Onchain skills.In your Discord.

Start with the first three. Vercel and the server come later and you can skip either of them.

Hermes is the agent. You paste one line into a terminal window and it installs itself. That is the most technical thing in this whole guide.

iex (irm https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.ps1)

curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash

curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash

Check it worked

Close the window, open a new one, and type:

hermes doctor

This prints a checklist. Green means fine. If anything is missing it tells you the exact command to fix it.

Give it a brain

The agent needs a model to think with, and that is the $10 subscription. Sign up here: opencode.ai.

Then add the key it gives you to the settings file.

notepad $env:USERPROFILE\.hermes\.env

Add this line at the bottom, replacing YOUR_KEY_HERE with your key, then save and close:

OPENCODE_GO_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HERE

printf 'OPENCODE_GO_API_KEY=%s\n' 'YOUR_KEY_HERE' >> ~/.hermes/.env

Now tell it to use the subscription and say hello:

hermes model
hermes chat -q "hello, what model are you?"

If it answers, the agent works. Everything after this is adding things to it.

This is the part that makes it useful. After this you never need the terminal again. You just message it.

Pick whichever app you already use. Both take a few minutes and work the same afterwards.

hermes gateway setup

hermes gateway run

hermes gateway install
hermes gateway start

hermes gateway setup

hermes gateway run

hermes gateway install
hermes gateway start

Three lines. This downloads the skills and installs them into your agent:

git clone https://github.com/andyemad/nft-mint-rarity-toolkit.git
cd nft-mint-rarity-toolkit
./install.sh

Check them any time with hermes skills list. Running the installer again later is safe, it will not break anything.

Last thing, three small helpers that the wallet and trading skills need:

pip install eth-account coincurve pycryptodome

You do not have to memorise these. The agent picks the right one on its own. This is so you know what you can ask for.

Some drops do not have a price. Instead of paying, you have to find a lucky number, and whoever finds one first gets the cat. That is what people mean when they say a mint is solved rather than bought.

Your laptop can do it, but it would take days, and people with big rented computers find them in minutes. So you rent one for a few minutes. That is the only reason for any of this.

Rent a computer for a few minutes (free to start)

Modal rents computers by the second. You do not buy anything. You sign up and it comes with $30 of free computing every month, which is about seven hours of their fast machines at roughly $4 an hour. For occasional attempts you will probably never pay anything.

1. Sign up free at modal.com. The $30 is already included.
2. Then run these two commands once:

pip install modal
modal setup

The second one opens a browser and links your account. That is the whole setup.

What to type in Discord

This is the entire operation. Mention your bot and paste this:

@yourbot use pow-mint-mining on hashcats. show me the round, the difficulty, and my odds before spending anything
@yourbot run the current round. stop on a hit or at 15 minutes, and tell me the cost either way
@yourbot did we get one? show me the transaction, then tell me whether another attempt is worth the money

It reports the round back to you. When you want to actually go for it:

@yourbot go ahead and mine the current round. stop when you find one, or after 15 minutes

And to see how it went:

@yourbot did we get one? show me the transaction

What it handles for you

• It checks the whole setup first, so a run never starts out broken
• It does the searching on the rented computer, not yours
• It checks every answer before spending anything, so one that arrived too late never costs you a fee
• It sends the transaction from your wallet and gives you the link

The two things only you can do

• Put a little ETH in your wallet. Winning still costs a few cents in fees. Nothing can do that part for you.
• Keep attempts short. Rounds move on constantly, and work done for a round that has already ended is wasted. Short and frequent beats one long run.

Other drops this works on

Same idea and the same kind of prompt. You just name the one you want instead:

@yourbot use pow-mint-mining on FAB4200. what would a full attempt cost me, and is it worth it at today's difficulty?

There is no special wording, but sharper questions get sharper answers. Paste a link and say what you want. Give it the contract, not the name. Tell it your budget. Tell it when to stop. Ask for the number that decides it.

Paste an OpenSea link

@yourbot <collection link> rank it by rarity, then tell me which of the top 50 are listed below floor, the price, and how long each has been sitting
@yourbot what is the cheapest way into the top 1% of this right now? give me token ids, prices and links
@yourbot is this floor real? show me the last 20 sales and flag any that look like wash trading
@yourbot who holds the top 100? if ten wallets own a third of it, say so plainly
@yourbot i have 0.1 ETH and i want exposure here. what is the best set to buy?
@yourbot what would make this a bad buy at today's floor? give me three numbers to watch

Paste a tweet that says "mint this"

This is the useful one. Drop the tweet in and it works out what the mint is, what it really costs, whether it is still open, and whether the project looks real, before anything touches your wallet.

