Hermes Agent, the open-source self-improving agent from Nous Research, just shipped a Profile Builder directly inside its web dashboard. What used to require hand-editing YAML files and running a sequence of CLI commands is now a single guided wizard: Identity → Model → Skills → MCPs → Review.

This is a meaningful quality-of-life upgrade for anyone running multiple agent instances. Profiles in Hermes are not just configuration presets. Each profile gets its own directory containing its own config.yaml, .env, SOUL.md, memories, sessions, skills, cron jobs, and state database, letting you run separate agents for different purposes without mixing up Hermes state.

What the Builder Actually Does

The new flow lives at /profiles/new in the dashboard. You open the Profiles page from the sidebar, click the Build button in the header (distinct from the quick Create button), and step through five screens:

• Identity -- set the agent's name and description (its SOUL)
• Model / Provider -- pick the LLM and inference backend
• Skills -- toggle built-in toolsets and install community skills from the hub
• MCPs -- wire up Model Context Protocol servers
• Review -- confirm everything before writing to disk