Hermes Agent

Works with the CLI alone. No gander.md account.

Hermes Agent is a personal AI agent by Nous Research. It runs across a CLI, a desktop app, and messaging platforms, and it is open source and model-agnostic.

Nous Research's Hermes Agent loads skills from ~/.hermes/skills (and often .agents/skills / ~/.agents/skills). gander skill already links ~/.agents/skills/gander. Add a Hermes dest symlink if the session does not list Gander.

1. Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://release.gander.md/install.sh | bash
gander --version

After Homebrew or a source build, run gander skill.

mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.hermes/skills/gander
ls -l ~/.agents/skills/gander/SKILL.md

Restart Hermes. Ask it to list skills.

3. Sign up and add MCP

gander signup --email [email protected]

Add a stdio MCP server named gander, command gander, args mcp, in Hermes MCP / tools settings.

4. Use it

  1. Ask Hermes for a plan as markdown, then gander this file.
  2. gander watch plan.md after signup.
  3. Send the hosted URL.
  4. @agent comments are MCP inbox work.

Fallback: gander comments.

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments
ls ~/.hermes/skills/gander

More: Skill, MCP, Hosted watch.