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Your own agent. Right at home.

Hermes is a native app for the Hermes Agent you run. Talk to it from any Apple device, watch every step it takes, hand it real work, and give each profile a face, a memory and one chat that never resets.

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Hermes on a Mac showing four Bots, Hermes, Research Buddy, Ops and Ada, each with its own face and what it’s doing, beside the sidebar’s Bots and the Launch crew group chat.
Research Buddy’s daily digest on an iPhone, posted at 8:00 AM: a reply summarizing two papers, and a question passed on from Hermes.

Bot Mode

Every profile is a Bot.

Each Hermes profile becomes a Bot with its own face, name, role and memory, and one chat that never resets. Come back tomorrow or next month and pick up mid-thought.

Faces are alive. They blink, watch the composer while you type, look up while they think and squint happily when a reply lands. Go on, poke one.

  1. A new Bot in seconds.

    A name, a role and a look. Pick a shape and a color, and say hello.

    The New Bot sheet on iPhone: a pink cloud face named Ada, her role, and the Look picker.

  2. @mention a Bot.

    Your Bot asks a teammate for you, and the reply lands in that Bot’s own chat, so you always see who asked whom.

    Hermes, the lead, asks @writer and @ops to take their parts before Friday's release.

  3. Routines that report back.

    A job on a schedule. It runs while your devices sleep and posts the results into the Bot’s chat.

    A Daily digest routine card at 8:00 AM with the digest it posted, and the schedules: every day at 8 PM, weekdays, every 6 hours.

Group chats.

Put your Bots in one room. They take turns, pass the word along, and you can step in, pause or ask anyone directly.

A group chat on a Mac: in Launch crew, Hermes hands out the Trailhead 2.3 release, and Ada, Ops and Research Buddy answer in turn.

Live agent turns

Watch it work.
Stay in charge.

Replies stream in with a timeline of what Hermes is doing. Swipe through what you can do while it works.

  1. A live turn on iPhone: Hermes searches the web and runs a command, each step with its preview and time, while the reply streams in.

    Every step, as it happens

    Tool calls with previews and durations, narration, helpers and reasoning. Never a spinner.

  2. An approval on iPhone: Hermes asks to run rm -rf ./build && make release, flagged as a recursive delete, with Deny, Allow Once, Allow in This Chat and Always Allow.

    You approve

    Allow or deny commands inline, right where they come up, or from the Lock Screen. Always Allow is never one tap away.

  3. Steering on iPhone: a note sent while Hermes cleans up snapshots, read after the listing step, and the work continues with it.

    Steer it mid-turn

    Add a thought while it works, or queue the next message for when it’s done.

  4. A finished turn on iPhone fixing Trailhead’s reconnect after sleep, with its diff and the undo bar: 3 files changed, undo available.

    Undo a turn

    Put back the files a turn changed and take your message back.

Follow-ups

Talk while it works.

No waiting for the reply. Send a thought mid-turn and choose how it lands: steer the work, change course, queue what’s next, ask on the side, or hand it to another Hermes.

  1. Typing while Hermes works on iPhone: the Steer chip opens a menu of Steer, Redirect, Send Next, Ask Aside and Run in Background, with Steer checked.

    Pick how it lands

    Type while Hermes works and a mode chip takes Think’s place. Steer is the default.

  2. A steer on iPhone: “Skip the snapshots from this week”, read after the listing step, then Read your note and the next command in the timeline.

    Steer

    Hermes reads your note at its next step, and the timeline shows where it did.

  3. Send Next on iPhone: three messages waiting in a numbered queue above the composer, with Clear.

    Send Next

    Messages wait their turn in a queue on the composer. Reorder, edit, or send one now.

Five ways to send while it works

  • Steer

    Hermes reads it after the current step and keeps going.

  • Redirect

    Stops the current step and changes course.

  • Send Next

    Waits until this reply is done, then sends it.

  • Ask Aside

    A quick answer on the side; this reply keeps going.

  • Run in Background

    Another Hermes works on it; the result lands here.

