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title: Getting Started
description: "Beginner-friendly explainers for understanding Hermes Agent, hosted AI agents, and common first use cases."
canonical: "https://deploy-hermes.com/getting-started"
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# Getting Started

> Beginner-friendly explainers for understanding Hermes Agent, hosted AI agents, and common first use cases.

Canonical: https://deploy-hermes.com/getting-started

These pages answer the questions people ask before they are ready to deploy: what Hermes is, why an AI agent is different from a chatbot, and where it fits into day-to-day work.

Start with the fundamentals, then move straight into setup when you are ready.

## Pages in this category

- [What Is Hermes Agent?](/getting-started/what-is-hermes-agent): A practical explanation of what Hermes Agent is, how it differs from a chatbot, and why people deploy it into real channels.
- [Why Use an AI Agent?](/getting-started/why-use-an-ai-agent): Why teams move from one-off AI chats to persistent agents that can remember context, use tools, and act across time.
- [Daily Routines With AI Agents](/getting-started/daily-routines-with-ai-agents): Examples of daily routines that persistent AI agents can own, from reminders and summaries to research and recurring check-ins.
- [AI for Founders](/getting-started/ai-for-founders): How founders can use Hermes Agent for recurring operational work, research, channel triage, and lightweight execution.
- [AI for ADHD](/getting-started/ai-for-adhd): How persistent AI agents can support ADHD-friendly routines, prompts, reminders, and low-friction task follow-through.
- [Sharing an AI Agent With Your Team](/getting-started/sharing-an-ai-agent-with-your-team): What changes when an AI agent moves from personal assistant to shared team operator inside a supported channel or the web application.
- [What Is a Grok Bot? Models, Bots, and Agents Explained](/getting-started/what-is-a-grok-bot): Learn what a Grok bot is, how xAI's Grok model family fits into an app, and where Hermes Agent fits when you need an agent runtime.
- [AI Bot vs AI Agent: What Is the Difference?](/getting-started/ai-bot-vs-ai-agent): Compare an AI bot with an AI agent by looking at state, tools, goals, permissions, and the work each can reliably complete.
- [How to Choose an AI Model for Your Bot](/getting-started/choosing-an-ai-model-for-your-bot): A practical framework for choosing an AI model for a bot based on task quality, latency, tool use, reliability, privacy, and cost controls.

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- [Full documentation index](/llms.txt)
- [Complete site text](/llms-full.txt)
- [Developer portal](/developers)
- [OpenAPI contract](/openapi.json)
- [MCP server card](/.well-known/mcp.json)