Hermes profiles make a working agent portable across a team
Use an export for a reviewed handoff, move to a versioned distribution for repeated team use, and keep secrets and user data separate.
What matters today
Share a tuned Hermes agent with portable profiles, review exported state, and use versioned distributions for repeatable team installs.
Key points
- Hermes profiles can now move as a single export file with standard credential files stripped.
- A profile export can carry skills, memory, persona, cron jobs, plugins, settings, themes, and layouts.
- Exported memories and sessions may still contain sensitive content, so every archive needs review before sharing.
- Profile distributions give teams versioned installs and updates while preserving each person's local state.
- Portable profiles reproduce a tuned agent but do not add centralized administration, billing, or remote revocation.
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Article roadmap
What you will learn
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What Hermes includes when a profile becomes a single shareable file
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Which sensitive data the export process strips and which personal data it can still carry
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When a team should use a one-time export instead of a versioned distribution
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How to test an imported agent before trusting it with team work
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Which controls Hermes profile sharing does not provide
Ava spent two weeks turning Hermes into a useful vendor-research agent. It has the right skills, a strict source policy, a scheduled brief, and a tone her executive team will read. Sharing it used to mean sending a pile of files and setup notes, then hoping another person rebuilt the same agent.
Nous Research closed that gap on August 12. Hermes profiles can now move as a single file. Run /export, send the archive, and the recipient runs /import. The handoff can carry the agent's skills, memory, persona, cron jobs, plugins, settings, and desktop layout while stripping the standard credential files.
This is the Hermes update that matters for teams. It makes a tuned agent portable. It does not create centralized administration, shared billing, or a permission console. The exported file can also contain memories and conversation history, so "credentials stripped" must not be mistaken for "safe to send without review."
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