Widgets

Replies
you can tap.

When a card is clearer than a paragraph, Hermes sends one: numbers with what changed, lists to tick, schedules, and approvals with every consequence spelled out. One plain sentence first, then the card.

  1. A morning brief on iPhone, sent at 7:00 AM: one sentence about the passport renewal, then At a glance (the dentist at 11 AM, the portfolio up 2%, two packages coming, rain from 4 PM), a Do first card to renew the passport with Open the Form, and the weather in San Francisco for Tuesday.

    A brief that reads in two seconds

    What to do first, the weather, today and the numbers, in one stack that arrives at 7 AM.

  2. An approval from Chef Remy on iPhone: a $14.50 lunch order from Green Bowl, with what it pays from, where it’s delivered, until when it can be canceled and when it expires, and Approve, Reject and Edit. Approved, the card resolves: ordered, arriving at 12:30 PM.

    Every consequence, up front

    What it costs, who it affects, until when you can undo. Nothing happens until you approve.

  3. An allergen check on iPhone: asked whether the satay bowl is OK for Maya, who has a peanut allergy, Hermes can’t call it safe. The card reads Not verified: no data for the satay sauce or the house dressing; tree nuts not present.

    Unknown stays unknown

    Missing data is never shown as safe. Hermes says what it couldn’t check, and what to do.

35 kinds of card

  1. Metric

    1–6 key numbers with changes

    A metric card, sales for your Etsy shop: $1,284 so far today, up 12% on last Friday, with the day’s line. From Etsy at 9:41 AM.

  2. Meter

    a value against a target or range

    A meter card, the October budget: $1,840 of $2,000, 92% used with a warning, $160 left and 15 days to go. From Chase, via Plaid, at 8:00 AM.

  3. Chart

    a series over time, a breakdown

    A chart card, resting heart rate over the last 14 days: 61 bpm today, above your usual 52–58 band for 3 days. A note says that often follows short sleep, stress or a cold, and that it’s an observation, not a diagnosis. From Apple Health at 7:12 AM.

  4. Calendar

    days with marks: habits, streaks

    A calendar card for knee exercises, twice a day from your PT plan: a 16-day streak, best 21, with each day of the past weeks checked off.

  5. Verdict

    a decision or a safety check

    A verdict card, the database for Trailhead after comparing 4 options: Postgres with Litestream, the cheapest to run and simplest to restore for one app server. Medium confidence; $0 extra a month, restores in under a minute, no multi-region writes; it would change if writes came from two regions or more than one app server.

  6. Scoreboard

    sides with scores: match, poll, A/B

    A live score card for NFL Week 7, Chiefs at Bills, in the third quarter: Kansas City Chiefs 24 (Mahomes, 2 TD passes), Buffalo Bills 17 (Allen, 2 TD runs); 14–10 at halftime. Live scores, updating every minute.

  7. List

    rows: tickets, ranks, a digest

    A list card, the support inbox with 14 open: a refund for a double charge from Marta K. on Trailhead Pro, urgent; sync stopping after an update from Jonas P. on iPhone, waiting on you; and a request for dark widgets from Sara L. on iPad, new. From Help Scout at 9:30 AM, with Show All 14.

  8. Checklist

    things to tick

    A Shopping for the week checklist, 4 of 9 done: in Produce, tomatoes and spinach are checked off and lemons and cilantro are still to get; in Dairy, Greek yogurt is checked off and feta and oat milk are still to get; two more groups, from this week’s meal plan.

  9. Table

    a small grid of values

    A table card, the portfolio this week against last week: shares, value and change for AAPL, MSFT, VOO and NVDA, $48,210 in all, up 2%. From Fidelity at 4:00 PM.

  10. Details

    labelled fields: invoice, booking

    A details card for invoice INV-0042, sent Oct 1: $2,400.00 to Bluefin Studio LLC, due Tuesday, Oct 20, in 4 days, unpaid, paid to Chase checking, with the PDF in the invoices folder and Send a Reminder.

