Hermes Agent Master Class

Welcome to the Hermes Agent Master Class — an 11-episode series taking you from zero to fully leveraging every feature of Nous Research’s open-source agent. In this first episode, we install Hermes from scratch on a brand new machine with no prior skills or memory, walk through full configuration with OpenRouter, tour the most important CLI and slash commands, and run our first real task: a competitor research report on a custom children’s book AI business idea. Every future episode will build on this fresh install so you can see the compounding value of the agent in real time.

✅ Full installation walkthrough on WSL 2 with dependency setup, provider configuration, and fallback routing for API keys.

✅ Tour of the top 10 CLI commands and top 10 in-chat slash commands, including mid-session model switching with no reboot required.

✅ First real task: live competitor research and market gap analysis for an AI-powered children’s book business using Tavily web search.

Thanks to: https://x.com/tonbistudio