Hermes Agent Just Got a Desktop App (Anyone Can Run It Now)

Added: 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]Hermes is probably the most powerful AI agent that you could be running right now. It works for you all day. It's got its own memory and it writes its own skills the more that you use it. But up until this week, just to set it up, you had to go into the terminal, and if you're not a technical person, you take one look and you quit. Now, I've been running Hermes for months now, and the agent was never the hard part. Just getting everything installed and getting my actual setup to the way that I want it to be was the hard part. So, I've watched a ton of different people inside of my community just give up before they ever got to the good stuff. So Noose just dropped a desktop application to solve for that where you can just download it like any other application.

[00:00:34]It does the whole setup for you and a couple minutes later you're talking to it like a window that looks like this.

[00:00:39]There's no terminal needed to set this up. No code, none of that. So I'm going to be showing you guys four different things. Just what Hermes actually is and why this application is such a big deal.

[00:00:49]How the install just runs itself, how simple it actually is, and a quick walk through the application and then we'll connect it to Telegram and get it working for you. And look, if you can install Slack or any other simple application onto your computer, you can do this. I promise. Let's get into it.

[00:01:03]Now, really quick, before we install anything at all, let me just explain what this thing actually is, because it's exactly why this application matters so much. So, this is the Hermes repo. It's built by a research lab called News Research. It's open source and the star count at the top, 183,000, is actually pretty wild. So, for an open source agent, that is pretty massive.

[00:01:21]It's up there with open claw and their tagline. It pretty much sums it down.

[00:01:24]Their tagline down to the bottom. It pretty much sums up what this is. The agent that grows with you, Hermes, is in a chatbot that you open a tab and ask a question. It runs quietly in the background on your computer with its own memory. And every time it does a task for you, it writes a little note on how it actually pulled it off. So, next time it's going to be faster and it just gets better at being yours over time. Now, the catch with this, and it's the whole reason for this video, all of that power, everything that you're looking at here up until now, it lived behind the terminal. So, the commands, the setup wizard, the wiring things up by hand.

[00:01:57]And that's the wall that stopped most people completely cold and the biggest friction. So, that's exactly what this desktop application fixes. So, go ahead and head to this link. Either just pausing the video or you can grab it from the link down below in the description. And we're just going to scroll down a little bit. You can see we can download this for Mac OS. It already detected that that is the computer that I am using. It's actually one of the best looking website landing pages I have ever seen. So let's just do that now. So whenever you go through you download this on whatever respective machine you are using, it'll pull up once you actually open this up. Hermes agent obviously want to click on install and it's going to handle everything for us. So it's actually kind of magic. It's just setting everything up. So it's pulling down the agent. It's building the little environment that needs to run on your machine and then just getting everything ready to go. Basically all the stuff that you used to have to type in the terminal by hand. It just does all of it for you. So some of the things downloading Hermes agent, creating the Python virtual environment, installing the browser tool dependencies, installing the Hermes command, everything. Couple minutes later, everything's now set up and it says Hermes is ready and we can launch Hermes. Now from here, it's just going to continue the setup. Make sure everything's good to go. Start up Hermes for us. Fantastic. So once that is finished running another 5 seconds or so we will now have this interface everything loaded. It is strikingly similar to codeex or really any other IDE out there where we have the sessions up the top and then we have this um navigation bar on the right hand section. We can see all of our folders and everything that we can work inside of. On the lefth hand side we can see all of our sessions, some pinned things that we want to throw in there, anything that may be important, artifacts, messaging, skills and tools and starting a new session of course. Now this app itself it's completely free and it's open source. You just need a model. So the brain behind it. So I am going to be using chat GPT for mine. Noose also has their own subscription just with over about 300 different models. So if you want the easy allinone way or you can just plug it into Enthropic or whatever else you can use that API or open router is going to be great options. All of those work completely fine. Also noose they do give you a little bit of credits to try out but that's really just kicking the tires. So to really use it day-to-day, you're going to be on a cheap plan or just use your own key. And one thing before moving on that I did want to show off a little bit is the skills and tools. So out of the box, Hermes comes loaded with a stack of different skills and different tools, and I mean a lot of them. So mine's showing about 109 different skills right now. And all of these are sorted into different categories. We have Apple, autonomous AI, agents, creative, data science, everything all the way up until social media, note takingaking, uh media, I mean you name it. One thing that most people miss is that if you see how almost all of these are just switched on by default. So every skill that is on, it is a little extra weight that the agent actually carries around.

