Graduation + VPS Preview

Station 14 — Choose next. Time: 10 min. Pass when you know whether your next step is more Easy Access practice or the Developer Upgrade.

What this is

You have run a personal agent, connected a model, learned the slash commands, seen the toolbox, and produced a useful output. This station points you at what comes next. The fork above shows the two paths.

Why it matters

Momentum fades if you do not know the next move. Picking a clear next step — practise more locally, or upgrade to a VPS — keeps your new skill alive after class.

What to do

First, two habits to keep:

• Update regularly. Hermes ships changes almost daily — run hermes update now and then. See Keep Hermes Updated.
• Let it grow. The more you use Hermes, the more skills and memory it builds around how you work.

Then choose one path:

Keep practising Easy Access — run more tool demo missions, build prompt and workflow habits, and try Hermes on your own real tasks.

Take the Developer Upgrade — move Hermes onto your own VPS. This is where the wider Hermes world opens up:

• Always-on messaging — a Telegram or Discord assistant you reach from your phone.
• Scheduled jobs (cron) — daily briefings and routines that run without you.
• Delegation — helper agents working parts of a big job in parallel.
• Stronger separation — agent actions on a rented machine, not your laptop.

Start at the Developer Upgrade overview.

Honest caveat:

A VPS is safer only if configured carefully. It is not automatically secure.

Go deeper: the full official Hermes documentation covers every command, tool, and feature for when you want more than this module.

Common mistakes

• Finishing the session without choosing a next step.
• Assuming a VPS is secure by default.
• Forgetting a VPS keeps costing money until you stop or destroy it.

Next step

Ready for more control? Open the Developer Upgrade overview.