This guide is for anyone who wants to run Hermes Agent always-on without keeping their personal computer on. It's written for beginners — you don't need to know Linux or sysadmin work to get this working.
Hermes is an open-source AI agent from Nous Research. It runs on a server (or VPS), connects to your messaging apps (Telegram, Discord, etc.), and can execute tasks, browse the web, manage files, and more — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The heavy AI processing happens via external API (OpenRouter, OpenAI, etc.) — the VPS just runs the coordinator.