5 Hermes Agents You Can't Build in ChatGPT or Claude (I Run All of Them Daily)
5 Hermes agents I run every day: a trading bot, a security camera watcher, a second brain, and more. See what each one does and why ChatGPT and Claude cannot run them.
Yesterday, I had a meeting with Sebastian.
He was building an engineering team to build Hermes agents for his clients.
At first, he asked questions to me by looking at his screen.
I understand he generated these questions with AI; the tone and the sentences are obvious.
But as I spoke about the agents I built, I could see the spark in his eyes.
He started asking questions by directly looking at me, and the AI tone in his questions suddenly vanished.
I understand now that he is interested.
But at that point, he lost me.
Because I was already thinking about writing an article about the Agents I built over time.
Some of you guys found this disrespectful, but I've worked thousands of hours, and if the one who'll hire you doesn't know about the job, things always go bad.
I answered his remaining questions and did not even ask further questions after his AI questions were over.
The meeting was finished; I opened my Substack and started writing this one.
I am going to show you 5 AI agents that I created through Hermes, but first, let me explain to you what a Hermes agent means.
What is a Hermes Agent?
Hermes agents are very similar to OpenClaw agents.
They run continuously on your computer unless your PC is turned off or your internet connection goes down.
You can talk to them through Telegram, and they can access the applications you allow.
In the background, they use either LLM APIs or OAuth.
OAuth means using your existing LLM subscription, such as ChatGPT or Claude.
With OpenClaw/Hermes(third-party tools), however, you cannot use Claude because Anthropic does not allow it.
You can install them by hiring a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or on a Mac mini.
You can read this one I showed you how to install one.
Now, let me introduce you to my favorite Hermes agents.
1. One Idea Can Change Your Life
This one is special to me because it made me believe in something simple: every great thing starts with just one idea.
I’ve seen this happen in my own life, and I keep seeing it on Substack too.
For example, look at the numbers behind one simple Substack Note I published.
One of my Substack posts brought in 25% of all my subscribers. Can you believe that?
That made me think: if I want to keep finding ideas that can inspire people, I need a Claude Skill built for exactly that.
It needs to search the web, collect the right signals, and surface ideas worth turning into content.
And the final report should look like a dashboard.
Because plain text bored me.
So I built it as a Claude Skill and explained everything.
Note: I love it so much, so I turned it into hermes agent. (Upload the skill to Hermes and tell it to create an agent using this skill.)
2. Trading Bot Copies Millionaires
I love math; in middle school, they called me Gencalculus because I am good at it.
So my wife always told me that I should use this skill in Finance.
But this is entire different discipline.
That’s why I sometimes stop calculating and just copy the millionaires.
It’s actually interesting that this is legal. I was surprised at first too. :)
Unfortunately, in the country where I live, we can’t open short or leveraged positions.
So I couldn’t use it with real money, but I tested everything through paper trading and shared the full process.
3. The Security Hermes Agent Watches Me Over Camera
I’ve always been fascinated by security systems.
Maybe I simply like feeling safe, or maybe I like knowing what’s happening around me, but either way, I have two security cameras watching my house.
After building systems with the Hermes agent, I started wondering: could I make AI watch my garden 24/7 and report anything to me?
And then I wondered: could it actually call me when a stranger enters my garden?
I built both features.
Now the AI watches my garden and alerts me when something happens, and somehow, that makes me feel a little safer.
4. Second Brain Who Can Think and Never Forgets
The idea of having a second brain felt incredibly exciting when I first discovered it.
So I built one. It worked, but it was far from perfect, and over time I kept reshaping it around every new tool I discovered: Obsidian, Telegram, and the Hermes agent.
Eventually, I built a second brain that knows an almost uncomfortable amount about me, even patterns in how I think.
How? I let it analyze my previous conversations with Claude, gave it a diary, connected it to an agent, and structured its memory using Karpathy’s wiki-style method.
5. Chief of Staff Hermes Agent on a Local Model
By now, you might be thinking, “You have too many agents. How do you even keep track of them?”
And you’re right.
I actually have at least five more that I haven’t shared yet, and sometimes one of those conversations stops halfway through without me noticing.
That’s why I built my own Chief of Staff.
It can even run on local models, quietly checking the conversations between my agents and me and reporting back whenever something gets left unfinished.
What is next?
You see, I am using AI agents daily, so I want you to read about them from a person who spends thousands of hours with them, builds them for companies, and even interviews people regularly to learn more.
Also, to share my experience with you guys, I built AI Academy. And the community is starting to shape here.
Here, we’re building in public.
I built a curriculum for NotebookLM, prompting, and Claude using my Substack articles.
When you read the article and finish the build, you need to share it inside the AI Academy to get my approval.
I’ll read your build, add my comments, and you’re done.
In a couple of weeks, Claude Cowork and Claude Code courses will be uploaded here. I am writing these courses for big Substack accounts and getting their approval to upload here.
To reach here, you need to be in the inner circle; read the details from here if you’re interested in it.
Thanks for reading, and final note:
