The 3 tracks
From basic to advanced. Each track covers 7 concepts.
🌱 Fundamentals
What Hermes is, where it lives, how to connect, and which brain to use. The foundation for understanding everything that comes next.
- •🤖 Agent, not chatbot
- •🐕 What Hermes is (your dog, not the contractor)
- •🧠 One brain, 22 mouths
- •🏠 Where Hermes lives (local, VPS, cloud)
- •🔑 OAuth vs. API key
- •🎛️ Choosing the model
- •💻 Local & Private
🧩 Capabilities
Memory, soul, integrations, MCPs, skills, and power keys. What makes Hermes truly yours.
- •🧠 Memory (never starts from scratch)
- •📜 Soul.md (The Character Bible)
- •🧰 Integrations (Swiss Army knife)
- •🖥️ Computer actions
- •🔌 MCPs (The Instruction Manual)
- •🎯 Skills & muscle memory
- •⌨️ 6 power keys
🚀 Power & Operations
Security, goals, sub-agents, heartbeat, budget, and the operating system. Operate Hermes as a power user.
- •🛡️ Security (least access)
- •⭐ Northstar / Goals
- •👥 Sub-agents (parallel team)
- •💓 Heartbeat / Cron
- •💰 Budget & Tokens
- •🌐 Operating System
- •🔗 One Brain (Hermes + Claude Code)
The 21 concepts
Overview of everything the course covers, grouped by track.
🌱 Fundamentals
- 1Agent, not chatbot
- 2What Is Hermes (and When to Use It)
- 3One brain, 22 mouths
- 4Where Hermes lives
- 5OAuth vs. API Key
- 6Choosing the model
- 7Local & private
🧩 Capabilities
- 8Memory
- 9Soul.md
- 10Integrations
- 11Computer actions
- 12MCPs
- 13Skills & muscle memory
- 146 power keys
🚀 Power & Operations
- 15Security (least access)
- 16Northstar (Goals)
- 17Sub-agents
- 18Heartbeat / Cron
- 19Budget & tokens
- 20Operating System
- 21One Brain (Hermes + Claude Code)
⚠️ A candid note
O Hermes is a third-party self-hosted AI agentThis course is educational, not official and has no affiliation with the creators of Hermes.
Commands like /model, /queue, /background, /compress, /stop e /goal are illustrative of the described workflow — always check the tool’s current documentation.