM provider and model
hermes tools # Configure which tools are enabled
hermes config set # Set individual config values
hermes config get # Print individual config values
hermes gateway # Start the messaging gateway (Telegram, Discord, etc.)
hermes setup # Run the full setup wizard (configures everything at once)
hermes claw migrate # Migrate from OpenClaw (if coming from OpenClaw)
hermes update # Update to the latest version
hermes doctor # Diagnose any issues
Skip the API-key collection — Nous Portal
Hermes works with whatever provider you want — that's not changing. But if you'd rather not collect five separate API keys for the model, web search, image generation, TTS, and a cloud browser, Nous Portal covers all of them under one subscription:
- 300+ models — pick any of them with
/model <name> - Tool Gateway — web search (Firecrawl), image generation (FAL), text-to-speech (OpenAI), cloud browser (Browser Use), all routed through your sub. No extra accounts.
One command from a fresh install:
hermes setup --portal
That logs you in via OAuth, sets Nous as your provider, and turns on the Tool Gateway. Check what's wired up any time with hermes portal info. Full details on the Tool Gateway docs page.
You can still bring your own keys per-tool whenever you want — the gateway is per-backend, not all-or-nothing.
CLI vs Messaging Quick Reference
Hermes has two entry points: start the terminal UI with hermes, or run the gateway and talk to it from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, or Email. Once you're in a conversation, many slash commands are shared across both interfaces.
| Action | CLI | Messaging platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Start chatting | hermes |
Run hermes gateway setup + hermes gateway start, then send the bot a message |
| Start fresh conversation | /new or /reset |
/new or /reset |
| Change model | /model [provider:model] |
/model [provider:model] |
| Set a personality | /personality [name] |
/personality [name] |
| Retry or undo the last turn | /retry, /undo |
/retry, /undo |
| Compress context / check usage | /compress, /usage, /insights [--days N] |
/compress, /usage, /insights [days] |
| Browse skills | /skills or /<skill-name> |
/<skill-name> |
| Interrupt current work | Ctrl+C or send a new message |
/stop or send a new message |
| Platform-specific status | /platforms |
/status, /sethome |
For the full command lists, see the CLI guide and the Messaging Gateway guide.
Documentation
All documentation lives at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs:
| Section | What's Covered |
|---|---|
| Quickstart | Install → setup → first conversation in 2 minutes |
| CLI Usage | Commands, keybindings, personalities, sessions |
| Configuration | Config file, providers, models, all options |
| Messaging Gateway | Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Home Assistant |
| Security | Command approval, DM pairing, container isolation |
| Tools & Toolsets | 40+ tools, toolset system, terminal backends |
| Skills System | Procedural memory, Skills Hub, creating skills |
| Memory | Persistent memory, user profiles, best practices |
| MCP Integration | Connect any MCP server for extended capabilities |
| Cron Scheduling | Scheduled tasks with platform delivery |
| Context Files | Project context that shapes every conversation |
| Architecture | Project structure, agent loop, key classes |
| Contributing | Development setup, PR process, code style |
| CLI Reference | All commands and flags |
| Environment Variables | Complete env var reference |
Migrating from OpenClaw
If you're coming from OpenClaw, Hermes can automatically import your settings, memories, skills, and API keys.
During first-time setup: The setup wizard (hermes setup) automatically detects ~/.openclaw and offers to migrate before configuration begins.
Anytime after install:
hermes claw migrate # Interactive migration (full preset)
hermes claw migrate --dry-run # Preview what would be migrated
hermes claw migrate --preset user-data # Migrate without secrets
hermes claw migrate --overwrite # Overwrite existing conflicts
What gets imported:
- SOUL.md — persona file
- Memories — MEMORY.md and USER.md entries
- Skills — user-created skills →
~/.hermes/skills/openclaw-imports/ - Command allowlist — approval patterns
- Messaging settings — platform configs, allowed users, working directory
- API keys — allowlisted secrets (Telegram, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs)
- TTS assets — workspace audio files
- Workspace instructions — AGENTS.md (with
--workspace-target)
See hermes claw migrate --help for all options, or use the openclaw-migration skill for an interactive agent-guided migration with dry-run previews.
Contributing
We welcome contributions! See the Contributing Guide for development setup, code style, and PR process.
Quick start for contributors — use the standard installer, then work from the
full git checkout it creates at $HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent (usually
~/.hermes/hermes-agent). This matches the layout used by hermes update, the
managed venv, lazy dependencies, gateway, and docs tooling.
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
cd "${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}/hermes-agent"
uv pip install -e ".[all,dev]"
scripts/run_tests.sh
Manual clone fallback (for throwaway clones/CI where you intentionally do not want the managed install layout):
Create the venv outside the cloned source tree — a venv inside the directory the agent operates from can be wiped by a relative-path command the agent runs against its own checkout, destroying the running runtime mid-session.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv venv ~/.hermes/venvs/hermes-dev --python 3.11
source ~/.hermes/venvs/hermes-dev/bin/activate
uv pip install -e ".[all,dev]"
scripts/run_tests.sh
Community
- 💬 Discord
- 📚 Skills Hub
- 🐛 Issues
- 🔌 computer-use-linux — Linux desktop-control MCP server for Hermes and other MCP hosts, with AT-SPI accessibility trees, Wayland/X11 input, screenshots, and compositor window targeting.
- 🔌 HermesClaw — Community WeChat bridge: Run Hermes Agent and OpenClaw on the same WeChat account.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Built by Nous Research.