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feat(desktop): add Webhooks page for subscription CRUD (#69687)
* feat(desktop): add Webhooks page for subscription CRUD

Brings the desktop GUI to parity with the dashboard's Webhooks page.
Adds a /webhooks route that lists webhook subscriptions, enables the
webhook gateway platform, and creates/toggles/deletes subscriptions,
hitting the same /api/webhooks* endpoints the dashboard and CLI use.

- types/hermes.ts: WebhookRoute, WebhooksResponse, WebhookCreatePayload,
  WebhookCreateResponse, WebhookEnableResponse
- hermes.ts: getWebhooks, enableWebhooks, createWebhook, deleteWebhook,
  setWebhookEnabled (profile-scoped) + type re-exports
- app/webhooks/index.tsx: WebhooksView (enable card, restart banner,
  subscription list with copy/toggle/delete, create dialog with
  one-time secret reveal); optimistic toggle, profile re-home
- routing: routes.ts, contrib/surfaces.tsx, chat/route-tile.tsx
- nav: command palette, keybinds (nav.webhooks), sidebar row
- i18n: en + zh full, types interface; ja/zh-hant fall back to English
- test: webhooks-rest.test.ts covers the REST helper contracts

* feat(desktop): surface Webhooks in the status bar instead of nav

Moves the Webhooks entry point from the sidebar nav / command palette /
keybind to a status bar action next to Cron, matching where scheduled
jobs live. The /webhooks route, page, and REST helpers are unchanged.

- use-statusbar-items.tsx: add webhooks action (Globe icon) after cron
- i18n: shell.statusbar.webhooks / openWebhooks (en, zh, types)
- revert nav wiring: sidebar row, command palette entry, nav.webhooks
  keybind action + label, commandCenter.nav webhooks entry

* feat(desktop): add skills field to webhook create form

Exposes the backend's per-subscription skills list in the create dialog
(comma-separated) and shows skill badges on subscription rows, so this
page covers the skill-backed endpoint case as well as general CRUD.

- create form: Skills input; passes skills[] to createWebhook
- rows: render skill badges
- i18n: fieldSkills / fieldSkillsPlaceholder (en, zh, types)

Consolidates the skill-endpoint framing from #42817.

Co-authored-by: LionGateOS <98371158+LionGateOS@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop): render Webhooks as an overlay instead of a full page

Webhooks took over the whole workspace/chat pane because 'webhooks' was
missing from OVERLAY_VIEWS, so it routed through PageSearchShell while
cron rendered through the Panel overlay. Add it to OVERLAY_VIEWS and wire
it up like cron: mount WebhooksView as a floating overlay in wiring.tsx,
render null for the webhooks route in the workspace table, and convert
WebhooksView from PageSearchShell to the Panel primitive with an onClose.
Drop webhooks from route-tile BUILTIN_PAGES so it can't be tiled as a
page either.

* fix(desktop): place webhook URL copy button next to the URL

The URL span used flex-1, stretching it across the row and pushing the
copy button to the far right. Drop flex-1 so the span sizes to content
and the copy button sits directly after the URL.

* fix(desktop): top-align the deliver-only checkbox with its wrapped label

The label used h-9 items-center, centering the checkbox against the
two-line hint text. Switch to items-start so the checkbox aligns to the
first line.

* feat(desktop): give Webhooks a cron-style master/detail layout

Replace the single-column subscription list with the same Panel
master/detail cron uses: a left PanelList of subscription rows (status
dot + kebab menu) capped by a PanelAddButton, and a right PanelDetail
showing the selected subscription's deliver/events/skills, URL with copy,
description, and prompt. Enable/restart banners sit above the body; the
empty state keeps its own New subscription action.

* fix(desktop): drop header on the Webhooks empty state to match cron

The zero-subscriptions state still rendered the PanelHeader with the
title and the refresh/new buttons on the right. Remove it so the empty
state is just the centered PanelEmpty (icon, message, New subscription),
matching the cron empty state. Also drop the header from the loading
state.

* fix(desktop): top-align deliver-only checkbox and its wrapped label

Drop the min-h-9/pt-1.5 baseline shim that pushed the row down and made
the wrapped hint look misaligned. Use plain items-start with a mt-0.5 on
the checkbox so it sits at the first line, and wrap the hint in a
leading-snug span.

