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How to Uninstall Hermes Desktop from macOS

A developer has published a four-step command-line process to fully uninstall Hermes Desktop from macOS. The procedure includes stopping the Hermes gateway, killing related processes, removing binaries and configuration directories, and unloading launch agents.

read1 min publishedJun 6, 2026

I installed Hermes Desktop on macOS but it was different from what I expected lol (I thought it would work as a client application for my Hermes agent I set up).

Here are 4 steps to uninstall Hermes Desktop from macOS.

hermes gateway stop
pkill -f "hermes"\n
rm -f ~/.local/bin/hermes\n
rm -rf ~/.hermes\n
launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist
launchctl remove ai.hermes.gateway
rm -f ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist
source & further reading
dev.to — original article We built a coding harness that beats frontier models using open ones. It's in open beta. How I'm studying for the GH-600 (GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer) — from zero Hermes Agent's skill trust model is a four-repo allowlist
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