Agents18:56 · 2 Nov 2026
Hermes Agent Setup: 7 Levels to Your Own AI Team
A complete Hermes Agent setup for right after the install. Hermes Desktop on a small VPS, a Claude plan as the model, four profiles, Telegram, memory, a self-written skill, a daily cron job and a Kanban team that works in parallel.
In this video
- 0:00 One message, two AI agents
- 0:09 What to set up after installing Hermes Agent
- 0:29 The 7 levels
- 0:42 Level 0: Hermes Desktop app on a VPS
- 1:58 Level 1: The brain (use your Claude plan)
- 3:07 Other providers: OpenAI, OpenRouter, API key
- 4:12 Level 2: The team (Hermes Agent profiles)
- 5:01 Create a profile and its SOUL.md
- 6:57 Level 3: Connect Hermes Agent to Telegram
- 7:45 Allowed users: lock the bot to your ID
- 8:54 Level 4: Memory
- 10:04 Mem0 or Honcho? Why I use local memory
- 11:10 Level 5: Hermes writes its own skill
- 12:36 Level 6: Cron job for a daily server health report
- 13:16 Set home so cron jobs reach Telegram
- 14:42 Level 7: Boss level, multi-agent Kanban
- 16:16 Demo: one message, two agents in parallel
- 17:56 Recap: the full AI team on a small server
- 18:23 Limits and safety
Every SOUL.md file and command from the video: github.com/stackagen/hermes-agent-7-levels-setup