Hermes is a self-hosted AI chief of staff that runs 24/7, connects to Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, Drive, and Sheets, and fires scheduled routines like morning briefings via cron jobs. This 45-minute course by Peter Yang walks through the full setup: installation, model selection, Telegram integration for mobile access, and voice response configuration.
The course is worth reading in full for three specific sections. The tool, memory, and skills architecture explained at 11:08 shows how Hermes actually retains context across sessions. The user and soul file personalization at 12:39 controls the agent's behavior at a foundational level. The Google Workspace integration walkthrough starting at 22:47 runs 16 minutes and covers five separate services step by step.
Yang also covers two troubleshooting methods at 15:49, which matters because self-hosted AI agents break in non-obvious ways. The written tutorial and a 17-lesson extended course are linked separately. If you are building any persistent AI agent setup, the architecture decisions here are directly applicable beyond Hermes itself.
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