Hermes Agent skills tutorial and Hostinger VPS setup

Jack Roberts walks through 13 skills for Hermes Agent, covering clarification questions, handover documents, structured lessons and skill creation. He describes a bouncer skill that checks for prompt injection and researches alternatives, though the walkthrough does not establish that it catches every malicious skill.

The setup section covers a self-hosted AI agent on a Hostinger VPS in a sponsored demonstration. Roberts says he also runs Hermes on a Mac desktop and recommends the KVM2 plan for his hosted setup. He selects a deployment template, enters the container through a terminal and opens Hermes setup. He then describes connecting a ChatGPT subscription through OpenAI Codex and using Telegram for access from a phone. Hosting the agent here does not establish that its models run locally.

Later sections cover a context doctor for trimming loaded material and a last-30-days research skill. The research example encounters blocked Reddit and general web access; Roberts suggests Reddit credentials or a cookie, and mentions Firecrawl for web retrieval. Another skill learns from a supplied URL or turns completed work into a reusable skill. His design workflow combines Power Design with 21st.dev, whose CLI requires authorization.

The remaining examples include a calendar and email morning brief through Zapier, image editing through Higgsfield and Nano Banana, and Ministry of Experts, which asks several models for responses before a lead model combines them. Claims about better answers and token savings are Roberts's assessments.