Hermes Analyst Agent Upgrade: Outperforms Junior Analysts for Pennies per Run
0xJeff · x · 2026-08-03
The author shares updates to their Hermes Analyst agent workflow, noting that the agent now costs less than a coffee per run while outperforming junior analysts paid $70k/year.
The thread details why a specific frontier model was chosen as the new default, and how external memory optimizations slash inference costs by 70-90%. It also covers an onchain forensic upgrade via Arkham integration to maximize the agent's automated research capabilities.
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