  11. Outline

    a tree: plan, structure, files

    An outline card, the Postgres migration, 3 of 8 done: moving the database, then switching the app over, from pointing staging at the new host and running the migration on a copy (running now, 12 of 48 tables) to swapping production and cleaning up.

  12. Diff

    before and after

    A diff card for the apartment at 412 5th St, Apt 3R, changes since 10 PM yesterday: the rent down $150 from $3,950 to $3,800 a month, available from Nov 1 instead of Dec 1, and viewings now on Saturday and Monday. From StreetEasy.

  13. Timeline

    events in order: tracking, incident

    A delivery timeline for a desk lamp from Schoolhouse, Portland, arriving today: ordered on Tuesday, shipped with UPS on Wednesday, in Brooklyn and out for delivery at 9:12 AM with 14 stops before you, and delivery expected 1–3 PM.

  14. Agenda

    a day’s or week’s schedule

    Today’s agenda, Friday, Oct 16, three events: Mom’s birthday all day, Stand-up 9–9:30 AM on Zoom, the dentist 11 AM–12 PM at 200 W 57th St by the Q train with Leave by 10:30, and a design review 2–3:30 PM with Ada and Ops; free time between them, and a red line at 10:12 for now.

  15. Entity

    one thing: listing, place, PR, file

    An entity card for an apartment for rent at 412 5th St, Apt 3R, in Park Slope, Brooklyn: $3,800 a month, down 4% from $3,950; 2 bedrooms, 950 sq ft, a balcony and an elevator. It matches your search, with viewings on Saturday and Monday, Book a Viewing and Save. Listed on StreetEasy 9 days ago.

  16. Media

    images, a gallery, a voice note

    A media card: a photo of the chicken satay bowl, today’s special at Green Bowl for $14.50, from their menu.

  17. Code

    code, a log, command output

    A code card suggested for Sync/Reconnect.swift, backoff for reconnects: a three-line Swift function, min(5, 0.25 × 2ⁿ), and its output from a run in 0.4 s: 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 5.

  18. Sources

    references, a quote

    A sources card with 3 sources: FTC guidance on AI assistants on ftc.gov, a primary source; what the new AI rules mean for apps on theverge.com, secondary; and a post on X that Apple will delay AI features in Europe, unverified.

  19. Weather

    weather

    A weather card for New York on Friday: 58°F, partly cloudy, feels like 55°, high 63° and low 48°; the hours from noon to 8 PM, with rain from 4 PM at 70% and 60%, and a note to take an umbrella for the walk home. From Apple Weather at 10:12 AM.

  20. Route

    getting from A to B

    A route card to the dentist, leave by 10:30 for the 11 o’clock appointment: 24 minutes, 10:30 to 10:54, on time. Walk 0.2 miles to Union Sq station, take the Q train toward 96 St at 10:35, 3 stops, every 6 minutes, then walk 0.4 miles to 200 W 57th St. MTA live departures at 10:12 AM, with Open in Maps.

  21. Pass

    boarding pass, ticket, membership

    A United boarding pass for UA 1187 from Newark to San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct 20, on time: leaves Newark at 10:55 AM and lands at SFO at 2:20 PM, gate C112, seat 14A, boarding 10:25 AM, group 2, with the booking code and Add to Wallet.

  22. Status

    health of one thing or many

    A status card for the Studio Mac, a Mac mini, needing attention: the disk is 88% full and everything else is normal (CPU 12%, memory 61%, up 12 days). One thing to fix: delete APFS snapshots older than 30 days to free about 212 GB, with Clean Up Snapshots and Not Now.

  23. Steps

    progress through stages

    A steps card, setting up Trailhead, step 3 of 5: the repository cloned in 4 s and the codebase read in 31 s; installing dependencies, 64%, about 2 minutes left; then running the tests and opening a pull request. Started at 10:02 AM by Hermes.

  24. Alert

    must not be missed; an incident

    An alert card, payment failed: the card ending 4242 was declined for the DigitalOcean invoice of $38.20, and the server stays up for now. Update the card in DigitalOcean’s console or pay from the other card, with Open DigitalOcean and Use the Other Card.

