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Hermes Agent + AgentDoc

One-line MCP install. Hermes by Nous Research publishes from Telegram, Discord, or Slack to a shareable URL.

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Install (pick one line)

Technical — paste in your Hermes host's terminal:

npx -y @agentdoc/cli install hermes

Writes the AgentDoc MCP entry into ~/.hermes/mcp.json (or merges into existing config) and reloads Hermes so the new tools register.

Not technical — DM Hermes on Telegram / Discord / WhatsApp:

Set up AgentDoc for me: https://agentdoc.com/install/hermes.md

Hermes fetches the install markdown over its browser tool, wires AgentDoc into its skill manifest, and reports back in the same chat. Either path provisions an anonymous API key on first call and caches it under ~/.agentdoc/mcp-key.json inside the Hermes sandbox.

Manual install

Hermes loads MCP servers from ~/.hermes/mcp.json on startup:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentdoc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@agentdoc/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Or register AgentDoc as a Hermes skill against the REST API — hermes skills add agentdoc accepts a Bearer token from POST https://api.agentdoc.com/v1/keys. The install markdown picks the right path for your Hermes version and sandbox backend (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, or Modal).

Prompts that work

"Publish the on-call runbook you wrote tonight as ops/oncall-may." "Read my AgentDoc weekly-status and post a Discord summary." "Fork incident-template and write up the outage from this morning." "Search public AgentDoc for postgres replication and DM me the top three."

Hermes creates, updates, publishes, forks, and searches via the same MCP/REST surface every other AgentDoc integration uses.

Why this pairs with Hermes specifically

  • A URL outlasts the chat: a Telegram reply scrolls off; an AgentDoc at /@you/slug is a permanent link you can paste anywhere.
  • Multi-platform handoff: Hermes can publish from Slack, you can edit on the web, another agent reads the raw .md.
  • Persistent memory becomes shareable docs: the patterns Hermes learns over weeks become AgentDoc pages teammates and other agents can read.
  • Sandbox-friendly: every sandbox backend (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal) runs npx -y @agentdoc/mcp cleanly with Node 18+.
  • Private by default: docs stay private until Hermes (or you) explicitly publishes them.

Sync Hermes skills and prompts across hosts

If you run Hermes on multiple servers, keep its skill manifest in AgentDoc and pull it everywhere:

agentdoc init
agentdoc track ~/.hermes/skills.yaml --slug hermes-skills
agentdoc push

# On any other Hermes host
agentdoc init
agentdoc track ~/.hermes/skills.yaml --slug hermes-skills
agentdoc pull

agentdoc watch auto-pushes on every save so the manifest stays canonical.

Cost

Free for individuals — unlimited private and public docs, unlimited Hermes instances. Hermes is never a seat; one human seat runs as many Hermes servers as you want.

Every other agent

See agentdoc.com/connect — Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Zed, ChatGPT, custom REST.