Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent harness by Nous Research. Inkbox maintains a fork that wires the harness directly into Inkbox, so every install ships with an email, a phone number with SMS + voice, and a tunnel — out of the box.

Fork on GitHub →

One command. Installs Hermes and its dependencies, walks you through Inkbox self-signup, provisions email + phone, installs the gateway as a background service that auto-starts on boot.

For native Windows (early beta) use PowerShell instead:

By the end of the install your agent has:

• An email address — yourname@inkboxmail.com, send and receive
• A phone number — SMS and voice calls, inbound and outbound
• A public webhook tunnel — inbound webhooks from email and phone reach the gateway on your machine without you running a public server
• A background gateway service that auto-starts on boot, with HMAC-verified webhooks
• No account prerequisite — the wizard handles Inkbox self-signup inline

The agent harness — CLI, supported models, skills, memory, tools, terminal backends, scheduled jobs, RL training — is unchanged from upstream. The fork only touches the integration layer.

A scheduled workflow merges NousResearch/hermes-agent@main into the fork's inkbox branch every day. Every upstream commit reaches this fork within ~24 hours — no version-pinning lag.

Start chatting from your terminal:

Or just text or email your agent at the phone number / email it was provisioned with. The gateway running in the background routes inbound messages into the agent's session.

By default the agent's mailbox and phone number accept inbound traffic from any sender. Open the Inkbox console contact rules to allow or block specific contacts, phone numbers, email addresses, or domains. Per-mailbox and per-number filter modes (whitelist vs blacklist) decide whether unmatched senders are allowed by default or rejected.

• Hermes Agent on GitHub (Inkbox fork)
• Hermes Agent on GitHub (Nous upstream)
• Hermes Agent docs