Hermes-Agent

Hermes Agent installs from a shell script in a couple of minutes. Installing it the same way twice, a year apart, on a machine you have since forgotten the details of, is the harder problem — and it is the one Ansible solves. This article builds one role that installs Hermes on two Macs that differ in the ways that actually matter: devbot5 — the Mac you are typing on minime — a headless Mac mini Connection local, no SSH at all ssh Runs as your login account a dedicated service account launchd job LaunchAgent in your home LaunchDaemon in /Library API bound to 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 Those last two rows are what this article is about. A headless Mac has no one logged in, so there is no GUI session for a LaunchAgent to live in and the job has to be a LaunchDaemon that starts at boot and drops privileges. A laptop joins hotel and coffee-shop networks, so binding an agent’s API to every interface there would publish a shell to whoever else is on that LAN. ...

Hermes Agent is Nous Research’s open-source (MIT) agent runtime: one agent with persistent memory that you can reach from a terminal or from a chat platform, backed by whichever model provider you point it at. Unlike an agent library, it ships as an installed program with its own config directory, a messaging gateway, and a command approval layer, so most of the work in getting started is deciding what it is allowed to do rather than writing code. ...