# Hermes Agent Setup: Skills, Gateways, Tasks & Memory Walkthrough

> Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-30-hermes-agent-setup-walkthrough/
> Last updated: 2026-06-30
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Summary

# Hermes Agent Setup: Skills, Gateways, Tasks & Memory Walkthrough

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Matthew Berman walks through a full Hermes agent setup — install, adding skills from GitHub, wiring up a Telegram gateway, scheduling tasks, and configuring memory, profiles, and model routing. The video highlights what makes Hermes different from OpenClaw: a stack of skills preloaded out of the box, self-healing when a skill hits an unexpected error, and built-in provider/model routing.

Source video

""The best thing since OpenClaw" (Hermes Tutorial)" by **Matthew Berman** — [Watch on YouTube →](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TML-0HmxWCE)

## Key Takeaways

- **Preloaded skills.** Hermes ships with many skills enabled out of the box (Claude Code, Codex, Excalidraw diagrams, Manim animation video, and more). Each appears in the Skills tab, toggles on/off with a click, and is plain, readable markdown you can open and edit.
- **Installing a skill is copy-paste.** Grab a `skill.md` raw file from a GitHub repo, click the **+** in the Skills tab, name it, choose a category, paste, and save. When a skill needs a companion file it doesn't have, Hermes self-heals — fetching a fresh copy of the repo into a temp directory and running from there.
- **Chat gateways from the CLI.** Open the command line and run `hermes gateway setup` to connect Telegram, Slack, Matrix, Mattermost, WhatsApp, Signal, email, and more. Telegram needs a bot token from `@BotFather` (`/newbot`) and your numeric user ID from `@userinfobot` to restrict who can message the agent.
- **Tasks, memory, and profiles.** Tasks are scheduled automations (e.g. a daily calendar brief every 24h). Memory stores facts about you and holds the agent's SOUL document (identity.md / soul.md style) editable in-app. Profiles let you silo separate agents — a marketing agent and a development agent — instead of one bloated assistant.
- **Broad provider support + model routing.** Settings expose OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, Kimi, LM Studio (fully local), Mistral, and Nvidia NIMs, plus per-task model routing — assign specific models for vision, compression, web extraction, or session search, or leave the default "auto" to let Hermes decide.

## Commands & Code Mentioned

```
hermes gateway setup      # open the CLI and connect a chat gateway (Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, ...)
/newbot                   # in Telegram @BotFather — creates a bot and returns a bot token
/last30days               # example of invoking an installed skill from Hermes chat (type / to list skills)
```

## More Hermes news

 [▶ Ornith: Open Agentic Coding Models (9B–397B) for Fully Local Agents 2026-06-26](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-26-ornith-local-agentic-coding-models/)
 [▶ Hermes Agent Now Runs Background Computer Use on Mac, Windows & Linux 2026-06-25](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-25-hermes-background-computer-use/)
 [▶ Hermes Agent's Biggest Update: iMessage, Auto Background Agents, Skills Hub 2026-06-24](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-24-hermes-update-imessage-background-agents/)
 [▶ Run a Local Coding Agent: Qwen 3.6 27B (Pi-Reasoning GGUF) in Hermes 2026-06-21](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-21-qwen-3-6-local-agent-hermes/)
 [▶ Gemma 4 12B Coder on Hermes: a Local Coding Agent Tested on Real Bugs 2026-06-20](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-20-gemma-4-12b-coder-hermes-local/)
 [▶ Build a Local AI Assistant: Gemma 4 12B + Hermes Agent on a Mac Mini 2026-06-15](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-15-gemma-4-12b-hermes-local-assistant/)

[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/)