Free Lesson
Hermes Agents 101: Always-On AI on Your Machine
30 min
Sep 10, 2026 2:00 PM
What you'll learn
Run an agent on your own machine
Set up Hermes locally so the agent lives on your hardware instead of someone else's server.
Give your agent memory and a schedule
Wire in persistent memory and a cron trigger so it remembers context and works on its own clock.
Know when always-on beats a chatbot
See the concrete jobs where a running agent earns its keep, and where a plain prompt is still the better tool.
Why this topic matters
Most AI helpers go quiet the second you close the tab. Hermes Agents stay running, keep memory, and act on a schedule from your own machine. In this free 30 minute session you watch a Hermes agent get set up locally, given a simple memory, and put on a cron so it does something useful while you sleep. You leave able to run your own always-on agent instead of poking a chatbot every time you need it
