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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.