Hermes Agent , From CLI to Production

There's a moment where an agent stops being a thing you talk to in a terminal and starts being infrastructure. It's running on a server somewhere while you sleep. It messages you when something breaks. It knows how to fix the thing that broke because it wrote down the procedure last time. That's the line this course is built to get you across.

Five days, from zero to a deployed, self-improving agent that lives on messaging platforms, runs scheduled jobs, delegates work to subagents, and extends itself with skills it writes on its own. Every lesson uses real, verified commands against the actual platform as it exists today. Nothing is invented.

The arc

Day 1 , Installation, Setup & First Productive Use gets Hermes installed, connected to a provider, and completing real work. You'll pick between the CLI, TUI, and Desktop surfaces and wire up project context files so Hermes knows your environment without being told twice.

Day 2 , Memory, Skills & Self-Improvement covers the memory system that keeps context cheap across sessions, the skill system that lets Hermes write down what it learns, and the curator that manages the growing skill library over time.

Day 3 , The Gateway is where Hermes leaves your laptop. You'll deploy it as a persistent service reachable from Telegram, Discord, or both at once, with voice mode so you can talk to it instead of type.

Day 4 , Automation, Delegation & Scheduling makes Hermes run unattended. Cron jobs fire on schedule. Subagents handle parallel work. Webhooks trigger agent runs from external systems. Profiles isolate different contexts.

Day 5 , Production, Security & Extension covers deploying Hermes into Docker and remote backends, locking it down with command approval and secret redaction, connecting MCP servers, writing desktop plugins, and registering custom tools.

Then you build it for real

Every day's material feeds into the Capstone: The Operations Console , a server monitor that alerts you on Telegram when disk space runs low, accepts commands to restart services, uses a custom health-check skill the agent wrote itself, and runs in a Docker container on a $5 VPS.

New to Hermes Agent entirely? Start with Day 1. Already have it installed and chatting? Jump to Day 2 for memory and skills, or Day 3 if you specifically want the gateway. The AI Agents & Vibe Coding flagship course covers the agent fundamentals this course builds on , agent loops, tool calling, prompt injection defense, and the skill pattern itself.