Awesome Hermes Agent Use Cases
A community collection of real-world Hermes Agent use cases — each one backed by public evidence.
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| Runnable demos included |
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| Primary source required |
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| Community-maintained |
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[!NOTE]
Evidence rule. Every use case here links to a primary source: an official Hermes doc, a Nous Research companion repo, a GitHub issue with deployment details, or a first-person blog post. If the only evidence is a tweet or "community build" marketing page, it lives in research/unverified.md instead — not in the catalog below.
Quick start
New to Hermes Agent? The fastest path:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
Then pick a use case below. The /demos folder has three runnable starters: Daily Briefing, Open WebUI, and Team Telegram.
Categories
Automation & Scheduling
| Name |
Description |
| Daily Briefing Bot |
A scheduled agent that researches topics every morning and delivers a summary to Telegram or Discord. The canonical "hello world" of Hermes automation. |
| Zero-Token Notifications |
Cron jobs that only wake the LLM when something actually changed — pre-filter with a Python script, only pay for tokens on meaningful signal. |
| Intent-to-Artifacts Workflow |
A personal workflow for turning rough prompts into runbooks, RSS curation, diagrams, and notes — delivered to Telegram + markdown files. |
| X Social Automation Toolset |
A native Hermes plugin for X/Twitter search, account reads, trend checks, and operator-approved actions through Xquik. |
| Sequenzy Email Marketing Agent |
Use Hermes with Sequenzy skills/CLI to draft lifecycle campaigns, manage subscriber workflows, send tests, and monitor email stats. |
Messaging & Team Bots
| Name |
Description |
| Team Telegram Assistant |
Always-on shared bot for a small team — coding, research, ops — with per-user sessions, Docker-isolated terminal, and an allowlist. The gateway also supports Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix, Email, SMS, and more; the Telegram flow is the cleanest starting point for any of them. |
| Enterprise Messaging (Feishu / WeCom) |
Production-style Hermes deployments on Chinese enterprise chat platforms — Feishu managed under launchd, WeCom with native media-and-vision analysis. |
| Voice Assistant Workflows |
Three modes: CLI mic loop, voice notes in Telegram/Discord, and a Discord voice-channel bot. Same agent, same memory, voice-only I/O. |
Coding & Developer Workflows
| Name |
Description |
| GitHub PR Review (cron) |
Periodic PR review without opening a webhook endpoint. Authenticated gh, a review skill, and a cron job. |
| GitHub PR Review (webhook) |
Real-time PR comments via a signed GitHub webhook. End-to-end event-driven code review. |
| Production Software-Dev Workflow |
A field report of daily production development on Hermes — long sessions, delegation, memory, one 12-hour run with ~2.6M replay tokens. |
| Local Model Quantization with TurboQuant |
Optimize MLX models (Qwen3.5-9B) for local Apple Silicon inference using domain-specific skills — apply, benchmark, document, publish. |
| Hermes VS Code Workspace Stream |
A VS Code sidebar over Hermes ACP for streaming chat, tool output, editor context, attached files, model switching, and persistent workspace sessions. |
Frontends & UIs
| Name |
Description |
| Open WebUI Frontend |
Point Open WebUI at the Hermes API server to get a full browser chat frontend for the agent, with session continuity. |
| TUI Operator Console |
Keyboard-first terminal HUD for managing your agent — live sessions, skills toggle, cron, logs, config editing, multiple themes. |
Home & Device Control
| Name |
Description |
| Home Assistant Control |
Conversational control of a smart home via four built-in HA tools — list entities, read state, call services. |
| Android Device Control |
Remote phone control from a Hermes chat — 36 android_* tools for taps, swipes, screenshots, and screen reading via a relay app. |
| Hermes iOS Native Engine |
A self-hosted iPhone companion with relay, connector, MCP sensor tools, voice, camera attachments, widgets, location, activity, and HealthKit context. |
Content & Creative Pipelines
| Name |
Description |
| Autonovel — House of Bells |
End-to-end autonomous novel, art, and audiobook production. Nous Research's own pipeline shipped a 19-chapter, 79,456-word book with an audiobook and a website. |
| Printing-Factory Task Memory |
A custom skill that fixes long-context slowness and forgetting during daily factory operations. Local JSON index with sub-second retrieval. |
| Screen Recording → Tutorial Video |
Feed Hermes a raw screen recording and get a finished tutorial video on HeyGen with your AI avatar — script generation, video production, and memory of preferences for repeat work. |
| ComfyUI Workflow Orchestration |
Install, launch, and run ComfyUI node-based media generation workflows on demand — from Stable Diffusion to video pipelines, with automatic custom-node installation and deterministic output management. |
| AI Video Generation: HTML-to-MP4 |
