{"slug": "how-to-uninstall-hermes-desktop-from-macos", "title": "How to Uninstall Hermes Desktop from macOS", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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).\n\nHere are 4 steps to uninstall Hermes Desktop from macOS.\n\n```\nhermes gateway stop\npkill -f \"hermes\"\\n\nrm -f ~/.local/bin/hermes\\n\nrm -rf ~/.hermes\\n\nlaunchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist\nlaunchctl remove ai.hermes.gateway\nrm -f ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist\n```\n\n", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-uninstall-hermes-desktop-from-macos", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/0xkoji/how-to-uninstall-hermes-desktop-from-macos-366j", "published_at": "2026-06-06 21:47:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-06 22:12:11.332732+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Hermes Desktop", "Hermes", "macOS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-uninstall-hermes-desktop-from-macos", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-uninstall-hermes-desktop-from-macos.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-uninstall-hermes-desktop-from-macos.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-uninstall-hermes-desktop-from-macos.jsonld"}}