Connect Hermes to Zulip
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 Zulip
A preset of real Zulip operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect Zulip
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
Zulip
16 toolsRead the account authenticated by the API key.
List users visible to this account.
Read one user by numeric ID.
List accessible public and subscribed channels.
List the current account's subscribed channels.
List topics in a channel accessible to the current account.
Read one message window; use first/last returned IDs as later anchors.
Read a single message visible to the account.
Send a channel or direct message. Server permissions and length limits apply.
Edit only this message's content, without moving messages or topics.
Delete a message when the account and organization permit it.
Add the account's emoji reaction.
Remove the account's emoji reaction.
Subscribe yourself to channels, creating missing channels if permitted.
Unsubscribe yourself from the named channels.
Render Zulip Markdown without sending a message.
About Hermes
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