--- title: 20 Hermes Agent Workflows You'll Want to Steal Immediately summary: >- Twenty out-of-the-box Hermes Agent workflows worth building, stealing, or remixing — from research murder boards and competitor autopsies to release managers, RSS filters, and a Blender scene renderer. The point isn't the model, it's the operating layer around it. author: Tony authorUrl: 'https://x.com/tonysimons_' category: Guides difficulty: Beginner readingTime: 5 date: '2026-07-02' tags: - workflows - automation - research - monitoring - publishing - scheduling - browser - memory integrations: - GitHub - WordPress --- ## Stop using AI like a search box Most folks are still using AI like a slightly smarter search box — summarize this, rewrite that email, brainstorm a few ideas, make a paragraph sound less weird. Useful, but it's the shallow end of the pool. The real jump happens when you stop treating AI like a chat window and start treating it like an **operator**. Give it tools. Give it files. Give it memory. Give it schedules. Let it work across the browser, terminal, inbox, calendar, GitHub, WordPress, smart home, or whatever else you actually use every day. That's where Hermes Agent gets interesting. Here are 20 workflows worth building, stealing, remixing, or putting on your roadmap. Some are practical, some are weird, and some make basic chatbot usage feel tiny once you understand what's possible. ## 1. The Murder Board Everybody has the folder: bookmarks, screenshots, PDFs, X posts, half-finished notes, and "come back to this later" junk from a research rabbit hole. Feed the whole mess to Hermes and have it turn the pile into a map — who said what, when, which sources agree, which contradict, and which details actually matter. Basic AI answers a question; Hermes helps make sense of the mess *around* the question. Serious work almost never starts clean. ## 2. The Competitor Autopsy Point Hermes at a competitor's website, GitHub, changelog, docs, pricing page, and X account, then have it run a structured teardown: what they're shipping, how fast they're moving, what users complain about, where the pricing looks soft. Not a sleepy "top 5 alternatives" puddle — an actual briefing with evidence links, screenshots, page diffs, and a clear read on where the opportunity is. ## 3. The Price Prophet Pick a product you want and have Hermes check the current price, historical trackers, cached pages, and deal history. The real question isn't "is this on sale?" — it's whether it's a *real* deal or the normal price wearing a party hat. The best version gives a recommendation with proof: buy now, wait, or ignore this fake discount. ## 4. The Meeting Prep Autopilot Before a meeting, have Hermes research the person or company — recent posts, company news, past emails, mutual connections — and send you a briefing card: who they are, what they care about, what changed, what to ask, where the opening is. Afterward, it drafts the follow-up in your style. One prepared meeting is nice; every meeting prepped and followed up on is leverage. ## 5. The Daily Opponent Give Hermes your idea, thesis, or draft and tell it to attack the thing properly. Not lazy devil's advocate theater — the strongest counterargument, the best contradictory evidence, and the assumption you're making too casually. Most tools are tuned to agree with you because agreement feels nice. This one is useful precisely because it disagrees well. ## 6. The 3AM Watchdog Some things need watching, but you shouldn't be the one watching them: a product page, a GitHub issue, a job posting, a release page, a competitor changelog. Set Hermes to check on a schedule and **only alert you when something meaningful changes**. Keyword alerts fire constantly and train you to ignore them. Set the patrol route once and let Hermes walk the fence. ## 7. The Content Decay Detector Point Hermes at your site and have it find articles losing traffic, slipping in search, or quietly going stale — then explain why (broken links, old screenshots, renamed products, weak metadata). The important part is ranking the update queue by effort versus upside. That turns "I should update old content someday" into an actual recovery plan. ## 8. The Competitor Alert System The scheduled version of the autopsy. Hermes monitors competitor pricing, feature pages, changelogs, docs, and job boards, then alerts you when something changes — with the screenshot, the copy diff, and the reason it matters. If they raise prices, bury a feature, or start hiring for a suspiciously specific role, you want to know early. That's the difference between monitoring and intelligence. ## 9. The Deal Radar Tell Hermes the product category you care about — portable SSDs, OLED TVs, GPUs, standing desks — and have it monitor deal sites, Amazon, manufacturer pages, and price trackers. The key: only alert when something hits a *real historical low*, backed by price history. Especially useful if you run shopping roundups or just enjoy not getting mugged by fake discounts. ## 