Hermes Desktop Is Another Door, Not a Replacement for the Terminal

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:26:04 -0300

Hermes Desktop exists now, and I think it’s phenomenal — and I want to be honest up front about why that sentence almost didn’t come from me.

I live in the terminal. I have a tmux layout I’ve been refining for years, a shell that finally gets out of my way, and muscle memory that turns most config edits into a few keystrokes. Hermes Agent has run from my terminal for months and it works. It reaches me over Telegram, it runs its loop, it learns my environment. The CLI was never a problem I needed solved.

Hermes-Desktop on Danilo Falcão da Silva

Hermes Desktop Is Another Door, Not a Replacement for the Terminal