Flows
Real Hermes agent workflows shared by the people building with them — full architectures, token economics, and orchestration patterns you can learn from and adapt. Search, filter, and dive in.
39 flows
Hermes Mixture of Agents: Stop Burning Fable 5 Credits on the Wrong Work
Fable 5 is brilliant but limited — and using it as your default model drains credits fast. With the Judgment update, Hermes MoA lets you assign roles: cheap models for the messy first pass, a strong model for critique, Fable 5 only where judgment earns its cost, and an aggregator that pulls it together.
Hermes Agent + Grok 4.5: Build an Automated X Content Machine
A full setup guide for a 24/7 content pipeline: Grok 4.5 monitors X's live firehose, drafts posts in your voice from a SOUL.md, routes them through Telegram for one-tap approval, and publishes with xurl — with model routing, cron scheduling, media handling, and cost breakdowns.
20 Hermes Agent Workflows You'll Want to Steal Immediately
Twenty out-of-the-box Hermes Agent workflows worth building, stealing, or remixing — from research murder boards and competitor autopsies to release managers, RSS filters, and a Blender scene renderer. The point isn't the model, it's the operating layer around it.
I Made My Hermes Agent 10x Faster Without Changing the Model
An agent doesn't navigate folders the way you do. This flow shows how a single INDEX.md map at the root of each major folder, one-concern-per-folder, and numbered names cut slow vault searches from two minutes to under thirty seconds — no model change required.
How I Deploy a Hermes Agent on a Blank VPS in 2 Minutes
A walkthrough of hermes-bootstrap — an open-source CLI + Web UI that takes a fresh, unconfigured VPS from zero to a hardened, production-ready Hermes Agent in one guided deploy: swap, Docker, SSH hardening, UFW, Fail2Ban, Telegram alerts, and the agent itself, with automatic rollback on failure.
How to Become a Hermes Agent Operator
Learn how to operate and master Hermes Agent: set up the agent control room template, configure specialist agents, and grow from one agent to a whole marketing company running on a single VPS you control from your phone.
Hermes Agent Masterclass
Everything you need to understand and customize Hermes Agent — self-evolving skills, three-tier memory, GEPA optimization, and going from 1 to 10 specialized agents that work for you 24/7.
The DeepThink Skill: Making Hermes Slow Down Before Expensive Decisions
A reusable Hermes skill for decisions that are too expensive to wing: architecture choices, launch strategy, debugging, pricing, product direction, and any task where a fast answer could create expensive downstream damage.
Give Hermes Agent a Voice with ElevenLabs
Hermes Agent ships with no voice by default. This guide adds one with ElevenLabs — Text to Speech for its replies and Speech to Text (Scribe) for transcribing what you say — both as simple provider config in Hermes.
Hermes Flightplan #1: The Ultimate Zero to Always-On Telegram AI Agent
A complete, copy-paste path to a Hermes Agent you message from your phone over Telegram — one that keeps running after you close the laptop and comes back on its own after a crash or reboot. Written from two real builds: a cheap Hetzner VPS and a Mac Mini M4. One route, with the box only changing two things: the install command and the layer that keeps the gateway alive. Verified against Hermes Agent v0.16.0.
How to Set Up an AI Agent That Runs a Clipping Channel (Hermes Desktop + Clipit, No Code)
The literal no-code stack for an agent-run clipping channel: one open-source agent (Hermes Desktop) and one clipping engine (Clipit). You feed it a stream VOD, it returns scored and captioned clips, picks the best ones, writes titles, queues posts, and messages you for approval before anything goes live. No terminal required.
Nobody Talks About the Hermes Dashboard. I Open It Every Day. Here's Why.
Discover the power of the Hermes dashboard as a daily operating surface. The community obsesses over SOUL.md and overnight loops, but the unglamorous browser tab at localhost:9119 is where you actually keep a 24/7 agent healthy — Sessions, MCP, Skills, Cron, Analytics, Logs, and System.
My Hermes & Obsidian Setup and Use Cases
A deep dive into many personal workflows and use cases documented here — collecting business ideas, a content engine, a personal fitness coach, recipes, agent payments, plus the principles, hardware, software, and security tips behind the whole setup.
The 15 Levels of Hermes Agent Usage
A complete roadmap of Hermes Agent mastery, from your first one-shot prompt to a multi-profile system that runs your business without you. 15 levels across three phases — foundation, leverage, and autonomy — each with what it unlocks, how to set it up, and the mistake that trips people up. Plus the token economics that keep it affordable. Verified against Hermes Agent v0.17.0.
Hermes Agent SOUL.md: Why 50 Lines Matter More Than Your Model
A complete guide to SOUL.md — where it sits in the prompt stack, what belongs in it, token economics, advanced role templates, /personality overlays, profiles, and the iterative method for growing an effective agent identity.
I'm Not Sharing My SOUL.md. I'm Sharing Something More Useful.
Why a SOUL.md is an operating contract, not a personality hack — plus a sanitized, copy-paste template you can adapt to make your Hermes Agent behave like an operator instead of a chatbot.
How we used four AI agents to turn Jira tickets into reviewed PRs for about $12 each
An event-driven engineering workflow where four specialized Hermes agents handle ticket intake, coding, review, and CI — while humans keep merge authority. Routine tickets go from intake to reviewed PR in about four hours for roughly $12 in AI spend.
How to Become a Hermes Agent Operator
Go from a single Hermes install to a control room orchestrating a team of specialist agents on one cheap VPS. Covers install, memory and SOUL.md, the orchestrator pattern, messaging surfaces, cron, and the operator mindset that makes it all compound.
