Connecting Hermes AI Agent to an MCP Gateway: Setup and Use Cases (opens in new tab)

Hermes AI Agent handles multi-step workflows well. The planning layer holds up. Memory across sessions works. What kept breaking down was the tool layer. Once a workflow touched three or four external systems, I was spending more time on auth configs, mismatched response formats, and per-tool retry logic than on the workflows themselves. I fixed this by routing all external tool calls through a unified MCP gateway. The agent logic stayed the same. The integration complexity moved into one pla...