An always-on personal ops agent
“I want Hermes running 24/7, handling my inbox, calendar and daily errands without me prompting it”
This is the single most common thing people actually do with Hermes, and it is not one tool — it is a host that never sleeps, a memory that outlives the session, at least one real-world integration to act on, and a way to look in from your phone. Start with the host and memory; those two decide whether the rest is worth wiring. Add the calendar/task integration once the agent is stable, because that is the first place a hallucinated action has real consequences. Cron analytics comes last but comes early enough to catch the runaway schedule before the invoice does.
Real posts from the Hermes community, mirrored from Nous Research's user stories corpus.
An agent that grows with you — not marketing fluff; it literally writes markdown skill files when it solves hard problems. Natural-language cron: 'every weekday at 9am, summarize my inbox and post to Slack.'
I built a Raspberry Pi 5 to run Hermes on 24/7. it's my first time diving into trying a real AI agent and so far I'm enjoying it. Much better than open claw. The thing is, since Hermes is learning so much about me and my workflows and custom skills, I'd love…
Claude (Opus 4.7) handles my day-to-day chats: research, planning, working through problems. Hermes runs 24/7 on a mini PC and handles the real-world stuff: email, web browsing, form filling, calendar updates, cron jobs.
I've been running a 24/7 AI agent on a Mac Mini for 2 months. 18 cron jobs, 35 scripts, 6 custom skills, a structured context system that makes every session smarter than the last. Total cost: $21/month.
The real power of Hermes Agent is not what it does in a single session. It is what it does every single day without you prompting it. The first run of any workflow is the weakest version of it — after a month, briefings get sharper, shorter, more relevant…
- Scheduled runs are where cost quietly compounds — instrument before you scale up the cron count, not after.
- Giving an agent write access to a live calendar or task list is the first genuinely destructive capability in this stack. Run it read-only for a week first.