//Hermes Agent for Microsoft Teams

Hermes Agent for Microsoft Teams

What it is

Hermes Agent lets you chat with your own Hermes agent from Nous Research in Microsoft Teams. Your agent runs on Hermes Cloud in the Nous Portal. The Teams app connects your Teams account to it.

Chat with it in a 1:1 chat, or add it to group chats and channels and @mention it. Responses are generated by AI and may be incorrect.

What you need

  • A Nous account and a Hermes agent in the Nous Portal.
  • Microsoft Teams, with the Hermes Agent app allowed in your organization.

For Teams administrators

Hermes Agent is a bot. It does not ask for Microsoft Graph or resource-specific consent permissions, and it does not sign users in to Microsoft. It receives only messages sent to it in a 1:1 chat, and messages that @mention it in group chats and channels.

To allow it, open Teams apps > Manage apps in the Teams admin center, find Hermes Agent and allow it. Use app permission policies to make it available to selected users only, and app setup policies to install it for them.

Each person who uses it connects their own Teams account to their own Nous account. A link code proves the account for whoever created it, so codes are not shared: to set up an agent for a teammate, create it for them in the Nous Portal and they receive an invite email.

To remove it from your organization, block the app on the same Manage apps page.

Connect your agent

  1. In Teams, open Apps, find Hermes Agent and select Add. It sends you a welcome message in a 1:1 chat.
  2. Open portal.nousresearch.com/agents and sign in.
  3. Either click Create agent to create a new agent, or go to Manage agents and click the agent you want to connect.
  4. Open the agent's settings, click Team Gateway (turn it on if it is off), then under Teams click Link Teams.
  5. Copy the command it shows, for example link ABCD2345, and send it to Hermes Agent in a 1:1 chat. It expires in 10 minutes.

If your administrator set up an agent for you, open the invite email instead.

Use it

  • In a 1:1 chat, type a message. No @mention is needed.
  • In a group chat or channel, add Hermes Agent and @mention it. It only sees messages that @mention it.
  • Send help for help, and unlink in a 1:1 chat to disconnect your Teams account.

Files can be exchanged only in 1:1 chats. Guests and people from other organizations are not supported yet.

Your data

Messages you send to Hermes Agent, and files you share with it in a 1:1 chat, are passed through the Nous connector service to your agent, together with your Teams account and organization IDs and your display name. Your conversations stay in your agent until you delete it.

The connector service keeps a reference to each Teams conversation the app is in, so it can deliver your agent's replies, and the link between your Teams account and your Nous account until you disconnect.

To disconnect, send unlink to Hermes Agent in a 1:1 chat. To remove the app itself, uninstall Hermes Agent from your apps in Teams.

More detail is in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Support

Email support@nousresearch.com to get help, or to report a problem or inappropriate AI-generated content.

To learn more about what your agent can do, see the Hermes Agent documentation.