[00:04:40]And that can quietly cost you tokens, which is real money. So I just go down the list and I should be switching off the stuff that I'm never going to be touching. So let me go ahead and do that. Now, right next to this skills tab is going to be the tool sets. So these are the actual abilities all grouped up.

[00:04:56]So anything like file operations so that it can actually you know like read and write files vision so it can just look at images and memory and task delegation so it can spit up just little helper agents to work in parallel. So it's the same thing you can flip them on and off whichever ones you do not need. Highly recommend first thing to just switch off whatever you're not going to be using because again it'll make it a little bit more expensive and just take a little bit longer for you to be running any outputs. And by the way, a few of them do say that they need keys, which just means that you would plug in a key to switch that one on and off. And one more thing that I love is this is also where the skills that it writes for itself is going to be showing up inside of this section. So the little playbooks it's going to be saving as it learns how you actually work moving forward. Next piece is messaging. And this is the one that kind of got me because this is where you hook Hermes up to the chat applications that you can talk to it from anywhere.

[00:05:49]It is so extremely simple. I cannot even fathom it. The list that they actually have of everything in here, it's actually pretty long and very extensive.

[00:05:56]So, Discord, Telegram, Slack, Mattermost. I haven't even heard of a majority of these. They have Twilio, email. So, I mean, we can text and email any of our customers or any prospects.

[00:06:06]Um, a lot of these I haven't even heard of. Uh, we chat is big popular one.

[00:06:10]Google chat, you name it. So, effectively, wherever you currently talk right now, you can drop your agent in there. So, you can just pick one of these. Gives you a little setup guide right here. here. So, we can go to literally any one of them. We'll find any setup guide for each respective channel and we'll be able to follow that, be able to paste in our tokens, whatever it may be, and connect. We're going to be doing Telegram specifically together in just a minute. So, you'll see exactly how it works. Next up from there is going to be the artifacts. Now, the artifacts, it's effectively the home for everything that comes out of your sessions. So, the files that it builds, any images or anything that you have, it is going to be saving. So the files that it builds, any images, anything that you have it saved, it all collects it just right here. So you're not digging back through an old chat trying to find, you know, that one thing, whatever it may be. Once again, now below this, if we go down to the bottom left hand section, you can see we have this status bar. So gateway, that's just going to be your your messaging connection. We'll come back to it. And then we have the agents right next to that. Of course, we don't have any live sub agents right here right now, but this is just going to be showing any helper agents running right now. And then if we close out of this, we then have the Chrome. So, this is just the handy one where anytime you set up a job to run on a schedule, it lands right here in the Chrome where you can see, you know, anything. You can pause it, test it, or click in, and you can edit any one of these. We can create on a new one. We currently have a weekly X-Profile growth review. Now, funny thing is is I set up this months ago where I would set up my Hermes agent through the terminal and it's now recognizing that I already have everything set up. So, it's just taking all of that. So, if you do have a previous terminal set up with everything, there's not really much you have to do as long as you go through the uh entire setup that I just showed you guys. But anyways, if you back out of that, move all the way to the bottom right, we can see the model that we are currently running. This makes things so much easier because previously I would have to go back in the terminal, see all the different models that I had by, you know, opening up my config, opening up the settings, and it's just I didn't memorize all the different commands and things that I had to paste in. I would always have to speak with another AI system, another AI model, try to figure it out. But everything here, it's now concise, and I can literally just go back and forth because I already have my open router set up and I have my OpenAI uh chatpt subscription plugged in here as well. So, I can just easily navigate back and forth through each one.

[00:08:29]Extremely simple. So much better. Now, outside of that, we have our settings and the settings in here. It's effectively just going to be like the control room for the entire thing. So, I'm not going to walk through every single tab, but there are a few that are worth knowing. So, this is just where, of course, you manage your model and your providers. So, the account or the key that's actually going to be powering it, you plug it in here. Next up is going to be the appearance. So, this is just going to be your themes. And there's a memory and a context tab, which is the one that I would actually be be pointing you to. So, this section right here, if it ever feels like your agent is forgetting some things, this is where you tune how it remembers. So, you can just tweak these and nudge these a little bit, and it's going to hold on to stuff way better for you depending on what you change specifically. And one of the last things down in this about section right here, this is just where you can see whatever version that you are on. And the nice part is it checks for updates on its own and it tells you when there's a new one, so you're never going to be stuck on something old.

[00:09:24]Okay, like I mentioned, we're going to be using Telegram. We can see instead of the messaging, we are already connected.