Hidden Features in Hermes You Should Know About
A community-sourced collection of lesser-known Hermes Agent commands and behaviors — cross-platform /handoff, session resume, context compression levers, local browser via CDP, the REST API, the native desktop app, /steer mid-task, and delegating to Claude Code.
How to Make Hermes + xurl Actually Work as a System
xurl gives your Hermes agent direct access to X — searching, reading, and publishing. On its own it's just an execution tool. Paired with /goal, research, and memory, it becomes a structured, repeatable content system.
Hermes + Polymarket: A Self-Learning Up/Down Trading Agent
A step-by-step guide to building a self-learning Hermes agent that trades Polymarket 5-minute up/down crypto markets — VPS setup, Telegram control, CLOB v2 execution, and a self-improving loop that adjusts probability estimates from live results.
Hermes + Grok: Three New Superpowers That Change the Workflow
If you already pay for X Premium, you already have Grok. Connect it to Hermes with one OAuth login — no API key — and the agent reads X for you, runs browser tasks, and executes multi-skill playbooks from a single slash command. A tour of X Search, Browse.sh, and Skill Bundles.
Hermes /goal — The Full Guide
A complete guide to Hermes' /goal command — what it does, every subcommand, how to write strong measurable goals, the recommended workflow, best practices, and ready-to-use example prompts.
Hermes Agent FULL GUIDE: Architecture, Setup, and the Self-Improving Loop
A complete walkthrough of how Hermes is put together — installation, model routing, terminal backends, messaging, context and memory engines — and how its self-improving loop turns conversations into permanent upgrades.
Introducing Hermes Dreaming: Reviewable Self-Improvement for Hermes Agent
Hermes Dreaming is a staged, artifact-first self-improvement engine for Hermes Agent. It proposes changes as reviewable artifacts you can diff, validate, apply, or discard — turning self-improvement into a receipt trail instead of silent mutation.
Hermes Desktop: a full tour of the native GUI for Hermes Agent
A hands-on walkthrough of Hermes Desktop — the native Electron app that wraps the full Hermes Agent runtime. Same config, keys, sessions, skills, and memory as the CLI and TUI, with a real settings UI, live tool output, a file browser, voice mode, and remote-backend support.
Hermes Agent: The Complete Guide — From Zero to Self-Improving AI Employee
An end-to-end guide to running Hermes Agent 24/7: installation, model selection, messaging, the dashboard most people use wrong, use cases, the self-improvement loop, and security.
Hermes x Bitwarden: The Security Stack AI Agents Actually Need
How Hermes Agent ships credential management (Bitwarden Secrets Manager) and credential protection (iron-proxy egress firewall) as composable, first-class infrastructure — not README advice.
Hermes Agent as a Personal AI Operating System
A layer-by-layer analysis of Hermes mapped to operating-system concepts — memory, profiles, Kanban, cron, /goal, skills, the Curator, Tool Search, the Gateway, voice, and security — plus the compounding effect, token economics, and how it compares to other frameworks.
Hermes Agent Builds Itself While You Sleep: The Complete Guide to the 9-Hour Overnight Workflow
A full hour-by-hour map of the autonomous overnight cycle — from session close and self-improvement to knowledge ingestion, the morning briefing, the infrastructure behind it, and the security layers that make unattended operation safe.
Grok + Hermes + Telegram: A Real-Time X Intelligence Stack
Pair Grok's native real-time X access with Hermes Agent's persistent scheduling and Telegram delivery to build a 24/7 intelligence agent that drafts a morning brief before you wake up — using your existing SuperGrok subscription.
How to Dominate Projects with the Hermes Agent Kanban Board
One agent is the wrong unit once work grows teeth. This field manual shows how to use Hermes Kanban — boards, tasks, claims, blocks, schedules, and receipts — to give long-running multi-agent work durable coordination that survives a dead shell.
Forget About Memory: Building a Context OS for Your Hermes Agent
Most AI memory is a sticky note. This flow breaks down an 11-layer context architecture for Hermes Agent — identity, facts, procedures, session archives, compression, and scheduled routines — and the distinctions that decide whether your agent actually remembers how you work.
The Complete Hermes Agent /goal Playbook
21 copy-paste /goal commands across 6 categories — research, lead gen, content, email, operations, and development — plus a Chief of Staff setup that runs your entire morning ops autonomously.
8 Loops Inside Hermes Agent (And Why They Compound)
A complete map of the eight loops Hermes Agent runs simultaneously — from the millisecond core loop to the weekly Curator — how they nest across timescales, and what breaks when any one of them fails.
Hermes + NotebookLM + Obsidian: Build a 3-Agent Research Department That Gets Smarter Every Day
A three-profile Hermes setup where Scout finds signals, Analyst synthesizes through NotebookLM, and Briefer delivers a morning brief — coordinated through a shared Obsidian vault. Roughly $19-27/month, one evening to set up.
The 170-Line SOUL.md That Made My Hermes Agent Dangerous
Why a single 170-line markdown file — not a secret model or magic framework — is what makes a Hermes Agent push back, hold you accountable, and act like an operator instead of a chatbot.
10 Real Hermes Agent Settings That Actually Matter
A no-nonsense rundown of the real Hermes configuration that moves the needle — identity, memory, profiles, cron, gateway, MCP, skills, context files, delegation, and plugins. Real config keys and commands only, no made-up env vars.
10 Hermes Agent Hacks That Turned My Chat Agent Into a 24/7 System
Ten domain-agnostic Hermes setups — mission control, event triggers, cron jobs, structured /goal, sub-agents, Telegram workspaces, Kanban, skills, webhooks, and separate agents — that turn a chat window into a system that runs while you sleep.