Hermes Agent Bible — Hermes for Artists

What is Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an open agentic framework for driving language models through multi-step work. This Bible is written for artists and creatives — the focus is the creative process, not enterprise plumbing. (Mockup copy.)

For artists, first: you don't need to be an engineer. The chapters move from a one-command install to building your own studio workflows.

Installation

Get a working agent on your own machine. The example below is a placeholder for the real install steps.

# clone and enter the project
git clone https://example.org/hermes-agent.git
cd hermes-agent

# install dependencies
uv sync

# first run
hermes run --model local

Configuration

Point Hermes at the model you want to use. For a fully local setup, wire a custom endpoint in your config file.

# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
endpoint:
  kind: custom
  base_url: http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1
  model: hermes-local

Models

Hermes runs against local or frontier models. For creative output the trade-off is quality versus automatability — placeholder guidance here, with a comparison table to come.

Skills

Skills are reusable moves you teach the agent. A skill bundles a prompt, tools, and expected output so a studio task becomes one command. hermes skill add ./my-skill

Browse the Skills Vault →

FAQ

Is this only for coders? No — this guild exists specifically for artists. Does it run offline? Yes, with a local model. (All answers are placeholders.)

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See it in the tutorials