Hermes AI Agents Just Went Portable

Hermes AI agents just went portable. So News Research shipped an update a few hours ago and it changes how you think about owning an AI agent. Your Hermes agent is no longer stuck on one machine. You can now save your entire agent as a single file, move it to any computer, and it wakes up exactly how you left it.

Same personality, same skills, same memory, same schedule, everything. And there's one detail buried in this update that most people are going to skim right past. It's the part that actually makes agent sharing actually safe. I'll go on to that in a minute.

First, exactly what shipped. So News Research added two commands to Hermes. The first one is export. You can type one command and Hermes packages your whole setup into one file.

Your persona, your skills, your memory, even cron jobs. Your plugins, your settings, even your desktop themes and layouts. All of it goes into a single archive. The second command is import.

So you can take that file to any other machine, run one command, and your agent is back and fully set up, ready to work. Two commands. And that's a whole feature, but what it unlocks is much bigger than it actually sounds. Here's the problem it solves.

And if you spend any real time with Hermes, you already feel this pain. A good Hermes agent takes weeks to build. Not weeks of coding, weeks of tuning, weeks of training. You shape the persona file so it talks the way you want.

You build skills for the tasks you repeat. The memory fills up with context about your business, your customers, your projects. You set up cron jobs so it runs tasks on a schedule whilst you're at the gym. You can add plugins.

You get everything just right. And until today, all of that lived on one machine. Now you could, for example, connect this to your phone or you could use a tail scale to connect to multiple different devices. But really most of it was just stored in one place.

So if your laptop broke, your agent was gone. All that tuning was gone. If you wanted the same agent on your desktop at home, and this is really the key point, and your laptop when you travel, or for example, if you wanted to share this with your team, you kind of have to rebuild it by hand, piece by piece. And if a friend asked how you set yours up, the honest answer was a long, painful walkthrough.

And that problem is now solved with one file. So let me walk you through what's actually inside the export file, because each piece matters more than the last. Piece one is the persona. In Hermes, this is a file that defines who your agent is, how it talks, what it cares about, what it's allowed to do.

This is the thing most people spend the most time getting right, because it shapes every single response. And that whole identity now travels with the file. Piece number two is skills. Skills are the reusable abilities your agent builds up over time.

Maybe you taught it how to write emails in your exact tone. Maybe it learned how to research your competitors in a certain way. In the past, skills lived really on one machine. Now you could export those, but now they ship directly inside this export of the whole Hermes agent.

Piece number three is memory. Now, this is a big one. Hermes is built around persistent memory. It remembers your past sessions, it knows your business, it knows what you asked for last week and what worked.

That memory is the most valuable part of your agent, because it took real time with you to build. And it can't be rebuilt from scratch, because it came from your actual history together. And that memory now moves with the file too. Part four is cron jobs.

So these are the scheduled tasks, the stuff your agent does on its own at set times without you asking. Morning research runs, daily summaries, checks that happen whilst you sleep. All those schedules carry over. You import on a new machine and the agent picks its routine backups.

Piece number five is plugins and settings. Every tool you connected, every option you changed. And piece number six, which honestly surprised me, is desktop themes and layouts. So even the way you set up on desktop looks moves over.

It's a small thing, but it tells you how complete the export is. News Research didn't ship like a partial backup system. This one is a whole agent. Now here's the detail that I mentioned at the start, the one that makes it safe.

So when Hermes actually exports your profile, the API keys and credentials are stripped out automatically. So your login tokens or sensitive stuff, none of it goes into the file. So when you import on a new machine, you authenticate fresh. You add your keys again on that machine.

The agent's brain travels, but your private access does not. Why does that matter so much? Because it's the difference between a backup feature and a sharing feature. If your keys are inside the file, you could never really safely hand it to anyone because you could never post a profile for your community.

You could never send your setup to a teammate, one leaked file and someone else is running up usage on your accounts. So with credentials shipped, the file is safer to share. You can send your entire agent to another person and they plug in their own keys on their end. So to get your agent's brain, they use their own access and that one design choice turns it from a backup tool into something much bigger because you can actually share it with people on your team, share with your friends, share with your community.

Now a quick thing first, if you're running Hermes or you want to, this is exactly the kind of update we move on fast inside the Air Profit Boarding. We've got members running Hermes Agent for their business right now and the daily tutorials walk you through everything step by step. Setting up Hermes, building persona, memory, the cron jobs that run whilst you're out and now exporting and moving your agent between machines. Plus you get the agent operating system where you can plug in Hermes alongside Claude, open Claude, free Claude code, all inside one dashboard with the zip file, a video tutorial and a 30-day roadmap to set it all up.

If you want your Hermes agent actually working in your business instead of sitting half finished, it's at theairprofitboarding.com or you can hit the link in the description. Now so the file is portable and safe to share but here's what that actually unlocks and each one of these is more useful than the last. The first unlock is now something you can protect. So export once, save the file somewhere safe, you could do this once a week and you never lose your setup again.

So for example if you, you know, if your laptop breaks or your hard drive fails, it doesn't really matter. You can import the file on a new machine and your agent is back within minutes with its memory and skills intact. If you put weeks into tuning an agent and you're running it locally, that alone is worth updating it for but it's the least interesting unlock on this list. The second unlock is moving your agent to a different machine or to better hardware and you know you can connect Hermes already to different machines but with this system you could take the whole agent that's running and you could build it on a separate setup.

So you could have it running on multiple machines, you could have multiple agents running on multiple machines and also if you have to restore something it's gonna run way quicker. Before today that move pretty much meant rebuilding everything from zero on the new machine. Now it's like export, copy the file over, import, add your keystone. Your agent goes from part-time to around the clock and it keeps everything it learned if you set this up on a 24-hour device as well.

