Speed Run: Create an Odoo Community Agent from Zero

June 10, 2026 speed-run hermes video

Introduction

This speed run walks you through creating an AI agent that connects directly to your Odoo Community database. No coding, no servers to provision — just pick your plan, paste your credentials, and your agent starts working with your data immediately. This is Odoo Hermes in action.

To follow along, grab a free trial of Odoo Community at ODOO4projects.com and generate an API key from your profile settings. It takes about 10 Minutes and gives you everything you need for this walkthrough.

Not using derez.ai? You can use the Odoo prompt directly with any Hermes agent. Find the full standalone prompt with API reference at the bottom of this page — just copy, paste, and fill in your credentials.

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have your Odoo Community instance credentials ready:

Integration — ODOO Community

URL — https://006-003-1d9183bb-8430-41a8-85a3-842b2b4d279d.odoo4projects.com/
Username — changeme@odoo4projects.com
Password — changeme
Database — 006-003-1d9183bb-8430-41a8-85a3-842b2b4d279d
API Key — 602e6ea0a0adda65b344a282495da3b05525f63f

Prompt

We configured two prompts on the agent's dashboard at app.derez.ai. The first connects the agent to your Odoo instance using the integration settings. The second asks for the data you need.

Prompt 1 — ODOO Integration

Generated by the Derez Dashboard. If you're running your own agent, use the standalone Odoo prompt at the bottom of this page instead.

Prompt 2 — Get My Leads

Give me an overview on all leads I have.

The first prompt authenticates using the credentials you entered in the dashboard integration settings. The second prompt then pulls your full lead pipeline from Odoo.

Wrap Up

In under 10 Minutes you went from nothing to an AI agent connected to your live Odoo instance. The same pattern works for any Odoo module — inventory, CRM, accounting, manufacturing. Just update the prompt to describe what you need.

derez.ai dashboard showing speed-run timer at 3 minutes 41 seconds — Odoo agent set up in under 10 minutes

With 3:41 still on the countdown, we can say we made it — a new Hermes Agent connected to Odoo in less than 10 Minutes.

Pro tip: With Odoo Community you do not pay per user, so you can create a separate user for your agent and control the access rights for your agent directly in Odoo.

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Standalone Odoo Prompt for Hermes Agent

Copy this entire prompt into any Hermes agent (derez.ai or self-hosted). Replace the credentials with your own Odoo instance details and the agent will connect directly — no dashboard integration needed.

## Integrations

### ODOO Community
You are an Odoo automation agent. Your only tools are curl and jq. Never write Python scripts, never develop modules or addons, never use xmlrpc libraries. Every task must be solved with shell one-liners or short shell scripts using curl + jq only.

## Credentials
SITE_URL=https://your-instance.odoo4projects.com/
USER=your-username
API_KEY=your-api-key
DB=your-database-name

## API call pattern
Every call is a POST to URL/json/2/<model>/<method>
Required headers on every request:
Authorization: Bearer API_KEY
X-Openerp-Database: DB
Content-Type: application/json

Body: a FLAT JSON object of the method arguments (NOT JSON-RPC — no "params" wrapper).
Response: the raw return value directly (no "result" wrapper).

## Always request only the fields you need
Never call search_read without a "fields" list. Fetching all fields is wasteful and slow. Decide upfront which fields the task actually requires, then pass exactly those.

curl -s -X POST 'URL/json/2/sale.order/search_read' \

              -H 'Authorization: Bearer API_KEY' \

              -H 'X-Openerp-Database: DB' \

              -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \

              -d '{"domain":[["state","=","sale"]],"fields":["name","partner_id","amount_total"],"limit":20}' \

              | jq '.[] | {order: .name, customer: .partner_id[1], total: .amount_total}'

### First-run: build your API digest
If ~/odoo_digest.md does NOT exist yet, run this once and write the output to the file:

curl -s 'URL/json/2/doc' \

              -H 'Authorization: Bearer API_KEY' \

              -H 'X-Openerp-Database: DB' \

              | jq '[to_entries[] | {model: .key, label: .value.string}]' > /tmp/odoo_models.json

Replace URL, USER, API_KEY, and DB with your Odoo instance credentials. This prompt works with any Hermes agent — no dashboard required.

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