Build a 24/7 Self-Hosted Personal AI Agent on a VPS(Hermes)

About this course

You will set up a personal AI agent that runs 24/7 on an affordable server you fully control. One you can text from your phone and watch work in your browser. Over 30 hands-on lessons you'll go from an empty Linux box to a hardened, always-on agent powered by Hermes, meeting it two ways: message it on Telegram like a friend, and open a private web dashboard to watch its sessions, memory, and tools. By the end it runs on its own — gathering a briefing every morning and texting it to you before you're even up.

What you'll learn:

Deploy a personal AI agent that runs 24/7 on your own low-cost VPSHarden a Linux server with a non-root user, key-only SSH, a firewall, fail2ban, and automatic security updates

Install and configure Hermes, connect an LLM provider, and run multiple agent profiles

Operate your agent from the CLI and TUI — sessions, tools and toolsets, memory, and context files

Install ready-made skills and write your own to extend what your agent can doConnect external tools with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — wire up GitHub and manage issues from Telegram

Connect a Telegram bot through the gateway so you can message your agent from your phone, anywhere

Monitor your agent in the Hermes web dashboard over a secure SSH tunnel

Automate recurring tasks with cron in plain English, and chain jobs into multi-stage pipelines

Give your agent a personality and persistent memory that carries across sessions

Complete a capstone: a daily briefing your agent generates on its own and texts to you Requirements: basic command-line comfort, a low-cost VPS (~$6/month), an LLM provider key (OpenAI, Anthropic, or an open source option), and a Telegram account. No prior agent experience needed.

Stop renting your AI. Build one that's always on, answers from your pocket, and lives on

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