Use Autark in Hermes.

Hermes is an agent that runs in a terminal, a desktop app, and on messaging platforms. It supports custom OpenAI-compatible providers through config, so Autark becomes a selectable provider alongside the built-in ones.

Add the provider

Add this to your Hermes config. The default profile reads ~/.hermes/config.yaml; other profiles read ~/.hermes/profiles/NAME/config.yaml.

providers:
  autark:
    base_url: https://api.autark.ai/v1
    api_key: autark_sk_YOUR_KEY
    models:
      - autark-agent
      - autark-pro
      - autark-deep
      - autark-agent-private
      - autark-pro-private
      - autark-deep-private

model:
  provider: custom:autark
  name: autark-agent

// Restart Hermes afterwards. Autark appears in the model picker with all six models.

Declare the models list

Hermes can also discover models from /v1/models, but declaring them means the picker is correct even when discovery is unavailable, and it makes the available set explicit rather than dependent on a live probe.

Keep the key out of the config file

Use key_env if you keep secrets in the environment:

providers:
  autark:
    base_url: https://api.autark.ai/v1
    key_env: AUTARK_API_KEY

// The key stays in your environment, not in the config file.

Verify it works:

hermes model
hermes -z "say hello" -m autark-agent --provider custom:autark

// The first opens the picker; the second sends one request.

Troubleshooting

The provider does not appear in the picker

Check the config is in the right file. The default profile is ~/.hermes/config.yaml; other profiles are ~/.hermes/profiles/NAME/config.yaml. Restart the tool after editing.

It appears but the model list is empty

Add the explicit models: list shown above. Discovery from /v1/models can return nothing in some versions; the declared list is authoritative and always works.

404 on every request

The base URL is missing /v1. Autark's base URL is https://api.autark.ai/v1, not the bare host.

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