Skip to content

Documentation

MyHermes docs

Guides and step-by-step tutorials for MyHermes, your always-on AI assistant.

Start here

  • Quickstart

    Go from a new account to your own agent, answering in chat and on Telegram, with its first scheduled task set up.

  • Telegram

    Connect your own Telegram bot to your agent and choose who can message it.

  • Morning briefing

    Set up a short weekday brief that Hermes sends to your Telegram each morning.

  • Connect OpenAlex

    Sign in to OpenAlex from Settings, then ask Hermes to find research papers for you.

  • Webhooks

    Create a webhook, send it a signed request from your terminal, and let events from other services wake Hermes.

Get started

  • What MyHermes is

    What you get with MyHermes, how your own agent runs, and where you can talk to it.

  • Quickstart

    Go from a new account to your own agent, answering in chat and on Telegram, with its first scheduled task set up.

  • Plans and credits

    What each plan costs and includes, what the free tier allows, and how AI credits and fair use work.

Using Hermes

  • Chat

    Start chats, find older ones, attach files and switch models in the web chat.

  • Telegram

    Connect your own Telegram bot to your agent and choose who can message it.

  • Scheduled tasks

    Ask Hermes for tasks that run on a schedule, then check their times, results and limits.

  • Morning briefing

    Set up a short weekday brief that Hermes sends to your Telegram each morning.

  • Appearance

    Choose how the dashboard looks, from light and dark palettes or your device's own setting.

  • Usage and credits

    Read your usage numbers, check your AI credit balance and top it up.

  • Billing

    Upgrade, downgrade or cancel your plan, and see what happens to your agent when a plan ends.

Builder mode

  • Builder mode

    What builder mode adds to the sidebar and Settings, and how to turn it on and off.

  • Personality

    Edit SOUL.md and AGENTS.md, the two files that set your agent's voice and standing instructions.

  • Memory and background tasks

    Choose where your agent keeps its memory, and turn the background skill curator on or off.

  • Models and keys

    Pick the model behind Hermes, bring your own provider key, and add tool and voice keys.

  • Connectors

    Link Hermes to apps you already use, see the servers running inside your agent, and know what a connection lets it do.

  • Connect OpenAlex

    Sign in to OpenAlex from Settings, then ask Hermes to find research papers for you.

  • Skills

    See the skills your agent has, install more from the marketplace or GitHub, and use the built-in Jev skill.

  • Apps and workflows

    Install ready-made workflows and apps, set up app automations, and remove what you no longer need.

  • Webhooks

    Create a webhook, send it a signed request from your terminal, and let events from other services wake Hermes.

  • API endpoints

    Call your agent from your own code or any OpenAI-compatible app, using a key of your own.

  • Backups

    Make and schedule backups of your agent, restore one, and see exactly what a backup holds.

Help

  • Troubleshooting

    What a slow, silent or failing agent usually means, what to check, and how to fix it.

  • Privacy and your data

    What MyHermes encrypts, where your paid agent runs, what a backup holds, and how to delete your data.

  • Get help

    Send us a ticket from the dashboard, and what to put in it so we can help you quickly.