I started with Hermes agent for some time now. I also recently wrote about my journey with setting up Hermes agent on the Linux OS. And turns out it is going on good so far.
I learned how to set up the Hermes agent on WSL, Ubuntu Linux. So that's two different experience I have so far. I have yet to get it on Mac and do anything in automation there.
Recently I learned about Hermes agent has released the desktop. And they are competing with the Google Spark, Antigravity and Codex on desktop app front.
I covered the setup part here in the video if you are interested.
Now few days of experience so far taught me a lot about this desktop app. So I have some complaints and some good pat on the back too.
It's not native build. Considering that part they didn't even bothered about asking user consent on which directory to install. That's the sad part, it goes to C: drive and consumes space.
Default directory goes into C drive and making it fragmented and scattered. Fortunately you get to change this workspace directory.
Openrouter is pain in the app. You may come across lack of tagging for the free models. And so if you have no credits you may end up facing 404 errors on the app terminal.
Nvidia NIM Build also acts up. Like some of the models are extreme traffic on them. And so responses take forever. I don't blame the Hermes agent for this but atleast they should make it easier for us to choose our own custom APIs and we can fetch our providers there. Trying to be everything for everyone by spending resources on giving provider support often breaks the rest.
Rest you can connect to other free providers and begin the chat or the coding. I have decided not to move with it as I am kind of happy with the Cursor, Antigravity and the Devin setup so far.
If you are looking for UI version of Hermes agent then this is a good adventure to try out. But eventually coder in you would want to settle with the CLI.
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