Hermes writes designed HTML compositions (via Open Design), then renders to MP4 via HyperFrames — GSAP animations, shader transitions, TTS narration, all code-driven with no timeline editor. |
Orchestration & Multi-Agent
| Name |
Description |
| Paperclip Managed Employee |
Hermes running as a worker inside Nous Research's Paperclip task-orchestration system, with persistent sessions and checkpoints. |
| Self-Evolution |
A GEPA + DSPy loop that optimizes your Hermes skills, prompts, and tool text, producing PR-ready improvements for a few dollars per run. |
| Zouroboros Swarm Bridge |
Hermes as one of four interchangeable executors (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Hermes) inside a third-party multi-agent orchestrator. Bash-bridge adapter pattern with shared identity. |
| Matt Pocock Skills + Sub-Agents |
Use Matt Pocock's open-source skills (/grill-me, /to-prd, /to-issues) for planning and scoping, then Hermes sub-agents for parallel implementation of vertical-sliced issues — with HITL gates to stop AI slop before it ships. |
| Dynamic Skill Dojo |
A monitoring and improvement loop that reads session history, ranks weak skills, proposes patches or new skills, invokes self-evolution, and reports learning progress. |
Memory & Context
| Name |
Description |
| YantrikDB Cognitive Memory (via MCP) |
Replace or augment native memory with a dedicated cognitive DB — vector + knowledge graph + temporal decay + contradiction detection. Integrates over MCP, so no Hermes plugin needed. |
| Obsidian Vault as a Second Brain |
Wire Hermes into an Obsidian vault for persistent knowledge — read notes, create daily dashboards, cross-reference tags, maintain a self-improving personal knowledge base. |
Observability & Operations
| Name |
Description |
| Hermes Labyrinth Observability |
A read-only dashboard plugin that turns prompts, tool calls, failures, approvals, model switches, cron runs, and memory hits into auditable agent journeys. |
Security & Assurance
| Name |
Description |
| Autonomous Penetration Testing with Kali |
A Kali-backed Hermes skill for authorized security assessments with scope confirmation, playbooks, zero-findings fallback, approval gates, and structured reports. |
Finance & Trading
| Name |
Description |
| Weather Trading on Polymarket |
Autonomous weather prediction-market trading — Kelly Criterion position sizing, EV scoring against market odds, self-calibrating with real traders reporting $300→$123K in 3 months on a $5 VPS. |
Deployment Patterns
| Name |
Description |
| Hermes on Fly.io |
Official Fly-apps deployment guide — run Hermes as a Fly Machine with a volume-backed /opt/data, daily snapshots, and ~$15/month baseline. |
| Local & Proxy Model Backends |
Run Hermes against Ollama, vLLM, oMLX, or a custom OpenAI-compatible proxy — for cost control, data locality, or model choice beyond the defaults. |
| Local Model Auto-Detection |
Hermes probes your local inference server, identifies the running model, detects context window, and auto-configures — eliminates first-setup friction for Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, and vLLM. |
| Headless Daemon Server |
A self-managed Linux VPS pattern that runs Hermes gateway and native cron under systemd with a dedicated service user and reboot-safe scheduling. |
Research & Training
| Name |
Description |
| Multi-Platform Social Media Research |
Run a single query across Reddit, X/Twitter, YouTube, Hacker News, and Polymarket via a single Python engine. Firefox-cookie auth for X, no API key needed on WSL. Delivered as a unified markdown brief to Telegram or local storage. |
| RL Training & Benchmarks |
Use Hermes environments to train and evaluate tool-calling models. The TBLite benchmark covers 100 tasks with strong correlation to TB2. |
| Browser & Admin UIs |
The official web dashboard plus community UIs — browser access to sessions, files, cron, and control plane. |
Runnable demos
Three starter demos live in /demos. Each has a README.md, a .env.example, and a one-command setup:
- daily-briefing — cron + web search + Telegram delivery
- matt-pocock-skills — planning pipeline (
/grill-with-docs → /to-issues) + verification script demo
- openwebui — Hermes API server + Open WebUI via Docker Compose
- team-telegram — gateway + Telegram + Docker terminal backend
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md. The short version: one primary source minimum — official docs, a Nous companion repo, a GitHub issue with real deployment detail, or a first-person blog post. X posts and "community build" marketing pages don't count as primary evidence.
For Contributors
Every PR that touches usecases/*.md triggers automated verification. Learn how it works and how to pass it:
- docs/verification-criteria.md — how scoring works, what's green vs yellow vs red, and how to run the script locally before submitting
python scripts/verify-usecase.py --usecase usecases/my-topic.md --check all — generate your own verification report
Please only submit use cases you have personally run (at least once) or that you can trace to a primary public source. No crypto use cases.
License
MIT for code and configs. Docs and diagrams under CC BY 4.0.
Acknowledgements
Catalog format inspired by awesome-openclaw-usecases. Hermes Agent is built by Nous Research.
