Hermes Agent use cases
30 real things people got Hermes Agent to do, each with what they asked, how it went, and the prompt to copy.
Automate SaaS bookkeeping and reconciliation in Zoho Books
Hermes Agent handled payables, bank import, bill posting and Stripe reconciliation alongside a human accountant, but needed 7 corrections including a tax-amount bug.
Automate simple Discord tasks and tutoring with Hermes
A commenter uses Hermes Agent as a personal tutor and to automate simple tasks on Discord.
Build a personal assistant for email, briefings and planning
Marc Bara added 50+ capabilities to Hermes Agent over 15 days, including email triage, briefings, calendar planning and an MCP link to his invoice system.
Configure a local AI lab and build a knowledge graph by chat
Users had Hermes Agent set up a local AI stack (liteLLM, Postgres, Prometheus, Grafana) and install Gbrain as an MCP server to build a personal knowledge graph.
Control the home by voice with a local AI
A user set up local AI with voice commands for a home assistant that handles groceries, lights, AC and garden moisture monitoring.
Create a full music video with lyrics, music and visuals
Alex C. had Hermes Agent write lyrics, produce music stems, generate visuals and add audio effects to make a music video on its own.
Debloat an Android TV
Rakesh Prakash asked his Hermes agent to debloat his Android TV and it completed the task successfully.
Find and qualify sales leads against ICP
Hermes Agent searches and compares company and people context, judges leads on ICP, role fit and timing, and explains why each qualified to feed outreach.
Find local businesses without websites as leads
Hermes spawned sub-agents per area to scrape Northwest London plumbers lacking websites, filtered them, and returned three qualified leads with pitch angles.
Find stale commercial listings and email brokers
A Hermes bot scrapes lease listings, filters by days on market and zoning, calculates commissions and emails brokers.
Fix app bugs, harden security and ship fixes autonomously
Omar used Hermes Agent to fix priority bugs in his health app while at work, isolate browser logins, design an infographic banner, and ship production fixes with verified health checks.
Flag documentation drift from merged PRs weekly
A weekly Hermes cron job checks merged PRs for changes to tool schemas, CLI commands, config options or env variables to flag docs needing updates.
Generate illustrations in a learned visual style
A designer Hermes profile learns a style from reference designs, writes a skill for it, then crafts prompts and generates and saves images via Nano Banana.
Give an agent a phone number to make and answer calls
David Ondrej gave his Hermes Agent a phone number so it makes and answers calls and runs tasks while he sleeps.
Grow an email list with agent-run cold outreach
Drew Carr used Hermes agents for daily cold outreach and community comments, with email verification and LLM fit checks, reaching 1,000 subscribers in about 80 days.
Guide a music video project from concept to deliverables
A Hermes agent walks a creator through an 8-step workflow producing lyrics, Suno prompts, image and video prompts, and YouTube metadata.
Monitor Resy and book date night tables
Brian built a Hermes agent that watches Resy for openings at favorite NYC restaurants and books tables, but it had no rate limits and got his account suspended.
Order groceries online with a local LLM skill
The author built a grocery skill for a local Qwen 3.6 27B model that knows their fridge contents, past orders and real-time stock, and it ordered products for them online.
Plan business trips and learn from each debrief
A demo travel-ops agent searched flights and hotels, applied stored preferences and produced one recommendation pending approval, then updated its memory; nothing was booked.
Produce a short-form video from research to captions
Hermes Agent researched a JWST topic, wrote the script, generated assets, built Remotion motion graphics, added voiceover, music and captions for a vertical video.
Refactor a million-line repo with 1,393 subagents
A Nous Research developer had Hermes dispatch 1,393 subagents over about 19 hours to clean up its own repo, cutting non-test Python source by 34.4% in a merged PR.
Review GitHub pull requests for bugs and security
A Hermes tutorial reads a PR diff and returns a structured review of bugs, security and code quality, then turns it into a skill that watches repos and sends summaries.
Run a 24/7 agent for email, forms and calendar tasks
Users run Hermes on a mini PC for email, browsing, form filling and cron jobs, and one has it manage Obsidian tasks against Apple Calendar with Telegram/Signal reminders.
Run a shared team agent for calls, approvals and tasks
Nikki set up a shared Hermes Agent for a startup team that pulls call context, handles approvals and creates tasks using shared Obsidian knowledge.
Run a weekly competitive-monitoring briefing for product management
A product manager had Hermes produce a weekly competitor briefing; its skill rewrote itself four times and by week six surfaced patterns he had missed manually.
Run agents that work Jira tickets, review PRs and send updates
Luke runs several Hermes agents that read Jira tickets, write code, review PRs, track costs, summarize docs and send updates.
Run an offline car assistant on a Raspberry Pi
A local Qwen model on a Pi reads car OBD data and the manual to answer car questions, controls AC and locks via cloud, and alerts other agents to a breakdown so they can look up train tickets.
Set up a home chat server and manage accounts from your phone
A Hermes agent running on a local Qwen model set up an Open WebUI server and handled account management via phone, giving the author's teen their own account.
Summarize school emails for parents with Grok Bot
A Grok bot reads kids' school emails nightly and reports what to pack, wear, sign or pay for, flagging deadlines and sign-ups.
Turn voice notes into structured Obsidian notes
Voice notes sent over Telegram become Obsidian thought notes with transcript, cleaned argument, linked context and a draft; Hermes also tracks recipes.