Vision & Image Paste
Vision & Image Paste Hermes Agent supports multimodal vision — you can paste images from your clipboard directly into the CLI and ask the agent to analyze, desc
Hermes Agent supports multimodal vision — you can paste images from your clipboard directly into the CLI and ask the agent to analyze, describe, or work with them. Images are sent to the model as base64-encoded content blocks, so any vision-capable model can process them. 1. Copy an image to your clipboard (screenshot, browser image, etc.) 2. …
What this page covers
- How It Works
- Paste Methods
- /paste Command
- Ctrl+V / Cmd+V
- /terminal-setup for VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf
- Platform Compatibility
- Platform-Specific Setup
- macOS
- Linux (X11)
- Linux (Wayland)
- WSL2
- SSH & Remote Sessions
- Workarounds for SSH
- Why Terminals Can't Paste Images
- Supported Models
- Image Routing (Vision-Capable vs Text-Only Models)
- visionanalyze has the same dual behavior
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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