Hermes
Our Hermes Agent, running on the Studio: a local model, a vault of notes as memory, and a day of loops around it.
Hermes Agent is an open-source agent; this is our install of it. It runs on the Studio Mac on a local model served through MLX (Qwen 3.5, 122B, about 54 GB in memory), so the everyday work never leaves the room. Claude is called only for escalation.
Its memory is the vault: a folder of plain Markdown under git. Hermes reads it, proposes changes to it in Discord, and only an approved reaction writes anything back. It never edits its own configuration, and it never adds a link to the vault on its own. Those two rules came from two incidents.
Around it runs a set of scheduled loops. They are the staff: each one names what it earns, posts a receipt, and gets retired if it stops earning. The flow below is one business day.
- Status
- Live since June 2026
- Runs
- On the Studio, locally
- Model
- Qwen 3.5 122B via MLX
- Interface
- Discord
- Loops
- A day of scheduled jobs
One day, as it runs
What happens, and when- Night
Backups
The vault and the working repos mirror to the NAS. A verifier checks the stamps before dawn and alerts if a night was skipped.
- Night
Nightly reconcile
Reads the day's notes against the vault's index and proposes what changed. Proposals only; nothing self-applies.
- Before dawn
Pull requests
Babysits open PRs across the repos and reports what is waiting on a human.
- Dawn
The morning brief
Orientation, drift, inbox routing, decisions, tasks. Each item lands in its own channel so it can be answered with one reaction.
- Morning
Forge
Mines yesterday's ledger and drafts the day's content package. A reaction schedules it; a no trains the next draft.
- Morning
Site and command center data
Exports the vault's reality to the site and the private dashboard, so what you read here is what the loops read.
- All day
Health
Edge-triggered down and up alerts, plus one honest daily report. If the model or the gateway stalls, the phone knows.
- Hourly
Vault autosave
Commits the vault so every change, human or model, has history and an undo.
- Evening
Repo hygiene
Anything uncommitted, unpushed, or without a remote gets named. GitHub is the truth; the nag runs until it is clean.
- Weekly
Review and sweep
A drafted weekly review, and a credential-pattern sweep of every working tree that reports locations only, never values.
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