Deploy and Host Hermes-Turbo-Agent on Railway

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research. It remembers you across sessions, builds its own skills, browses the web, runs code, and talks to you through Telegram or a web dashboard. This template deploys it in one click, pre-hardened, so grug not fight config for 3 hours. Grug click. Agent live.

About Hosting Hermes-Turbo-Agent

TLDR: one container, one volume, zero drama. This template runs the official nousresearch/hermes-agent Docker image in gateway mode (gateway run), with a Railway Volume mounted at /opt/data so the agent's brain (memories, skills, config, sessions) survives every restart and redeploy. The web dashboard ships ENABLED and PASSWORD-PROTECTED out of the box: most Hermes templates either skip the dashboard or ship it broken since the June 2026 auth hardening. This one generates unique credentials per deploy with Railway's secret() helper, so no two deployments share a key. Restart policy is set to always claw itself back up. Big image, so first pull takes a few minutes. That's the toll bridge, pay it once.

Common Use Cases

24/7 Telegram AI employee: a persistent assistant that learns your preferences, runs scheduled jobs with its built-in cron, and doesn't sleep when your laptop does
Document/PDF pipelines: agent writes a deterministic script once, then the script does the repetitive work on schedule with zero AI tokens burned per run
Web research + automation: bundled Playwright/Chromium browser gives the agent eyes and hands for scraping, monitoring, and reporting

Dependencies for Hermes-Turbo-Agent Hosting

One model provider API key (bring ANY one: Anthropic, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Gemini, OpenAI, and 200+ more)
Telegram bot token (60 seconds at @BotFather: send /newbot, copy token, done)

Deployment Dependencies

Official image: https://hub.docker.com/r/nousresearch/hermes-agent
Hermes docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs
Hermes Docker guide: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/docker

Implementation Details

First boot, four moves:

Deploy the template, fill in your model key + Telegram token
Wait for the image pull (grug patience phase)
Open your service domain (dashboard, port 9119), log in with the generated credentials from your Variables tab
Pick your model provider, then message your Telegram bot "hello"

Bot answers = agent lives. Everything it learns persists in /opt/data. Pro move: turn on Railway's volume Backup Schedule so the agent's brain gets snapshotted automatically. Never lose a memory, never repeat a lesson.

Security defaults: only the dashboard port is public, and it's behind auth. The gateway talks to Telegram via outbound connections. No open unauthenticated ports, nothing for internet scanners to chew on.

Why Deploy Hermes-Turbo-Agent 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-Turbo-Agent 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.