Set Up Your Own Hermes Agent on a VPS - Enkamind workshop, Chennai
Sat 22 Aug 2026 · Chennai

Build your own always-on AI agent on a VPS.

In three hands-on hours you stand up a self-hosted Hermes Agent (Nous Research, open source) on your own VPS, wired to your messaging apps and running automations on a schedule. You leave with a personal agent that lives on your server, remembers your context, and keeps working while you sleep.

🗓 Sat 22 Aug 2026 🕘 3 hours · 2 PM - 5 PM 📍 Chennai · in-person 💺 10 seats ₹1,999 · one-time
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▎ What you'll build

You leave with the real thing - not notes.

A self-hosted Hermes Agent running 24/7 on your own VPS, not a managed cloud
A unified messaging gateway so you can talk to it from Telegram and WhatsApp
A scheduled daily-briefing routine that researches topics you care about and DMs you a summary every morning
A YouTube-to-summary workflow - paste a link, get a structured summary
An email + web-fetch automation that pulls data, summarizes it, and delivers to the channel you choose
▎ The 3 hours, block by block

Hands-on the whole way.

Block 1

Provision and install

  • Spin up a small VPS, SSH in, run the one-line Hermes installer
  • Run the setup wizard and connect an LLM provider via API key (Nous Portal or OpenRouter)
  • First chat in the terminal to confirm the agent and its tools are live
Block 2

Messaging and tools

  • Configure the messaging gateway, create a Telegram bot token via BotFather and connect it
  • Connect WhatsApp through the same gateway and talk to your agent from your phone
  • Try built-in tools live - web search, fetch and summarize a page, summarize a YouTube link, draft an email
Block 3

Automations and routines

  • Schedule jobs with the built-in cron using intervals, cron expressions, or plain English
  • Route results to a specific channel - telegram, whatsapp, or email
  • Build and leave with a working morning-briefing routine, plus a look at persistent memory

Who it's for

  • Software engineers comfortable in a terminal who want an agent they fully control, not a SaaS seat
  • Founders who want to automate research, briefings, and routine ops without writing a custom backend
  • Builders comparing Hermes with tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw for self-hosted use

What to bring

  • A laptop with an SSH client and a terminal
  • A VPS you can SSH into as root (a $5/month Linux box is enough, account set up beforehand)
  • An LLM provider API key (Nous Portal or OpenRouter recommended)
  • A Telegram account (we create the bot token in-session) and a phone with WhatsApp for the gateway demo
▎ By the end

What's true when you walk out.

You have a running, self-hosted Hermes Agent on your own VPS that you reach from Telegram and WhatsApp
At least one scheduled routine is live and delivering to a channel of your choice
You understand the model, gateway, tools, and cron well enough to add your own automations after the workshop
▎ Tools you'll touch
Hermes Agent (Nous Research)Linux VPSSSHPythonNode.jsOpenRouter / Nous PortalTelegram (BotFather)WhatsAppbuilt-in cron schedulerweb search and YouTube summarization
▎ Who teaches
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Your instructor

Workshop instructor

I've spent 22+ years building software for enterprises - full-stack apps, backend systems, and lately RAG pipelines and agentic AI solutions. I've shipped the hard stuff for big companies. These workshops are that experience, distilled into one hands-on room so you can ship your own.

▎ Questions

Before you sign up.

Is Hermes the same as the Hermes LLMs from Nous Research?

Related but different. Nous Research makes both the Hermes family of LLMs and Hermes Agent, the open-source agent we install. The agent is model-agnostic and can run on many providers, not only Hermes models.

Do I need a GPU or an expensive server?

No. Hermes Agent runs on a small ~$5 VPS because the heavy model inference happens through your chosen API provider, not on your box.

Will my data and keys stay private?

Yes. The agent and its memory live on the server you control; the main external calls are to whichever LLM and tool providers you configure with your own keys.

Set Up Your Own Hermes Agent on a VPS

Sat 22 Aug 2026 · 3 hours · 2 PM - 5 PM · Chennai · 10 seats. Drop your email and we'll tell you the moment booking opens.