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HermesNous Research

Boot Hermes — your personal AI assistant — in seconds.

17 tools, 68 skills, and a machine of its own. Hermes boots ready to install, build, automate, serve, and search — the hardware check and the greeting on this page are from a real session, captured the day this page was built.

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⊞ Dashboardkeen-vole
HERMES-AGENT
deepseek-v4-flash · Nous Research
⚠ YOLO mode — all approval prompts bypassed
/workspace
Session: 20260702_152546_ad5f49
17 tools · 68 skills · /help for commands
Welcome to Hermes Agent! Type your message or /help for commands.
give me that hardware summary again, then say hi as my new assistant
☥ Hermes
Hardware: 4-core AMD EPYC (x86_64, AVX512), 8 GB RAM, 30 GB disk (27 GB free), KVM virtualized.
Hi there! I'm your new assistant — ready to install, build, debug, automate, serve, and search for you from this terminal. Give me something to do.
☥ deepseek-v4-flash │ ctx 2% │ 7s │ ✓ 1s │ ⚠ YOLO
Hermes · keen-vole.zbox.sh⚙ 0%▤ 4%⛁ 8%⌘K to askPop outDelete

real session · captured live on zipbox.ai · sandbox deleted after

time to a live terminalseconds
your URLhermes.zbox.sh
price$0.0342/hr · $25/mo

How you set up Hermes in the cloud

01

Sign in

Email if you want it simple, a crypto key if you want anonymity. No passwords — every session is cryptographically signed.

02

Boot Hermes

A fresh Firecracker microVM boots and Hermes installs and launches itself at first boot. On pay-per-use a metered key is injected; or paste your own key at boot.

03

It’s live in your browser

A full-root terminal opens in the browser and the box answers at its own zbox.sh subdomain. Pause parks it for free, delete wipes it for good, SSH is optional.

Questions, answered straight

Do I need an API key to run Hermes?
No. Pick pay-per-use and a metered key is injected when the sandbox boots — tokens are billed to your prepaid balance at cost plus 3%, and the agent works immediately. Or bring your own key at boot and pay your provider direct.
What does running Hermes in the cloud cost?
$0.0342 per hour while the sandbox runs — about $25 a month left on 24/7 — and $0 while it’s paused. You start with free credit — no card. Hermes’s default machine is 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB disk, and other sizes start at $10/mo.
What happens when I pause or delete a Hermes sandbox?
Two buttons, honestly: Pause shuts the machine down and parks its disk for free — restore it later and pick up where the agent left off. Delete wipes the whole VM — disk, memory, network — permanently. You only ever pay while it runs.
Is it safe to let Hermes run unattended with full permissions?
In a sandbox, yes — that’s the point. The box is a hardware-isolated Firecracker microVM with its own kernel and none of your files, keys, or cookies. Close the tab and it keeps working; the blast radius is one disposable machine.
Can I SSH into the sandbox?
Optionally. The browser terminal is the default and needs no setup. Add an SSH public key when you boot and you can also connect from your own terminal — same machine, same session.

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Hermes, on a machine you can throw away.

One click boots the Nous Research agent CLI on a disposable cloud machine — and you pay only while it runs.

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