What is Hermes Agent?
A self-hosted, self-improving autonomous AI agent built by Nous Research. It keeps memory across sessions, builds its own skills, runs scheduled automations and connects to Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Signal through one gateway.
Do I need my own model API key?
Yes. The image does not include model access. Run hermes model after deployment and choose Nous Portal, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The provider bills you directly.
Does it remember conversations between sessions?
Yes. Memory persists using SQLite FTS5 full-text search combined with LLM summarisation, stored on the server's own disk, so it survives a stop and restart.
How do I connect Telegram, Discord or the others?
Open the Channels section of the dashboard and follow the pairing flow for each platform. They all run through the same gateway.
What is the admin login?
The username and password you set at deployment. There is no default credential. To change them later, regenerate /etc/nginx/.htpasswd on the server and reload nginx.
Which machine size should I choose?
t3a.small on AWS, or the default General purpose type on Google Cloud. Size up for many concurrent automations or several busy channels.
Where does my data live?
On the server in your own AWS account or GCP project. Conversation history, the memory database and your API keys stay there; Meetrix has no access to the running deployment.
What if SSL does not issue automatically?
Make sure DNS has propagated to the server, then SSH in and run sudo bash /root/certificate_generate_standalone.sh.