Hermes Agent Starter Pack: curated resources for getting started, Builder Tools, Skills, and best practices

Addresses the common practice of treating Hermes as a smarter ChatGPT, listing 15 built-in features most people have never used. Suitable for users who have installed it but use only its surface capabilities and want to fill gaps quickly.

Nous Research's official introductory documentation is the most stable starting baseline. Work through the official Quickstart before any advanced techniques to establish the correct installation and operation workflow.

A complete setup guide by Reddit user smolpotat0_x, offering a community perspective and records of real problems beyond the official documentation. Cross-reference it with the official Quickstart.

The official learning path organizes scattered documentation into an ordered sequence. The next step after Quickstart, suitable for users who want systematic knowledge rather than occasional lookups.

A condensed Quickstart cheatsheet that the original article recommends saving for reference. The author notes that the original source could not be confirmed; cite the official Quickstart instead.

Official documentation explaining how Skills work and how they are mounted. Understand the system before installing large numbers of community Skills to avoid later integration problems.

A tutorial for advancing from user to builder, explaining how to create your own Hermes Agent Skills. Suitable for users familiar with existing Skills who want to develop their own workflows.

The official reference catalog for built-in Skills supplied with Hermes. Review built-in capabilities before deciding what to add from the marketplace or community.

A curated list of Hermes resources on GitHub, with community resources collected in the Skills and plugins sections. Reddit user Intrepid-Night7277 also maintains a Hermes Agent Skills watchlist for tracking newly released Skills.

A custom Hermes plugins library offering extension options beyond the official ones. The original article also lists the xAI team's Hermes Agent for 𝕏 (x.ai/news/grok-hermes), which connects Hermes agent to the 𝕏 platform.

Argues that people who consistently produce high-quality work use an eval loop (evaluation cycle). The article explains how to build an evaluation loop with Hermes, turning output quality from a one-off result into an iterative process that converges.

A Hermes workflow series focused on financial research, demonstrating agent use in analyst workflows. The original article specifically recommends it to users who need a structured research process. Refer to the original article for its ranking claims and similar statements.

Teaches you to set up an agent control room template and configure dedicated agents, growing from a single agent to a whole team operating on one VPS. The same author also wrote How to Audit Hermes Agent Skills; the two work well together for advanced operators.

Two newsletter resources, everbox.io's Hermes Agent performance tips and rumjahn.substack.com's Hermes mastery cheatsheet. Suitable for users who want to save common techniques for quick reference.

Three reference entry points are the official Docs (hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs), official Desktop App (/desktop), and Reddit community r/hermesagent. The original article lists Reddit as a good source of ongoing Hermes information.