5 things I wish I knew before deploying Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent by Nous Research is one of those projects that looks like a fancy chatbot from the outside and turns out to be a lot more interesting once you actually deploy it. The self-improving loop, persistent memory, skills system, and multi-platform gateway are all real and genuinely useful. But there are a few things that are not obvious from the README that would have saved me time if I had known them upfront. Here are five of them. 1. Run the gateway from day one, not your laptop The defa