The full Hermes track — not a feature tour but a climb up the delegation ladder. Nine hands-on lessons take you from a first install (cloud or a local LM Studio model) through giving the agent a memory of you, reaching it from your phone, letting it act under your approval, writing its own skills, and running standing errands — ending with one real always-on assistant doing a job for you. Plus a command + delegation cheat sheet and starter skills to drop in.
Starter skills
Hermes Small bizA remodelling-company owner built a roofing lead-finder with Hermes instead of paying for an expensive lead-gen platform.
A pipeline for finding local jobs at the cost of tokens, not a monthly SaaS bill.
Find homeowners in [my service area] who have posted about roof damage or remodelling needs, save the leads to memory, and send me a daily Telegram summary.
Hermes Small bizHermes surfaces an email-finding tool (Hunter.io via Composio) inside an outreach workflow.
Prospecting and first-draft outreach handled by the agent instead of by hand.
Given this list of target companies, find a likely contact email for each, draft a short personalised intro, and put it all in a table for me to review before anything sends.
Hermes Small bizA skill set covering CRM, invoicing and project-management workflows so you run the back office by talking to the agent.
The admin side of a small business handled from a chat window.
Save a new contact, log a call note, create an invoice, and update a project status — all in one conversation — and remember my CRM layout for future sessions.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEAn open dashboard to manage fleets of agents, dispatch tasks, and track costs across them.
Multi-agent work becomes observable and budgetable instead of a black box.
Build me a control-room dashboard for my agent fleet — list every running agent, let me dispatch tasks to each, and show a live cost tally so I can see what each agent is spending.
Hermes Small biz ScientistThirteen finance skills covering Hong Kong, US and A-share markets. Needs the finance-skills pack installed first.
Live market data and analysis on tap for a solo trader or analyst.
Pull today’s closing prices for [my HK, US or A-share tickers] and send me a daily summary on Telegram.
Hermes AI-native SMEAn operator dashboard that puts multi-agent Hermes work on a Kanban board so a team can see what every agent is doing.
Agent work becomes visible and manageable like any team’s board.
Set up a Kanban dashboard showing every active agent’s current task so my team can see live progress without asking in chat.
Hermes AI-native SMEA TUI dashboard that watches the agent think — memory, skills, sessions, corrections, projects and cron jobs, live.
Operational visibility so you trust what the agent is doing across the org.
Launch a live TUI dashboard showing your memory, active skills, running sessions, cron jobs and corrections in real time so I can watch you work.
Hermes AI-native SMEA plugin records all tool and API calls to SQLite with Grafana dashboards profiling token spend across Telegram, WhatsApp and cron. Needs the token-audit plugin installed first.
Finance-grade cost and usage visibility before you scale agents to a team.
Start recording all my tool and API calls to SQLite and set up a Grafana dashboard showing daily spend by channel.
Hermes AI-native SMEA community plugin adding a native analytics dashboard over the agent’s activity. Needs the agent-analytics plugin installed first.
Open my usage dashboard and send me a weekly digest of my top tools and token spend every Monday at 9am.
Hermes AI-native SMEA community tool that audits each run for cost, latency, health and anomalies. Needs the agenttrace tool installed first.
Run a post-run audit on yesterday’s sessions and message me a summary of any cost spikes or slow tool calls.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA main agent plans, a coder sub-agent implements, a QA sub-agent tests, and failures loop back to repair before it ships — a one-person build team on cheaper models.
A solo founder gets a plan-build-test-fix loop that normally needs a small team.
Act as a one-person build team for [describe your feature] — plan it yourself, implement it with a coder sub-agent, test it with a QA sub-agent, loop back on failures, and message me on Telegram when it ships.
Hermes FounderA community skill that turns any startup idea into eight investor-ready documents — market analysis, competitor map, pitch deck — plus a landing page. Needs the startup-architect skill installed first.
A fundraising starter pack drafted in one prompt, ready for you to sharpen.
Turn this idea — [your idea in one sentence] — into a full investor-ready kit: market analysis, competitor map, pitch deck outline, and a landing page draft.
Hermes FounderA builder switched to Hermes and shipped five small apps in a single day, leaning on the agent's self-learning to speed up each build.
Idea-to-launch compresses to hours when the agent remembers your stack between builds.
I want to ship [your app idea] today — plan the simplest working version, build it, write a reusable skill for any repeating patterns, and tell me when each milestone is done so I can keep the momentum.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA main agent with cross-project memory spawns a sub-agent per project or Slack channel, runs on a VPS, and sends a daily WhatsApp report.
One coordinating brain that remembers every project — and reports proactively.
