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Five things to read, in order. Each one assumes you have read the one before and nothing else. About forty minutes in total, and you come out with a working setup rather than a vocabulary.

  1. What is an AI agent?

    Understand what an agent actually is before you install one.

    2 min read

  2. What is a VPS?

    The one piece of infrastructure you need to run anything 24/7.

    2 min read

  3. Run Hermes on a VPS (step-by-step)

    Your first real setup: an agent that stays online without your laptop.

    4 min read

  4. What is local AI?

    Why you might want models running on your own machine instead.

    2 min read

  5. How to run local AI models (without coding)

    Get a model running locally in about ten minutes.

    2 min read

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