Hermes Agent Deployment

This skill should be used when deploying or debugging a self-hosted Hermes Agent (Nous Research's self-hosted personal-assistant gateway bridging Telegram/WhatsApp/Slack/Discord to an LLM with tool/skill/cron access — Will calls his instance "Chuka") — including install via the `hermes` CLI, the `hermes-gateway.service` systemd unit, native `hermes cron` scheduled jobs, the `hermes skills` system (SKILL.md drop-in files distinct from Claude Code's own skills), Debian 13 install gotchas (python3.13-venv, broken IPv6/gai.conf), fleet-readonly SSH access design, or UID-scoped egress firewalling. For credential protection via Agent Vault specifically, see the separate `agent-vault-credential-broker` skill — this skill covers Hermes's own deployment, not the broker. Trigger phrases include "hermes agent", "hermes gateway", "hermes cli", "hermes cron create", "hermes skills list", "hermes-gateway.service", "hermes mcp install", "ensurepip is not available", "HERMES_HOME", "hermes gateway install --system", "chuka", "hermes_cli.main gateway run", "LunaRoute glm-5.3-flash", "hermes fleet access", "hermes-remote", "hermes_egress table", "hermes gateway setup selector drops to done", "hermes setup tools", "hermes homeassistant setup not prompting", "aiohttp trust_env proxy bypass", "hermes update reverted patch", "uv pip install no pip module hermes venv", "hermes memory provider", "hindsight plugin", "memory.provider hindsight", "lazy_deps exact pin", "Feature memory.hindsight unavailable", "local_external".

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hermes-agent-deployment
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hermes-agent-deployment/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/hermes-agent-deployment/SKILL.md

@misc{hermes-agent-deployment-2026,
  author    = {jackson2w},
  title     = {Hermes Agent Deployment [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/hermes-agent-deployment/}
}