Hermes Agent Local and Cloud
Running Hermes Agent locally works well, however you need to disable most of the skills, tools and MCP's to ensure you do not waste memory. Further you do not want the Ollama server running with a loaded model when you are not using it. Best way I have found to balance this effectively is using the Hermes Profiles with Hooks. I'm going to assume you already have Ollama and Hermes Agent installed and basically working. sudo systemctl stop ollama.service sudo systemctl disable ollama.service You need to disable the Ollama service to not load at boot time. hermes profile create local-lite hermes profile use local-lite nano ~/.hermes/profiles/local-lite/config.yaml Update the local profile config.yaml file. model: "ollama/qwen3:14b" hooks: on_session_start: - command: "python3 /home/username/.hermes/profiles/local-lite/scripts/start_ollama.py" hooks_auto_accept: true nano ~/.hermes/profiles/local-lite/scripts/start_ollama.py import subprocess i...
