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Hermes Agent — Real-World Use Cases

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Practical workflows, community projects, and deployment guides for Hermes Agent.

Browse by the result you want, then open a page for requirements, setup, prompts, and sources. Public evidence and execution testing are different: each page states its validation limits.

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Six entry points, from everyday automation to specialist tools. These are featured examples, not a difficulty ranking.

Use case What you get Format
Daily briefing Scheduled topic research delivered as a morning summary to your messaging app. Local demo
Team Telegram assistant A shared team bot with per-user sessions and optional Docker terminal isolation. Local demo
Obsidian second brain Persistent research notes, daily dashboards, and connected knowledge in an Obsidian vault. Guide
Receipt → structured JSON Vendor, total, currency, and tag fields extracted from receipt text or images. Plugin
SEO audits and content briefs Technical audits, structured-data checks, local-search analysis, and content briefs. Plugin
Reverse engineering with REA Evidence-based inspection of binaries, packages, firmware, and native crash dumps. Plugin

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Configure and extend Hermes

Formats: Local demo includes a starter in this repo; Plugin, Skill, and Project link to an implementation; Guide provides a runbook or configuration; Case study describes a deployment that may include private components; Walkthrough includes planning examples.

A format label describes what is available. It does not mean we ran or audited the integration.

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Business & Administration

Use case What you get Format
Box renewal briefs Cited customer-renewal briefs from approved Box Hub documents. Guide
ERP and accounting Invoices, inventory, payroll, and double-entry books through deterministic skill actions. Skill
First-dollar business guidance Evidence-labeled business ideas and a bounded next action from your profile. Skill
Lead research → YouTrack Prospect research organized into company briefs and prioritized YouTrack tickets. Case study
Printing-factory task memory Retrieval of previous tasks and decisions during daily factory operations. Case study
Receipt → structured JSON Vendor, total, currency, and tag fields extracted from receipt text or images. Plugin
Lead → estimate → payment A service-job pipeline covering qualification, estimates, reviewed payments, email, and CRM updates. Skill
Team Telegram assistant A shared team bot with per-user sessions and optional Docker terminal isolation. Local demo
Teams meeting → action pipeline Meeting transcripts turned into durable summaries in Teams, Notion, or Linear. Guide
Feishu and WeCom assistants Always-on enterprise chat assistants with platform-specific media and vision support. Case study

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Coding & Engineering

Use case What you get Format
Scheduled PR review Periodic pull-request review and digests without a public webhook endpoint. Guide
Webhook PR review Pull-request reviews triggered by signed GitHub webhook events. Guide
Production development workflow A field report on long coding sessions, delegation, and persistent project context. Case study
Local model quantization A documented workflow to quantize, benchmark, and publish models for Apple Silicon. Guide
Large-spec retrieval Citable retrieval from large specifications and firmware symbols for implementation work. Skill
Function-calling patterns Examples of tool registration, structured output, and recursive multi-step planning. Project
Reverse engineering with REA Evidence-based inspection of binaries, packages, firmware, and native crash dumps. Plugin
Feature planning with sub-agents A planning-to-issues workflow with example artifacts and delegated implementation steps. Walkthrough

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Content & Marketing

Use case What you get Format
SEO audits and content briefs Technical audits, structured-data checks, local-search analysis, and content briefs. Plugin
X social automation Search, account reads, trend monitoring, and operator-approved social actions. Plugin
Email marketing with Sequenzy Lifecycle campaign drafts, subscriber workflows, test sends, and email reporting. Skill
Autonovel: House of Bells A published example of a novel, artwork, audiobook, and website production pipeline. Project
Screen recording → tutorial video A documented recording-to-script-to-avatar-video workflow with reusable preferences. Case study
ComfyUI orchestration Node-based image and video generation workflows launched and managed through Hermes. Guide
HTML → MP4 video Designed HTML compositions rendered into narrated, animated video files. Guide
Translation with back-checks Translation, classification, and heuristic back-translation checks through an async plugin. Plugin

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Personal Productivity

Use case What you get Format
Daily briefing Scheduled topic research delivered as a morning summary to your messaging app. Local demo
Inbox → Slack digest A scheduled inbox summary grouped into messages needing replies and FYI items. Guide
Intent → artifacts Rough requests turned into runbooks, curated feeds, diagrams, and persistent notes. Case study
Nextcloud workspace assistant Conversational access to self-hosted files, notes, calendars, tasks, and contacts. Skill
Personal AI hub Health, social, inbox, and calendar context brought into one Telegram workspace. Case study
Quantified-self Life OS Structured routine tracking with scheduled reflections and evidence-bounded correlation summaries. Project
Zero-token notifications Script-based change detection that calls the model only when there is a signal. Project

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Knowledge & Research

Use case What you get Format
Obsidian second brain Persistent research notes, daily dashboards, and connected knowledge in an Obsidian vault. Guide
Multi-platform social research A unified brief from Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, and prediction-market research. Skill
Weather-market research pattern A historical weather-feed and market-scoring account; primary source URL missing. Case study

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Home & Devices

Use case What you get Format
Home Assistant control Conversational entity lookup, state reads, and service calls for a smart home. Guide
Android device control Remote taps, swipes, screenshots, and screen reading from a Hermes conversation. Plugin
iPhone companion An iOS interface with voice, camera, widgets, and permissioned sensor context. Project

