Hermes is Nous Research's agent runtime. litwindow mounts it in your office as an always-on worker with the gateway key minted, the adapter pointed at it, and the restart policy set — before your first login.
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Hermes is an agent runtime built by Nous Research. It runs a gateway process that accepts tasks over HTTP, streams the work back as it happens, and keeps its memory and skills on disk between runs. It is not litwindow software — it is an independent project, and we host it the way we host the rest of your stack.
In your office it runs as one container beside your Paperclip control plane, driven entirely through Paperclip's hermes_gateway adapter. Paperclip assigns the task; Hermes does the work. The budget caps, live logs, health checks and backups that cover every other worker cover this one, because it is the same machine.
The Hermes service ships in every office's compose stack, pinned at v2026.8.3, and Paperclip's adapter is already pointed at it, so it runs from your first boot. OpenClaw is the worker litwindow has validated end to end on a live customer, which is why we call OpenClaw first-class today and Hermes the worker we are bringing to that same standard next.
Both are mounted in your office; only one of them has been run in anger by us. If you want the worker with the longer service history behind it, start on OpenClaw. If you want Hermes, it is already there, and turning it on costs you a key rather than a migration.
You can. Hermes is a container and a config file. The cost is not the container — it is everything that has to be true around it before a control plane can safely hand it work.
Your part is a key and a click. Everything else happened while the machine was booting.
The real pins and the real wiring, as your office runs them.
hermes_gateway adapter over HTTP and server-sent events. Unlike a self-registering worker, Hermes has no join step to run and no invite to accept: the adapter already knows where it is./opt/data.Here is exactly where it stands. The Hermes service ships in every office's compose stack, pinned at v2026.8.3, and Paperclip's hermes_gateway adapter is already pointed at it, so it runs from your first boot. OpenClaw is the worker litwindow has validated end to end on a live customer, which is why we call OpenClaw first-class today and Hermes the worker we are bringing to that same standard next. Both are mounted in your office; only one of them has been run in anger by us.
Hermes is Nous Research's agent runtime, an independent project. litwindow does not author it; we pin a version of it, run it on your VM, wire it to your control plane, and keep it alive. Credit and the roadmap belong to Nous Research.
An Anthropic, OpenAI, or OpenRouter API key that you own. API keys are the only path for Hermes on litwindow — there is no subscription option for this worker. In particular, litwindow never automates Claude Pro or Max subscription logins for any worker: Anthropic bars subscription auth in third-party harnesses, so bring-your-own Anthropic API key is the only Claude route here.
No. The gateway listens only on your tenant's private container network, is bearer-authed with a key generated on your VM, and is never published to the host or the public internet. Paperclip reaches it from inside the same stack; nothing else can.
No. Hermes runs inside the VM and compose stack you already pay for, so it adds nothing to your litwindow bill at either plan. Model usage is billed by your provider on your own key, at their list prices, under the same monthly budget cap Paperclip enforces for every other worker.
In a Docker volume on your own VM, mounted at /opt/data, so memory and skills survive restarts and image upgrades. It is covered by the nightly encrypted backups and included in the one-click export tarball, alongside your Postgres dump and the compose files needed to run the whole office yourself.
Every office ships with all of these mounted and wired to each other. You do not pick one.
Boot the office, push a key, and give it something to do tonight.
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