Messaging Gateway guides

A practical guide to discord gateway setup in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to telegram gateway setup in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to slack gateway setup in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to webhook gateway in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to gateway home channels in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to cron delivery targets in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

How to use Hermes from the CLI, phone, Discord, Telegram, Slack, and other gateway surfaces while keeping routing and approvals clear.

Prepare Rocky for Telegram, Discord, Slack, voice, and other gateway channels with clear status checks and fallback plans.

Expose Hermes conversation and approval workflows to another MCP-capable client while preserving gateway dependencies, event cursors, and send boundaries.

Return verified charts, documents, spreadsheets, images, audio, video, and archives as native messaging attachments instead of unusable local paths.

Trace authorization, session keys, interruption, slash commands, adapters, delivery, hooks, and profile-scoped gateway processes.

Use the plugin-first adapter path to connect a messaging service with authorization, scoped locks, delivery, cron support, platform hints, and parity tests.

Connect Rocky to Meta’s official WhatsApp Business Cloud API with signed webhooks, explicit sender access, stable credentials, and production-aware delivery checks.

Operate Rocky through Signal using a linked signal-cli daemon, deny-by-default access, scoped group controls, attachment checks, and reconnect verification.

Give Rocky a dedicated email inbox with IMAP polling, SMTP replies, strict sender controls, attachment policy, threading tests, and duplicate-reply prevention.

Deploy Rocky on Matrix with room and user allowlists, mention policy, thread-aware sessions, optional encryption, and bridge loop protection.

Prepare a Rocky bot for Microsoft Teams with a public HTTPS endpoint, tenant-scoped credentials, AAD user controls, health checks, and stable production routing.

Connect Rocky to Home Assistant with focused event filters, explicit device actions, blocked high-risk service domains, and reversible automation tests.

Use Open WebUI as a polished client for Hermes while keeping API authentication, execution-host boundaries, model discovery, and profile isolation explicit.

Use ntfy as a lightweight Rocky push channel with topic-based identity, access-controlled publishing, one-way alert mode, and cron delivery verification.

Choose how follow-up messages affect an active Hermes run so urgent corrections, patient follow-ups, and in-flight guidance behave predictably.

Inspect, pause, resume, and recover individual Hermes messaging adapters while preserving healthy channels and understanding restart-interrupted sessions.

Run an authorization-first iMessage bridge through BlueBubbles while keeping credentials, group behavior, and delivery checks explicit.

Connect Hermes to Google Chat through a least-privilege GCP service account and Pub/Sub path, then prove identity and delivery behavior end to end.

Configure a LINE Messaging API channel with a stable HTTPS webhook, strict sender policy, and verified media-delivery behavior.

Create a dedicated Mattermost bot account, constrain its channel membership, and verify user and thread isolation before team rollout.

Connect Hermes to IRC with deliberate nickname, TLS, channel, mention, and access-control policies suited to a public-by-default protocol.

Operate a SimpleX Chat gateway through a local daemon with pairing, group controls, attachment checks, and cron delivery boundaries.

Create a Feishu or Lark app, request only needed permissions, and operate the Hermes adapter through a resilient long connection.

Connect a WeCom AI Bot to Hermes with QR-assisted setup, explicit access policy, and realistic streaming and delivery expectations.

Use the Weixin QR login flow without exposing account state, then verify authorization, media, multiline, and restart behavior.

Operate Hermes over Twilio SMS with exact webhook matching, request-signature validation, E.164 allowlists, and delivery-status checks.

Move an active CLI conversation to a configured messaging home without losing its role-aware transcript, then verify the new thread before leaving the terminal.

Use Telegram DM topics as separate user-managed Hermes workspaces, with explicit session restoration and safe controls for turning topic mode off.

Pair the unofficial WhatsApp bridge, isolate account risk, persist sessions safely, and enforce sender access controls.

Run Hermes in DingTalk DMs and groups over an outbound WebSocket, with per-user session isolation, mention gates, and optional AI Cards.

Use Photon’s managed iMessage lines and supervised Node sidecar without hosting a Mac relay or exposing a public webhook.

Connect through QQ Bot API v2 for C2C, groups, guilds, attachments, and voice transcription with explicit DM and group policies.

Use content-free wake hints to activate Hermes while the Raft CLI retains ownership of message bodies, cursors, and replies.

Front multiple messaging platforms over one outbound WebSocket while a separate connector retains platform credentials and advertises supported operations.

Operate Hermes as a first-class WeCom app using signed encrypted callbacks, proactive replies, public HTTPS, and optional multi-corporation routing.

Connect Hermes to Yuanbao over an HMAC-authenticated WebSocket with direct and group routing, media delivery, and a deliberate home channel.