* fix(desktop): drop header refresh/new buttons; + button owns create flow

The populated Webhooks header carried a refresh icon and a New
subscription button. Remove both — the PanelAddButton at the bottom of
the list is the create flow, matching cron. Profile-change reload and the
refresh hotkey still run; the restart banner keeps its own refresh.

* fix(desktop): nudge deliver-only checkbox down 2px

Bump the checkbox top margin from mt-0.5 to mt-[4px] so it sits level
with the first line of the wrapped hint.

* refactor(desktop): reuse shared primitives on the Webhooks page

Address OutThisLife's review — stop reinventing primitives the app
already ships:
- copy: drop the local navigator.clipboard button for the shared
  CopyButton (routes through the Electron clipboard bridge + haptic +
  error state instead of swallowing failures)
- banners: enable/restart callouts now use Alert variant=warning
  (primary color-mix tokens) instead of a hand-rolled amber palette
- toggle: detail Enable/Disable is a Switch (messaging idiom), not a
  text ghost button
- checkbox: create dialog uses the Checkbox primitive, not a raw input

Rows/chips already moved to PanelListRow/PanelDetail/PanelPill in the
earlier cron-layout pass. Left the main-list fetch on manual load and
the local Field helper: cron itself does both, so useQuery here would
diverge from the reference idiom rather than align with it.

* refactor(desktop): move Webhooks fetch to the react-query layer

Replace the manual useState/useEffect load with useQuery keyed by
['webhooks', profileScope] — profile change re-fetches automatically, no
effect. reload() invalidates the query; the optimistic toggle writes the
cache via queryClient.setQueryData then invalidates so backend truth
wins. Load failures surface via an error-watching effect (react-query v5
dropped useQuery onError). Refresh hotkey calls refetch().

Left the create-dialog Field helper as-is: settings ListRow is a
side-by-side settings row, wrong for a stacked dialog form, and cron's
editor dialog (the reference) defines the same local Field.

* refactor(desktop): drop bespoke Field for shared ListRow/ToggleRow

Remove the local Field wrapper entirely. Every create-dialog field now
uses settings ListRow (wide, so label stacks over the full-width
control), the deliver-only pref uses ToggleRow (ListRow + Switch, haptic
baked in) instead of a bare Checkbox, and the created URL/secret reveal
rows use ListRow too. No component in this file is hand-rolled anymore.

* fix(desktop): pair webhook create fields into a 2-column layout

The single-column dialog scrolled awkwardly. Group fields: name +
description side by side, prompt full-width under them, events + skills
side by side, deliver-to + deliver-only side by side. Drop the
deliver-only help text and rename the label to 'Deliver payload only'
(remove the now-unused fieldDeliverOnlyHint i18n key from en/zh/types).

* fix(desktop): align Webhooks page with cron conventions and DESIGN.md

- Delete copy uses deleteDescPrefix + bolded name + deleteDescSuffix (no em-dash)
- Drop the duplicated detail-header Switch + Trash2; enable/disable and delete
  live only in the row kebab, matching CronJobDetail
- Collapse three copyable-value chromes into one flat token-backed CopyValueRow
- Delete success toast gains a w.deleted title
- Replace hand-rolled delete Dialog with shared ConfirmDialog

