for code work
Stay in the repo.
Best when the task is edit, test, diff, review. Use hisohiso when that loop should stay local but still be reachable from a phone.
claude and codex →hisohiso + hermes
Hermes on your machine.
One private line to your phone.
Hermes already runs locally — touching your shell, your browser, your notes, your local models. We give it one encrypted channel to your phone, with buttons instead of paragraphs and no chat company in the middle of your home automation.
Slack and Telegram are for people.
They are built for groups, history, search, and the warm everyday mess. Hermes needs the opposite — one local session, one encrypted room, output that renders as a diff, a button, a confirmation. Not another noisy thread.
This matters most when Hermes is connected to private tools, local files, or local models. You and your agent. Not you, your agent, and a chat company in the middle.
for everything else
Cross the tools you already wired.
Code, shell, browser, files, notes, reminders, smart home, local models — wherever you have already taught Hermes to reach.
Hermes goes where the work goes.
Paseo-style products are strongest when the work is a coding-agent workflow. Hermes through hisohiso is strongest when private local automation crosses code, files, shell, browser, notes, schedules, local models, or personal data — and the phone only has to steer through a clean encrypted line.
Let Hermes set itself up.
The skill teaches Hermes how to wrap its own session and register it with the hisohiso daemon. The easier path: ask Hermes to do the setup. Then read what it changed.
hermes skills install https://hisohiso.org/skills/hermes.md
Then run Hermes and ask it to use the hisohiso Hermes bridge skill to finish setup.
What the setup creates.
- A working hisohiso CLI. The setup checks the local
hisohisocommand before doing anything else. - A Hermes wrapper. One Hermes session id per encrypted channel. Sessions don't blur into each other.
- A daemon agent named
hermes. Sendhermesin your control channel to spawn a new room around a fresh session. - Real phone-friendly replies. Diffs, terminal output, file trees, buttons, and confirm dialogs as actual UI blocks.
What it feels like in your hand.
Start the daemon once. Pair your phone. Keep the control channel open. Later, when you want help, send hermes. A new room appears for that session — separate from your personal chats, separate from your workspaces.
hisohiso daemon start
# from the control channel on your phone:
hermesWhen Hermes proposes a command or shows a diff, the phone renders it as a card. Not a wall of chat.
A few honest limits.
This is for people who are comfortable running local tools. We do not install Hermes for you, manage your API keys, or make an unsafe command safe. We give you a private, self-hostable line instead of a general messaging app. You decide what the agent is allowed to do.
Hermes does the work. We carry the line.
Use it when you want a local autonomous agent without turning every task into another chat thread.