  25. Choice

    one question, set answers; follow-ups

    A choice card, flights to San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct 20, for one adult: which to book? United UA 1187, 10:55 AM to 2:20 PM, nonstop for $286, suggested; Delta DL 1213 via Atlanta for $242, leaving home at 5:30 AM; JetBlue B6 915, 1:20 to 4:45 PM, nonstop for $321; or reply in the chat. From Google Flights at 10:02 AM.

  26. Form

    2–5 things to fill in

    A form card for a lake house in Tahoe: who’s coming (4 adults, 2 kids), arriving Friday, Oct 30, a budget of $250–350 a night, and anything else (near the lake, with parking), with Send and Cancel.

  27. Approval

    permission for a real-world action

    An approval card asked by Chef Remy at 11:12 AM, needs OK: a $14.50 lunch order from Green Bowl, a chicken satay bowl and a lemonade. It pays from Visa ending 4242, is delivered to the office at 12:30 PM, can be canceled until 11:40 AM and expires at 11:30 AM, in 18 minutes. Approve, Reject or Edit.

  28. Receipt

    proof of what was done, with undo

    A receipt card, ordered by Chef Remy at 11:13 AM: the lunch order arrives at the office at 12:30 PM, from Green Bowl, $14.50 paid with Visa ending 4242, order #GB-2291, and Undo until 11:40 AM.

  29. Control

    live device controls

    A Living room control card: the ceiling lights are on, 2 lamps, with a switch; brightness at 60%; the scenes Relax, selected, Focus, Movie and Night. From the Hue bridge, just now.

  30. Summary

    TL;DR with a do-first; news; standup

    A summary card, Friday at a glance from Hermes at 7:00 AM: a light day, with the dentist at 11, rain after 4, and the passport renewal now 3 days late. Four points, the portfolio up 2% this week and two packages coming among them, then Do first: renew the passport; the form is filled in and takes 5 minutes, with Open the Form.

  31. Guide

    steps to follow: recipe, setup

    A guide card, a chicken satay bowl recipe adapted from Green Bowl, 25 minutes, serves 2: step 2 of 6, simmer the chicken in the satay sauce until it thickens, with a 12-minute timer, between cooking the rice and slicing the cucumber and carrot; Back and Next.

  32. Compare

    2–4 options side by side

    A compare card, headphones for travel under $600: Sony XM6, the pick, $399 with 40 hours of battery; Bose QC Ultra, $429 and 24 hours; AirPods Max 2, $549 and 20 hours; with noise canceling and weight. Sony XM6 has the same noise canceling for less, with twice the battery.

  33. Handoff

    work handed to another Bot

    A handoff card, release notes for Trailhead 2.3: Hermes asked Ada to draft them from the 23 merged PRs, grouped like last time, checking with you before publishing. Ada is writing, 2 of 4 sections, with Open Ada’s Chat.

  34. Flashcard

    learning cards

    A flashcard, Spanish shopping words, 3 of 12 due today: how do you say “receipt”? Tap the card to see the answer.

  35. Stack

    a scheduled report of several widgets

    A stack card, the evening report, daily at 9 PM for the homelab, collapsed: Homelab, 4 of 6 healthy and cron failed twice, 1 down; Backups from last night at 3 AM, 212 GB, verified, OK; Spend, $38.20 to DigitalOcean declined, action; Deploys, 2 today, both healthy.

A tap is a request

Nothing acts by itself. Hermes checks your answer, then shows what happened on the card.

Readable anywhere

On Telegram, Slack or the command line, every card arrives as plain text.

Private stays private

Private cards (health, money, family) stay out of previews and notifications.

Honest about time

Every card keeps when its data is from; live data is flagged once it’s out of date.

Talk

Just talk.

Hold to send a voice message, tap to talk. Hermes stops the moment you start talking and keeps going with the phone locked, and each Bot can speak in its own voice. Every word is written down too.

