[Setup]: Hermes Desktop Mac Intel available?

[Keshkov]

What's Going Wrong?

Hermes Desktop download page says macOS 12+, but the downloaded app is arm64-only and won’t run on Intel Macs.
Tested on Intel MacBook Pro with macOS 13.7.8.
file /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/* returns Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64.
Is Intel macOS still supported, or is the desktop app Apple Silicon only?

Steps Taken

1. Downloaded Hermes Desktop for macOS from https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/desktop

2. Installed Hermes.app into /Applications

3. Attempted to launch Hermes on an Intel MacBook Pro running macOS 13.7.8

4. macOS reported that the application is not supported on this Mac

5. Verified the binary architecture with:

   file "/Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/"*

6. Output shows:

   Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

7. Confirmed the application contains an Apple Silicon-only binary and does not run on Intel Macs.

Installation Method

Other

Operating System

macOS 13.7.8

Python Version

No response

Hermes Version

No response

Debug Report

Full Error Output

~ % file "/Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/"*
/Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/Hermes-Setup: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

What I've Already Tried

No response

[alt-glitch]

Duplicate of #37505 — Hermes Desktop macOS ships an arm64-only binary that fails on Intel Macs. Consolidating there.

[b3sp0k3]

I just installed native Hermes desktop via Terminal on Intel IMac Pro

[evencj11]

I used the official source code to build an x64 DMG version on my Intel Mac. It works normally on my 2019 MacBook Pro. You can give it a try:

https://github.com/evencj11/hermes-agent-desktop-intel-mac-rebuild/releases

[teknium1]

Thanks for reporting this. The current support documentation now answers the architecture question explicitly: Hermes Desktop’s supported macOS target is Apple Silicon, and Intel (x86) macOS is unsupported.

Automated hermes-sweeper review:

• website/docs/getting-started/platform-support.md:19 lists macOS Desktop support as Apple Silicon.
• website/docs/getting-started/platform-support.md:46 lists macOS on x86 (Intel) processors as unsupported.
• This clarification was added in 772cf847b0cf0913edbf84a53bfc08fcfc1c6347 (feat(docs): clarify platform support).
• As @alt-glitch noted, the canonical duplicate Hermes Desktop macOS DMG is arm64-only and fails on Intel Macs #37505 has since been closed as completed.

Closing this duplicate now that the supported architecture is documented.