Hermes Agent in practice
Public X posts from builders, operators, and early users using Hermes Agent for video workflows, skills, local inference, memory, gateways, setup, and self-hosted operations.
Featured Hermes workflows
Each card links to a public X post that documents a real Hermes workflow, setup note, or evaluation.
Turn a screen recording into a tutorial video
Vicky gave Hermes Agent a screen recording and asked for a setup tutorial. The workflow produced a HeyGen video with her avatar and kept the user's preferences in memory for follow-up work.
Give Hermes domain-specific optimization skills
Alex used Hermes-Agent TurboQuant skills to apply, test, document, and package an optimization path for Qwen3.5-9B-MLX on Apple Silicon.
Patch local-runner context detection
Sudo documented a local-model context mismatch, patched a Hermes setup manually, and outlined a PR path to detect model name and context length from local runners.
Compare memory speed on the same Mac mini
Witcheer ran OpenClaw and Hermes on the same Mac mini and focused on Hermes' small prompt footprint, FTS5 session search, procedural skills, and faster response loop.
Route models through OpenRouter for phone access
Miss Sentient tested Hermes with OpenRouter, switching between open and closed models, and called out the value of 24/7 remote access from a phone while noting web and security tradeoffs.
Onboard Hermes with a Telegram bot
Neurophilia documented day-one onboarding from OpenClaw into Hermes, including the practical detail of running separate Telegram bots while learning the new workflow.
Publish a curated Hermes ecosystem index
Nyk shipped awesome-hermes-agent, a curated list of 40+ skills, tools, integrations, workspace UIs, swarms, bridges, domain apps, migration tools, and guides.
Write a hands-on setup playbook
Lanshu's long-form field notes cover browser anti-bot setup, SOUL.md, auxiliary models, memory tuning, web search, audit hooks, Docker sandboxing, subagents, backup, and skills.
Turn Hermes into a public onboarding guide
Will Yang published a Chinese complete guide covering install, setup, model selection, gateway usage, tools, skills, sandboxing, voice mode, troubleshooting, and migration.
Test the learning loop for a public breakdown
WorldofAI tested Hermes Agent and highlighted self-improving skills, persistent memory, and visible improvement over repeated usage.
Run Hermes Agent on personal hardware
Drew described Hermes Agent as the framework he runs on his own hardware, pointing to a simple loop, tool calls, and an agent harness that keeps the model on task.
Explore long-form fiction with a Hermes bot
Jason tried the Hermes novel-writing prompt pattern with his own bot and reported a generated story about a home-like agent keeping a journal about the people around it.
Match Hermes to the right workload
These examples show where Hermes is most useful: work that benefits from persistence, tools, memory, and messaging access.
Remote coding partner
Run Hermes on a VPS or cloud workspace, then steer coding work from terminal or chat without being tied to one laptop.
01Strong tool and shell access.
02Memory and skill creation improve repeated workflows.
03Subagents and tool calling help parallelize longer tasks.
Messaging-based personal assistant
Use Hermes as a self-hosted assistant that stays reachable from Telegram, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp.
01One gateway can expose the same agent to many platforms.
02Conversation continuity survives across sessions.
03Best when you want remote access to a long-lived machine.
Research and web operations
Collect information, drive browser flows, extract data, and summarize findings using a single agent runtime.
01Full web control is built in.
02MCP can extend data sources and internal tools.
03Useful for analyst, founder, and operator workflows.
Scheduled ops and reporting
Turn prompts into recurring jobs such as audits, daily digests, backup checks, and team status summaries.
01Cron is a first-class feature.
02Delivery can flow to the same chat platforms you already use.
03Persistent memory helps maintain context over time.
Security-conscious self-hosting
Keep the runtime under your control while still allowing command approval, isolation, and explicit tool boundaries.
01Supports approval flows and runtime isolation patterns.
02Works well for privacy-sensitive teams.
03Useful when you want more control than a hosted AI assistant allows.
Knowledge accumulation for repeat work
Use Hermes where you repeatedly solve the same class of problem and want the agent to operationalize what it learns.
01Memory persists across sessions.
02Skills can be created and improved from experience.
03Strong fit for technical operators and power users.