  1. Hermes speaking on a call, with the sentence it’s saying highlighted: the NAS is at 61% and snapshots older than 30 days take 148 GB; want me to delete them? Mute, AirPods, Type, Captions and End below.

    Interrupt with a word

    Say “stop”, or anything, and it stops mid-sentence. It knows it was cut off.

  2. Voice messages on iPhone: your message asking to check the disk space on the NAS, with its transcript, and Hermes answering with a voice message of its own, playing, its words written below.

    Voice messages, answered in kind

    Hold the microphone and talk. Hermes reads the transcript, and its reply can be played in its own voice.

  3. A call with Hermes on the iPhone Lock Screen on Friday, October 16: a Live Activity with Hermes listening at 2:14, the last thing it said, and Mute and End.

    Keeps going when you lock

    Mute and end from the Lock Screen. Lock the phone or switch apps; the call keeps going.

On the Mac

Talk on a Mac: a floating call window over a chat about Swift 6 for Trailhead, with Hermes listening at 2:14 and asking whether to flip the app target to Swift 6 mode today, with Mute, Captions and End.

On the Lock Screen

The call’s Live Activity: Hermes listening at 2:14, the last thing it said, “…and keep the weekly ones”, with Mute and End.

Each Bot, its own voice

Give each Bot its own voice; it’s the one you hear in calls, Listen and its voice messages.

Spoken is written

Every voice message has its transcript, and every call folds into a summary in the chat.

Private by default

Dictation and Hermes Voice calls are transcribed on your iPhone. Replies play by themselves only in your headphones or at your ear.

On every device

A floating window on the Mac, a panel beside the chat on iPad.

Work

Hand it the work.
Watch it happen.

Put cards on a project’s board, see what Hermes opens and changes right beside the chat, and follow the helpers it brings in.

The Trailhead Board on a Mac: cards in Running, Blocked and Review, with a card in review and its pull request’s checks beside them.

Cards that run themselves

Running, needs you, in review, done. Watch the board move in real time.

Answers in one place

A card that needs you leads with its question. Reply, and it carries on.

Review with real checks

Approve once the pull request’s required checks pass. Each card works in its own worktree.

On the web

Signs in for you.
Never sees your password.

Hermes browses for you with the logins in 1Password, Bitwarden or its own vault, each only on its own site. Cards need your OK every time. Or let it browse right in the app, and watch.

  1. Hermes signing in for you on iPhone, asked why yesterday’s Vercel deploy failed: it opened vercel.com, signed in with your login from 1Password (Hermes never saw the password), entered the 2FA code from 1Password, and is reading the build log.

    Signs in with your logins

    From 1Password, Bitwarden or its own vault, and only on the site each one is for.

  2. Hermes asking on iPhone to fill your card on amazon.com to reorder the cat food: your saved Visa ending in 4242 for the checkout page, with Don’t Fill and Fill Card. The number and CVC never enter the chat.

    Cards need your OK

    Every time, with Face ID. The card number never enters the chat.

  3. Hermes browsing in the app on iPhone: Vercel’s login page in a browser panel, and “Your turn: sign in to Vercel” with Take Over, so you sign in yourself with Passwords.

    Watch it, take over

    Let it browse in the app: you see every step, and sign in yourself with Passwords.

Passwords on the Mac

Passwords in Hermes’s settings on a Mac: sources Hermes vault, 1Password (unlocked) and Bitwarden (locked), 50 logins, cards and addresses. GitHub’s login from 1Password is open: username alexr, the password Hermes can’t show, one-time codes from 1Password, and it fills on github.com only.

Never sees a password

Your gateway types logins into the page. The model only ever sees which login it used.

Only on the right site

A login fills only on the exact site it’s saved for, checked again before it types.

Your browser, or a clean one

A clean browser, a copy of your own profile, a window you can watch, or the cloud.

Locks by itself

Password managers lock after 30 minutes idle. Hermes asks again when it needs one.

Learning

It gets better
with you.