---------

Co-authored-by: LionGateOS <98371158+LionGateOS@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-24 14:06:10 -04:00
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acp_adapter fix(gateway): guard chained .get() against None intermediate values 2026-07-23 12:01:24 -07:00
agent fix(fallback): allow xai-oauth → xai failover on shared host/model 2026-07-24 23:22:11 +05:30
apps feat(desktop): add Webhooks page for subscription CRUD (#69687) 2026-07-24 14:06:10 -04:00
assets Update banner image to new version 2026-02-25 11:53:44 -08:00
contributors chore: add contributor email mapping for agent@hermes.dev -> webtecnica 2026-07-24 23:07:57 +05:30
cron fix(gateway): deliver relay-backed homes after restart 2026-07-24 10:45:13 -07:00
datagen-config-examples feat: add WebResearchEnv RL environment for multi-step web research 2026-03-05 14:34:36 +00:00
docker fix(docker): strip tini -g flags in legacy entrypoint shim 2026-07-18 01:11:03 -07:00
docs fix(relay): restore streaming delivery, Slack command parity, and status clearing (salvage of #69716) (#69747) 2026-07-23 12:51:13 +10:00
gateway fix(gateway): deliver relay-backed homes after restart 2026-07-24 10:45:13 -07:00
hermes_cli fix(tui_gateway): recover custom provider identity from the session's model name 2026-07-24 10:47:32 -07:00
infograficos docs(bedrock): add cachePoint architecture infographic 2026-07-23 11:45:07 -07:00
infographic feat(reasoning): add max and ultra effort levels (#62650) 2026-07-12 00:26:49 -07:00
locales feat(i18n): add Arabic (ar) catalog for agent/CLI messages 2026-07-24 12:10:03 -05:00
native/fts5_cjk feat(state): messages_fts_cjk — CJK-bigram index on the v23 external-content layout 2026-07-22 07:56:47 -07:00
nix fix(timeline): persist typed display events (#69771) 2026-07-23 14:46:24 -04:00
optional-mcps feat(mcp): enforce exact version pins across the whole MCP catalog 2026-07-15 04:56:25 -07:00
optional-skills fix(skills): sync bundled + misc CLI skills to current upstream 2026-07-24 08:29:59 -07:00
plugins fix(telegram): prevent connect hang with retry watchdog and fresh app per attempt (#67498) 2026-07-24 23:07:57 +05:30
providers feat(providers): Support DeepInfra as an LLM provider 2026-07-14 02:59:39 +05:30
scripts Reapply "Merge pull request #30179 from NousResearch/feat/iron-proxy" 2026-07-24 09:49:00 -07:00
skills fix(skills): sync bundled + misc CLI skills to current upstream 2026-07-24 08:29:59 -07:00
tests test: tighten spawn-rewrite assertions and add PTY-path coverage 2026-07-24 23:23:19 +05:30
tests-js ci(js-tests): split check into parallel matrix shards per workspace (#70252) 2026-07-23 18:45:16 -04:00
tools fix: apply _rewrite_compound_background in spawn_local to prevent worker deadlock on server backgrounding 2026-07-24 23:07:57 +05:30
tui_gateway fix(tui_gateway): recover custom provider identity from the session's model name 2026-07-24 10:47:32 -07:00
ui-tui fmt(js): npm run fix on merge (#70455) 2026-07-24 01:58:39 +00:00
web feat(web): add Arabic (ar) locale with RTL support 2026-07-24 12:10:00 -05:00
website fix(api): gate bare-model passthrough + route-alias model leak 2026-07-24 09:54:08 -07:00
.dockerignore rip out brew + pip/PyPI wheel support (#68217) 2026-07-22 16:51:01 -04:00
.env.example feat(agent): add Upstage Solar as a model provider 2026-07-15 00:09:24 +05:30
.envrc feat(install): warn pip/Homebrew installs are unsupported (CLI, TUI, desktop) (#57225) 2026-07-07 21:13:19 -07:00
.gitattributes chore: enforce LF line endings for container entrypoints (#12181) 2026-06-05 09:54:01 +10:00
.gitignore chore(gitignore): ignore installer .install_method stamp (salvage of #54855) (#67364) 2026-07-22 14:40:44 -04:00
.hadolint.yaml feat(docker): remove gosu from bundled image; s6-setuidgid handles privilege drop 2026-05-24 18:05:33 -07:00
.mailmap chore: add MestreY0d4-Uninter to AUTHOR_MAP and .mailmap 2026-04-15 15:03:28 -07:00
.prettierignore fix(ci): js-autofix pushes via PR instead of direct push to main (#65186) 2026-07-15 17:19:19 -04:00
.prettierrc refactor(lint): hoist shared eslint + prettier config to root 2026-07-16 01:42:02 +05:30
AGENTS.md feat(delegation): let subagents use execute_code (#69325) 2026-07-22 06:58:45 -07:00
batch_runner.py feat(reasoning): add max and ultra effort levels (#62650) 2026-07-12 00:26:49 -07:00
cli-config.yaml.example feat(gateway): opt-in compression progress notices via compression.progress_notices (#52995) (#70457) 2026-07-23 19:44:19 -07:00
cli.py Reapply "Merge pull request #30179 from NousResearch/feat/iron-proxy" 2026-07-24 09:49:00 -07:00
