How to Uninstall Hermes Desktop from macOS

Published: (June 6, 2026 at 05:47 PM EDT)
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Source: Dev.to

Source: Dev.to

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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.

1 Stop Hermes gateway

hermes gateway stop
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2 Kill the process

pkill -f "hermes"\n
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3 Remove files

rm -f ~/.local/bin/hermes\n
rm -rf ~/.hermes\n
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4 Clean up system ctl

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist
launchctl remove ai.hermes.gateway
rm -f ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist
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