How do I deploy hermes-railway-template on Railway?

You can deploy hermes-railway-template on Railway by clicking the "Deploy Now" button on this page. Railway will automatically set up all the necessary services and configurations for you.

What are the system requirements?

Railway handles all the infrastructure requirements. You only need a web browser to deploy and manage your application.

Is this template free to use?

Yes, this template is free to use within your existing Railway account.

Can I customize this template?

Yes, you can fully customize this template. After deployment, you will have full control of what you've deployed in your Railway project.

How do I get support for this template?

You can get support through our community forum: hermes-railway-template-ef2de321, or click "Get template help" for this template for more assistance.

Deploy and Host hermes-railway-template on Railway

hermes-railway-template is a Railway-ready deployment for Hermes Agent, configured as a worker service with persistent state. It bootstraps Hermes on first run using environment variables, then reuses saved configuration from a mounted volume. The template supports Telegram, Discord, or Slack and works with multiple AI inference providers.

About Hosting hermes-railway-template

Hosting hermes-railway-template on Railway centers on a worker-first runtime with persistent storage. During setup, you deploy the service as a worker, mount a volume at /data, and provide required environment variables for both an inference provider and at least one messaging platform. On first boot, the entrypoint initializes Hermes under /data/.hermes, writes runtime configuration, and creates initialization markers. On subsequent boots, state and config are reused automatically, reducing operational overhead. In practice, this gives you a stable bot gateway deployment that can survive restarts and redeploys while keeping credentials and access controls managed through Railway Variables.

Common Use Cases

Deploying an AI chat gateway bot to Telegram, Discord, or Slack
Running Hermes with persistent state across Railway redeploys
Quickly standing up a worker-based agent service backed by OpenRouter, OpenAI-compatible APIs, or Anthropic

Dependencies for hermes-railway-template Hosting

Railway worker service with a persistent volume mounted at /data
Runtime variables for one inference provider and one messaging platform (plus optional allowlists)

Deployment Dependencies

Railway Volumes (persistent storage): https://docs.railway.com/guides/volumes
Railway Variables (secrets and config): https://docs.railway.com/guides/variables
Hermes Agent docs (runtime variables and behavior): https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/README.md

Implementation Details

HERMES_HOME=/data/.hermes
HOME=/data
MESSAGING_CWD=/data/workspace

# Example defaults
OPENROUTER_API_KEY=""
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=""
TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS=""

On startup, scripts/entrypoint.sh validates provider/platform variables, writes ${HERMES_HOME}/.env, creates ${HERMES_HOME}/config.yaml if missing, persists ${HERMES_HOME}/.initialized, and starts hermes gateway.

Why Deploy hermes-railway-template on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying hermes-railway-template on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.