Connect Hermes to Smol Machines
Set up in minutes
Choose where it runs
On your computer through your own Hermes, or hosted in the cloud. The rest of setup adapts to your choice:
Pick what it can do in Smol Machines
A preset of real Smol Machines operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect Smol Machines
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to the operations you picked.
Add your personal MCP link
The last step mints a private MCP URL for this agent and walks you through exactly this, with your real link filled in. The page flips to Connected the moment your Hermes first calls in. Hermes connects when it next starts a session.
1. Run this in your terminal
2. Answer no when asked if the server requires authentication — the link itself is the key
<your-link> is your personal server URL — setup mints it for you.
Tools Hermes gets
Smol Machines
22 toolsGet the API key's subject, tenant and granted scopes.
List every machine in this tenant, optionally matching all labels.
Create a machine. Inspect ready before using its guest workload.
Delete this machine and its ephemeral state.
Save memory and disk durably and pause the machine.
Resize a running machine. RAM and disk only grow.
Run a buffered command; a nonzero exitCode is preserved in data.
Run a code snippet using the guest's matching interpreter.
Start a detached command and return its job; poll for completion.
Read an output slice. Continue at nextOffset until eof.
Scale a deployment group to the requested instance count.
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