Profiles: Running Multiple Agents
Profiles: Running Multiple Agents Run multiple independent Hermes agents on the same machine — each with its own config, API keys, memory, sessions, skills, and
Run multiple independent Hermes agents on the same machine — each with its own config, API keys, memory, sessions, skills, and gateway state. A profile is a separate Hermes home directory. Each profile gets its own directory containing its own , , , memories, sessions, skills, cron jobs, and state database. …
What this page covers
- What are profiles?
- Quick start
- Creating a profile
- Blank profile
- Clone config only (--clone)
- Clone everything (--clone-all)
- Clone from a specific profile
- Using profiles
- Command aliases
- The -p flag
- Sticky default (hermes profile use)
- Knowing where you are
- Profiles vs workspaces vs sandboxing
- Running gateways
- Different bot tokens
- Safety: token locks
- Persistent services
- Configuring profiles
- From the dashboard
- Updating
- Managing profiles
- Deleting a profile
- Tab completion
- How it works
- Sharing profiles as distributions
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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