Hermes AI Assistant — Install, Setup, Workflow, and Troubleshooting
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Hermes Agent is a self-hosted, model-agnostic AI assistant that runs on a local machine or low-cost VPS, works through terminal and messaging interfaces, and improves over time by turning repeated tasks into reusable skills. It is very similar in functionality to OpenClaw, another self-hosted assistant stack built around tools, memory, and local control. If you want the wider picture of self-hosted assistants, retrieval, and local infrastructure around Hermes, this overview of AI systems ties those topics to the same problems Hermes is trying to solve.