Beginner Free 13 hours

Hermes Agent Fundamentals: Building Tool-Using Agents

Execution loops, tools, context, memory, and a working agent.

A rigorous beginner course on the system view of Hermes Agent including its runtime loop, tools, skills, sessions, learning, and introductory memory. The curriculum is grounded in the curated technical references and preserves their technical depth, code, diagrams, decision rules, and failure analysis. Every lesson adds objectives, an applied lab, review questions, and concrete completion evidence. The course closes with a substantial capstone: Configure a small Hermes Agent workspace that answers questions, uses safe tools, stores bounded memory, and exposes traceable failure behavior.

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What you will learn

Leave with a working mental model.

  1. 01 Explain the agent lifecycle and observe-think-act execution loop
  2. 02 Configure a model and scaffold a maintainable project
  3. 03 Design, select, validate, and recover from tool calls
  4. 04 Manage context and basic memory without confusing the two

Before you begin

Prerequisites

  • Python fundamentals
  • Command-line usage
  • Basic LLM API familiarity

Curriculum

Course contents

6 modules · 27 lessons

01 Module 1: Foundations 5 lessons
  1. 01 What Is HermesAgent Preview
  2. 02 Why HermesAgent Exists Preview
  3. 03 HermesAgent Core Concepts
  4. 04 HermesAgent Architecture Overview
  5. 05 HermesAgent Lifecycle
02 Module 2: Setup and Your First Agent 6 lessons
  1. 01 HermesAgent Installation
  2. 02 HermesAgent LLM Configuration
  3. 03 HermesAgent Project Structure
  4. 04 HermesAgent First Agent
  5. 05 HermesAgent Logging
  6. 06 HermesAgent Debugging Failures
03 Module 3: Agent Core Mechanics 4 lessons
  1. 01 HermesAgent Execution Loop
  2. 02 HermesAgent Prompt Design
  3. 03 HermesAgent Decision Making
  4. 04 HermesAgent Context Management
04 Module 4: Tools 6 lessons
  1. 01 HermesAgent Tools Overview
  2. 02 HermesAgent Tool Design Principles
  3. 03 HermesAgent Built-In Tools
  4. 04 HermesAgent Custom Tools
  5. 05 HermesAgent Tool Selection Logic
  6. 06 HermesAgent Tool Error Handling
05 Module 5: Memory (just enough) 4 lessons
  1. 01 HermesAgent Memory Overview
  2. 02 HermesAgent Memory Storage
  3. 03 HermesAgent Capstone Projects
  4. 04 HermesAgent Common Pitfalls
06 Module 6: Capstone Studio 2 lessons
  1. 01 Capstone Brief and Architecture
  2. 02 Validation, Review, and Definition of Done