Recurring research and reporting
- What a persistent Hermes environment adds
- Combine approved web, browser, memory, and file tools in a repeatable procedure with a defined output
Persistent Memory · Reusable Skills · Scheduled Work
Hermes Agent Hosting: Always-On AI for Real Work
Launch Hermes Agent in one click on Atlantic.Net Cloud and give repeatable AI workflows a persistent place to run. Connect your preferred model provider, choose the tools the agent may use, and keep its memory, skills, schedules, and outputs under your control.
- One-Click Deployment
- Persistent Memory & Reusable Skills
- Scheduled & Background Work
- Bring Your Own Model
Built-In Tools
60+
Messaging Platforms
20+
Hermes Agent Hosting moves the Hermes agent to an Atlantic.Net Cloud Server, where approved tool use, scheduled jobs, memory, learned procedures, and messaging connections can continue from a stable environment.
Atlantic.Net prepares the server and the Hermes application via one-click deployment. You connect a supported model provider, select the capabilities the workflow needs, and define the users, credentials, files, and services the agent may reach. This removes much of the base installation work while keeping the agent self-hosted and under your account.
What Is Hermes Agent Hosting?
Hermes Agent is the open-source, self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It combines conversation with a broad tool registry, persistent memory, a built-in learning loop, reusable skills, delegation, and scheduled automation.
Hermes Agent Hosting runs that application on a persistent Atlantic.Net Cloud Server. The server provides the agent with a single operating environment for its configuration, memory, skills, tool backends, schedules, messaging gateway, and logs. The work is no longer tied to a local shell session or a user's device.
The current one-click image requires a customer-supplied model provider. Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Nous Portal, or another compatible option documented by Hermes, and manage model usage separately from the Cloud Server. The host, the model, and any external services remain visible as distinct parts of the workflow.
Why Run Hermes on an Always-On Cloud Server?
Turn Successful Work Into Reusable Skills
Hermes can capture useful procedures as skills and improve them during later use. Persistent storage gives those procedures a stable home, so the agent can reuse them across sessions instead of starting from a blank prompt each time.
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Hermes can capture useful procedures as skills and improve them during later use. Persistent storage gives those procedures a stable home, so the agent can reuse them across sessions instead of starting from a blank prompt each time.
Run Schedules Without a User Device
Built-in cron support lets approved jobs run when a workstation is offline. Recurring research, summaries, file processing, and operational checks can start from the same controlled environment on a defined schedule.
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Built-in cron support lets approved jobs run when a workstation is offline. Recurring research, summaries, file processing, and operational checks can start from the same controlled environment on a defined schedule.
Give Tools a Deliberate Execution Boundary
Hermes can work with the terminal, files, the web, browsers, code, memory, delegation, and integrations. Hosting those capabilities on a dedicated server makes it easier to isolate projects, restrict access to credentials, monitor resource usage, and choose local, Docker, SSH, or other supported execution backends.
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Hermes can work with the terminal, files, the web, browsers, code, memory, delegation, and integrations. Hosting those capabilities on a dedicated server makes it easier to isolate projects, restrict access to credentials, monitor resource usage, and choose local, Docker, SSH, or other supported execution backends.
Keep Infrastructure and Model Choice Separate
Bring your own provider and change models as requirements evolve. The Cloud Server remains the stable home for skills, schedules, tools, and outputs while provider cost and performance can be evaluated independently.
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Bring your own provider and change models as requirements evolve. The Cloud Server remains the stable home for skills, schedules, tools, and outputs while provider cost and performance can be evaluated independently.
What's Included
One-Click Hermes Deployment
Select Hermes in the Atlantic.Net Cloud Portal, choose a Cloud Server plan and region, and launch a prepared application image. Begin with a consistent server and Hermes installation instead of building the base Python environment manually.
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Select Hermes in the Atlantic.Net Cloud Portal, choose a Cloud Server plan and region, and launch a prepared application image. Begin with a consistent server and Hermes installation instead of building the base Python environment manually.
Persistent Memory and Learning Loop
Retain relevant context across sessions and create procedural skills from experience. Reviewable skills reduce the need for repeated prompting and provide recurring workflows with a clearer, reusable method.
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Retain relevant context across sessions and create procedural skills from experience. Reviewable skills reduce the need for repeated prompting and provide recurring workflows with a clearer, reusable method.
