quickstart

Get your box running

About three minutes from sign-up to an agent you can talk to. Here is the whole flow.

1. Sign up

Go to meragpt.com and click Get your box. Sign in with Google, then Stripe takes the $7 and drops you back on your dashboard.

2. Provision your box

On the dashboard you’ll see Your subscription is active with a Set up my box button. Click it. We start a small cloud machine, install Hermes, give it a URL on app.meragpt.com, and wait for Hermes to report healthy. The dashboard polls and flips to Running when it’s ready. Usually a couple of minutes.

3. Open your agent

Click Open your agent. Behind the scenes the dashboard sets a signed cookie on .meragpt.com and bounces you over to app.meragpt.com/u/<handle>/. Our edge proxy checks that cookie on every request, so the bare URL is useless to anyone else. Sign out from the dashboard and box access dies on the spot.

4. Add an API key

In the Hermes sidebar, open KEYS and pick a provider. OpenRouter is the easiest starting point: one key, hundreds of models, including the cheap Gemini Flash Lite we use by default. Paste the key; Hermes stores it on your box only, in a file mode-600.

5. Send your first message

Open the CHAT tab. Type a message and hit Enter. Hermes streams a response, makes tool calls when useful, and saves the conversation in Sessions. Switch models any time with the /model slash command.

Hermes Agent chat in a browser, replying with a small calculation

Using your agent: what the other tabs do.
Use cases: what people set their agent to actually do.
The official Hermes docs go much deeper on skills, hooks and memory.