How to use Hermes Agent from your phone
Hermes Agent remembers what it learns. It does not, yet, have a way to reach you when you are not at the keyboard.
Hermes Agent is the open-source autonomous agent from Nous Research that took off earlier this year - over 135,000 GitHub stars in under three months, which makes it the fastest-growing agent framework of 2026. The pitch is real and it is different from most agent tools: it keeps a persistent memory, so it gets better at a task the second time you ask, and it turns patterns it notices into reusable skills instead of starting cold on every run.
What it does not have is a phone app. Install it and you get a single curl command, no sudo, running on Linux, macOS or WSL2 - and the interface that curl gives you is a terminal. Type hermes and you are in an interactive CLI. There is an optional gateway process that bridges it to Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp or Signal, but that is a chat bridge, not a way to see and drive the machine it is running on.
So if you set Hermes going on your Mac and then walk away, the honest answer to "how do I check on it from my phone" today is: SSH into a server, or stay on the same Wi-Fi and hit a LAN IP and port. Neither is really a phone experience.
Why this is a real gap, not a nitpick
- A terminal on a phone screen means a tiny keyboard and a cursor you cannot place accurately.
- SSH needs the Mac reachable on the network you are currently on, which a closed laptop on cellular is not.
- Nothing tells you Hermes is waiting on you. You have to remember to go check.
- The chat bridges (Telegram etc.) get you text in and out, but not a screen, a pointer, or your voice.
None of this is a knock on Hermes. Persistent memory and self-generated skills are a genuinely different approach to what an agent tool is for, and that part of the project is doing something most agent frameworks are not even attempting. It just was not built to be a phone product - it was built to be a background worker on a machine you are sitting at.
The fix is not Hermes. It is the Mac it runs on
Hermes lives in a terminal session on your Mac. So instead of trying to get Hermes itself onto your phone, the simpler move is to get the Mac onto your phone - the same terminal, the same screen, reachable from wherever you actually are.
MightyMouse turns your iPhone into a trackpad, keyboard and microphone for your Mac, plus a live screen mirror, so the terminal Hermes is running in is one that you can see and type into from your phone. You are not remote-controlling Hermes through some integration - you are remote-controlling the Mac, the same way you would if you sat back down at the desk.
That also means it does not care what Hermes is doing at the time. Watching a long agent run scroll past, typing a follow-up prompt, or approving something Hermes is waiting on in the terminal all work the same way an in-person session would, because it is the same session.
Sign in and it works over MightyMouse's own tunnel, so you do not need to be on the same Wi-Fi as the Mac the way a bare LAN-IP setup requires - useful for exactly the case that started this: Hermes running at home, you are not.
What this does not solve
Be clear about the honest limit here. This gets you the Mac from your phone - it does not turn Hermes into a mobile-native app, and it does not give Hermes a way to push you a notification the moment it needs an answer. Hermes has no equivalent of a tool call that reaches out to a phone; MightyMouse's lock-screen approval flow is wired up for coding agents that speak MCP - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and VS Code - and Hermes is not one of those today. If Hermes adds an MCP interface, that changes. Until then, checking on it from your phone means opening the mirrored terminal yourself, not getting tapped on the shoulder.
The Mac also still has to be awake. Nothing here runs Hermes anywhere else - it moves where you can see and type into the session Hermes already has, which needs the machine underneath it to be on.
Reach the Mac that Hermes runs on, from your phone.
Trackpad, keyboard, voice and screen mirror. Free to try.
Common questions
Does Hermes Agent have a mobile app?
No. Hermes installs and runs as a terminal process on Linux, macOS or WSL2. There is an optional gateway for chat apps like Telegram and Discord, but no dedicated phone app and no web UI.
Can I run Hermes Agent on my iPhone?
Not directly - Hermes needs a Linux, macOS or WSL2 environment to run in, which an iPhone is not. The practical option is running it on a Mac and reaching that Mac from your phone.
How do I check on Hermes Agent when I am away from my computer?
Today, either SSH back into the machine or stay on the same Wi-Fi and hit its LAN address. Both assume a real terminal client on your phone. Mirroring the Mac's screen to your phone and typing into it directly is the other route, and it does not need SSH.
Does Hermes Agent work with MightyMouse?
MightyMouse does not integrate with Hermes directly - there is no plugin or API connection between them. What it does is put your Mac, including whatever terminal Hermes is running in, on your phone as a trackpad, keyboard, voice and screen mirror.
Hermes Agent runs on your Mac either way - if you want to reach that Mac without SSH, MightyMouse puts your Mac on your phone as a trackpad, keyboard and mic, with free local voice transcription.