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Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent Desktop Remote Connection Guide

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium#255inAI

Some more clarity and updates on this doc to hopefully get you sorted. The desktop app is in preview and we are working hard to make these kinds of use cases more seemless and robust, so stay tuned 🙏🙏

Basic auth is now required and oauth options are coming!

Teknium 🪽@Teknium

Having trouble connecting Hermes Agent Desktop to your remote instance?

Check out this updated guide: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/desktop#connecting-to-a-remote-backend

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

Hermes v 0.16.0 is out now!

This release includes all the updates you've heard about this week and more!

- The Desktop GUI App - The Overhaul to the Dashboard - Leaner Built-In Skillset - New Security Layers for Remote Dashboard & GUI Access - and much more!

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Download the Desktop GUI App now:

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/desktop

Teknium 🪽@Teknium

Hermes v 0.16.0 is out now!

This release includes all the updates you've heard about this week and more!

- The Desktop GUI App - The Overhaul to the Dashboard - Leaner Built-In Skillset - New Security Layers for Remote Dashboard & GUI Access - and much more!

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

New security features for remote dashboard/gui connections include simple auth, oAuth powered by Nous, and roll your own oAuth!

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Mike McQuade@fishright

@Teknium burnt up a couple hours today trying to get it to work from Mac to my existing install on a VM on local network. Just says "could not connect to Hermes gateway".

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

@fishright That’s what happens when you’re trying a preview software, send us some logs and we’ll see what we can fix 🤗

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Cooper@cooperawaken

@Teknium hell yeah the preview progress is so awesome, any rough timeline for when oauth options roll out? we're hyped to test the seamless flows

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Sumnesh@SumneshSalodkar

@Teknium still showing this @Teknium, accurate conclusion??

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Max Milne@maxmilneaus

@Teknium loving these options for profiles...thank....just add in an ability to enabled and disable skills per profile? Chefs kiss.

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Klíče v zámku@kliceVzamku

@Teknium @SumneshSalodkar Maybe the same security concerns as to why lots of people run harnesses on vps or dedicated machines? Updating Hermes with 100 commits daily while supply chain attacks everywhere is pretty scary. But I'm noob, maybe there's a way to address this.

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Prateek Tripathi@prateekhh

@Teknium requiring basic auth will stop most users before oauth arrives

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

That like I said originally, we did not expect that to be the most demanded use case.

Codex, Claude Code, and their desktop apps generally run locally, so we had no reason to believe everyone would want that day one.

Despite that, we built an early version of remote connections before launch, that we're rapidly getting up to speed.

It relies on the repo itself to build and will need to be synced with the actual agent for things to work, so it made sense to tie them together.

Now, we will have to untie them to make a lite client work, and it will take time.

I personally dont see what the disdain for having the agent installed locally matters, its like 20MB extra and inert unless you point it to the local agent.

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Austin S. Lin@siraustin

@Teknium test /update in telegram after desktop install (first update afterwards didn’t work… had to hermes update in terminal)

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Mike@m1k__3

@Teknium Maybe I will take another kick at the can trying to connect to Hermes running inside a proxmox lxc. I haven't been successful in any of my attempts so far.

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

@jiehoonk gonna be a minute

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Austin S. Lin@siraustin

@Teknium confirmed second /update in telegram after initial failed update did work on another hermes! (reported it bc it’s the first hermes update failure I’ve had after servers hundred updates :)

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

@murd_arch I have WSL2 installed, even has a hermes instance on it. I have no issues

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

@siraustin We had to do something to make the desktop updates more reliable that caused double updating required for some users. Sorry about this!

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Tony Simons@tonysimons_

@Teknium The cooks have been cooking!

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

@SumneshSalodkar Yes it's still the case and will be for a good minute.

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