Run a 24/7 agent for email, forms and calendar tasks
What the Hermes Agent community is actually building. Task: What the Hermes Agent community is actually building. Every tile below links to a real post, issue, video, or gist where someone describes how they use Hermes — scraped from X, GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, blogs, and podcasts. Hermes built a local safety system with panic buttons for his 89-year-old grandfather “my @NousResearch Hermes Agent installed @home_assistant on its MacMini then used a Zigbee radio USB to build my Grandfather a local home security system with tablet control, voice feedback, security, and wellness with panic buttons at bottom of stairs and bedroom. Hermes coded it all and even made a custom easy to read dashboard for him.” A GTM team builds verified contact lists from one Slack message, on one shared subscription “Our team built an AI agent that builds our entire TAM. … You type what you need in Slack & it comes back with verified contacts. … The VPS keeps it on 24/7 inside our Slack, so the whole team works off that single subscription. That saves us about $800 a month against a Codex seat per person. … Hermes has access to our GitHub repo, which holds a skill for every part of GTM we run.” A tech-policy publication runs Hermes agents for editorial suggestions and client proposals “Built mechanisms for Ed (MediaNama’s Hermes editorial assistant) to recommend speakers, guest authors and commentators for MediaNama events and stories … Created an Hermes agent led RTI agent on MediaNama OS … Added Hermes agent Ev for drafting first drafts of client proposals” A prospect phoned his Hermes agent about the proposal, and it closed the consulting deal “I set up @Vapi_AI with Hermes and a telephone number. I told the potential client to call if they were interested and then forgot about it. … It was fully aware of the SOW that had been proposed, and answered all questions related to the proposal. Everything from potential costs, deliverables, schedule, outcomes, etc. … I can't believe my agent closed the deal.” A business added a Hermes IT-support agent that now solves 90% of issues on its own “Integrated a bunch of slack Hermes agents for my business. … Ended up creating a hermes agent that does IT support. 90% of issues solved on its own now. Gave it a guidelines it needs to follow. works great” A solo founder split his startup across seven Hermes assistants, from growth to SRE “I was exhausted running my startup alone, so I built an AI team using Nous Research's Hermes Agent … my own FounderOS with not one but 7 assistants, each running a part of the business … Growth analyst: uses PostHog MCP, tracks traffic, signups, activation, trials, and conversion to find the real bottleneck. … SRE: connects to Better Stack to monitor app health and helps catch issues … Chief of Staff (Leo): connects to Linear MCP, manages and coordinates everything, turns data into daily decisions” Team agent implements customer requests and posts a narrated video demo for review “our team agent (elmo, built on hermes) does a lot within our company … when it sees a customer requests, implements it, and posts a video demo of it's work for review in the reviews channel … with my voice as the narrator” In the shop: photos plus spoken dimensions become a parametric CAD drawing and model “Built a photo-to-parametric drawing in CAD file workflow. Now I can just take photos and give critical dimension callouts verbally, and then a drawing and a model pop out … Using FreeCAD + Hermes agent … Game changer in the shop.” A Hermes project-manager agent orchestrates his fleet of coding and image-generation agents “my @NousResearch Hermes fleet of agents is humming along orchestrated by my Hermes Agent Gabriel who is our SMF Works Project Manager. I have agents coding on our Praxis and SMF Agent Swarm 2.0 projects, I have an agent grabbing and working on PRs for Hermes open source, I have another agent setting up and testing localized Image generation and editing” Built his own football manager game, with a local Hermes agent as assistant coach and scout “my @NousResearch Hermes agent can plug into the active game and take on various roles. DeepSeek V4 Flash, running as a local LLM on my two @NVIDIAAI DGX Spark units, serves as the "brain." … my Hermes agent, Ares, acts as my assistant coach, sporting director, and scout.” Hermes kept checking a sold-out 70mm IMAX run and found him two adjacent seats; tools: Hermes Agent. Human role: The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.; limitations: Prerequisites include API access to email, forms, and calendar services. The source is a community user-story page, so reliability varies by individual report. Human approval is mandatory for sending messages or booking events to prevent errors. Integration complexity depends on the specific email and calendar providers used..
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What the Hermes Agent community is actually building.
