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AI Agents That Know Your Infrastructure

Deploy Hermes on Proxmox or TrueNAS. Give it SSH access across your lab. Query VMs, check ZFS health, monitor your network — and get a morning briefing on your phone. Nine lessons from first deployment to a working infrastructure agent.

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Live Demo

Hermes at Work in Your Lab

One prompt. Your entire infrastructure. This is what you'll build in Lesson 4.

Curriculum

9 Complete Lessons

Each lesson builds on the last, ending with a fully operational infrastructure agent running in your homelab.

01
What Is a Homelab Agent?
The architecture that makes Hermes different from a simple chatbot — and why a local agent changes everything.
15 min
02
Deploying Hermes in Your Homelab
Deploy on a Proxmox VM or TrueNAS SCALE node. Configure API keys and verify the agent is live.
20 min
03
The SSH Terminal Backend
Give Hermes shell access across every machine in your lab. Run commands and get structured output back.
22 min
04
Querying Proxmox: VMs, LXCs, and Cluster Status
Pull live VM and container status, resource usage, and cluster health with a single natural-language prompt.
25 min
05
Storage Health: ZFS Pools and Disk Checks
Monitor pool status, detect degraded arrays, run scrubs, and get disk health reports without opening a browser.
22 min
06
Network Awareness: Uptime, Interfaces, and Connectivity
Query interface states, test reachability, and surface network anomalies across your entire lab topology.
20 min
07
Building Your Morning Infrastructure Briefing
Schedule a daily digest that summarizes VM health, storage, and network status — delivered to your phone.
25 min
08
Safety Boundaries: Permissions and What Not to Touch
Configure what Hermes can and can't do. Read-only defaults, allowlists, and the rules that keep your lab safe.
20 min
09
Your Homelab Agent in Action
Full walkthroughs of real-world scenarios: incident response, upgrade prep, capacity planning, and daily ops.
25 min
What You'll Deploy

From First Deploy to Full Coverage

By Lesson 9 you have a working infrastructure agent. Not a demo — an agent running on your hardware.

A Running Hermes Instance
Deployed on your Proxmox node or TrueNAS SCALE, configured with your API keys, and ready to accept prompts.
SSH Across Your Lab
One Hermes instance. SSH access to every machine. Ask any question about any host — in plain English.
A Daily Morning Briefing
Scheduled digest summarizing VM health, ZFS pool status, disk temperatures, and network uptime — sent to your phone every morning.
Safety Boundaries Set
Hermes knows exactly what it can and can't touch. Read-only where you want it. Allowlisted for the rest.
Who This Is For

Built for Homelab Operators

You already run the hardware. This track teaches you to give it a voice.

Proxmox and TrueNAS users
If you're running VMs and ZFS pools at home, Hermes was built for your exact stack. Every lesson targets the tools you already use.
Self-hosters who are tired of dashboard hopping
Stop opening five tabs to check what you could ask in one sentence. Hermes queries everything and returns a summary.
Developers curious about agentic AI on real hardware
Hermes is an MCP-based agent with real tool use — SSH, API calls, file access. If you want to understand how production agents work, this is a hands-on blueprint.

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