Buying with Hermes

The one supported tool that does not keep its config in a dot-directory under your home — which is worth knowing before you go looking for it.

Turning it on

Buy → switch on Hermes, pick the models, restart it.

What changes on disk

File
`<Hermes home>/config.yaml`

YAML, and the location is not fixed.

Where Hermes actually keeps its config

Hermes is the exception

Every other tool lives in ~/.<tool>. Hermes is located in this order:

HERMES_HOME, if that variable is set.
An existing config.yaml — ~/.hermes or %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes, whichever already has one.
Otherwise ~/.hermes.

Hermes' installer writes HERMES_HOME as a user environment variable, so a terminal that was already open when Hermes was installed does not have it. That is exactly the case where a config gets written to a directory Hermes never reads — the switch looks on, and nothing routes.

Restart your terminal after installing Hermes, before turning the switch on.

On Windows the installer's default is %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes, not ~/.hermes. The Buy page shows the path it resolved to — check it if traffic is not appearing.

Things to watch

Restart Hermes after switching.
Its switch and model list are its own and do not affect the other tools.