Now if you run a small business this is your research agent going from something you poke out on your laptop to something that checks your niche every morning before you wake up. And the third unlock, this is a really really big one for businesses, is teams and this is where it starts getting interesting for anyone who works for other people. So let's say you've built a Hermes agent that handles the task well, writing product descriptions in your source voice for example, summarizing content or customer messages, pulling together a weekly report you've tuned. It works but now you can hand that exact agent someone on your team.

You can export the file, you can send over, they import it, they add their own keys and in seconds of running the same agent you spend weeks perfecting. Same persona, same skills, same approach, but before this update onboarding a teammate onto your agent setup meant like a long call where you walked them through every setting. Now the setup is the file, so you export once, share everywhere and new team members skip the manual setup friction completely. For a small agency that could mean for example the agent one person built for client research becomes the agent everyone uses the same day.

The fourth unlock is one that the Hermes community are excited about and it's the one I want you to sit with. So shareable agent profiles because once an agent is a single safe file, agents become things people can pass around. So let's say for example someone builds a great research agent and shares a profile. Someone builds a content agent tuned for newsletters and shares that.

You can import it, you can add your keys, you adjust it to fit you. You're no longer starting every agent from a blank page. You're starting from someone else's finished work. Community members already talking about building meta agents around this.

Agents that manage collections of other agent profiles and that part is early so treat it as a plan, not a shipped feature, but the direction is clear. Agent setups are becoming something you can share, collect and improve together the same way people share templates today and that leads to the biggest idea in this whole update. Bigger than backups, bigger than sharing, your agent's identity is now separate from any machine. Now if you follow me here, this is the part that changes how you should think about agents going forward.

An agent has two parts right. There's a model, the AI brain underneath and that's the thing doing the row thinking and then there's everything you build on top. The persona, the skills, the memory, the routines, the setup. The model belongs to whoever made it.

It could be like news research, could be anthropic, could be for example grok 4.6, could be deepseek. Whoever it gets updated and it gets swapped and it gets replaced. You don't control that part but everything you build on top that's yours and until now yours meant trapped on one computer. It wasn't really an asset, it was more like a plant rooted in one pot.

You couldn't move it without breaking it. This update pulls the agent out of the pot so your agent's whole identity now fits into one file you hold so you can copy it, move it, share it, store it. The machine is just a place the agent happens to be running today and here's why that matters over the next year. Models keep improving.

Every few months there's a better brain available. When your agent's identity is a portable file you keep the identity and upgrade the brain underneath it. All those weeks of tuning don't reset every time the technology moves. Your work compounds instead of starting over.

The people who get this are going to build agents differently because they'll spend time into the persona, the skills, and memory because that investment is now permanent and portable. The people who don't get it will be treating agents like throwaway chat sessions and wonder why they never get improving results. Now I know what some of you are thinking so let's deal with it directly. Some of you are thinking isn't this just like a backup feature, like a fancy backup feature?

Other software has export buttons, like what's the actual big deal? And that's a fair question and if all this did was backup settings you'd be right. But agents aren't settings and agents memory is the record of everything it learned from working with you. It's skills or abilities it built over time.

When that whole living ecosystem and setup becomes portable you get sharing, team distribution, you get hardware freedom, all from the same file. A settings backup doesn't do that, this does. Now some of you might also be thinking this sounds technical, I'm not a technical person, I'd probably mess it up, but here's the honest answer. The feature is two commands export and import and if you can save a file and open a file you can do this right.

The Hermes setup itself takes a bit more effort than some tools, that's true, but that's a one-time cost and it's exactly the kind of thing that's easier with someone showing you the screen, more on that in a minute. And some of you are thinking I haven't even started with agents yet, everyone's ahead of me, too late. But if you look at the date on this feature it shipped hours ago right, portable agents are brand new for everybody. The person who's been running Hermes for six months and the person who installed it this weekend both got this ability on the same day and honestly the new person has an edge the early people never had.

You can now start from a shared profile instead of a blank setup so the starting line just move closer to you not further away. And here's a simple thing to think about about where this is going. Right now when you want an agent you build one, in the near future when you want an agent you import one, someone will already have built a version that you need and you'll start from their file and make it yours. So building from scratch will be the exception not the rule.

Every big shift in software followed this pattern. Websites went from like hand built to template based. Documents went from blank pages to shared formats. So now agents are making the same move from hand built and stuck in one place to packaged and portable.

Hermes made that real today with two commands. So that's the update. Your Hermes agent is now one file. The persona, skills, memory, con jobs and plugins and themes all travel together.

Credentials get stripped automatically so the file is safe to hand to anyone and you can back up your agent move it to a machine that day that maybe it runs day and night maybe it runs on a VPS and you can hand it to your team or you can share with your community. And the bigger shift here the deeper shift is that your agent's identity now belongs to you in a file you control independent of any machine and any single model underneath it. Now if you want help actually doing this here's where to go. Inside the AR Profit Boarding we've helped over 3,000 business owners get going with AI and plenty of them have never touched it before joining.

For Hermes specifically you get the step-by-step tutorials on the full setup, the persona, the memory, the skills and the cron jobs that run your tasks on schedule. You get coaching calls four times a week where you can ask questions about your own Hermes setup live and see how other members are using their agents to save time and bring in more customers. You get a prompt library you can pull from to build your agent's skills faster and you get the agentic operating system, the dashboard where your Hermes plugs in right next to your cloud, your open cloud and your free cloud code with shared memory across all of them. That comes as a zip file with a video tutorial, a 30-day roadmap and daily updates as we improve it.

There's also a member map so you can find people near you running Hermes and compare setups in person. Go to thearprofitboard.com or hit the link in the comments description. Your agent just became something you can keep for good. Build one worth keeping.