From 19ae8c1e4d2c14dd4df640f6e9cdbe06ad4df565 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MickLesk <47820557+MickLesk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:39:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] hermesagent: retry the installer download, fall back to
 GitHub

The Vercel host answered 4xx/5xx 21 times a week; a plain curl gave up
at once.
---
 install/hermesagent-install.sh | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/install/hermesagent-install.sh b/install/hermesagent-install.sh
index 5cacbe08b..25c868d5a 100644
--- a/install/hermesagent-install.sh
+++ b/install/hermesagent-install.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ msg_ok "Configured Service Environment"
 confirm_external_installer "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/" "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh"
 
 msg_info "Installing Hermes Agent"
-curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh -o /tmp/hermes-install.sh
+curl_with_retry "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh" /tmp/hermes-install.sh ||
+  curl_with_retry "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh" /tmp/hermes-install.sh
 $STD setsid --wait bash -c '
   set -a; source /etc/default/hermes; set +a
   export npm_config_yes=true