60+ Built-In Tools
Hermes documents more than 60 built-in tools across web search, browser automation, terminal execution, file editing, memory, delegation, scheduled tasks, messaging, code execution, and integrations. Enable toolsets per workflow so each deployment carries only the capabilities it needs.
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Hermes documents more than 60 built-in tools across web search, browser automation, terminal execution, file editing, memory, delegation, scheduled tasks, messaging, code execution, and integrations. Enable toolsets per workflow so each deployment carries only the capabilities it needs.
Scheduled and Background Work
Create, run, pause, resume, and remove scheduled jobs through Hermes' cron tooling. A persistent server supports ongoing work and background processes without requiring an open laptop session.
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Create, run, pause, resume, and remove scheduled jobs through Hermes' cron tooling. A persistent server supports ongoing work and background processes without requiring an open laptop session.
Messaging Across 20+ Platforms
Make approved workflows available through Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Matrix, and other supported services. Configure bot credentials and user authorization before opening a workflow to a team.
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Make approved workflows available through Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Matrix, and other supported services. Configure bot credentials and user authorization before opening a workflow to a team.
Bring Your Own Model
Connect a supported model provider and keep the model decision separate from the host. Compare capability, latency, and cost without moving the agent's skills, schedules, or working files.
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Connect a supported model provider and keep the model decision separate from the host. Compare capability, latency, and cost without moving the agent's skills, schedules, or working files.
Isolated Tool Backends
Choose the execution model that best fits the task's risk. Docker and other sandboxed backends can add filesystem and resource boundaries; SSH can keep an agent from modifying its own installation; local execution suits trusted, carefully scoped work.
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Choose the execution model that best fits the task's risk. Docker and other sandboxed backends can add filesystem and resource boundaries; SSH can keep an agent from modifying its own installation; local execution suits trusted, carefully scoped work.
Full Server Administration
Control network access, operating-system policy, storage, monitoring, and backups at the Cloud Server level. Atlantic.Net supports the infrastructure underneath the deployment while you control Hermes, its tools, credentials, and workflows.
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Control network access, operating-system policy, storage, monitoring, and backups at the Cloud Server level. Atlantic.Net supports the infrastructure underneath the deployment while you control Hermes, its tools, credentials, and workflows.
From One Click to a Controlled Workflow
1. Choose Hermes in the Cloud Portal
Select the application, server plan, and deployment region.
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Select the application, server plan, and deployment region.
2. Connect a Model Provider
Authenticate a provider supported by Hermes and verify a basic conversation.
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Authenticate a provider supported by Hermes and verify a basic conversation.
3. Define One Bounded Job
Enable only the required toolsets, use low-privilege credentials, and assign the workflow dedicated input and output locations.
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Enable only the required toolsets, use low-privilege credentials, and assign the workflow dedicated input and output locations.
4. Validate Before Scheduling
Review the result, logs, learned skill, error behavior, and recovery path before adding cron, more users, or broader tool access.
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Review the result, logs, learned skill, error behavior, and recovery path before adding cron, more users, or broader tool access.
