13 real things people did with Hermes Agent, with the source and a prompt to try it yourself.
Booking swimming lessons for their son was on the to-do list. Hermes Agent monitored availability and automatically booked a suitable slot the moment one opened up.
Result Also restocks the weekly grocery order from past receipts
An 8D music video with millions of views sparked a test: could an agent make one? Hermes Agent wrote the lyrics and music, made visuals from the song and added the 8D effect and audio-responsive video.
Result It even sang the vocals
Payment portals, and bills always left to the last minute. One photo of a mailed bill went to a Hermes Agent with a Stripe agent wallet, and it paid the bill and filed the receipt.
Result Also bought a replacement Dyson vacuum part
Mood, food, habits and sleep, logged daily for months. A Hermes agent writes end-of-day reports (they miss a lot), but asking Claude for correlations surfaced a pattern they'd never noticed.
Result A pattern too faint to notice on their own
Their Hermes agent on Qwen took a C++ entropy extractor from 12MB/s to about 48, then kept optimizing alone. Six hours later it stopped, just past 100MB/s, with a correct implementation.
Result Stopped on its own after 6 hours, correct
Getting their AI into Monarch Money took some AI-assisted hacking of the login. Then an open-source MCP connector let their Hermes agent pull transactions, spot patterns and send a daily report.
Result Pulls transactions and spots patterns
Real-time monitoring of the cameras around the house, AI face recognition and event descriptions on an internal page, and alerts on Telegram, all from their own home Hermes setup.
Result Also handles their backups and Linux fixes
Every day the Hermes agent hands out tasks and remembers everything about the business. It caught things they'd have missed, from fundraising and incorporation to compliance.
Result Caught things they'd have completely missed
Karatsuba multiplication and a recursive halfgcd, from academic papers into an existing codebase. A Qwen-powered Hermes agent took many tries, but its own tests caught the errors.
Result Its own mutation-tested tests caught the errors
Their Hermes coding agent works unattended for about 15 minutes, opens a PR and pings them to review. At basic coding tasks, they say it's faster than they are.
Result Faster than them at basic coding tasks
Small annoyances, one inbox. Their Hermes agent pulls invoice data from forwarded PDFs into a cost sheet, rolls unfinished to-dos over at 11:59pm, and warns when it's too windy for the lawn furniture.
Result The first agent that didn't need constant fixing
Messaging notes to yourself is easy; finding them later isn't. The Hermes agent sorts every dump into lists and reminds them of to-dos morning and evening. Useful, if a little buggy.
Result Voice notes over WhatsApp work out of the box
Flashcards and Duolingo felt stale. Using the household's Hermes agent like a junior developer, they built an A2 Dutch practice skill where every lesson ends in role-play. It took 20% of the weekly quota.
Result Role-play no other product gave them