Hermes writes skills for what you do often and remembers what matters about you. See all of it, approve what it keeps, and change any of it.

ios-testing xcode-build swiftui-previews app-store-listing nas-backups docker-compose synology-dsm release-notes changelog-style arxiv-digest paper-summary ios-testing xcode-build nas-backups release-notes arxiv-digest
The Memory page on iPhone: six things Hermes knows about Alex, who lives in Brooklyn and is building Trailhead, each with its menu, a fullness meter, and Tell Hermes Something to Remember.

Memory you can read

About you and Hermes’s notes, each entry editable. Changes apply from the next chat.

A map of what it knows

The skills it wrote, sized by how often it uses them, linked to the memories behind them.

  • Since August, Hermes wrote 11 skills and learned 20 things about you and your setup.

    The story so far

    The skills it wrote and the things it learned, week by week.

  • Tidying Every 7 days, when Studio Mac has been idle 2 h

    Last tidy 2 days ago: merged 2 overlapping skills, archived 3 unused ones and marked 4 as stale.

    • 2 merged
    • 3 archived
    • 4 stale

    Tidy, with undo

    It merges and archives skills you stopped using. Undo or restore any of it.

  • Save to memory? Hermes asks before keeping “Vegetarian; avoids red-eye flights.”, with Don’t Save, Save and Save All in This Chat.

    Ask before saving

    Hermes asks before it keeps something new about you. Save once, or for the whole chat.

Everywhere

One history. Every surface.

Connect to any Hermes gateway you run: a Mac mini under the desk, a home server, over Tailscale or HTTPS. Every conversation lands in one history, on every device.

  • Mac mini
  • Home server
  • Tailscale
  • HTTPS
  • The app
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • Slack
  • CLI
Hermes on an iPad: the sidebar with Trailhead and two more projects and the pinned chats, next to an answer about Swift 6.4 for Trailhead with code and a table.
The iPhone drawer: Studio Mac's chats and projects, pinned chats and today's history, with the Chats and Bots switch.

Made for each screen

A split view on iPad and Mac, a drawer on iPhone. Keyboard shortcuts everywhere.

Connect from anywhere

One click on the Mac running Hermes, a pairing code for iPhone and iPad, and Tailscale when you’re out.

One history

Chats from Telegram, Discord, Slack and the CLI sit next to the app’s own.

Notifications

Answer from anywhere.

Hermes stops for you only when it has to. Allow a command from the Lock Screen, follow a long turn in the Dynamic Island, and pick up the reply when it lands.

  1. A Hermes notification on the iPhone Lock Screen: Run this command? rm -rf on the NAS snapshots, flagged as deleting files recursively, with Allow Once, Deny and More Options.

    From the Lock Screen

    Allow Once and Deny ask for Face ID. Always Allow is never one tap away.

  2. The Dynamic Island expanded: Disk cleanup on the NAS needs you, with the command and Deny or Allow Once.

    In the Dynamic Island

    A turn that needs you opens with the command and both answers.

  3. A Live Activity on the Lock Screen: Disk cleanup on the NAS on Home Server, listing snapshots older than 30 days, with its progress.

    As a Live Activity

    What Hermes is doing, step by step, until the reply lands.

The details

Made for the platform.

Projects

Chats grouped by repo and branch, worktrees included, and a composer that starts in the right folder.

Chats in a project, grouped by branch: Swift 6 migration plan on main, and Offline maps in a worktree on feature/offline-maps.

Talk

Talk to any Bot, out loud. Interrupt with a word.

Hermes speaking on a call, with the sentence it’s saying highlighted, and Mute, AirPods, Type, Captions and End.

Commands and references

One look for each: a command, a skill, a Bot, a file. Type / or @.

A command, a skill, a Bot and a file, each as its own pill: Set Goal, github-pr-workflow, @writer and Sources/Sync/Reconnect.swift.

Tasks

Hermes’s scheduled jobs: create, run now, pause and resume.