[00:09:30]How you can actually set this up for yourself. Of course, you can just open up the setup guide, but you're going to grab your bot token from Telegram.

[00:09:36]Simply just open up Telegram, create a new contact, and search for BotFather, and it's going to present you with a code once you enter in the name that you want to name your bot. Simple as that.

[00:09:45]So, once you get that set up, we are going to get into the actual builds. And I want to show you how to do something with this. So, we're just going to create a brand new session and ask it to just build me something little. So what I'm going to ask is build me a simple onepage countdown timer to a date that I give you clean look dark background big numbers save the file when you are done.

[00:10:01]So right now you of course just like any other AI model like claude or maybe like GPT it is just going to be thinking it through picking its tools or writing the thing and then running it. And this is the part that I really like about the new app is you can finally see what it's doing instead of just staring at a blank chat which was super annoying with just using it inside of Telegram. So, from now on, I'm only going to use Telegram when I actually have to just use my phone and I'm not at my desk. Now, anyways, it's asking what date should we do the countdown. So, let's just do um New Year's Eve. Beyond that, if we click on any one of these little tabs, we can expand on any one of these and we can see what's actually going on inside of that beyond what I was just talking about. Just like that, we now have our output. We can just click on the previews inside of here. Super easy to navigate. There's our HTML. And it looks like okay, no, there's both two outputs, but we just got one. So, it's exactly what we are looking for. Beyond that, if we go inside of our artifact section, we should be able to see it inside of here.

[00:10:56]So, if I just filter, I don't know why all of these ones are coming up specifically because none of these are mine. It looks like it's some sort of community. But if we just scroll down here, we can see our HTML right here and all of our other previous ones.

[00:11:09]Beautiful. Now, what I want to build is something that runs every single morning on its own. And this is where it stops being a simple chat tool. And it turns into something that's actually going to be working for you while you are asleep.

[00:11:18]And the wild part is you just set it up by just asking. So I'm going to say is every weekday at 7 a.m. grab the top three AI news stories from the last 24 hours and send me a short summary of each one. So Hermes, what it's going to do from right here, it's going to think, run its crown tool, and reply with just a results card laying out the schedule, the next run. And that is just going to be repeating forever. So just like that, in just 28 milliseconds, done. It's scheduled. Here's the job. Here's the schedule. the next run, the delivery, and even a job ID. So, with that, I built a scheduled job. We can open up our skills and tools. It's like that. If we open up our Chrome, going down to the bottom left, we should see it pop up here right now. And we can also open this up. We can trigger it now, edit it, the frequency, who to deliver this to, whether we want to deliver to Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, and when we want this to be running down at the bottom.

[00:12:03]Now, one thing that I do have to be honest about this is this runs on your computer. So, that job only fires when your computer is on. So if you do shut your laptop, it is going to sleep and the agent sleeps right with it. So if you want this every morning, no matter what, you have to put it on a machine that stays on. For example, I have another Mac Mini in my other room which is just always on every single day, in which case it's running Hermes for me.

[00:12:25]Or if you just want to run this on a VPS, you can use something like Hostinger or you can use Herzner.

[00:12:31]There's a lot of different options in which case you can put Hermes on a VPS, but there's pros and cons to each one of those, but we have covered that in previous videos. Now, another great thing about this is the cross functionality. So, if I'm in Telegram, maybe I'm on phone, I can just type out, I need you to say hello back to me. So, we type this out. We're going to get our hello back. And if we just go back into our Hermes application, we should see that um that session in just a second.

[00:12:57]If we actually refresh it here. So, we have the simple greeting. Perfect. Now, everything is just translated back in here. So, we now have a cross functionality. So, that's everything that I wanted to cover. And I want to be straight with you about where this is still a little rough because it is brand new. So, it's an early public preview.

[00:13:12]So, pretty much all of this, it's moving fast and things will change. And the two catches that I already mentioned still stand. But the free credit, it's just a trial and your scheduled jobs only run while your computer is on. And if you want something for heavy serious coding all day, this isn't just trying to be that. Here's the point. Instead, Hermes has been one of the most capable agents out there for a while now. And the only thing holding it back was that you basically had to be a terminal person just to switch it on. And that wall is now completely gone. You just download an app, you click through it, and you're running it. And that's a genuinely big deal. And is exactly why I wanted to get this in front of you. So, if you go set this up, drop a comment, tell me which one you built first and the little application or the morning brief. If you guys are going to be using this, setting this up for yourself, having it be kind of like your main harness, let me know down in the comments. I'm very curious.

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