Act as my Chief of Staff — keep cross-project memory, spin up a sub-agent for each of my projects, and send me a WhatsApp summary every evening at 7pm covering progress, blockers, and what needs my attention.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEAfter ~10 days the agent internalises a developer's review preferences — which files to read first, patterns to flag, how to format output.
Code review that fits your team’s taste because it actually remembers it.
Study my repo at [path] — learn which files matter most, note patterns to flag in reviews, and remember my preferred output format. After ten sessions, save everything you have learned as a codebase-review skill.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA second agent monitors Hermes’s workflows in real time, catches breaks as they happen, and fixes them mid-run.
Long autonomous runs that self-correct instead of silently failing.
Spin up a monitor sub-agent that watches my main workflow in real time, catches any tool failure or loop, fixes it mid-run if it can, and pings me on Telegram if it needs my input.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA multi-agent orchestration layer that splits a goal into research, planning and execution agents.
A repeatable way to throw several agents at one objective without chaos.
For this goal — [your goal] — split the work into three specialist agents: one for research, one for planning, and one for execution. Coordinate them and report back with the final output when done.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEAn AI-native SDLC built on a code graph so the agent understands the whole repo before it changes anything.
Bigger changes land safely because the agent reasons over the full codebase.
Index my entire repo into a code graph, then implement [your feature or bug fix] — read the graph to understand dependencies before touching anything, and show me a diff for review before committing.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA three-actor email orchestration on DBOS + PostgreSQL + S3 with the Gmail API, running in production for weeks.
Proof Hermes holds up as real backend infrastructure, not just a demo.
Build a three-actor email pipeline on PostgreSQL: one actor fetches new Gmail threads, one drafts replies in my voice, one sends approved drafts — save it as a skill and run it every 30 minutes.
Hermes FounderMerge to main → an image builds → a watcher restarts the agent automatically, so the agent ships its own updates.
Your agent improves on a normal git workflow, hands-off.
Set up a CI/CD loop for this repo — on every merge to main, build a new image, restart the agent automatically, and message me on Telegram confirming the version that is now live.
Hermes FounderAn MCP server that exposes nine Hermes tools (terminal, file I/O, web search, memory, skills) to any MCP client like Claude Desktop. Needs the Hermes MCP server skill installed first.
Your favourite chat app gets Hermes’s hands without leaving its window.
Connect to my MCP client and expose your terminal, file I/O, web search, and memory tools so I can use them from any MCP client without switching apps.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMESeventeen specialised agents with structured communication, coordinating on shared work. Needs the opencode-17 skill installed first.
A blueprint for decomposing a big build across many narrow agents.
Spin up a 17-agent specialist team to tackle [your complex project] — assign each agent a focused role and coordinate them on shared work.
Hermes Founder Small bizA nightly backup of the agent's config and database to GitHub; edit the config on GitHub and it mirrors back.
Your agent’s setup is recoverable and reviewable like any other code.
Every night at 2am, back up your config and memory database to my private GitHub repo. If I edit the config there, pull the change and apply it.
Hermes Small biz Founder AI-native SMEA consultant ran a production Hermes for 297+ days straight, automating over $100K of client value.
Evidence a self-hosted agent can be durable, revenue-generating infrastructure.
Take over [my recurring client deliverable — weekly reports / data pulls / outreach sequences], run it automatically every week, and log completed work to memory.
Hermes Small bizA shared agent reachable over WhatsApp, with a different use case per family member, for a one-time ~$200 cost.
Several paid AI subscriptions collapse into one self-hosted agent.
Set up a shared WhatsApp connection and remember a different use case per family member — [grocery lists for one, homework help for another] — so everyone gets a personalised assistant.
Hermes Small biz FounderSwitching providers (OpenRouter) and running lean took spend from ~$130 to ~$10 per five days — even running from a phone.
A real agent within a hobby budget; output matters more than fancy setup.
Switch your model provider to OpenRouter, then send me a weekly cost report so I can track spend and compare it against my previous bill.
Hermes Small bizA personal Hermes running a strong cloud model via OpenRouter on a $10/month Hetzner box.
An always-on personal agent for the price of a couple of coffees.
Walk me through deploying yourself as a systemd service on a $10/month Hetzner VPS using a strong cloud model via OpenRouter, then message me on Telegram once you are running.
Hermes Small bizA managed Hermes-hosting service — bring an API key and a Telegram bot, they run the box.
A self-hosted-style agent for non-technical owners who don’t want a server.
Guide me through connecting my API key and Telegram bot token to a managed Hermes host so I have a personal agent running with no server setup on my part.
Hermes Small biz CreatorTwo Telegram community groups served by one gateway — same personality and memory, but specialised per group.
Run multiple audience channels from a single agent without them bleeding together.
Connect to my two Telegram group chats, remember a distinct personality and topic focus for each, and use the same memory backend so context carries across both groups.