Two scheduled tasks: Check NAS backups every day at 6 AM, last run 3 hours ago, and Weekly invoice reminder on Mondays at 9 AM, next run in 21 hours.

Skills

Browse your gateway’s skills and start a chat with one.

A skill card: github-pr-workflow, open, review and land pull requests with the gh CLI, with Use.

Apps and Tools

Connect apps, add MCP servers and choose what Hermes may use.

GitHub connected as alexr on trailhead-app with 38 tools, and the filesystem MCP server, connected and switched on.

Undo for files

A turn changed something you didn’t want? Put it back.

The undo bar after a turn: 3 files changed, +41 −12, with Review and Undo.

Markdown and code

Tinted code blocks, tables, lists and quotes. Copy, share or read aloud.

A Swift code block in Xcode’s dark colors, with a Copy button.

Light and dark

Monochrome either way, with Liquid Glass throughout and Increase Contrast honored.

A Hermes answer in light mode on iPhone.
The same answer in dark mode.

Search everything

Find any chat by what was said in it. ⌘K on the Mac.

⌘ K

“reconnect”: 4 chats

Images and files

From Photos, the camera or Files. Paste, or drag and drop.

A file Hermes sent: incident-summary.pdf, 240 KB, with a download button.

Feels native

Haptics on iPhone, keyboard shortcuts on Mac and iPad.

⌘N ⌥⌘I ⇧⌘B ⌘↩

And the rest

Everything else, too.

The smaller things that make it feel made for your Mac, iPad and iPhone.

In the chat

  • Any model, any effort Pick the model and how hard it thinks, per chat.
  • Goals and plans Set a goal with /goal, or a plan to work through with /plan.
  • Edit and resend Change a message and send it again; the original stays.
  • Try again with another model Rerun a reply on a different model.
  • Branch any chat Take it somewhere new without losing this one.
  • Long chats, compacted See how full a chat is and make room in one tap.
  • Listen Any reply, read in the Bot’s own voice.
  • Dictation at the cursor Words land where you’re typing, and you can keep typing.

When it needs you

  • Questions with choices Answer with a tap, a list, or your own words.
  • Secrets in a sealed field A key Hermes asks for goes straight to your gateway.
  • Sign-ins Sign in to a site Hermes needs, in a browser sheet.
  • On the web Signs in with your logins and never sees a password.
  • Allow for the chat, or always Chat Permissions lists what you allowed, and undoes it.
  • Background tasks Send a job off with /bg; the result lands in the chat.
  • Keeps working when you leave Turns run on your computer; the chat catches up.
  • Back on its own It reconnects the moment the network returns.

Bots and projects

  • A memory for each Bot Each Bot learns and remembers on its own.
  • Shape and color, yours Pick each Bot’s face, and change it any time.
  • Pin and hide Bots Keep the roster to the Bots you use.
  • Move chats into a project A chat follows its repo, branch and worktree.
  • Helpers you can steer Stop or redirect one helper while the rest work.
  • Several gateways Switch between your Hermes machines in one tap.
  • Skills in a tray Pick skills for a message before you send it.

On your devices

  • Finds Hermes on this Mac On the Mac running Hermes, it connects in one click.
  • Pair with a code Scan the Mac’s pairing code on iPhone and iPad.
  • Away from home Reach your computer over Tailscale or HTTPS.
  • A window per chat Open any chat on its own on the Mac.
  • Quick Open ⌘K jumps to any chat, Bot, project or gateway.
  • Updates itself The Mac app is notarized and keeps itself current.
  • Accessible throughout Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, Increase Contrast.

Private by design

It talks to your Hermes.
No one else listens.

Hermes can run commands on your computer, so the app treats that seriously.

  • Your server

    The app connects only to the gateways you add. There is no Hermes cloud in between.

  • Keys stay on your device

    In the Keychain, never restored onto another device from a backup, never in a log.

  • No accounts, no analytics

    Nothing to sign up for, and no tracking in the app or on this site.

  • Sealed notifications

    Encrypted on your gateway for each device; the relay to Apple can’t read them.

