After Installation
Reload your shell and start chatting: To reconfigure individual settings later, use the dedicated commands: Fastest path: Nous Portal One subscription covers 300+ models plus the Tool Gateway (web search, image generation, TTS, cloud browser). Skip the per-tool key juggling: That logs you in, sets Nous as your provider, and turns on the Tool Gateway in one command. Already running Hermes on another machine? You don't need to rebuild your setup from scratch. Restore a full backup with hermes import (see Exporting Hermes to another machine ), or bring over a single agent with hermes profile import (see Moving a single profile to another machine ). Note that a profile export excludes credentials by design, so an export alone is not a full backup - hermes backup vs hermes profile export explains which to use.
From the official Hermes Agent documentation.
source ~/.bashrc # or: source ~/.zshrc
hermes # Start chatting!