What people do with Hermes Agent
The open-source personal agent often run on local models. 22 real use cases so far, most often for software, sales & marketing and content. Each links to its source and comes with a prompt to try.
Also called Hermes.
22 use cases · 7 kinds of job · Updated Oct 5, 2026
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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.
How it went The source gives no review results. It says the skill and remembered conventions make reviews less generic, and estimates 3-5 GitHub API requests per PR review.
2 accounts
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.
How it went The source gives no measured results. It describes faster per-lead research, more consistent filtering and a better handoff to outreach. Misses came from keyword matches on too-early companies, wrong-function contacts, and overly strict scoring prompts.
2 accounts
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.
How it went Produced a complete music video containing the lyrics, music stems, visuals, 8D effects and audio-responsive elements. No further results or shortfalls reported.
2 accounts
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.
How it went Robert supplies context beyond any single chat, helping the non-technical co-founder and others complete more work. Nikki is now planning to add the SaaS design team.
Automate simple Discord tasks and tutoring with Hermes
A commenter uses Hermes Agent as a personal tutor and to automate simple tasks on Discord.
How it went The stated outcome is simply that they use it for those two purposes; the thread excerpt gives no metrics, examples of completed tasks, or limits. It also does not say where it fell short.
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Hermes Agent for software
Shipping code, reviewing PRs, running infra, and fixing things at 3am.
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.
2 accounts
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hermes Agent for sales & marketing
Finding leads, running outreach, answering customers, and growing revenue.
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.
2 accounts
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.
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.
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.
Hermes Agent for content
Writing, music, video, and design with agents in the loop.
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.
2 accounts
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.
2 accounts
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.
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.
Hermes Agent for life admin
Forms, paperwork, health, family logistics, personal assistants, and the smart home.
Automate simple Discord tasks and tutoring with Hermes
A commenter uses Hermes Agent as a personal tutor and to automate simple tasks on Discord.
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.
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.
Hermes Agent for work
Planning, inboxes, documents, and the back office that runs a business.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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