AgentsOpen Source$5/monthActiveLocal hardware· advanced · ~60 min setup

Self-Hosted Self-Improving Agent with Hermes

Stand up a Hermes agent that remembers and improves over time on your own VPS.

by Shilpa Mitra· verified 10d ago· v1.0.0

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Intended Use

Power users wanting an agent they fully own, memory, prompts, model choice, on their own infrastructure.

Not for

  • Single-task one-off prompts (overkill)
  • Users without VPS/Docker experience

The Stack

OllamaruntimeHetzner VPSinfraHermes Agentorchestrator

Tested Against

hermes@0.12.0hetzner-cx22ollama@0.5

Side effects & data flow

Network
hetzner.com, ollama.com
Writes
/var/hermes/, ~/.ssh/known_hosts
Credentials
HETZNER_SSH_KEY

Prerequisites

  • A Hetzner VPS
  • Docker

Steps

  1. 1

    Provision the VPS

    Spin up a Hetzner box and install Docker.

    ssh root@your-vps 'curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh'
  2. 2

    Deploy Hermes

    Run the Hermes container with a persistent volume for memory.

Eval, 1 fixture

Last passed: verified 10d ago
  • health-checkcontainstimeout 60s · max $0

    Expected: ok

Results

47 comments on the original post; replaces a stack of paid agent services.