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How to start your Hermes AI Agent (step-by-step guide for beginners) I'm a beginner, and I spent the last 24h: > Understanding the process > Launching my Hermes Agent (Nous Research) > Recording the whole process > Editing this step-by-step guide So you can do it yourself and understand... everything in less than 1 hour! 00:00 Intro 00:38 What is Hermes ? Key concepts every beginner should know 01:16 What is a VPS ? 02:00 What is SSH ? 03:52 What is the Terminal ? 04:03 What is an LLM provider ? 04:37 What is an API key ? 04:52 What is the Terminal Backend 05:34 What is the Messaging Gateway ? 06:10 What is the Memory System ? Step-by-step: Launch your Hermes AI agent 06:53 Step 1 : Get your VPS 08:04 How to generate an SSH key 09:00 Step 2 : Connect to your VPS 10:32 Step 3 : Install Hermes Agent 14:34 Connect your agent to Telegram 17:12 How to fix a mistake during the process 17:48 Gateway testing 18:17 Telegram is working 18:31 Run your agent 24/7 19:16 Thank you Make sure to save this for later and share it with friends who want to start with AI agents. Thanks to Teknium 🪽 for being so active!show more

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Theo6 months ago

Step-by-step PDF guide:

GMB6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @sauciii @NousResearch thank you theo, i’ll look into this

N1rvy6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @sauciii @NousResearch I thought using VPS wasn’t really a good thing

Theo6 months ago

@sauciii @NousResearch Of course it's better to have all your files, agent etc.. running on your own machine with your own storage But servers are supposed to be still safe, of course I'll not give him wallet, any account or mail access But that's good to build and automate stuff!

Yuli Kay6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Such an amazing video! Witnessed creation of it and all the hard work behind the scenes 🔥🫶

4046 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Great video ! Glad you decided to go with Hermes first before OpenClaw not that I’m biased just friendlier onboarding experience

Theo6 months ago

@NousResearch Yeah ah I said, I decided to do it with Hermes, it was a feeling and I enjoyed it!

Affilion.eth | Zoltán Fekete6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch noice video

Khairallah AL-Awady6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @cryptobae @NousResearch thank youuuuu for this theo

Theo6 months ago

@cryptobae @NousResearch Enjoy, let me know your feedback!

MAXIMUS6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Bro, you nailed it Have to bookmark, will dive deeper asap

noeldaddy6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Favorited for later, thanks brother

Sofia6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch just insanely cool! thank you so much everything is so clear and simple

Theo6 months ago

@NousResearch Thank you soooo much for this feedback, really, it was the purpose of it! Did you launch your agent?

sauciii the wise6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch How do you like the Hermes agent?

Theo6 months ago

@NousResearch Still haven't really tried it, I spent 7h to edit this today haha

sauciii the wise6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Step by step

SOŪL6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Theo is cooking

ZK-Messirve ✳️6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch 👏

Arcanum ✳️6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Thx Theo, this is pretty helpful! Iam using OC personally but it was interesting to learn about Hermes as well!

Theo6 months ago

@NousResearch Thank's for your feedback, I appreciate it from someone a lot more advance than me on AI agents!!

Arcanum ✳️6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch happy to see more brilliant people to join the ai-brotherhood. Will you share feedback about Hermez?

Theo6 months ago

@NousResearch Yep I will and I'll build publicly things too probably

Hippie6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch i gotta give this a shot

gBLUE Protocol 🐳6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Keep building on Abstract 🤝

Ben6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch solid 👊

Forsenboys6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch For gatito holders - free?

Theo6 months ago

@NousResearch Even free for all

Forsenboys6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch 🫡

Mr. Hernesto6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch Whats the difference between this and openclaw?

Theo6 months ago

@NousResearch I could't exactly tell, it seems from what I saw from people that the memory skill is better

Javi🥥.eth6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch amazing video bro

muzafakeR ✳️6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch L Theo G, bro, what a great content you made for us! 💕

Flow 〽️6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch You cooked on this Theo! Literally what I needed to set things up haha Btw would you recommend Hermes over OpenClaw? (for someone just getting started)

Theo6 months ago

@NousResearch You should have asked @sharbel to help!

Flow 〽️6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch @sharbel Oh he has been helping me! We were on a call running through this exact setup yesterday actually 🤣🤣🤣 (For openclaw tho)

The Gatmann LV6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch smh not even a thank you tho

mortiss6 months ago

@Theo_jpeg @NousResearch I`m so grateful for your guide theo

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