constraints-termux.txt feat: add tested Termux install path and EOF-aware gh auth 2026-04-09 16:24:53 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.es.md docs(i18n): align translated CONTRIBUTING files with pyproject Python range (3.11-3.13) 2026-07-08 07:09:23 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md docs: correct Python support to 3.11-3.13 (#59572) 2026-07-06 04:38:07 -07:00
docker-compose.windows.yml feat(docker): add Windows Docker Desktop compatible compose file 2026-05-23 21:52:34 +05:30
docker-compose.yml docs(compose): update entrypoint comment for s6-overlay 2026-05-24 18:05:33 -07:00
Dockerfile fix(docker): strip tini -g flags in legacy entrypoint shim 2026-07-18 01:11:03 -07:00
eslint.config.shared.mjs fix(ci): js-autofix pushes via PR instead of direct push to main (#65186) 2026-07-15 17:19:19 -04:00
flake.lock fix(nix): follow root pyproject inputs 2026-07-05 13:53:20 -07:00
flake.nix fix(nix): follow root pyproject inputs 2026-07-05 13:53:20 -07:00
hermes fix: use argparse entrypoint in top-level launcher (#3874) 2026-03-29 21:54:36 -07:00
hermes-already-has-routines.md docs: stop recommending pip install; curl installer is the only supported path (#51743) 2026-06-24 00:14:32 -07:00
hermes_bootstrap.py revert(windows): roll back terminal-popup PRs #53791 #53810 #53829 (#53853) 2026-06-27 15:59:00 -07:00
hermes_constants.py rip out brew + pip/PyPI wheel support (#68217) 2026-07-22 16:51:01 -04:00
hermes_logging.py fix(logging): thread-safe queue state + bounded hard-exit drain + record copy 2026-07-05 11:44:53 +05:30
hermes_state.py feat(sessions): opt-in auto-archive of stale sessions + durable pin flag 2026-07-24 10:45:34 -05:00
hermes_time.py perf(cli): TTFT round 2 — live reasoning by default, partial-line streaming, prompt-build cache, stale budget-warning docs (#59389) 2026-07-06 00:16:38 -07:00
LICENSE fix: restore missing MIT license file 2026-03-07 13:43:08 -08:00
mcp_serve.py refactor: consolidate gateway session metadata into state.db (#58899) 2026-07-05 14:01:03 -07:00
mini_swe_runner.py fix(swe-runner): move logging.basicConfig out of Runner __init__ into main 2026-06-21 19:02:06 -07:00
model_tools.py fix(kanban): isolate delegated children from parent task 2026-07-23 07:33:36 -07:00
package-lock.json chore(desktop): drop unrelated assistant-ui bump + lockfile churn 2026-07-22 06:50:50 -07:00
package.json test: port workspace-level JS tests to a new js-tests workspace package 2026-07-15 17:24:12 -04:00
pyproject.toml rip out brew + pip/PyPI wheel support (#68217) 2026-07-22 16:51:01 -04:00
README.es.md feat(i18n): add complete Spanish translation 2026-06-20 23:23:47 -07:00
README.md feat(config): add get and unset commands 2026-07-16 05:44:43 -07:00
README.ur-pk.md docs: add Urdu translation of README (#40578) 2026-06-08 06:15:27 +05:30
README.zh-CN.md docs(README.zh-CN): update Windows install from 'not supported' to native PowerShell 2026-06-20 20:42:49 -07:00
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run_agent.py fix(auth): stop stale-key credential recovery loops 2026-07-24 22:58:47 +05:30
SECURITY.es.md feat(i18n): add complete Spanish translation 2026-06-20 23:23:47 -07:00
SECURITY.md docs(security): enumerate cron job scripts in §2.3 credential scoping 2026-06-20 00:30:42 +05:30
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setup.py rip out brew + pip/PyPI wheel support (#68217) 2026-07-22 16:51:01 -04:00
sqlite_leak_fix.png docs: add SQLite FD leak infographic and report updates for #69678 2026-07-23 11:45:07 -07:00
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toolsets.py docs(xai): clarify x_search vs xurl routing without schema cross-refs 2026-07-23 21:06:47 -07:00
trajectory_compressor.py fix(compaction): skip compression when it can't reduce tokens 2026-07-23 16:21:03 -07:00
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Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent ☤

Hermes Agent | Hermes Desktop

Documentation Discord License: MIT Built by Nous Research 中文 اردو Español

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 interfaceFull TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output.
Lives where you doTelegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity.
A closed learning loopAgent-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 automationsBuilt-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language, running unattended.
Delegates and parallelizesSpawn 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 laptopSix 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-readyBatch 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 ~/.hermes as 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 uv and 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

📖 Full documentation →


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.