The Hermes Agent Cheat Sheet — 97% of the 231K-Star Open-Source Agent on One Kit: Every Command, the Five Walls, and the Lockdown Checklist

The companion to the video, verified against the official Hermes Agent docs on August 16, 2026 — current for the v0.20.1 'Herald' era, which made most older tutorials stale. PAGE 2 — LEVELS 1–3: the one-line install for Mac/Linux/Windows, the three setup doors (take the free Portal OAuth one — no API keys), connecting Telegram or WhatsApp with exact commands, and the silent-bot fix everyone hits — setup configures the gateway but never starts it. PAGE 3 — LEVELS 4–7: the skills system (browse, install, stack up to 5 slash commands, and /learn to distill a new skill from a URL, folder, or a whole book), plain-language cron scheduling with the cheap-model pin, delegate_task subagents with cheap worker models, the A2A agent-to-agent protocol, and voice with a wake word and barge-in. PAGE 4 — THE FIVE WALLS with fixes: the silent bot, vague auto-skills, the memory myth (it's two capped files plus session search — by design), the token burn (users report millions of tokens in an afternoon; here's the full saver list, from !cmd zero-token shell to /model --once), and exposure. PAGE 5 — THE LOCKDOWN CHECKLIST: default-deny gateway with pairing codes, smart approvals with the hardline blocklist, Docker sandboxing with the egress proxy so the sandbox never sees your real keys, and why you never port-forward the dashboard — written while security scanners are indexing hundreds of exposed instances. Every command traced to the official docs. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Nous Research.

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