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What the Hermes Agent community is actually building. Every tile below links to a real post, issue, video, or gist where someone describes how they use Hermes — scraped from X, GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, blogs, and podcasts. Hermes built a local safety system with panic buttons for his 89-year-old grandfather “my @NousResearch Hermes Agent installed @home_assistant on its MacMini then used a Zigbee radio USB to build my Grandfather a local home security system with tablet control, voice feedback, security, and wellness with panic buttons at bottom of stairs and bedroom. Hermes coded it all and even made a custom easy to read dashboard for him.” A GTM team builds verified contact lists from one Slack message, on one shared subscription “Our team built an AI agent that builds our entire TAM. … You type what you need in Slack & it comes back with verified contacts. … The VPS keeps it on 24/7 inside our Slack, so the whole team works off that single subscription. That saves us about $800 a month against a Codex seat per person. … Hermes has access to our GitHub repo, which holds a skill for every part of GTM we run.” A tech-policy publication runs Hermes agents for editorial suggestions and client proposals “Built mechanisms for Ed (MediaNama’s Hermes editorial assistant) to recommend speakers, guest authors and commentators for MediaNama events and stories … Created an Hermes agent led RTI agent on MediaNama OS … Added Hermes agent Ev for drafting first drafts of client proposals” A prospect phoned his Hermes agent about the proposal, and it closed the consulting deal “I set up @Vapi_AI with Hermes and a telephone number. I told the potential client to call if they were interested and then forgot about it. … It was fully aware of the SOW that had been proposed, and answered all questions related to the proposal. Everything from potential costs, deliverables, schedule, outcomes, etc. … I can't believe my agent closed the deal.” A business added a Hermes IT-support agent that now solves 90% of issues on its own “Integrated a bunch of slack Hermes agents for my business. … Ended up creating a hermes agent that does IT support. 90% of issues solved on its own now. Gave it a guidelines it needs to follow. works great” A solo founder split his startup across seven Hermes assistants, from growth to SRE “I was exhausted running my startup alone, so I built an AI team using Nous Research's Hermes Agent … my own FounderOS with not one but 7 assistants, each running a part of the business … Growth analyst: uses PostHog MCP, tracks traffic, signups, activation, trials, and conversion to find the real bottleneck. … SRE: connects to Better Stack to monitor app health and helps catch issues … Chief of Staff (Leo): connects to Linear MCP, manages and coordinates everything, turns data into daily decisions” Team agent implements customer requests and posts a narrated video demo for review “our team agent (elmo, built on hermes) does a lot within our company … when it sees a customer requests, implements it, and posts a video demo of it's work for review in the reviews channel … with my voice as the narrator” In the shop: photos plus spoken dimensions become a parametric CAD drawing and model “Built a photo-to-parametric drawing in CAD file workflow. Now I can just take photos and give critical dimension callouts verbally, and then a drawing and a model pop out … Using FreeCAD + Hermes agent … Game changer in the shop.” A Hermes project-manager agent orchestrates his fleet of coding and image-generation agents “my @NousResearch Hermes fleet of agents is humming along orchestrated by my Hermes Agent Gabriel who is our SMF Works Project Manager. I have agents coding on our Praxis and SMF Agent Swarm 2.0 projects, I have an agent grabbing and working on PRs for Hermes open source, I have another agent setting up and testing localized Image generation and editing” Built his own football manager game, with a local Hermes agent as assistant coach and scout “my @NousResearch Hermes agent can plug into the active game and take on various roles. DeepSeek V4 Flash, running as a local LLM on my two @NVIDIAAI DGX Spark units, serves as the "brain." … my Hermes agent, Ares, acts as my assistant coach, sporting director, and scout.” Hermes kept checking a sold-out 70mm IMAX run and found him two adjacent seats
Reported result
Actual outcomes are not verified for this specific email/calendar workflow in the provided text. Evidence shows similar Hermes deployments resolved 90% of IT support issues and covered 80% of daily work for a solo IT department. Acceptance check: Measure the percentage of auto-drafted emails accepted without manual editing after a two-week pilot.
Human role
The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.
Limitations
Prerequisites include API access to email, forms, and calendar services. The source is a community user-story page, so reliability varies by individual report. Human approval is mandatory for sending messages or booking events to prevent errors. Integration complexity depends on the specific email and calendar providers used.
Try it
I want to set up a Hermes Agent to handle my email triage and calendar scheduling. My business context is [replaceable: e.g., a small consulting firm]. I will provide access to my [replaceable: e.g., Gmail] inbox and [replaceable: e.g., Google Calendar]. Please configure the agent to scan for new emails and form submissions, extract key details like dates and names, and draft replies or create calendar events. Crucially, do not send any emails or finalize bookings automatically. Instead, present a summary of proposed actions for my approval. Start with a dry run on the last 10 emails to demonstrate the extraction logic and draft quality. Show me the output format for approval. If the drafts are accurate, we will proceed to live monitoring. Handle missing information by asking me clarifying questions rather than guessing. Ensure the agent respects my working hours [replaceable: e.g., 9 AM to 5 PM] for scheduling.
Source reports are not independently verified. Publication date is the catalog publication date, not the original article date.