Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent

By Steven Van · 2026-08-07

Hermes Agent can now use Vercel AI Gateway as its inference layer and run its agent commands in an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM.

Hermes Agent, the coding agent from Nous Research, can now use Vercel AI Gateway as its inference layer and run agent commands inside an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM.

AI Gateway gives Hermes access to 200+ models at no markup on tokens, and every request shows up in the AI Gateway dashboard alongside other usage and spend. It's set up by picking Vercel AI Gateway in the Hermes setup wizard, which pulls live model availability and pricing.
Vercel Sandbox is opt-in: setting terminal.backend to vercel_sandbox moves agent commands from the local machine to a cloud microVM with a workspace root of /vercel/sandbox. The backend supports node24 (the default), node22, and python3.13.
For local development, a VERCEL_OIDC_TOKEN obtained via vercel link and vercel env pull is used.

Full setup steps are in the original announcement.

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