- Dankserver stack: RomM, Copyparty, Calibre-Web, node-exporter - Dankclaw stack: Gluetun VPN (SearXNG tunnel), SearXNG+Valkey, ComfyUI (CPU backend), OpenWebUI, Hermes, Gitea+Postgres (migrated), Caddy reverse proxy, Grafana+Prometheus+Loki+Alloy observability - Caddyfiles with .local hostname convention and basicauth homepage - bind-mount storage policy, no named volumes - deploy.sh mirroring vllmScripts git workflow (push -> pull -> restart -> health) - docs/ Obsidian vault: per-service docs from frank-default-small research subagents (promtail EOL -> Alloy; gitea SECRET_KEY preservation; ComfyUI --cpu) - bats test suite at 6 seams — 22 tests green
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Hermes
Hermes is the self-improving AI agent from Nous Research. It runs in a terminal, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, or Signal, and keeps a persistent learning loop: it creates skills from experience, searches past conversations, and builds a model of the user across sessions.
Host: Dankclaw — Hostname: hermes.dankclaw.local — Docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs
Facts (from research, primary source)
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Image | built from NousResearch/hermes-agent (official Dockerfile in repo) |
| License | MIT |
| Model backends | Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, or any custom endpoint |
| Interfaces | TUI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal |
| Memory | FTS5 session search, Honcho user modeling |
| Skills | self-created, self-improving during use |
Configuration
- Point Hermes at the local model endpoint (
http://localhost:7770/v1) or an external provider through its provider config. - The gateway process exposes one port for chat integration; the exact port is set in the Hermes config (
8090convention in this repo). - The data volume persists skills, memory, and session history.
Volumes
| Container path | Host path (convention) |
|---|---|
/data |
/opt/hermes/data |
Gotchas
- Hermes is under active development; pin the image tag for reproducibility.
- Model choice drives quality; the local
frank-default-large(Dankclaw, 7770) is the intended backend. - Do not expose the gateway without auth — put it behind Caddy with basic auth.
See Also
- Dankclaw Stack
- OpenWebUI — the chat UI that pairs with Hermes
- Knowledge base: Agentic Search Best Practices (Hermes as the search agent)