@yourbot <tweet link> before i touch this: real mint price, supply, how many wallets have minted, and whether this deployer has walked away from a mint before
@yourbot <tweet link> is the contract a copy of an existing collection? show me what is identical
@yourbot <tweet link> what does minting 3 cost me all in, gas included?
@yourbot <tweet link> who is behind it? any public wallet, any linked project
@yourbot <tweet link> is this still open or already sold out?
@yourbot <tweet link> watch it and ping me the second it goes live

Paste a mint website, or just a contract address

@yourbot <link> the page says free. simulate the mint and tell me what it actually costs
@yourbot <address> is this a honeypot? simulate a mint and a transfer, then tell me what breaks
@yourbot <address> what does this contract actually do? plain english, no code
@yourbot how many wallets have minted, and do the first twenty look like one cluster?
@yourbot <address> has this deployer shipped other collections? how did those end?
@yourbot <address> is there an owner switch, a pause, or a supply cap that can change after i mint?

Paste a wallet address

@yourbot <address> trace it: first buys, biggest wins, what it is sitting on now, realised profit and loss
@yourbot <address> is this a bot? check mint timing, gas bids, and whether it ever sells at a loss
@yourbot which collections did this wallet get into in the first ten minutes, and what did it do next?
@yourbot find me ten wallets that were early on the last three collections that did well
@yourbot is <address> connected to the deployer of ? trace the funding
@yourbot <address> what is it about to do? any open listings or pending approvals

Ask it to watch something for you

@yourbot watch  and only ping me if the floor drops under 0.05, or three rare ones get listed under floor, or one wallet buys five in an hour
@yourbot alert me the second  reveals, then rank it before anyone else has seen it
@yourbot message me when gas is under 12 gwei and the mint i care about is still open
@yourbot ping me if the deployer moves funds or the supply changes
@yourbot check every ten minutes and only message me when something actually changes
@yourbot keep this running for 24 hours, then send me one summary

Ask it to buy or mint for you

Every one of these checks first and tells you the cost before it does anything. Nothing goes through until you say go.

@yourbot here is 0.2 ETH. buy up to 3 under 0.04 each, only if the rarity is top 500 and the seller is not the deployer. never spend more than 0.1 total, and show me each one before you send it
@yourbot mint 2 from <link> when it opens, but only if the real price is 0.01 or less and the contract is not a copy
@yourbot if a mint fails, retry twice at most and tell me why each time
@yourbot buy the cheapest rare one, under 0.01, then stop
@yourbot do not spend anything without asking me first
@yourbot what am i holding right now? <address>

Ask it to explain something

@yourbot why did this floor collapse after reveal? walk me through the wallets that sold
@yourbot this looks farmed by a syndicate. show me the evidence or drop it
@yourbot what would have to be true for this to be a good buy? give me three numbers
@yourbot explain proof of work minting like i am deciding whether to pay for it
@yourbot what did i get wrong on my last three buys?
@yourbot what is the difference between a mint and a buy, one line each

Vercel puts a website or a page on the internet for free. You do not need it to run the agent. You need it if you want a public page of your own: a link you can share, a portfolio, a documentation page, this guide.

Make an account

Sign up at vercel.com/signup with GitHub, Google or email. The free plan is enough for everything here.

The easy way: connect a GitHub project

1. In Vercel click Add New → Project.
2. Connect your GitHub account and pick the repository you want online.
3. If your web files live in a folder rather than the top level, set Root Directory to that folder. For this guide's page that folder is docs.
4. Click Deploy. A minute later you have a live link.

From then on, every time you push to GitHub, Vercel rebuilds the site by itself. That is the whole workflow.

The terminal way

If you would rather deploy straight from your computer:

npm install -g vercel
vercel login

# then, from inside the folder you want online
vercel --prod

It asks a couple of questions the first time and then prints your live link.

Deploy this guide's page as a test run

git clone https://github.com/andyemad/nft-mint-rarity-toolkit.git
cd nft-mint-rarity-toolkit
npx vercel deploy docs --prod

Your own domain

Optional. In the project's Settings → Domains you can add a domain you own, or accept the free your-project.vercel.app address it gives you.

Both work. The only real difference is what happens when you close your laptop.

Or let Nous host it for you

If running a server sounds like work you do not want, Nous Research hosts Hermes Cloud instances. You get an agent that is always on, without picking a provider, securing a box or keeping it updated.

1. Make a Nous Portal account at portal.nousresearch.com.
2. Open the Agents page and create an instance. Give it a name.
3. Connect Discord or Telegram to it exactly as in step 03. Same commands, run on the instance.

From then on you manage it from that web page. Start, stop, restart, or delete it there. Pricing is listed on the Portal alongside the plans.

hermes mcp add --url https://portal.nousresearch.com/mcp --auth oauth hermes-cloud

After that you can say "list my cloud agents", "what is that instance costing me", or "restart the stopped one".

Moving to a server

1. Get one from Hetzner or DigitalOcean, about $5/month. Pick Ubuntu as the system. The smallest option is plenty.
2. Follow the same Linux install line from step 02 on that server instead of your computer.
3. Repeat the Discord and skills steps there. It is the same three commands.
4. You can run both. Your computer and the server are separate agents, and each gets its own Discord bot token if you want.

Honest total: about $10 a month, or $15 if you also want it awake all night.