r/hermesagent

I considered cost effectiveness as my main motive here. I tried various tasks (Web scraping, advanced research analytics, Software development, LLM inference enhancments, etc ) and the best were as following

1-GPT 5.5 (by far)

2-Kimi k2.6

3-GLM 5.1

4-Minimax M2.7

5-Qwen 3.6 Max

6- Any Gemini model

(For local models, Qwen 3.6 35B A3B is the top option. Qwen 3.6 27B dense is good but too slow for my workflow.)

GPT 5.5 is a real advancement over 5.4. It is the most expensive but having to wait 18 hours for a statisical research analysis with GLM 5.1 while GPT took less than an hour, that's a clear choice. I am not wasating 18 hours just to save 10$

I have tried Sonnet 4.6. It is awesome but cost is really high so i excluded it.

The subiscriptions that I find best (cost effectiveness as my main motive, again)

1-OpenAI 20$

2-Opencode Go 10$

3-Minimax 10$

4-Kimi's 20$ plan

5-GLM 18$ (if you have olde 3$ annual plan, it would go 2nd place)

Chinese models are awesome. GLM kept getting stuck in loops all the time. Kimi will start getting good then the 5-hour quota kicks in. Minimax is... fine? It needs excellent prompting to work as desired. GPT 5.5 was the beast in software development, scraping, analysis and multi-steps cron jobs.

Having my agent check why my context is so big and it's running into issues. This was not a big deal in earlier versions of Hermes. Any suggestions?

I’m gonna keep this short but I had to come and share this knowledge with y’all because it’s a massive unlock but I see hardly anyone talking about this setup.

Install Claude Code on your VPS or Mac mini that you have Hermes running on, and have it be your personal Hermes builder, doctor, advisor, whatever (genuinely endless possibilities).

Today after almost giving up on Hermes for the 10th time I just thought “fuck it”, installed Claude on the VPS, pointed it to the .hermes root directory and asked it to fix all the bugs, and it pretty much one shotted it.

The bonus is that you can use your Claude subscription and not burn through tokens.

Now I consider my Hermes to be my autonomous executor and the place that all my agents, scripts, skills etc live, it has my API keys, my second brain, and is of course my gateway via Telegram, but Claude Code is now where I do much of the building.

I highly recommend this setup.

disclaimer: I'm a web developer (who knows a thing or do on how things work)

I setup hermes (on Hostinger) to check two real estate websites (greek market) for new properties. Long story short: the platforms do have their own notification system but somehow it never worked for us (slow to notify or asks for a premium sub or whatnot).

I'm using Deepseek (flash/pro) as a model of choice (direct api, not openrouter).

I've had the following issues:

- random captcha (solved with Firecrawl)
- random no captcha but no content returned (WAF/empty content) (with FIrecrawl)
- Camofox : deepseek has no vision / isnt multi modal, doesn't work as Camofox takes a screenshot of the page and then sends it as an image to the model

I also tried Chrome headless, also run into anti-bot protections.

I looked into the long running thread, followed some of the advice there.

It would literally be faster if I actually just checked the websites myself once per day 😃

I've been running Hermes using Owl Alpha via OpenRouter lately, and I’ve been really impressed with the results so far. Has anyone else given it a try? I’m just curious to hear

I have one OpenClaw running on my laptop and another one managed hosted by KiloClaw, and it fits well into my current workflow without any problem yet

I’m planning to try the Hermes agent and possibly replace my local one with it, since I keep hearing about harmess everywhere that it can learn skills by itself and more.

For people who have tried both, can you tell me how they differ? Also, is it possible to transfer my local OpenClaw memory to Hermes?

I've seen so many posts on here that are just thinly veiled attempts at someone who knows nothing trying to get help/ideas on setting up Hermes to badger people with sales/marketing, making slop content, vibe code slop apps, trade shares/crypto, and everything else they can think of to try and extract value and money from others outside of producing better goods and services.

Is anyone using Hermes to do good in the world? I wanna hear from you.

Wrote a deep dive into my Hermes & Obsidian setup.

