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Your first Hermes Bot in about 10 minutes

Put Scout to work

Follow five plain-language steps to install Hermes Desktop, import a research Bot, give it a real job, and check the result.

Start the guide Meet Scout
About 10 minutes Bot Cabinet and Hermes are free Start with public, low-risk material
Scout, a friendly brass and cream research Bot in a Victorian study
Scout · Research and source finding
What you need:A computer, Hermes Desktop, and a supported AI provider. Provider costs vary.
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Continue setup on your computer

Hermes Desktop installation and Bot imports happen on a computer. Send yourself this guide, then begin the checklist there so its browser-local progress stays with that device.

Email the setup link
Follow the checkpoints

From download to a useful research brief

Complete each step in order. Your progress stays in this browser. We record which steps people use, never your prompt, provider key, conversation, or research result.

0 of 5 steps complete
  1. 01

    Install Hermes Desktop

    Download Hermes Agent and open the desktop app. The official guide covers the current installation choices.

    Open the installation guide
    Checkpoint: Hermes Desktop opens and shows its main conversation screen.
  2. 02

    Connect an AI provider

    Choose a supported AI provider inside Hermes and add its API key. Check the provider’s charges before running your test.

    See supported providers
    Checkpoint: Hermes can answer a short test message.
  3. 03

    Download and import Scout

    Scout is a research Bot. Its profile archive includes the role, instructions, Passport, and setup notes that Hermes needs.

    Download Scout Import instructions
    Checkpoint: Scout appears as a profile in Hermes Desktop.
  4. 04

    Give Scout one small research job

    Start with a public topic and a narrow result. Copy this first prompt, then paste it into Scout.

    Find three reliable public sources that explain how a small organization can reduce meeting overload. Rank them by usefulness. For each source, give me the link, two sentences on what it says, and one sentence on why it matters. End with three practical actions I could test next week.

    Checkpoint: Scout begins researching and returns links you can open.
  5. 05

    Check the result

    Open each source and confirm that it supports Scout’s summary. Ask Scout to correct anything unclear before you use the brief.

    See Scout’s complete setup and review information
    Checkpoint: You have three working links, a short explanation of each, and three practical actions.
After your first task

Did your Bot produce the expected result?

After trying the Bot, tell us what happened. If setup stopped you, choose “I got stuck.” Your checkmarks above only track your progress.

What happens next

Keep the conversation going

Scout keeps its role and conversation inside Hermes. Ask it to refine the brief, compare sources, or hand verified findings to a Writer Bot.

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