Hermes Small biz AI-native SMEA starter where the agent summarises yesterday’s progress across your projects each morning and asks what to prioritise, then recaps at day’s end.
A self-running operating rhythm for a one-person business.
Every weekday at 9am, summarise where each of my projects stands and ask me what to prioritise. At 6pm, recap what moved and flag anything stuck.
Hermes Small bizA starter where you forward photos of receipts on Telegram and the agent extracts vendor, amount and date into a running spreadsheet.
Bookkeeping that happens as you spend, not in a Sunday-night panic.
When I send you a receipt photo on Telegram, read the vendor, total and date and append a row to my expenses sheet. Each Friday, send me the week’s total by category.
Hermes AI-native SME FounderA 24/7 setup runs four Hermes agents — PM, Dev, DevOps and Content — sharing five MCP servers and 34 tools, coordinated by a watchdog.
A blueprint where each function has an always-on agent doing the routine work.
Set up a four-agent team for my company with a PM, Dev, DevOps and Content agent sharing the same MCP tools, and message me on Telegram when each agent completes a task.
Hermes AI-native SMEA printing-factory operations manager wrote a skill that auto-categorises tasks and compresses completed work into summary cards so nothing gets lost.
A non-tech SME turning a real operational pain — forgetting things — into a trusted AI workflow.
Create a skill that auto-categorises my team’s incoming tasks by type and compresses completed ones into weekly summary cards saved to a shared folder.
Hermes AI-native SMEA community skill that makes Hermes an autonomous SRE — detecting, diagnosing and healing production infra, and learning from every incident. Needs the hermes-incident-commander skill installed first.
On-call that gets smarter over time, combining memory, cron, messaging and sub-agents.
Monitor my main service, auto-diagnose the next alert, attempt a fix, and message me on Telegram with the outcome.
Hermes AI-native SMEHermes (with Claude Code) triages tickets in Plane.so — assigns, documents, and writes companion notes in Obsidian.
The PM busywork of routing and documenting work handled automatically.
Connect to my Plane.so workspace, triage today’s unassigned tickets by priority, assign owners, and write a companion note in Obsidian for each one.
Hermes AI-native SMEAuto-transcribes Google Meet calls and is controllable from Microsoft Teams, using local models so client data never leaves the machine.
Meeting notes and follow-ups for a team, with sensitive data kept in-house.
Set up auto-transcription for my Google Meet calls using a local model, summarise each transcript, and post the key action items to my team channel.
Hermes AI-native SMEA stack underneath Hermes adds tamper-proof audit logs, prompt-injection blocking, memory encryption, cost tracking and EU AI Act exports.
A path to running agents in a regulated company without crossing compliance lines.
Add tamper-proof audit logging and prompt-injection blocking to my current agent setup, then export an EU AI Act compliance report for my last 30 sessions.
Hermes AI-native SMEHermes on a local Kubernetes cluster for isolation, producing a daily cybersecurity + AI briefing.
Enterprise-grade isolation with a useful daily output to justify it.
Deploy to my local Kubernetes cluster in an isolated namespace and schedule a daily cybersecurity and AI briefing delivered to my Telegram every morning at 7am.
Hermes AI-native SMEA protocol team integrated Hermes with repo indexing, on-chain transaction tooling and a docs wiki, all self-hosted.
A shared team agent that knows the codebase, the data and the docs.
Index my main code repo, connect it to my docs wiki, and save the combined context as a persistent memory so any team member can query it on Telegram.
Hermes AI-native SME FounderClaude handles chat and research while Hermes does the execution — email, browsing, forms — 24/7 on a mini PC.
A clean division of labour: one brain to think, one to do.
Handle all my execution tasks — email, browsing, form submissions — triggered by my Claude chat sessions, and remember my workflow preferences across both agents.
Hermes AI-native SMEConnecting Hermes to a managed long-term memory layer (retain / recall / reflect) for reliable recall at scale.
Org knowledge that persists and is retrievable beyond a single machine.
Connect to a managed long-term memory backend, remember my top five client requirements, then retrieve them accurately in a new session to confirm reliable recall.
Hermes AI-native SME Small bizA legal professional self-hosts Hermes on a single edge GPU with a small local model because data cannot go to third-party APIs.
Useful AI for a confidentiality-bound practice, with nothing leaving the box.
Run entirely on my local GPU using a small local model so no document text leaves my machine, then summarise the contract I upload.
Hermes AI-native SMEA security skill that protects against common LLM threats with recommended policies — important before you let a team agent touch real systems. Needs the security-hardening skill installed first.
A safer baseline for an agent that has real access.
Apply the security-hardening skill’s recommended policies to my current setup and report which LLM threat vectors are now blocked.
