Hermes Agent Use Cases

1. Daily Morning Briefing

Difficulty: Beginner  |  Setup time: 10 minutes  |  Time saved: 20–30 min/day

Instead of opening five tabs every morning to catch up, Hermes sends you a single digest before you start work — curated to exactly what you care about.

Set it up

In Telegram, send:

Every weekday at 8am, send me a briefing that includes:
1. The top 3 AI news stories from the last 24 hours
2. Any major product releases or announcements from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google
3. One interesting piece of content I might have missed

Keep it short — bullets, no fluff. Send to my home channel.

Hermes will confirm the schedule, the delivery channel, and the format. If you want to adjust the topics, time, or format later, just tell it.

Save it as a skill

After the first successful briefing, ask: "Save the research approach you used for that briefing as a skill called morning-briefing." Now the job uses a documented, reproducible workflow every day.

2. Weekly Research Digest

Difficulty: Beginner  |  Setup time: 15 minutes  |  Time saved: 1–2 hours/week

A weekly deep-dive on a topic you care about. Instead of a short daily scan, this is a thorough Monday-morning report that gives you strategic context for the week.

Set it up

Every Monday at 9am, research the top 3 trends in AI automation
for small business. For each trend, include:
- What it is in one sentence
- Why it matters to business owners
- One real example of it in use
- My quick take (2 sentences max)

Use the youtube-video-research skill if you've already created it,
otherwise do the research from scratch. Send to my home channel.

Model recommendation

Research digests are worth using a better model. To set a per-job model override:

Change the weekly research job to use Claude Sonnet class.
Keep my default chat model as is.

3. Content Planning Pipeline

Difficulty: Intermediate  |  Setup time: 30 minutes  |  Time saved: 2–3 hours/week

If you publish content — YouTube, a newsletter, a blog — Hermes can handle the research and ideation layer so you show up to write with a brief in hand instead of a blank page.

Step 1: Create the research skill

Give Hermes a real task first:

Research what topics are trending right now in the AI automation space
for small business owners. Find the top 3 topics that have high interest
but aren't yet saturated with beginner-level content. For each topic,
include search interest signals, what the gap is, and a proposed
video or article angle I could cover.

When you're done, save your research approach as a skill called
content-research.

Step 2: Schedule it weekly

Every Sunday at 6pm, run the content-research skill and send me
a content brief for the coming week. Include 3 topic options ranked
by opportunity size. Send to my home channel.

Step 3: Let it draft outlines

Once you pick a topic from the brief, follow up:

I'm going with option 2 from this week's brief. Draft a 5-point
outline for a 10-minute YouTube video on that topic. Include
a hook, the 3 main teaching points, and a strong CTA.

4. Competitor Monitoring

Difficulty: Intermediate  |  Setup time: 20 minutes  |  Time saved: 1–2 hours/week

Know what your competitors published before your Monday planning session starts.

Every Monday at 7am, check what content the following channels
published in the last 7 days:
[list your 3–5 competitors]

For each one, summarize their top post or video in 2 sentences.
Flag anything that got unusually high engagement. Send to my home channel.

5. Personal Task Router

Difficulty: Beginner  |  Setup time: 5 minutes  |  Time saved: Ongoing throughout the day

This is the most common first use case. You message Hermes from Telegram with whatever you need, the same way you'd text an assistant. No scheduling required.

Common tasks people use it for daily:

• "Draft a follow-up email to [person] about [topic]. Keep it under 100 words."
• "Summarize this article for me and pull out the 3 most actionable points." (paste the article)
• "I have a meeting with [person] in 30 minutes. Remind me what we last discussed and what I said I'd follow up on."
• "Write a rough outline for a proposal on [topic]. I'll clean it up."
• "What's 20% of 847 and round it to the nearest dollar?" (yes, even quick calculations)

Because Hermes remembers context, you don't have to re-explain your business, your preferences, or your writing style on every request. You set those in memory once:

Remember: I run an AI education business. I write in a direct,
plain-English style. I prefer bullets over paragraphs. I never
use jargon without explaining it first.

6. Multi-Platform Communications Hub

Difficulty: Intermediate  |  Setup time: 30 minutes  |  Time saved: Varies

Once you've added more than one platform to the Gateway, the same Hermes agent is reachable from all of them. Same memory, same skills, same history. You're not managing multiple bots.

A common pattern: use Telegram on your phone for quick tasks and ad-hoc requests; use Slack or Discord in your workspace for team-adjacent workflows.

Add a second platform

From inside the container:

hermes gateway setup

Select the platform, follow the prompts. The new channel is immediately active — no restart needed.

7. File and Document Work

Difficulty: Intermediate  |  Setup time: Varies by task  |  Time saved: 1–3 hours/week

Hermes has read/write access to files on your VPS. You can:

• Ask it to read a file and summarize it
• Have it write a draft to a file you can download
• Run code or scripts and return the output to you via Telegram
• Organize, rename, or move files in directories it has access to

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