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Run Hermes Locally with Ollama — Zero API Cost

The Problem Cloud LLM APIs charge per token. A heavy coding session can cost $5–20. For personal projects, learning, or privacy sensitive work, that adds up — a

Cloud LLM APIs charge per token. A heavy coding session can cost $5–20. For personal projects, learning, or privacy-sensitive work, that adds up — and you're sending every conversation to a third party. You'll set up Hermes Agent running entirely on your own hardware, using Ollama as the model backend. …

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Tips & Best Practices

A quick wins collection of practical tips that make you immediately more effective with Hermes Agent. Each section targets a different aspect — scan the headers

Run Local LLMs on Mac

This guide walks you through running a local LLM server on macOS with an OpenAI compatible API. You get full privacy, zero API costs, and surprisingly good perf

Tutorial: Daily Briefing Bot

Tutorial: Build a Daily Briefing Bot In this tutorial, you'll build a personal briefing bot that wakes up every morning, researches topics you care about, summa

Tutorial: Team Telegram Assistant

Set Up a Team Telegram Assistant This tutorial walks you through setting up a Telegram bot powered by Hermes Agent that multiple team members can use. By the en

Using Hermes as a Python Library

Hermes isn't just a CLI tool. You can import directly and use it programmatically in your own Python scripts, web applications, or automation pipelines. This gu

Use MCP with Hermes

This guide shows how to actually use MCP with Hermes Agent in day to day workflows. If the feature page explains what MCP is, this guide is about how to get val

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