Everything you need to understand and customize Hermes Agent — self-evolving skills, three-tier memory, GEPA optimization, and going from 1 to 10 specialized agents that work for you 24/7.
An event-driven engineering workflow where four specialized Hermes agents handle ticket intake, coding, review, and CI — while humans keep merge authority. Routine tickets go from intake to reviewed PR in about four hours for roughly $12 in AI spend.
Go from a single Hermes install to a control room orchestrating a team of specialist agents on one cheap VPS. Covers install, memory and SOUL.md, the orchestrator pattern, messaging surfaces, cron, and the operator mindset that makes it all compound.
One agent is the wrong unit once work grows teeth. This field manual shows how to use Hermes Kanban — boards, tasks, claims, blocks, schedules, and receipts — to give long-running multi-agent work durable coordination that survives a dead shell.
A three-profile Hermes setup where Scout finds signals, Analyst synthesizes through NotebookLM, and Briefer delivers a morning brief — coordinated through a shared Obsidian vault. Roughly $19-27/month, one evening to set up.