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Infrastructure & Security

Use case What you get Format
SRE incident commander Incident detection, diagnosis, reviewed remediation, verification, and operational learning. Skill
Network discovery → NetBox A daily discovery-to-inventory workflow with optional Proxmox configuration history. Case study
Authorized testing with Kali A scoped security-assessment workflow with approval gates and structured reports. Skill
OpenShell sandbox Hermes tools operating within external network, filesystem, syscall, and inference policies. Project
Stored-reply number masking Selected SSN and card-number formats masked in stored final replies. Plugin

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Configure and extend Hermes

Hosting & Model Providers

Use case What you get Format
Nous Portal gateway One authenticated gateway for model access and supported hosted tools. Guide
Local and proxy backends Hermes configured against a local inference server or compatible model proxy. Guide
Local model auto-detection Local-server probing that identifies the running model and configures its context window. Guide
Enterprise model gateways Model-provider configuration for Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and NVIDIA endpoints. Guide
China-region model endpoints Provider configuration for Moonshot, MiniMax, and z.ai model services. Guide
Coding subscriptions as backends Authentication patterns for supported Copilot, Codex, and Claude subscription backends. Guide
Headless daemon server A supervised Linux gateway with reboot-safe scheduling and dedicated service identity. Guide
Hermes on Fly.io A Fly Machine deployment with persistent agent state and volume snapshots. Guide
Hermes on Hugging Face Spaces A hosted dashboard and gateway with state synchronized to a private Dataset. Project
Browser Harness on Hostinger A VPS setup connecting Hermes skills to Browser Use's browser harness. Guide
Hardened Hetzner deployment A Terraform and Ansible deployment using rootless containers and Tailscale-only access. Project
Integrated self-hosted stack A tiered Docker stack for inference, search, memory, automation, and monitoring. Project
Declarative Kubernetes fleet Agent configuration, skills, schedules, and storage reconciled from Kubernetes resources. Project
Razorpay employee-agent fleet A production account of isolated employee agents with controlled, attributable network access. Case study

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Interfaces & Integrations

Use case What you get Format
Browser and admin interfaces A comparison of official and community browser interfaces for agent operations. Guide
Open WebUI frontend A browser chat interface connected to the Hermes API server. Local demo
Terminal operator console Keyboard-driven access to sessions, skills, schedules, logs, and configuration. Project
VS Code workspace stream Streaming chat, tool output, editor context, and persistent sessions inside VS Code. Project
Voice assistant workflows CLI microphone conversations, messaging voice notes, and Discord voice interactions. Guide
Continuous live voice Interruptible voice sessions with durable background tasks and reconnect completion notices. Plugin
Hermes MCP conversation bridge Conversation history, message events, gateway sending, and opt-in tools for MCP clients. Plugin

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Orchestration & Agent Memory

Use case What you get Format
Browser demonstration → skill A recorded browser demonstration converted into a replayable Hermes skill. Plugin
Native A2A collaboration Cross-framework agent discovery and delegation, or Hermes exposed as an authenticated service. Guide
Kanban agent swarm A chat request turned into persistent worker, verifier, and synthesizer tasks. Guide
Paperclip managed employee Hermes workers coordinated through tasks, checkpoints, and persistent sessions. Project
Competing AI companies Two Paperclip teams compared on shared tasks, execution evidence, and skill transfer. Project
Deterministic workflow delegation Repeatable jobs moved into checked workflow files with budgets and execution traces. Skill
Project-scoped agents Project-specific identity, configuration, skills, sessions, and memory through Ankh.md. Project
Dynamic Skill Dojo Session-driven skill reviews, proposed patches, and optional self-evolution runs. Skill
Skill self-evolution An evaluation-driven loop for optimizing skills, prompts, and tool descriptions. Project
YantrikDB memory via MCP Persistent cognitive memory with vector, graph, temporal, and contradiction-aware retrieval. Project
Hermes Memory OS Layered session search, trusted facts, hybrid retrieval, extraction, and a self-curating wiki. Project
Zouroboros executor bridge An archived adapter pattern for running Hermes inside a multi-agent orchestrator. Project

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Observability & Evaluation

Use case What you get Format
Labyrinth observability Agent journeys reconstructed from prompts, tools, approvals, failures, and memory activity. Plugin
Deterministic record and replay Offline run replay and checkpoint forks for comparing execution across models. Project
Local API trace debugging Provider requests, tool payloads, streamed responses, and token usage in a local viewer. Project
ClawBench browser evaluation Isolated browser tasks with interception-based scoring and multi-layer execution traces. Project
RL training and benchmarks Agent trajectory generation, benchmark evaluation, and reinforcement-learning environment patterns. Guide

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Install Hermes

Choose a workflow first, then follow its setup. For a new Hermes installation:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
hermes setup

Demos and walkthroughs

Three starter demos are included in this repo. They require their own provider and platform configuration:

Starter What it demonstrates
Daily Briefing Scheduled research and Telegram delivery
Open WebUI Hermes API server with a browser frontend
Team Telegram Shared messaging gateway and Docker terminal backend

The Matt Pocock skills walkthrough contains sample plans, PRDs, and issue breakdowns. It is a planning example, rather than a fourth executable starter.

Evidence and contributing

New entries need a primary public source: official docs, a companion repository, a deployment issue, or a first-person account. Social posts alone belong in the research backlog. Historical evidence gaps are called out in page summaries.

Automated verification checks source availability and repository engagement. Those checks do not establish that a workflow works end to end. No integrations were executed during this catalog redesign.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the page template and evidence rules. The catalog data keeps categories, summaries, and counts in sync:

python scripts/render-catalog.py
python scripts/render-catalog.py --check

Run the source checker for a new or substantively changed workflow:

python scripts/verify-usecase.py --usecase usecases/my-topic.md --check all

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.

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