Hermes Agent Hosting Use Cases
| Use case | What a persistent Hermes environment adds |
|---|---|
| Recurring research and reporting | Combine approved web, browser, memory, and file tools in a repeatable procedure with a defined output |
| Operations checks | Run scheduled checks, preserve logs, and deliver results through an approved messaging service |
| Development and DevOps workflows | Give terminal, file, code, and delegation tools a dedicated host with explicit credentials and boundaries |
| Content operations | Reuse documented research, transformation, QA, and handoff procedures without recreating every prompt |
| Agency or client work | Separate deployments, service accounts, skills, and data by client or project |
| Internal agent prototypes | Test models, tools, memory, schedules, and container limits under full server control before wider adoption |
Operations checks
- What a persistent Hermes environment adds
- Run scheduled checks, preserve logs, and deliver results through an approved messaging service
Development and DevOps workflows
- What a persistent Hermes environment adds
- Give terminal, file, code, and delegation tools a dedicated host with explicit credentials and boundaries
Content operations
- What a persistent Hermes environment adds
- Reuse documented research, transformation, QA, and handoff procedures without recreating every prompt
Agency or client work
- What a persistent Hermes environment adds
- Separate deployments, service accounts, skills, and data by client or project
Internal agent prototypes
- What a persistent Hermes environment adds
- Test models, tools, memory, schedules, and container limits under full server control before wider adoption
Clear Control of the Deployment
| Atlantic.Net provides | You configure and manage |
|---|---|
| Cloud Server infrastructure and one-click application image | Hermes onboarding, updates, and application health |
| Root-level server access and networking controls | Model-provider credentials and usage charges |
| Cloud storage, snapshots, and backup options | Tools, skills, schedules, users, and messaging integrations |
| 24/7/365 infrastructure support | Execution backends, approval policy, logs, and recovery tests |
| A 100% uptime SLA for eligible infrastructure commitments | Availability of Hermes, connected services, and external model providers |
Cloud Server infrastructure and one-click application image
- You configure and manage
- Hermes onboarding, updates, and application health
Root-level server access and networking controls
- You configure and manage
- Model-provider credentials and usage charges
Cloud storage, snapshots, and backup options
- You configure and manage
- Tools, skills, schedules, users, and messaging integrations
24/7/365 infrastructure support
- You configure and manage
- Execution backends, approval policy, logs, and recovery tests
A 100% uptime SLA for eligible infrastructure commitments
- You configure and manage
- Availability of Hermes, connected services, and external model providers
Self-hosting gives you control of the agent environment; it does not make every connected service local. Prompts sent to a model provider, data opened in a browser, and messages delivered through a chat platform remain subject to those services' terms and security controls.
Secure the Agent Before You Automate
An agent can act with every permission attached to its shell, API keys, browser sessions, integrations, and writable directories. Run Hermes under a dedicated non-root account, limit credentials to the specific job, enable only required toolsets, and keep secrets out of prompts and general-purpose workspaces.
Use command approval and write-safety controls where the workflow allows them. Put higher-risk terminal, browser, and code execution in an isolated backend with CPU, memory, storage, and filesystem limits. Keep the application and host updated, monitor logs, test backups, and review learned skills before scheduling them without supervision.
Separate projects that do not share a trust boundary. A dedicated Cloud Server gives each environment its own users, credentials, tools, skills, outputs, and recovery path.
Why Atlantic.Net for Hermes Agent Hosting?
Atlantic.Net has operated cloud and hosting infrastructure since 1994. Hermes runs on a Cloud Server with a predictable infrastructure price, full administrative control, multiple global deployment regions, and direct access to the team responsible for the host beneath it.
- One-click application deployment from the Atlantic.Net Cloud Portal
- 100% uptime SLA for eligible network, hardware, and power commitments
- 24/7/365 support by phone, email, and chat
- Multiple global regions for placing the agent closer to users and connected services
- Root-level control for network policy, monitoring, storage, and backups
- 32 years of hosting experience supporting always-on business infrastructure
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Hermes Agent Hosting Include an AI Model?
No. The current Atlantic.Net one-click application requires a supported external model provider. Provider charges are separate from the Atlantic.Net Cloud Server.
Is Hermes Agent Hosting Fully Managed?
The Cloud Server infrastructure is supported by Atlantic.Net, but Hermes is self-managed. You configure the model, tools, users, schedules, updates, monitoring, and backups. Atlantic.Net managed services may be added separately where available and appropriate.
What Does the Hermes Learning Loop Do?
Hermes can preserve useful information across sessions, create procedural skills from completed work, and improve those skills during use. A learned procedure should still be reviewed before it receives broader permissions or runs unattended.
Can Hermes Run Scheduled Work?
Yes. Hermes includes cron tooling for scheduled automations and can deliver results through configured services. The Cloud Server, Hermes process, model provider, and any external dependency must all be available for the job to complete.
How Much Server Capacity Does Hermes Need?
Capacity follows the workflow. A light conversation using an external model has a different footprint from concurrent browser sessions, containers, code execution, large files, or several scheduled jobs. Start with the tools you will actually use, apply resource limits, monitor demand, and resize from evidence.
How Is Hermes Agent Different From OpenClaw?
Hermes is the stronger starting point for tool-driven, scheduled work that benefits from memory, a learning loop, and reusable skills. OpenClaw is the stronger starting point for an always-available assistant reached through familiar messaging channels. Their capabilities overlap, and some teams run both in separate environments.
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