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Question: What is the copy command in Hermes Agent?

Answer:

Hermes Agent (by Nous Research) does not have a traditional “copy” command in the conventional sense of copying files. However, there are several clipboard and file-related operations available:

Clipboard Operations

Pasting Images from Clipboard

Hermes supports pasting images directly from your clipboard into the CLI for vision analysis using Ctrl+V or the /paste command. The methods include:

  1. /paste command - Type /paste and press Enter to check your clipboard for an image and attach it. This is the most reliable method that works in every environment.

  2. Ctrl+V - When your clipboard contains both text and an image, Ctrl+V automatically checks for the image too (requires bracketed paste support in your terminal).

  3. Alt+V - Press Alt+V to check the clipboard for an image, though this does not work in VSCode’s integrated terminal.

Image Storage

Images pasted from the clipboard are automatically saved to ~/.hermes/images/ as PNG files with timestamped filenames.

File System Copy Operations

While not explicitly documented as a dedicated “copy” command in Hermes Agent’s CLI, the agent has access to terminal tools and can execute standard Unix commands like cp for file copying through its terminal tool.

Configuration Export

For copying configuration data, such as Browser Use API keys, Hermes uses commands like hermes config set BROWSER_USE_API_KEY $(browser-use config get api_key) to copy keys between systems.

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