Hermes AI-native SMEA starter where the agent holds your team's playbooks as skills, answers "how do we do X here?" in Slack, and writes a new skill whenever someone teaches it something.
The knowledge that usually lives in three people’s heads becomes a shared, growing agent.
Watch our team Slack. When someone explains how we do a recurring task, save it as a skill. When anyone asks "how do we do X?", answer from those skills and cite who taught it.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA community installer that stands up Hermes with 29 pre-configured plugins in a single command.
Run the Evey community installer to stand up Hermes with 29 pre-configured plugins in a single command on my machine. Needs the evey-setup skill installed first.
Hermes FounderA GEPA + DSPy loop that optimises the agent's skills, prompts and tool text into PR-ready improvements. Needs the GEPA + DSPy self-evolution plugin installed first.
Analyse my last week of sessions and generate PR-ready skill and prompt improvements using the self-evolution loop.
Hermes FounderA deployment pattern running Hermes as a Fly Machine with a volume-backed data dir for ~$15/month.
Generate a Fly.io deployment config for yourself with a volume-backed data directory, then walk me through deploying it as a Fly Machine for roughly $15 per month.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEThe canonical Linux-VPS pattern: Hermes as a systemd service under a dedicated user, always on.
Generate a systemd service unit file that runs you as a headless daemon under a dedicated user on my Linux VPS, so you start automatically on reboot.
Hermes FounderA workflow that turns a loose prompt into structured artifacts — runbooks, RSS curation, diagrams, notes.
Take this rough idea — [my idea] — and produce a structured runbook, an architecture diagram, and an RSS curation list from it.
Hermes FounderA community skill giving the agent a wallet to call 300+ premium APIs on demand. Needs the AgentCash skill installed first.
Call a premium API from the 300+ AgentCash catalogue to complete my current task — [task] — paying only for what you use.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA community plugin that watches sessions and turns repeated workflows into reusable skills automatically. Needs the hermes-skill-factory plugin installed first.
Watch my sessions over the next week and automatically package any repeated workflows into reusable skills.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA community template packaging Hermes as a production cloud Docker image. Needs the hermes-agent-template installed first.
Build and run a production-ready Docker image of yourself that I can push to any cloud registry.
Hermes FounderA VS Code sidebar with streaming chat, editor context and file attachments wired to Hermes. Needs the Hermes VS Code extension installed first.
Review the active file in my project using the full editor context and suggest improvements.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMEA community skill that delegates tasks across Hermes, Codex and Claude through the Agent Client Protocol. Needs the hermes-agent-acp-skill installed first.
Break my current task — [task] — into sub-tasks and delegate the coding parts to Codex and the reasoning parts to Claude via ACP.
Hermes Founder AI-native SMERunning Hermes as a managed worker inside Nous Research's Paperclip task-orchestration system. Needs the Paperclip skill installed first.
Register yourself as a managed Paperclip worker, pick up the first task from my queue, and complete it.
Hermes Small biz AI-native SMEA community skill driving Outlook mail, calendar and contacts through the Microsoft Graph API. Needs the microsoft-workspace-skill installed first.
Draft a reply to my latest unread Outlook email and add next week’s project deadline to my calendar.
Hermes Small biz AI-native SMEA built-in skill covering the whole Google Workspace so the agent runs your day-to-day office tools.
Use the Google Workspace skill to triage my Gmail inbox, add flagged follow-ups to my Calendar, and save a summary of action items to a Google Doc.
Hermes Small bizA built-in skill for reading and writing Airtable bases through its REST API.
Turn on the Airtable skill, then read my contacts base, add a new record for a lead I just met — [name, company, notes] — and message me on Telegram when it’s saved.
Hermes Small bizBuilt-in skills to OCR scanned documents and edit PDF text by natural-language instruction.
Use the pdf-ocr skill to scan my folder of invoices, extract vendor name, date, and amount from each, and save the results to a CSV.
Hermes Small bizA built-in maps skill for geocoding, points of interest, routes and timezones — handy for any field-service business.
Turn on the maps skill, then find the five nearest [plumbers] to [job-site address], calculate drive time from my depot, and message me the ranked list on Telegram.
Hermes Small biz AI-native SMEA documented pattern where the agent reviews incoming support tickets and categorises them for you.
Review my last 20 support emails, categorise each as billing, technical, or general, flag anything urgent, and save a triage summary to Notion.
Hermes Small bizA built-in skill (Himalaya CLI) giving the agent IMAP/SMTP access to triage and send email.
Turn on the himalaya-email skill, then check my inbox every morning at 8am, flag emails needing a reply, and draft responses for my review.
Hermes AI-native SMEA built-in skill that operates a Microsoft Teams meeting-summary pipeline for the team.