10. The Article Factory Give Hermes a topic and have it research the subject, build a source pack, outline the piece, draft it in your style, check the claims, generate a featured-image brief, prep SEO metadata, and stage the article in WordPress. Then *you* edit. The goal isn't to spray raw sludge onto your site — it's to move all the scaffolding into place before the writer shows up with the hammer. ## 11. The "Write Like Me" Ghostwriter Generic AI writing has a smell — clean, smooth, lifeless, rinsed in LinkedIn water. Give Hermes examples of your actual writing and have it study your rhythm, vocabulary, jokes, and habits, then draft in that pattern. The killer feature: it flags the lines that sound *least* like you. A good ghostwriter should tell you where the mask slips. ## 12. The Zillow Sniper House hunting is browser punishment. Give Hermes your budget, commute tolerance, non-negotiables, and dealbreakers, then have it scrape listings, filter by actual drive time, check surrounding context, screenshot the good ones, and send a small daily batch. Not 84 listings — three good ones. It doesn't replace a realtor; it kills the midnight scroll. ## 13. The Smart Home Conductor Home automation is great until you're 45 minutes deep in app menus. Make the input human again: "When I'm on a work call, dim the office lights, pause music everywhere, and set my status to busy." Hermes translates the intent into the actual automation, tests it, and helps debug it when something breaks — instead of you stitching together 19 apps and one bulb that has chosen litigation. ## 14. The Resume Assassin Give Hermes a job posting and a resume, then have it rewrite the bullets to highlight the exact experience the posting is filtering for — without lying. This is optimization, not fan fiction. Then have it score the original against the revision. The first reader is usually an ATS or a recruiter moving too fast, so shape the resume so the right experience is impossible to miss. ## 15. The Negotiation Prep Kit Salary, contract, car price, freelance rate, vendor renewal — every negotiation gets better when you show up with more than a number and vibes. Have Hermes research market rates, find comparable deals, build your opening position, predict counterarguments, and give you fallback language for each stage. Know the floor before you start talking. ## 16. The Side Project Forensic Every developer has a graveyard of old repos and half-built apps. Give Hermes access to the pile and have it score each project: how close to shipping, what's broken, what it'd take to finish, whether there's a market, which one deserves resurrection first. The problem is rarely no ideas — it's 19 unfinished ideas and no clean way to decide which one gets oxygen. ## 17. The Release Manager Have Hermes ship a new version: run the test suite, bump the version, generate the changelog from commits, create the GitHub release, build the package, and publish it. If something fails, it tells you what broke and suggests the fix. This is exactly where agents shine — structured technical work, a clear goal, repeatable steps, and plenty of small ways to mess it up manually. ## 18. The RSS Bouncer RSS is great until it becomes a firehose. Have Hermes monitor feeds, repos, release notes, X accounts, and newsletters but filter for *actual* relevance based on what you care about and what you're working on right now. That's the difference between a feed reader and an intelligence layer. A good agent protects attention instead of spending it. ## 19. The Blender Scene Monkey Describe a 3D scene in plain English and have Hermes write the Blender Python script, run Blender headless, render the scene, and send back the finished image. No node-editor trench warfare, no tutorial spiral. It opens a whole creative lane — featured images, product scenes, weird 3D experiments — that you'd never build manually because you don't have time to become a Blender monk. ## 20. The Knowledge Archaeologist Maybe the biggest one. Have Hermes search across conversations, files, decisions, notes, and past sessions so you can ask, "What was that idea I had about X three months ago?" — and get the actual context back: the session, the wording, the decision, and what happened next. That's memory with receipts. Knowledge should compound, not evaporate after every chat. ## The real point of all of this The model isn't the magic. GPT, Claude, Gemini, local, hosted — they're all capable enough for a shocking amount of this. The difference is the **operating layer** around the model: tools, memory, schedules, files, terminal access, browser access, calendar access, specialized agents, publishing pipelines, and a way to remember yesterday so it can do something useful tomorrow. That's why Hermes matters. It gives the model hands, memory, routines, and a job description. Once you experience AI that can operate across your actual environment, basic chatbot usage starts feeling tiny. Pick one workflow. Build it. Then build the next one.