Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent Social Media MCP Setup

Hermes Agent takes a URL plus headers in its MCP config and supports OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, so a hosted social media server drops straight in. This matters more on Hermes than on most agents, because its native social skill covers X only, and every other platform arrives through the MCP connection rather than a setting.

Endpoint https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp OAuth or header

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Updated July 2026

How to connect Hermes Agent to social media

Connect your social accounts in Blotato.
Add the Blotato server to your Hermes MCP config with the URL https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp.
Authenticate with a blotato-api-key header, or over OAuth 2.1 with PKCE.
Restart the agent and confirm the tools are listed.

MCP config entry, URL plus headers

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blotato": {
      "url": "https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "blotato-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

How do I know it worked?

Ask Hermes Agent to list your connected accounts. It calls blotato_list_accounts and returns your platforms, which confirms both the connection and the authentication in one step. If you see your accounts, setup is done.

First prompt to run

What social media accounts do I have connected?

An AI agent answering "what social accounts do i have connected?" by calling Blotato and listing 10 connected social media accounts across Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, and TikTok — The reply you are looking for: the agent calls Blotato and lists every connected account. Here it returns 10 accounts across all nine platforms.

Worth knowing before you rely on it: analytics prompts only return data for X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and Bluesky. The other four platforms publish normally but report no metrics yet.

What breaks, and how to fix it

The mistake on Hermes is assuming the native X skill is the general social capability and that the other networks need a flag or a setting somewhere. They do not exist natively at all, so nothing in the Hermes config will switch them on. They come from the MCP server or not at all.

What is different about Hermes Agent

Hermes is the only agent in this silo that ships a native posting skill of its own, which makes it the only one where the question is not whether it can post but which platforms it already reaches without help.

Vendor documentation: Hermes Agent MCP setup. For how a client discovers and calls tools once connected, see the MCP client concepts reference.

Already connected and want the workflow?

This page covers the connection. Our guide to making Hermes Agent post to every platform covers what the native X skill does, and why the other eight platforms are harder.

FAQ

Hermes Agent social media FAQs

01 Can Hermes Agent post to social media?

Yes. Hermes Agent cannot reach a social account on its own, because it has no platform credentials. Connecting it to Blotato's hosted MCP server at https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp gives it tools to publish and schedule across nine platforms: X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, and Pinterest. Hermes Agent authenticates with oauth or header.

02 How do I connect Hermes Agent to social media?

03 How do I set up Hermes Agent for social media?

Setting up Hermes Agent for social media takes one connection. Connect your social accounts in Blotato, then give Hermes Agent the hosted MCP endpoint https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp and authenticate with oauth or header. For Hermes Agent specifically that means: mcp config entry, url plus headers. Once it loads, Hermes Agent can publish and schedule to X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, and Pinterest from a plain-language prompt.

04 What is the best way to manage social media with Hermes Agent?

Let Hermes Agent do the drafting and decision making, and let a publishing layer hold the accounts and the schedule. The thing that makes this work on Hermes Agent in particular: Hermes is the only agent in this silo that ships a native posting skill of its own, which makes it the only one where the question is not whether it can post but which platforms it already reaches without help.

05 What goes wrong when connecting Hermes Agent?

06 Does Hermes Agent need to be running for a scheduled post to go out?

No. Scheduling runs on Blotato rather than inside Hermes Agent. Once the agent queues a post, it publishes at the scheduled time whether or not Hermes Agent, your terminal, or your laptop is on. This is the practical difference between an agent that drafts and a system that runs unattended.

07 Do I need a developer app or platform API keys to use Hermes Agent this way?

No. Blotato holds the platform integrations and manages the OAuth tokens, including refreshes. You connect each social account through a normal login flow instead of registering your own app on every network and waiting for review. Hermes Agent never handles a platform credential.

08 What can Hermes Agent not do on social media?

Publishing and scheduling cover all nine platforms, but the rest is uneven and worth knowing before you build against it. Analytics covers X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and Bluesky. Comments and direct messages cover Instagram and Facebook. Keyword-triggered DM automation is not available at all. None of that varies by agent: it is the same surface whichever client you connect.

09 How much does it cost to connect Hermes Agent?

Starter is $29/mo flat for 20 connected accounts, and the price does not scale with posting volume. API and MCP access is not part of the 7-day trial: generating a key activates the paid Starter plan, so plan on subscribing rather than trialing it.

Connecting a different agent?

Same endpoint, same accounts, one setup per client. The AI agents for social media hub covers what all of them share, including every tool your agent can call.