# Hermes Desktop App Walkthrough: Sessions, Artifacts, Cron & Profiles

> Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-03-hermes-desktop-app-walkthrough/
> Last updated: 2026-06-03
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# Hermes Desktop App Walkthrough: Sessions, Artifacts, Cron & Profiles

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Alex Finn spent 24 hours with the new Hermes Desktop app and declares it the best way to interact with AI agents — eliminating the need for Telegram, Discord, and CLI. This walkthrough covers every major feature: session threads, the Artifacts panel, skills management, cron job UI, multi-profile setup, and memory compression tuning.

Source video

"Hermes Agent just WON (Hermes desktop app)" by **Alex Finn** — [Watch on YouTube →](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tiFJmVhkF_s)

## Key Takeaways

- Hermes Desktop replaces the need for Telegram, CLI, and Discord — all sessions live in one organized left-side panel with folder support and pinning.
- Create separate **sessions (threads)** for every area of your life or work — content, investing, coding — so context stays organized and never bleeds between topics.
- **Artifacts** stores every link, file, and image you send to or receive from your agent; send a URL to Hermes saying "save this" and retrieve it from Artifacts later instead of bookmarking in a browser.
- **Turn off unused default skills** immediately after setup — iMessage, Find My, Apple Reminders, and others are on by default and burn tokens for nothing; Skills & Tool Sets panel lets you toggle them off with one click.
- The Cron UI lets you visually validate, hardcode exact times, test, and pause scheduled jobs — fixing the common complaint that cron jobs set via Telegram run once and stop.
- **Profiles** = separate Hermes agents with different skills, memories, and models. Use sub-agents (copies of the main agent) for parallel tasks; use separate Profiles when you need different roles and tool sets.
- Memory compression threshold: lower it to **0.5** (from default) for better long-term memory recall — recommended by the Nous Research team.

## Commands & Settings Mentioned

```
# Download Hermes Desktop — link provided in video description
# macOS, Windows, Linux supported

# After install: go to Skills & Tool Sets
# Toggle OFF any skills you don't use (saves tokens):
# - iMessage
# - Find My
# - Apple Reminders

# Cron management via desktop UI:
# Profiles → New Cron → set schedule manually
# Click "Test" to confirm a cron job fires
# Click "Pause" to suspend without deleting

# Memory tuning — Settings → Memory & Contact:
# Compression threshold: 0.5 (recommended)

# Multiple profiles — top-right Profile button:
# New Profile → name → assign skills/models/SOUL.md
# Use separate profiles for agents with different roles, not for sub-tasks
```

## More Hermes news

 [▶ GPT-5.6 in Hermes Agent: Setup, Reasoning Level & 3 Use Cases 2026-07-15](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-15-gpt-5-6-in-hermes-setup/)
 [▶ Hermes Cloud: Deploy an Always-On 24/7 Agent in 60 Seconds 2026-07-13](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-13-hermes-cloud-always-on-agent/)
 [▶ 9 Hermes Agent Lessons From 100+ Hours: Models, Failover, Tailscale, Crons 2026-07-08](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-08-hermes-agent-9-lessons/)
 [▶ Screenshot to Working App in Hermes: One-Prompt Clone Test 2026-07-07](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-07-hermes-screenshot-to-app-fugu/)
 [▶ Hermes Agent Update: Mixture of Agents, /learn, /journey & Fable 5 Setup 2026-07-06](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-06-hermes-update-mixture-of-agents/)
 [▶ Headroom + Ollama: Compress Agent Context to Cut Tokens Locally 2026-07-05](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-05-headroom-ollama-token-compression/)

[See all Hermes news →](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/hermes/)

## Go deeper: Hermes guides

Hands-on guides to put this into practice:

 [⚡ Quick Start — 20 Minutes](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/setup/)

 [🧠 Persistent Memory Architecture](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/memory/)

 [🗓 Long-Running Tasks & Scheduling](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/tasks/)

 [⚖️ Hermes vs OpenClaw](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/vs-openclaw/)

 [🧭 Compare Agents Which agent fits your use case — side-by-side.](https://openclawdatabase.com/compare/)

 [⌨️ Command Reference Every CLI command & flag across platforms.](https://openclawdatabase.com/commands/)