The problem
How it works
He installed Hermes Agent on his own desktop and relies on its persistent memory, skills and cron scheduling for research summaries, note capture and filing, small scripts and managing his blog's writing pipeline. He describes switching between a local model for sensitive work and a frontier model for heavier jobs, and reaching the agent from his phone.
Results and limitations
He reports that it survives reboots, runs scheduled jobs unattended, and that its memory improved over about a month so he stopped re-explaining project context; he names phone access and output landing in his Obsidian vault as the biggest wins.
Before you try it
No metrics, model names or failure examples are given, and this is the first post in a three-part series. He warns that an agent with shell access on a main machine is a real attack surface and frames his setup as a personal tool, not one for client data.
Tools and repositories
- Tools
- Hermes Agent · Obsidian · cron
- Prerequisites
- Needs an always-on desktop and a model provider key or local model.
Try it yourself: Schedule a weekly research digest into my notes
Fill the fields to adapt the prompt. Empty fields stay as visible [placeholders].
Every [Schedule], collect new items about [Research topic] from these sources only: [Allowed sources]. For each item, write a three-sentence summary in your own words, the link, and why it matters for [Project it should serve]. Save the digest as a new dated note in [Notes folder]; never overwrite or delete existing notes. Before enabling the schedule, run it once, show me the draft note and the cron entry, and wait for my approval. Use [Model for private content] whenever personal notes are involved. Do not post, email or share the digest anywhere, and record each run in [Log file].Give the agent scoped, rotatable keys and review its logs, since it runs unattended with shell access.
Related videos
About NousResearch/hermes-agent
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Sources
- Meet Hermes: The Self-Improving AI Agent Running on My Desktop (opens in a new tab)
First-person account · rajchettri-com.pages.dev · Published 25 May 2026 · Source checked 9 Nov 2026, 22:23 UTC
What this source supports
- Runs Hermes Agent on his desktop
- Used for research summaries, note filing, scripting and blog pipeline
- Runs cron jobs unattended with memory that improved over about a month
- Warns about shell access as an attack surface