Use the teams-pipeline skill to summarise every Microsoft Teams meeting I attend today and post the action items to my shared Notion page [paste URL].
Hermes AI-native SMEA community web workspace with chat, a terminal, a memory browser and a skills manager. Needs the workspace plugin installed first.
Pin my current project’s skills and memory to the shared web workspace so my whole team can access them.
Hermes AI-native SMEA team bot with per-user sessions, an isolated terminal and an allowlist — one agent the whole team can message. Needs the team-telegram skill installed first.
Configure the allowlist with my team’s Telegram usernames [paste list] and give each member their own session with a shared terminal.
Hermes AI-native SMEA community linter that scores agent configs and prompts (HERM scoring) before they ship. Needs the lintlang linter installed first.
Score my current agent config and system prompt with HERM scoring and list any issues I need to fix before going live.
Hermes AI-native SME Small bizA community skill that analyses contracts for risk in English and Turkish. Needs the legal skill installed first.
Here’s a vendor contract [paste text]: flag the top five risk clauses, summarise the termination terms, and save the report to Notion.
Hermes AI-native SMEA documented pattern running authorised security assessments with Kali tools, scope confirmation and approval gates. Needs the pentest skill installed first.
Confirm the target scope [paste scope], then run an authorised assessment against my staging environment [URL] and produce a findings report.
Hermes Founder CreatorThe agent searches for someone, builds a landing page, SSHes into a VPS to upload it, then texts you when it's live.
A whole micro-launch — build and deploy — handled in one instruction.
Research [target person or company], build a landing page from what you find, deploy it to my VPS over SSH, and message me on Telegram when it’s live.
Hermes Small biz CreatorA skill pack that runs lifecycle email-marketing workflows — sequences, triggers, follow-ups. Needs the lifecycle-email skill installed first.
Marketing automation a solo operator can run without a marketing-ops hire.
Set up a welcome sequence, a re-engagement trigger, and a weekly newsletter follow-up for my subscriber list.
Hermes Creator Small bizPaste a product URL; Hermes scrapes the page, pulls winning hooks from the Meta Ads Library and TikTok Creative Center, and writes a creative brief.
An ad concept grounded in what’s already working, before your coffee’s cold.
Scrape [this product URL], pull winning hooks from the Meta Ads Library and TikTok Creative Center, and write me a ready-to-brief UGC creative doc.
Hermes Creator Small bizHermes learns your style from past posts and scripts, remembers your preferred phrasing and emojis, and drafts LinkedIn posts or tweets that sound like you.
On-brand drafts that stay consistent because the agent remembers your voice.
Read my last 20 posts and learn my voice. When I paste a rough idea, draft three posts in my style and save anything I tweak so you sound more like me next time.
Hermes CreatorThe agent proposed the workflow itself: pull your X lists and bookmarks, structure them, and feed them into NotebookLM to produce a podcast episode.
Your saved reading turns into a listenable show — a pipeline the agent designed.
Pull my X bookmarks and list items from the past week, structure them into topics, and generate a NotebookLM-ready source document I can turn into a podcast episode.
Hermes CreatorThree-times-daily news triage sorted into Discord channels by urgency, auto-linked to your current video projects.
You always know what’s fresh enough to keep a video relevant.
Schedule a news triage three times a day, sort stories into my Discord channels by urgency, and automatically link each story to whichever of my current video projects it relates to.
Hermes CreatorA second agent reads your published articles and drafts new pieces in your voice, learning your style as a procedure.
First drafts that already sound like you, ready to edit not rewrite.
Here are five of my published articles: [paste]. Save my writing style as a skill, then draft a new piece on [topic] in that voice.
Hermes CreatorThe agent reads your script folder and produces on-brand tweets, saving your preferences to memory.
Every video quietly becomes a week of social posts.
Read my scripts in [folder path], mine each one for tweetable insights, save my preferred tone to memory, and give me five on-brand tweets per script.
Hermes CreatorA FLUX image-generation skill pack so the agent can produce on-brand visuals inside a workflow. Needs the FLUX image-generation skill installed first.
Visuals generated in the same place you plan the content.
Generate an on-brand hero image for my next post and save it to my assets folder.
Hermes CreatorA design MCP that generates images and video across nine models, plus local ComfyUI. Needs the design MCP skill installed first.
A whole creative-media toolbox drivable by the agent.
Generate a short product video clip using the model that best fits my style and save it locally.
Hermes CreatorA media artist extended a TouchDesigner skill with reference docs so the agent helps build generative, interactive pieces. Needs the TouchDesigner skill installed first.
Creative-coding assistance for live visuals and installations.
Build a generative visual patch that reacts to audio input and explain each node you add.
Hermes CreatorA spare-laptop Hermes autonomously built a Ren’Py visual novel with ten generated images, wiring local image generation into the scaffolding.
A playable creative project assembled end-to-end by the agent.
Scaffold a Ren’Py visual novel for [my story idea], generate character art with a local image model, and save all assets to a new project folder.
Hermes CreatorMorning (9am) and evening (6pm) Tidal playlist curation matched to time of day, with artist context and no duplicates.
A personal radio that refreshes itself on a schedule.
Every morning at 9am and every evening at 6pm, curate a fresh Tidal playlist matched to the time of day and skip any artist played in the last 7 days.
Hermes CreatorAn open-source design alternative with 31 composable skills the agent can use. Needs the open design toolkit skill installed first.
Design output without a proprietary suite, all local-first.
Assemble a brand kit for my project using three of your composable design skills and export the result.
Hermes CreatorA starter where the agent proposes next week’s posts from your recent work and what’s trending, then schedules drafts for your review.
You approve a calendar instead of staring at a blank one.
Every Friday, look at what I published this week and what’s trending in my niche, propose next week’s 5 posts with hooks, and save drafts for me to approve.
Hermes Small biz CreatorA built-in skill that creates and edits PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations.
Take these bullet points and build a 10-slide client proposal deck with a clean title slide and a summary at the end.
Hermes Small biz CreatorA native X plugin for search, trends and account reads, so the agent can run your social presence. Needs the x-social plugin installed first.
Every morning at 9am, search trending topics in my niche — [niche] — and message me the top three on Telegram.
Hermes CreatorNous's Autonovel pipeline produced a full 79,456-word, 19-chapter novel end-to-end, with art and audio. Needs the autonovel skill installed first.
Generate a 5,000-word short story with a cover image, saving each chapter as a separate markdown file.
Hermes CreatorA built-in skill that launches and runs node-based ComfyUI media workflows on demand.
Use the comfyui skill to run my portrait-upscale workflow on every image in my raw-photos folder and save the results to a finished folder.
Hermes CreatorA built-in skill that produces Manim CE animations — the maths-explainer style.
Use the manim skill to animate a 60-second explainer for how compound interest works, render it to MP4, and message me on Telegram when it’s ready.
Hermes CreatorA built-in skill that writes p5.js sketches for generative and interactive visuals.
Use the p5js skill to write a generative art sketch that draws a new random pattern every time I refresh, using my brand colors [paste hex codes].
Hermes CreatorBuilt-in songwriting skills that draft lyrics and matching Suno AI music prompts.
Use the suno skill to write upbeat lyrics and a matching Suno prompt for a 30-second intro jingle for my podcast [podcast name], then save both to a text file.
Hermes Creator ScientistA built-in skill that pulls a YouTube transcript and turns it into a summary or content outline.
Use the youtube-content skill to pull the transcript from this video [paste URL], summarise the key points, and draft three tweet ideas based on it.
Hermes CreatorA pipeline converting raw screen recordings into tutorial videos with an AI avatar (HeyGen). Needs the screen-tutorial skill installed first.
Convert my raw screen recording [path or paste file] into a polished tutorial video with an AI avatar voiceover.
Hermes CreatorHTML compositions rendered to MP4 with GSAP animation — design-to-video without a video editor.
Design an animated HTML title card for my YouTube channel [channel name] using GSAP, then render it to an MP4 file I can drop into my editor.
Hermes Creator Small bizA community skill pack of 43 X/Twitter actions — search, posting, trends — for running an account at scale. Needs the x-43 skill installed first.
Schedule three on-brand tweets per day from my drafts folder [path] and report posting results to me on Telegram.
Hermes ScientistA daily agent on a lab workstation pointed at a local model summarises each morning’s new PubMed alerts and learns which topics you actually care about.
Zero-cost and fully local — abstracts and queries never leave the lab, and it gets more relevant the longer you use it.
Every weekday at 8am, search PubMed for new papers on my saved topics, summarise the 5 most relevant, message me the digest, and weight future digests toward the ones I open.
Hermes ScientistHermes-Lab: give it a search space and an evaluation method and it schedules runs, tracks every result, and suggests what to try next. Needs the Hermes-Lab skill installed first.
The bookkeeping of an ML sweep runs itself; you just decide the next direction.
Here is my search space and evaluation function — schedule runs, track every result in memory, and message me on Telegram with your next suggested experiment after each batch.
Hermes ScientistChEMBL, AlphaFold, OpenFDA and QSAR workflows wired into Hermes skills to run early drug-discovery queries from a laptop. Needs the drug-discovery toolkit skill installed first.
Heavyweight computational-chemistry workflows become a chat you can run anywhere.
Using ChEMBL and OpenFDA, find approved compounds similar to [your target molecule], run a QSAR filter, and save the shortlist as a skill I can re-run weekly.
Hermes ScientistWalk Hermes through cleaning one messy instrument-export CSV; it writes a reusable skill the first time and applies it automatically next week.
Teach a fiddly procedure once; the agent owns it from then on and gets faster every run.
Help me clean this instrument CSV step by step. When we're done, save what we did as a reusable skill so you can clean the next export the same way without me re-explaining.
Hermes ScientistA retrieval setup (PageIndex) where the agent understands a document's structure and reasons over it with tools instead of chopping it into vector chunks. Needs the PageIndex skill installed first.
Answers that respect how a paper is actually organised, with fewer hallucinated links.
Index these papers from my folder and answer [your research question] by reasoning over their structure with tools — no vector chunks.
Hermes ScientistA data scientist ported an entire Python weather stack (MetPy, Herbie, cfgrib, WRF-Python) to Rust and built two Hermes plugins around it. Needs the weather-stack plugin installed first.
A slow, fragile scientific pipeline becomes a fast, agent-drivable tool.
Run my MetPy/Herbie pipeline on today’s GFS data, save the output plots to my results folder, and schedule this every morning at 6am.
Hermes ScientistA research stack of seven MCP tools plus a self-hosted SearXNG search to replace a paid research API.
Deep web research on your own infrastructure, squeezing the free tiers instead of paying per query.
Build me a private research engine using SearXNG plus web, PDF, and citation tools — save it as a skill called deep-research so I can call it with any question and get a cited summary.
Hermes Scientist Creator AI-native SMEWatches your field, picks the real signals, writes a brief, suggests angles, and delivers via Discord, Slack, Notion, email, Obsidian or markdown.
One self-improving morning brief instead of ten tabs you never get to.
Each morning, scan my field's top sources, pick the 5 developments that matter, write a short sourced brief, and post it to my Slack. Learn which items I react to.
Hermes ScientistA community skill that turns Hermes into an autonomous research agent for surveying and summarising a topic. Needs the literature-research-agent skill installed first.
A first-pass literature scan that runs while you do something else.
Survey and summarise the last two years of papers on [your topic], save the summary to memory, and message me the key findings on Telegram.
Hermes Scientist CreatorReads Hacker News daily and emails a curated summary of what's worth your attention.
The signal from a noisy feed, on a schedule, without the doomscroll.
Every morning at 7am, read Hacker News, filter for science and engineering stories relevant to [your field], and email me a curated brief with your picks and one-line summaries.
Hermes ScientistA starter where Hermes records every analysis step you run into a dated markdown notebook and can replay or summarise a day's work on request.
Reproducibility for free — the record writes itself as you work.
From now on, after each analysis step, append what we did and why to today’s lab notebook. At 6pm, post me a summary of everything we ran today.
Hermes CreatorA Monday-9am cron: "research the top 3 trending AI tools for this week’s tutorial," and the agent writes the research skill and runs it weekly.
Fresh, sourced topic research lands before you sit down to plan content.
Every Monday at 9am, research the 3 most-discussed new AI tools this week, write a short sourced brief on each, and send it to me on Telegram.
Hermes ScientistA built-in skill to search arXiv — point a cron at it to surface new papers on your topics.
Every Monday at 8am, use the arxiv skill to search for new papers on [my topic], summarise the 5 most relevant, and message me the list.
Hermes ScientistA built-in research-paper-writing skill that structures an ML paper for a conference from your results.
Use the research-paper-writing skill to draft a conference-style ML paper from my results, structuring it with abstract, related work, methodology and evaluation sections.
Hermes ScientistA built-in skill that logs runs and builds dashboards in Weights & Biases.
Use the weights-and-biases skill to log my current experiment’s hyperparameters and metrics, then build a dashboard comparing runs by validation loss.
Hermes ScientistBuilt-in skills to run local inference (vLLM for throughput, llama.cpp for GGUF) so the whole group queries one private model.
Use the vllm skill to spin up a local inference server for [my chosen model], then share the endpoint URL with my team so everyone queries one private instance.
Hermes ScientistA built-in skill that runs Python step-by-step against a live Jupyter kernel, keeping state between cells.
Use the jupyter-live-kernel skill to load my dataset, run an exploratory analysis step-by-step in a live kernel, and keep the variable state ready for follow-up queries.
Hermes ScientistA built-in Segment Anything skill for segmenting microscopy or imaging data without training.
Use the segment-anything-model skill to segment the regions of interest in my microscopy images and export the masks as labeled PNG files.
Hermes ScientistA built-in skill to pull, push and manage Hugging Face models and datasets from the agent.
Use the huggingface-hub skill to pull the latest checkpoint for my fine-tuned model, evaluate it on my test split, and push the updated weights back to my repo.
