Install hermes-agent on Windows, macOS or Linux
The agent that grows with you
Install hermes-agent with one command
Pick your system, reveal the command, copy it, paste it into your terminal and press Enter. This command was taken from the project's own documentation and checked against it.
Not available for Windows yet.
hermes-agent doesn't publish an install command for Windows anywhere we can verify, so there's nothing for us to show you. We won't invent one. It does document one for macOS and Linux — switch to that tab.
Pastes into PowerShell and installs hermes-agent on your Windows machine in one step. Runs as your normal user account, and needs no administrator rights.
Not available for macOS yet.
hermes-agent doesn't publish an install command for macOS or Linux anywhere we can verify, so there's nothing for us to show you. We won't invent one. It does document one for Windows — switch to that tab.
Pastes into your terminal and installs hermes-agent on your macOS or Linux machine in one step — no manual setup, no build tools. It fetches the project's own install script and runs it, which is the standard way these tools ship — worth a read if you like to know what's running.
What exactly does this do?
On Windows, open PowerShell (press Win, type PowerShell, hit Enter) and paste the command. On macOS or Linux, open Terminal — on a Mac it's in Applications ▸ Utilities, or press Cmd+Space and type Terminal — and paste the command there.
Run hermes-agent --help to see the available commands, and
hermes-agent --version to confirm the install worked. If your shell complains about
permissions, that project usually documents a corrected command on its own site.
This is the install command hermes-agent publishes. Running it downloads hermes-agent and puts it somewhere your terminal can find it, so you can start using it right away.
What hermes-agent does
- Whitelist the folder, not the file hash — Hermes updates and the hash changes every version
- HermesClaw — Community WeChat bridge: Run Hermes Agent and OpenClaw on the same WeChat account
- Command allowlist — approval patterns
- Messaging settings — platform configs, allowed users, working directory
- API keys — allowlisted secrets (Telegram, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs)
- TTS assets — workspace audio files
Summarised from hermes-agent's own README.
About hermes-agent
The agent that grows with you
| Category | AI agent |
|---|---|
| Install method | command line |
| Windows | documented install command available |
| macOS / Linux | documented install command available |
| Price | Free and open source |
| Command verified | Yes — checked against the project README |
| Popularity | 250k stars on the project's public repository |
On mobile
hermes-agent is a command-line tool, so there is no phone app for it — a phone has no shell to run it in. You'll need a desktop, or a remote shell into a machine that has one.
hermes-agent is developed by its own authors. This page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by the project. The command shown here was reproduced from the project's public documentation — always check the project's own documentation before running anything.