It covers everything from what I actually use it for, what I've experimented with, the principles behind this evolving system, the breakdown of my entire setup, and tons of resources & tools & tips for getting started on your own.

hi all, i’ve been using personal agents for a while now and they’re pretty good at some things and really bad at others. one thing that annoys me is that i always felt like they never really understood my vibe.

what does that even mean? well they’re really good at doing what they’re told to do, but sometimes youre just looking to explore options, and don’t really know what you’re looking for. in cases like these i feel like its really important for you to define what you consider good “taste”, otherwise you’ll end up with subpar results.

for example: i can give an agent an image and tell it to create a workflow to shop for the specific items in that image. it’s good at things like that. OR, i can tell an agent to go shop for me, and it doesn’t know wtf to even look for because it doesn’t know what i consider “good” and completely misses the mark.

i’m building for that second use case and would really love to get feedback for anyone interested! happy to compensate for your time.

here’s our landing page: https://inspoboard-two.vercel.app/agents

I want to understand whether Hermes Agent and Claude Code truly belong to the same category of AI agents or if they are fundamentally different types of tools.

At first glance they seem similar, since both can interact with tools, automate tasks, and assist with coding/workflows. But are they actually built for the same purpose and architecture?

Is Hermes mainly an autonomous multi-purpose agent framework while Claude Code is more of a coding-focused agentic assistant? Or is the difference deeper than that?

I’m trying to understand the real conceptual distinction between them, their intended use cases, and whether comparing them directly even makes sense.

So I’m new. I’m trying to understand how or why Hermes needs openrouter, qwen, DeepSeek, etc. I get it has no wrapper or app to chat or operate like Claude or OpenAI. I see there’s a Portal on the website. What’s the subscription for if you rely on another AI model to operate Hermes?

Any documentation to point me too is great. I can read. Sorry for the basic questions. Just person interested to learn.🙂

I would love if I could give Hermes an X login and then have it check X/Twitter several times of day for posts of my specification. Has anyone here figured that out?

Simple web searches work fine out of the box. But I'm trying to build workflows where Hermes actually does something useful in a browser — logging into a site, navigating to a specific page, extracting a value, and using it downstream.

Example use case: Find a tracking number in an online shop. → Visit site → log in → navigate to order history → extract tracking number → optionally run shipment tracking → report back.

And that's where things fall apart for me.

The problems I'm running into:

1. Bot protection Cloudflare, hCaptcha, DataDome, you name it. Even headless Playwright/Selenium trips these immediately. Does anyone have a working approach here? Residential proxies? Stealth plugins? Just accepting defeat on certain sites?

2. Credential handling If a site has no API, how do you actually pass credentials to Hermes? Storing them in .env? A secrets manager? Inline in the prompt (please no)? I'm not thrilled about any of these options security-wise, but I need something structured.

3. Tool choice Are you using Playwright MCP, Puppeteer, something else entirely? What's your actual stack for "Hermes opens a browser and does stuff"?

4. Reliability Even when bot protection isn't an issue, DOM scraping is fragile. A site redesign breaks everything. Are you prompting Hermes to be resilient, or just accepting that these workflows need maintenance?

I feel like authenticated browser automation is the gap between Hermes being a cool demo and being genuinely productive.

Any hint, tip, or pointer is greatly appreciated — happy to hear even partial solutions or "here's what I tried and it didn't work either."

What setups are actually working for you?

There’s Hermes Workspace, and from what I can see, a few different Hermes Desktop GUIs like Hermes OpenWebUI and some others.

Not sure if Nous is planning to come out with their own, but curious which of these people are mainly using, which are the most supported by the community, etc

I tried to setup a cronjob that looked at various job portals and give me jobs that matched what i do but it took forever to run, probably because the browsing websites part is intensive maybe. Anyone has a better solution?>!&#x200B;!<

I have Hermes working very well, offloading the model to another server, but every time I try to use a small local model with Llama.cpp it doesn't respond the commands properly. Looks like the model is moving hermer's property. Do you know any small models 0.8 to 2b that are agent compatible?

This is probably a stupid question but I am learning… the agents.md file that comes with the setup comes with a development guide. Am I supposed to delete that file and make my own rules? Or add to it?

Current made a profile with its own agent.md file but noticed that sometimes when I do new sessions it forgets its “purpose”.

Any help or tips? I added some lines at the end of the default agent.md to go to the proper agent.md file for the profile but it doesn’t stick after each new session.