Hermes ScientistA built-in skill to run LLM evaluation harnesses and report scores.
Use the evaluating-llms-harness skill to benchmark my local model on MMLU and HellaSwag, then save the score report to a timestamped file.
Hermes Scientist CreatorA built-in skill that monitors blogs and RSS/Atom feeds and flags what is new and relevant.
Use the blogwatcher skill to monitor my five favourite ML blogs and Nature RSS feeds, then message me on Telegram whenever a post matches my research keywords.
Hermes ScientistA community plugin exposing National Weather Service models and NEXRAD radar imagery to the agent. Needs the hermes-weather-plugin skill installed first.
Pull the latest NWS forecast and NEXRAD radar imagery for [my study region] and summarise current conditions.
Hermes ScientistHermes drove TurboQuant to optimise an MLX model (Qwen3.5-9B) for local inference on a Mac.
Drive TurboQuant to quantize [my target model] for Apple Silicon, benchmark inference speed before and after, and save the optimised MLX weights locally.
Hermes ScientistUsing Hermes to train and evaluate tool-calling models against a 100-task benchmark.
Set up my tool-calling model training loop, run it against the 100-task benchmark suite, and message me on Telegram with the final pass-rate scores.
Hermes ScientistA single question fanned out across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News and Polymarket, then synthesised.
Fan out my research question '[my topic]' across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News and Polymarket, then synthesise the key signals into a one-page brief.
Hermes ScientistA community project running a Mars rover simulation through ROS2 and Gazebo, driven by Hermes. Needs the Hermes-mars-rover community skill installed first.
Run a navigation scenario in the ROS2/Gazebo Mars-rover simulator and log the rover’s path to a CSV.
Hermes ScientistA community project fine-tuning vision-language-action models so the agent improves a robot over time. Needs the hermes-embodied community skill installed first.
Run one training iteration on my robot demonstration data using the vision-language-action fine-tuning skill and report the improvement metric.
Hermes Small bizThe agent researches competitors on a schedule and summarises what changed.
Every Monday, check my three main competitors' sites and socials, and send me a short note on anything new — pricing, launches, hires.
Hermes Scientist CreatorA personal knowledge base on a small VPS that the agent — not you — maintains, with a chat-bot interface and a static site.
Your notes compound over time instead of rotting, because something actively tends them.
Set up a self-maintaining research wiki on my VPS — watch my notes folder, update wiki pages when I add or edit files, and expose a chat interface so I can query it on Telegram.
Hermes Scientist CreatorStructured markdown notes in a synced Obsidian vault act as durable memory that survives context resets (a widely-upvoted community pattern).
The agent’s knowledge lives in files you own and can read, not a black box.
Use my Obsidian vault at [path] as your long-term memory — read existing notes at session start, write a structured summary note after each conversation, and sync it so my vault stays current.
Hermes ScientistA knowledge substrate that builds a qualitative "map" over existing Obsidian/vimwiki notes and sessions.
Your scattered notes become a navigable structure instead of a flat pile.
Read my Obsidian notes at [path], build a semantic map of the concepts and how they connect, save it as a skill, and let me query it by asking things like 'what links to [topic]?'
Hermes Creator AI-native SMEA skill that generates draw.io diagrams from natural-language descriptions.
Flowcharts and architecture diagrams without opening a diagram tool.
Turn this description into a draw.io diagram: "[paste your system or process description here]" and export the XML file ready to open in draw.io.
Hermes Small bizA built-in Notion skill so the agent files notes, tasks and records into your workspace.
Turn on the Notion skill, then file today’s meeting notes into my Notion workspace and create a follow-up task with a due date.
Hermes ScientistPulls Whoop fitness data locally and exposes Hermes tools so you can ask custom questions over your own biometrics.
Your health data stays on your machine while still being queryable like a dataset.
Connect to my Whoop data locally, build tools for HRV, strain, and recovery trends, then schedule a morning message on Telegram each day with yesterday’s key metrics and any anomalies.
Hermes Small bizHermes autonomously wrote "Job Scout" — searches job boards, scores listings against your CV, researches companies, tracks applications. It wrote and tested all the code.
A bespoke tool, coded by the agent on request — and a clean demo of Hermes building software.
Write a Job Scout skill: search LinkedIn and Indeed for roles matching my CV, score each listing, research the companies, and message me on Telegram with the top five matches each morning.
Hermes Small bizA "Meal Manager" plugin that tracks fridge inventory in natural language and scores suggestions by availability and recency — a clean pattern for any light inventory job. Needs the Meal Manager plugin installed first.
A reusable template for low-friction inventory the agent keeps in its head.
Here’s what’s in my fridge: [list]. Suggest three dinners ranked by ingredient availability and how long each item has been sitting.