@wei_wang: Note on using Hermes Agent: web search defaults to Nous Portal, free tier only 500 requests/month, easy to exhaust. Alternative options: · DDGS (DuckDuckGo): completely free, unlimited, no API key needed · SearXNG…

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Note that Hermes Agent's web search defaults to the Nous Portal free tier (500 requests/month). Alternatives: DDGS (free, unlimited), SearXNG (self-hosted), Tavily/Exa (1000/month with full page reading), Brave (2000/month). Recommended combo: search with DDGS, read pages with Tavily, configure via ~/.hermes/config.yaml.

Using Hermes Agent: note that web search defaults to Nous Portal, free tier only 500 requests/month, easy to exhaust. Alternative options: · DDGS (DuckDuckGo): completely free, unlimited, no API key needed · SearXNG: self-hosted, unlimited and private · Tavily / Exa: free 1000 requests/month, can read full page content directly · Brave: free 2000 requests/month But DDGS/SearXNG/Brave can only search, not read web pages. For full page content you still need Tavily or Exa My combo: search uses DDGS, read full page only uses Tavily quota, neither side uses too much Modify the web.backend in ~/.hermes/config.yaml
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With Hermes Agent’s attention: the web search defaults to Nous Portal, where the free tier only allows 500 searches per month, which can be easily exhausted. You can switch to:

· DDGS (DuckDuckGo): completely free, unlimited, no API key required
· SearXNG: self-hosted, unlimited and private
· Tavily / Exa: 1000 free requests per month, can read full page content directly
· Brave: 2000 free requests per month

But DDGS / SearXNG / Brave can only search, not read web pages. To fetch full text, you still need to rely on Tavily or Exa.

My combination: search via DDGS, only use Tavily quota when reading full pages — neither side gets overused.

Just modify web.backend in ~/.hermes/config.yaml.

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