# Hermit Docs

> Hermit is a wallet for iPhone and Mac with an AI assistant that runs on the device. You ask it in plain words to swap, bridge, trade or pay. It prepares the move, and nothing leaves your wallet until you approve it with Face ID or Touch ID.

It's mainnet: real swaps move real money. Source code (MIT): https://github.com/Hermit-Ai-Labs/hermit-app. Contact: contact@hermit.my. X: https://x.com/hermitai_

Downloads: Mac https://hermit.my/dmg (notarized, Apple silicon, macOS 26), Mac TestFlight https://testflight.apple.com/join/P66H5DF8, iPhone TestFlight https://testflight.apple.com/join/ed9vUh7d (iOS 26).

## Get started

- [Welcome](https://docs.hermit.my/): How to use Hermit, the private AI assistant with a self-custody wallet for iPhone and Mac, and how to check what it does.
- [Download Hermit](https://docs.hermit.my/get-started/download/): Get Hermit 2.0 for your Mac or iPhone, from our notarized DMG or from TestFlight.
- [Your first launch](https://docs.hermit.my/get-started/first-launch/): Type your name and Hermit downloads its model by itself. There's no account and no email.
- [Make or import a wallet](https://docs.hermit.my/get-started/wallet/): Make a new wallet or bring your 12 or 24 words. One wallet covers the EVM chains, Solana and NEAR.
- [Add funds](https://docs.hermit.my/get-started/add-funds/): Receive with a QR code, or send from almost any chain through NEAR Intents.
- [Your first chat](https://docs.hermit.my/get-started/first-chat/): Five things to try in your first ten minutes, and what you'll see for each one.

## Use Hermit

- [Chat](https://docs.hermit.my/use/chat/): What you see while Hermit works, what a Review button means, and where memory and models live.
- [Private Cloud](https://docs.hermit.my/use/private-cloud/): Send bigger questions to a NEAR AI Cloud enclave, after your device checks its proof.
- [Wallets](https://docs.hermit.my/use/wallets/): Your balance, the Tokens, Gas, Activity and Security tabs, and how to send and receive.
- [Swap and bridge](https://docs.hermit.my/use/swap-and-bridge/): Move tokens within a chain or across chains. Hermit asks NEAR Intents and Relay and takes the better payout.
- [Activity](https://docs.hermit.my/use/activity/): What came in and went out of your wallets, where Hermit reads it from, and what each status means.
- [Trade](https://docs.hermit.my/use/trade/): Perps on Hyperliquid, stocks and gold on trade.xyz, and your positions, all signed on your device.
- [Spot and memes](https://docs.hermit.my/use/spot-and-memes/): Buy and sell Solana tokens through Jupiter, from the verified list or by search, and see what you paid.
- [Earn](https://docs.hermit.my/use/earn/): Lend stablecoins on Aave v3 from inside Hermit, see what you've deposited, and compare yields from DefiLlama.
- [Explore and web apps](https://docs.hermit.my/use/explore-and-web-apps/): Find apps, open any site, search the web, and use web apps with your Hermit wallet.
- [Payments](https://docs.hermit.my/use/payments/): Save the people you pay, schedule payments as reminders, and send to an address, ENS name or payee.
- [Calendar](https://docs.hermit.my/use/calendar/): Your device calendar, your tasks and your scheduled payments on one grid, read on the device.
- [Projects](https://docs.hermit.my/use/projects/): Keep the chats, instructions and files for one thing together.
- [Automations](https://docs.hermit.my/use/automations/): Ask Hermit to do something on a schedule. Each run is its own chat, and it never approves money.
- [Files and batch sends](https://docs.hermit.my/use/files-and-batch-sends/): Ask about a PDF, spreadsheet or photo, read on your device, and pay a whole list in one review.
- [Connectors](https://docs.hermit.my/use/connectors/): Add a remote MCP server and run its tools yourself, and what's coming next.

## Safety and privacy

- [Approvals](https://docs.hermit.my/safety/approvals/): Every move gets the same review, whoever asked for it.
- [The spending policy](https://docs.hermit.my/safety/spending-policy/): The limits on what you and the assistant can send, and where to change them.
- [Keys and recovery](https://docs.hermit.my/safety/keys-and-recovery/): Where your keys live, how to back up your words, and what happens if you lose your phone.
- [Scam tokens](https://docs.hermit.my/safety/scam-tokens/): The checks Hermit runs before you can buy a Solana token.
- [Prompt injection](https://docs.hermit.my/safety/prompt-injection/): How a web page or a file could try to trick the assistant, and why it doesn't get far.
- [Web apps and your wallet](https://docs.hermit.my/safety/web-apps/): The rules a web app plays by when it talks to your Hermit wallet.
- [What leaves the device](https://docs.hermit.my/safety/what-leaves-the-device/): What stays on your iPhone or Mac, what goes out, and who sees it.

## NEAR

- [How Hermit uses NEAR](https://docs.hermit.my/near/overview/): Three parts of Hermit run on NEAR: swaps through NEAR Intents, a NEAR account in every wallet, and Private Cloud on NEAR AI Cloud.
- [NEAR Intents](https://docs.hermit.my/near/intents/): How a swap through NEAR Intents works in Hermit: the quote, the deposit, the signature check, the statuses and refunds.
- [Your NEAR account](https://docs.hermit.my/near/account/): The NEAR account every wallet gets, made on your device from your recovery phrase, and how to fund it and send from it.
- [The Private Cloud proof](https://docs.hermit.my/near/ai-cloud-proof/): What your device checks before your message goes to NEAR AI Cloud, what it checks on the reply, and what nobody can check yet.
- [Check it yourself](https://docs.hermit.my/near/check-it-yourself/): Run our three Python scripts and watch the NEAR checks Hermit does pass on your own computer. No keys, no funds, a few minutes.

## Developers and help

- [Architecture](https://docs.hermit.my/dev/architecture/): How a message turns into a prepared move, and which package holds which part.
- [Build the apps](https://docs.hermit.my/dev/build/): Build the iPhone and Mac apps yourself with Xcode 26 and XcodeGen.
- [Run the tests](https://docs.hermit.my/dev/verify/): Run Hermit's Swift tests on a Mac, the 29 security tests on their own, and two live checks.
- [The model and its tools](https://docs.hermit.my/dev/model-and-tools/): Hermit 1.2, Hermit 1.1 Lite, the tools the model can call, and how the download is pinned.
- [FAQ](https://docs.hermit.my/help/faq/): Short answers to the things people ask us most.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.hermit.my/help/troubleshooting/): A stuck download, a waiting swap, a missing key, and the other things that go wrong, under the words the app shows.
- [What's new](https://docs.hermit.my/help/whats-new/): What changed in Hermit 2.0, and which build has what.

Full text: https://docs.hermit.my/llms-full.txt