hermes recipes

working configs and scripts from my Hermes Agent walkthroughs. everything here ran on real hardware before it landed: a Mac Mini M4 that runs Hermes Agent 24/7, and an RTX 5090 Linux box for local inference.

Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source agent: autonomous skill creation, persistent memory with cross-session recall, cron jobs, MCP support, 20+ messaging gateways. docs.

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every command in a recipe ran on real hardware before publishing. no copy-paste from docs, no untested steps, no "should work". if a step has not been tested, it does not ship here.

recipes

• 24/7 Hermes Agent on a Mac Mini M4: the launchd gotcha and watchdog, the [SILENT] cron pattern, a git-synced workspace, the human-in-the-loop approval rule
• Hermes Agent on a cheap VPS: the secure-box hardening script, the install one-liner, driving it over tmux, the systemd setup that survives a reboot
• lock down a self-hosted Hermes Agent: what the gateway, dashboard, and API server expose, secret hygiene, backup/restore, least-privilege scoping, an exposure-audit script

also here

• threads & cards: the Wingtips tips, heads-up cards, and builder spotlights, collected in one place
• changelog: what shipped in Hermes Agent and how to use it, in my words

found a problem with a recipe? open an issue. I fix what I ship.