How I Deploy a Hermes Agent on a Blank VPS in 2 Minutes
A walkthrough of hermes-bootstrap — an open-source CLI + Web UI that takes a fresh, unconfigured VPS from zero to a hardened, production-ready Hermes Agent in one guided deploy: swap, Docker, SSH hardening, UFW, Fail2Ban, Telegram alerts, and the agent itself, with automatic rollback on failure.
How to Become a Hermes Agent Operator
Learn how to operate and master Hermes Agent: set up the agent control room template, configure specialist agents, and grow from one agent to a whole marketing company running on a single VPS you control from your phone.
Hermes Flightplan #1: The Ultimate Zero to Always-On Telegram AI Agent
A complete, copy-paste path to a Hermes Agent you message from your phone over Telegram — one that keeps running after you close the laptop and comes back on its own after a crash or reboot. Written from two real builds: a cheap Hetzner VPS and a Mac Mini M4. One route, with the box only changing two things: the install command and the layer that keeps the gateway alive. Verified against Hermes Agent v0.16.0.
How to Become a Hermes Agent Operator
Go from a single Hermes install to a control room orchestrating a team of specialist agents on one cheap VPS. Covers install, memory and SOUL.md, the orchestrator pattern, messaging surfaces, cron, and the operator mindset that makes it all compound.
Hermes + Polymarket: A Self-Learning Up/Down Trading Agent
A step-by-step guide to building a self-learning Hermes agent that trades Polymarket 5-minute up/down crypto markets — VPS setup, Telegram control, CLOB v2 execution, and a self-improving loop that adjusts probability estimates from live results.