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Hermes Agent Advanced: Automation, Integrations & Production
Picks up where Hermes Agent Fundamentals leaves off: schedule your agent's work, connect it to Telegram/Discord/Slack and 20 more platforms, extend it with tools, skills, and MCP servers, give it voice and vision, coordinate multiple agents, and run all of it safely in production.
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Scheduled Tasks: Cron Without a Terminal
Make your agent do work on its own schedule -- recurring checks, one-off reminders, and multi-stage pipelines -- without you opening a terminal to trigger it.
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Tools, Toolsets, and Sandboxed Code Execution
A full map of what your agent can do, how to control which capabilities are active, and the advanced execute_code tool that lets the agent write and run scripts against its own tools rather than calling them one at a time.
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Checkpoints and Rollback
A built-in safety net that snapshots your files before destructive operations, so a bad agent edit or an over-eager terminal command is one command away from being undone.
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The Skills System: Teaching Hermes New Tricks
Skills are reusable, on-demand procedures your agent loads only when relevant -- how to find them, install them, bundle them, and how your agent writes its own.
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The Messaging Gateway: Telegram, Discord, Slack, and 20 More
Connect your agent to real messaging platforms so you can reach it -- and it can reach you -- without a terminal open. Covers the gateway concept, the setup wizard, access control, and the most common platform-specific failure modes.
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MCP Integration: Connecting External Tools
Connect Hermes to external Model Context Protocol servers to gain new tools without writing any integration code yourself -- and learn how to run Hermes itself as an MCP server for other tools to use.
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Programmatic Access: The API Server and IDE Integration (ACP)
Two more ways to reach your agent beyond the CLI and messaging platforms: an OpenAI-compatible HTTP endpoint for any frontend that speaks that protocol, and direct integration inside VS Code, Zed, and JetBrains via ACP.
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Multi-Agent Workflows: Profiles and Delegation
How a single agent spawns isolated child agents to parallelize work or hand off a focused subtask, with strict limits on what those children can do.
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Voice Mode: Talking to Your Agent
Speak to your agent instead of typing, in the CLI, over Telegram and Discord, and even inside a live Discord voice channel -- covers setup, the push-to-talk flow, and choosing speech-to-text and text-to-speech providers.
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Browser Automation: Giving Your Agent Hands on the Web
Beyond web_search and web_extract, give your agent an actual browser it can navigate, click through, and fill out forms in -- with a choice of cloud and local backends depending on what you need.
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Vision and Image Generation
Two complementary visual capabilities: pasting images into a conversation for your agent to analyze, and asking it to generate new images across eleven different models with different speed, quality, and cost trade-offs.
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The Kanban Board: Coordinating Multiple Agents
A persistent task board for coordinating work across multiple agent profiles -- create tasks, assign them, link dependencies, and let agents claim and complete work independently.
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Reliability and Cost Control: Provider Routing, Fallback Providers, and Credential Pools
Three layered systems that keep an unsupervised agent running through rate limits, outages, and quota exhaustion -- and let you control cost and speed when you have a choice of providers.
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Event Hooks and the Plugin System
Extend Hermes with your own code: three different hook systems for reacting to lifecycle events, and a full plugin architecture for adding entirely new tools, commands, and even alternative memory or model backends.
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Security and Production Hardening
How Hermes protects you from destructive commands, prompt injection, and credential leaks by default -- and the concrete checklist for running it safely once it is acting on a schedule, talking to messaging platforms, and connected to MCP servers, without your direct supervision.
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Putting It Together: A Real Hermes Workflow
A capstone build that combines reliability, messaging, skills, scheduling, checkpoints, logging, and access control into one real, working pipeline -- plus a light look at the architecture underneath everything covered across both tracks.
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