15 days, 50 capabilities: dev turns Hermes Agent into a personal operating layer
Teknium · x · 2026-09-13
Developer marcbara published a day-by-day build log of using NousResearch's Hermes Agent for 15 days, growing it from a chat interface into an "operating layer" spanning work, research and family life.
Highlights:
- 50+ capabilities added: email triage, daily briefings, calendar/task planning, meeting notes, research radars, coding workflows, local models, publishing and household logistics
- The key move: building a custom MCP server so Hermes directly operates his own system for tasks, projects, clients and invoices, instead of treating it as disconnected information
- The log documents real usage rather than a demo, showing how fast a personal agent stack can compound
More from coding & agent
- Element Forge: open-source editable AI VFX for real footage in ComfyUI — zitroffell · 2026-10-30
- Gym-Anything Adds Audit Agents That Try to Break Simulations With Legal Robot Actions — wellecks · 2026-10-30
- CMU's Gym-Anything Auto-Builds 200+ Agent Environments from Any Software, Selected by GDP — wellecks · 2026-10-30
- durable-object-migrator: zero-downtime exports for Cloudflare Durable Objects — samgoodwin89 · 2026-10-30
- This 5-question interview prompt makes Grok design your first two custom bots in minutes — nateliason · 2026-10-30
- Cursor and Harvey swap general models for task-specific brains, but most niches can't afford to — MartinGTobias · 2026-10-30