Three Hidden Hermes Agent Features You Should Enable First

Hermes Agent is powerful out of the box, but three of its best features are switched off by default. In this walkthrough, Marcelo from Clearbanc shows you how to turn them on the right way, by talking to the agent itself instead of copy pasting commands from the docs.

If you followed yesterday's install on Windows with an OpenAI subscription, this is the natural next step. Here are the three hidden features, in order, with number three being the favorite.

1. Enable the Hermes Dashboard as a Background Service

The first hidden feature is the built in Hermes dashboard. By default, Hermes drops you into the terminal user interface inside the Ubuntu app on Windows. The dashboard is separate, and it is not enabled out of the box.

The way the docs tell you to start it is simple. From a fresh Ubuntu terminal, run: