Vylen — AI Command Center for User-Owned Hermes Agents

Same chat, every screen

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this week I had the same conversation open on three screens at once. Linux Chrome at my desk. Windows Chrome on a second machine. The Vylen iOS app on my iPhone, propped against my keyboard. I typed a question on the desktop and pressed enter.

Hermes Agent (GitHub): Self-Host Guide, Setup & Daily-Use Notes

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research, with source code on GitHub at NousResearch/hermes-agent. It runs locally or on a small VPS, uses any LLM provider you choose, executes real tools (terminal, code, file, browser), creates and improves its own skills over time, and talks to you from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, the CLI — or, with Vylen, from a native mobile app built for it.

The Scary Part: Hermes Approval Depends on Which Tool the Model Picks

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

While testing Vylen’s new MessageEvent chat path, we hit a behavior that is easy to miss and hard to unsee:

In Hermes, whether a dangerous operation asks for approval can depend on which tool the model decides to use.

That is not a Vylen rendering issue. Vylen showed the approval card when Hermes requested approval. The surprising part is that the same user intent later succeeded without an approval prompt because Hermes chose a different tool path.

Hello, Vylen

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most AI tools today ask you to upload your context, your keys, and your work to someone else’s machine. Vylen takes a different bet: your agents should run on your hardware, and the controller you use to drive them should be calm, fast, and yours.

Vylen Agent is a control plane for user-owned Hermes Agent instances. The job of the controller is small but specific: pair a connector, hold a single outbound tunnel open, route commands to your local agent, and give you a mobile-first surface to see what it’s doing. The Hermes-side gateway plugin is open source (hermes-vylen-gateway, MIT). The client app is a private project, public release pending.