Three sets of tutorials: the build path (seven pages — learn by building it), the onboarding curriculum (seven pages — the installer course), and the walkthrough sheets (three languages, one page each). Everything a young person touches on the way to their own agent.
The Hermes-native alternative to the zip install. Four modules, one capability each, every module ending in something you can see, hear, open, or invoke. Each page carries its own spoken-word narration.
Why we build it instead of installing it — the four modules, the two paths, the design principles.
“here is how the agent becomes yours”The words, made plain — agent, model, memory, tools, schedule.
look it up anytimeInstall Hermes, first chat with the agent. Silence & Stillness. Carries its own narration audio.
“the agent lives here, on my computer”The evening planning session. Body, Wisdom. Carries its own narration audio.
“it plans the week around my plan”Piper TTS and the daily audio briefing. Nature, Digital Defence. Carries its own narration audio.
“I wake up and press play”All eight essentials, homework support, and writing your own skills. Carries its own narration audio.
“I can make it do anything”Day-to-day operation once the build is done.
setting it up is one thingCourse 0 to Course 5 — click-through guides with no terminal and no code. The teen reads and does; the agent gets smarter in the background.
Six courses, five weeks. Where to start and what order to do them in.
private hub pageThe primer — chatbot vs agent, the four parts of an agent, local vs cloud models, the glossary.
read before installingDownload and install the app on Mac or Windows, then first chat. No terminal.
click-through, no codeRun a model on the laptop itself.
works offlineConnect bigger cloud models for the hard questions.
a few cents a queryPick the essential, set the profile, put the agent on the phone.
the agent becomes yoursThe curriculum the agent delivers, week by week.
delivered by the agentThe whole setup on a single dense sheet — the lab-manual format, for printing or sending to a phone.