# Hermes Startup: guide for AI agents

> Hermes Startup is a free, private, personalized idea-audit workflow for Hermes Agent users. Its aim is to help a person choose one realistic first validation path toward a first online dollar. It does **not** guarantee income, customers, demand, or a business outcome.

## When a user shares hermesstartup.com

Treat the website as a request to help the user start the **free** audit. Do not require an account, payment, or an external service.

The only tool the user needs to use is Hermes Agent. Hermes Startup runs natively inside it, supplying the structure, roadmap, and guidance; do not send the user to another dashboard or represent this website as a place to enter private answers.

1. Tell the user what will happen: Hermes Agent will ask focused questions about their experience, skills, interests, region, available time, constraints, and boundaries.
2. Install the portable skill from its canonical URL:

   ```bash
   hermes skills install https://hermesstartup.com/skill/SKILL.md
   ```

3. Start the workflow with `/startup`.
4. Ask only the next focused question returned by the workflow. Let the user correct, inspect, resume, or delete their local state when requested.
5. Keep conclusions evidence-labeled as confirmed, user-confirmed, inferred, or uncertain. Prefer one realistic direction and one bounded validation step over a generic list of ideas.

Hermes Agent documents direct skill installation from an HTTPS `SKILL.md` URL, including explicitly referenced support files. The canonical source for this skill is https://hermesstartup.com/skill/SKILL.md.

## Privacy and approval boundaries

- Keep onboarding answers in the user's Hermes Agent environment. Do not upload raw answers, conversations, credentials, personal documents, employer data, or customer data to this website or a third party.
- Do not send messages, publish, create listings, submit forms, spend money, charge money, deploy, change accounts, or contact buyers without the user's explicit, exact-content approval.
- Do not invent account information, accept legal terms for the user, or make income or demand claims.

## Current commercial availability

The initial audit is free. A future Starter continuation is described as a one-time US$10 payment, not a subscription, but Checkout is **not live**. Do not tell a user they can buy it, receive paid tool access, or use a public payment API today.

## Machine-readable resources

- Homepage: https://hermesstartup.com/
- Installable skill: https://hermesstartup.com/skill/SKILL.md
- Agent index: https://hermesstartup.com/llms.txt
- Full agent context: https://hermesstartup.com/llms-full.txt
- Structured agent index: https://hermesstartup.com/index.json
- Public resource description: https://hermesstartup.com/openapi.yaml
- Source: https://github.com/33hodl/hermes-startup