Welcome: Open Harness
Two parts: vocabulary and a working agent, then a harness that remembers and compounds.
The promise
Acts from your pocket
Survives restart
Most people rent intelligence: a browser tab, a subscription, and memory they cannot open offline. This course builds the opposite, a Hermes harness whose identity, tools, memory, and gateway live in files you control.
Day one is Hermes Desktop on your PC. The same files remain portable later; we do not teach CLI or VPS install here. We do cover the basics, lexicon, mental models, and ownership, so the stack is intelligible before you configure anything.
How the course is built
Two arcs. Complete Part I before Part II. Part II assumes Desktop chat works, SOUL.md exists, and the Telegram gateway is trusted.
| Part | Name | You leave with |
|---|---|---|
| I | Your sovereign agent | Lexicon, Desktop, SOUL, Telegram gateway, tools proof |
| II | Your compounding harness | Memory, vault, skills, security dials, cron runbook, backup map |
What you leave with
How to follow
- Desktop path only, skip CLI-first install guides for this course.
- Modules in order; each ends with a binary proof.
- Do not skip module 01 unless you already explain agent vs chat and harness vs runtime cleanly.
- If a button label moved, official docs win. Install carries a verified-as-of date.
You can state Part I and Part II outcomes in one sentence each, and name why module 01 (lexicon) comes before install.
Stored on this device only, not sent anywhere.