A portable, plug-and-play AI coding agent on a USB drive.
Based on NousResearch Hermes Agent, packaged for both Linux and Windows.
Free open-source Linux Live USB Β· Commercial Windows edition (China-only)
Only sold in China via Taobao / Pinduoduo. Preloaded with Hermes runtime, Web UI, and paid AI credits.
Ubuntu 24.04 Live + Hermes Agent. Fully open source, build your own.
Real autonomous AI agent, not just a chatbot
Shell commands, file I/O, browser automation, multi-step reasoning β like a coworker in your workstation
OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Ollama β swap freely
Ollama integration for offline Qwen / DeepSeek-R1 / Llama
All config / chat history / skills on the USB β move between computers seamlessly
Windows edition ships a GUI to switch between configured providers in one click
Direct access to Chinese models (DeepSeek, Qwen) without a VPN; commercial USB includes paid credits
Build your own Hermes boot drive in ~30 min
# 1. Install Ventoy to your USB drive (clears it)
wget https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/download/v1.0.99/ventoy-1.0.99-linux.tar.gz
tar xf ventoy-1.0.99-linux.tar.gz
cd ventoy-1.0.99
sudo ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sdX
# 2. Copy Ubuntu ISO to the data partition
sudo mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/usb
sudo cp ubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso /mnt/usb/
# 3. Create a persistence file (20GB for Python venv + models)
sudo truncate -s 20G /mnt/usb/ventoy-persistence-casper.dat
sudo mkfs.ext4 -L casper-rw /mnt/usb/ventoy-persistence-casper.dat
# 4. Enable persistence (see README for ventoy.json)
# 5. Copy U-Hermes scripts onto the USB
sudo cp setup-hermes.sh start-hermes.sh /mnt/usb/u-hermes-linux/
# 6. Boot target PC β Ubuntu Live β run ./setup-hermes.sh
Full docs β github.com/dongsheng123132/u-hermes/linux
Hermes Agent itself is open source and excellent. We add:
Pre-bundled Python + Node + Hermes + Web UI on a USB
Electron tray app, config UI, auto port management (commercial edition)
Alipay-powered prepaid AI quota system for Chinese users (commercial edition)