  • Approvals you can read

    You see exactly what will run, hidden characters included. Flagged commands are never allowed from a notification.

  • Content stays content

    Links open only web pages, pictures from the internet wait for a tap, and previews read only their own folder.

  • Where your voice goes

    Dictation and calls are transcribed on your iPhone, and voice messages are kept on your own gateway. If your gateway has Realtime, calls use it and their audio goes to OpenAI.

Read the privacy policy Read the code on GitHub

Open source

Built in the open.
Built with you.

Hermes is MIT-licensed Swift and SwiftUI. Read every line, report what’s broken, or build what you want next. You don’t need a Hermes Agent to start: the repo’s mock gateway plays one.

vburojevic/hermes

Public

A native iPhone, iPad and Mac app for the Hermes Agent you run.

  • Swift 6
  • SwiftUI
  • MIT license
  • iOS · iPadOS · macOS
git clone https://github.com/vburojevic/hermes
cd hermes && xcodegen generate && open Hermes.xcodeproj
# a mock gateway: no Hermes Agent needed
python3 -I Tools/mock-hermes/backend.py \
  --port 19119 --gateway-port 18642

View on GitHub Good first issues

  • Good first issues

    Small, well-described issues to start with. Say you’re taking one, and it’s yours.

    Browse issues

  • Ideas and questions

    Suggest what Hermes should do next, or ask for help, in Discussions.

    Open Discussions

  • The roadmap

    What’s being built now and what’s next, in the open.

    See the roadmap

  • Report a bug

    What you did, what happened, your device and Hermes Agent version. Report security problems privately.

    Open an issue

Get started

Up and running in minutes.

  1. Install Hermes Agent

    On a Mac, a home server or any machine you control. Hermes Agent docs

  2. Turn on its API server

    Add these lines to ~/.hermes/.env on the machine running Hermes:

    ~/.hermes/.env 
    API_SERVER_ENABLED=true
API_SERVER_KEY=<a long random key>
API_SERVER_HOST=0.0.0.0

    Then run hermes gateway restart. API_SERVER_HOST=0.0.0.0 lets other devices on your network connect; keep it on a trusted network, or put HTTPS in front of it.

  3. Connect

    On the Mac running Hermes, open the app: it finds Hermes and connects in one click. On iPhone and iPad, scan the pairing code from the Mac app (Pair a Device…), or enter your-mac.local:8642 and your key. Away from home, use its Tailscale address.

  4. Turn on the extras

    For Bots, projects, the Board, the Inspector, memory and undo, also run hermes serve. The app then offers its plugins, like notifications, and installs them for you.

Requirements

  • Mac: macOS 26 or later.
  • iPhone and iPad: iOS and iPadOS 26 or later.
  • Hermes Agent: the API server on (hermes gateway); Bot Mode also needs hermes serve.

Questions

Good to know.

Anything else? Get in touch from the Contact page.

What is Hermes Agent?

An open-source AI agent by Nous Research. You run it on your own Mac, home server or VPS, with the models you choose.

Do I need my own Hermes Agent?

Yes. Hermes connects to a Hermes Agent gateway you run. Setting one up takes a few minutes; see Get started.

Where do my chats live?

On your gateway. The app talks only to the gateways you add, and keeps your keys in the Keychain.

Which models can it use?

Whatever your gateway is set up with. Pick the model and the reasoning effort per chat.

When can I get it?

Now, as a public beta. Download the Mac beta above; it keeps itself up to date. On iPhone and iPad, join the public beta on TestFlight. The source is on GitHub.

Does it work away from home?

Yes. Reach your computer over Tailscale, or put HTTPS in front of its gateway. The app reconnects by itself when the network changes.

Is Hermes open source?

Yes. The app is MIT-licensed on GitHub at vburojevic/hermes. Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are all welcome; good first issues are the place to start.

Meet your agent, properly.

Download the Mac beta Join the public beta on TestFlight

Public beta · Mac 1.0 · iPhone and iPad on TestFlight

Star or fork it on GitHub