{"id":143784,"date":"2026-04-24T05:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/ca\/tutorials\/hermes-agent-use-cases"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:33:24","slug":"hermes-agent-use-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/ca\/tutorials\/hermes-agent-use-cases","title":{"rendered":"Hermes Agent use cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hermes Agent use cases primarily focus on running an <strong>always-on assistant <\/strong>with memory, <strong>automating multi-step<\/strong> <strong>workflows<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>and<strong> building subagent teams <\/strong>that run in parallel.<\/p><p>As a self-hosted AI agent, Hermes Agent handles long tasks without resetting between sessions. <\/p><p>It keeps context across conversations, learns your preferences over time, and builds its own playbooks from experience &ndash; so after you give it a similar task several times, it will already have the approach stored and won&rsquo;t need to figure it out from scratch.<\/p><p>Hermes Agent differs from a typical chatbot wrapper because of its infrastructure: a memory layer, a cron scheduler for jobs that run while you sleep, subagent delegation for parallel work, and terminal access across six backends, including Docker and SSH. All of this runs on any self-hosting environment you control.<\/p><p>Practical Hermes Agent use cases include, among others:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Running a personal assistant that remembers your projects week to week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turning one-off content prompts into research, draft, and review pipelines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delegating specialized work to parallel subagents with their own tools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Executing shell commands and managing servers from a chat window.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connecting external APIs like Stripe, Notion, and GitHub to scheduled jobs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deploying applications with an agent that learns from past deploys.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sending daily briefings, PR reviews, and monitoring alerts automatically.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conducting recurring research and data processing that builds on previous runs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintaining long-running workflows that survive server restarts and outages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Combining memory, scheduling, tool integrations, and delegation into a single weekly routine.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Taken together, these use cases point to the work that keeps running even after you close the chat.<\/p><p><\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-running-a-persistent-agent-that-learns-your-workflows-over-time\">1. Running a persistent agent that learns your workflows over time<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figure data-wp-context='{\"imageId\":\"69eb2fac06636\"}' data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/1777006526211-0.jpeg\" alt=\"An infographic of Hermes Agent running a persistent agent that learns your workflows over time\"><button class=\"lightbox-trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Enlarge\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\" data-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\">\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\"><\/path>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure><\/div><p><a href=\"\/ca\/tutorials\/what-is-hermes-agent\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"follow\">Hermes Agent<\/a> runs as a persistent assistant that keeps context across sessions and gets faster at your recurring work the longer you use it.<\/p><p>You can give it tasks in natural language. Hermes Agent executes instructions right away. If you include a schedule, it will save them as cron jobs and run them automatically.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"\/ca\/tutorials\/what-are-ai-agents\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"follow\">AI Agent<\/a> learns from use through two systems: <strong>persistent memory<\/strong> and <strong>skills<\/strong>.<\/p><p><strong>Persistent memory<\/strong> uses two files:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>MEMORY.md<\/strong> stores facts about your environment, such as your stack, tools, project conventions, and what worked in past sessions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>USER.md<\/strong> stores your personal profile, including your name, role, preferences, and communication style.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Both files load automatically at the start of every session.<\/p><p><strong>Skills<\/strong> are short markdown playbooks that store how-to knowledge. Hermes writes these after solving complex tasks, then reuses them when similar work comes up.<\/p><p>So, for example, you ask Hermes to deploy an app. For the first time, you walk it through your setup: the NGINX config, the migration pattern, the logging preferences, and where things tend to break. <\/p><p>The agent <strong>runs the deployment<\/strong>, <strong>handles any failures<\/strong>, and <strong>writes a skills document <\/strong>after the session.<\/p><p>The next time you ask it to deploy a code update, it already has your setup and approach stored. By the tenth deploy, it&rsquo;s running the full workflow, catching common failure points before they surface, and flagging only what actually needs your input.<\/p><p>If you close the CLI tonight and pick up on Telegram next week, the long-running agent still knows where you left off. You can ask:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">\"What broke in last Tuesday's deploy, and how did we fix it?\"<\/pre><p>Then it searches past sessions, finds the relevant thread, and summarizes it.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-automating-content-creation-stages\">2. Automating content creation stages<\/h2><p>To ensure content quality, you can use Hermes Agent to turn content creation into a four-stage pipeline: research, outline, draft, and publish.<\/p><p>Considering Hermes Agent&rsquo;s capabilities, you could prompt it to run all four stages in one go. But for greater control over your content quality, breaking it into stages yields better results.<\/p><p>Each step of this AI content workflow uses a separate prompt, and each one reviews the output before moving forward.<\/p><p>Start with the competitor research by instructing the agent:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Research the topic \"VPS backup strategies for 2026\" for a tutorial.\nFind the top 10 ranking articles, list their URLs, and summarize what each one covers. Flag any that look like content farms or thin aggregators.\nFrom there, review the sources, remove weak ones, and note any angles the agent missed. Getting this right early saves a lot of rewriting later.<\/pre><p>Instruct the outline stage next:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Using the approved research, draft an outline for the tutorial.\nPropose H2 and H3 headings, note which sources support each section, and flag gaps you&rsquo;d recommend filling.<\/pre><p>This is where you push back, cut sections that don&rsquo;t fit, and refine the structure until it matches your angle.<\/p><p>Once the outline is solid, you move on to drafting, where a style skill starts to matter:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Draft the tutorial from the approved outline. Load the house-style skill at ~\/.hermes\/skills\/house-style.md and follow it throughout. Cite sources inline so I can verify claims against the research.<\/pre><p>The <strong>house-style<\/strong> skill defines your sentence length, restricted phrases, and preferred structure. Without it, the output reads like generic AI content. With it, the writing stays consistent and closer to your voice.<\/p><p>You&rsquo;ll still fact-check and smooth out transitions that feel mechanical, but that&rsquo;s editing, not generation.<\/p><p>Finally, the agent handles publishing:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Push the approved article to WordPress as a draft. Set the category to \"Tutorials\", add tags from the outline, fill the meta description under 160 characters, and set the slug. Do not publish it live yet.<\/pre><p>You can connect Hermes to WordPress through a <a href=\"\/ca\/tutorials\/wordpress-mcp-integration\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"follow\">Model Context Protocol (MCP) server<\/a>.<\/p><p>A final review catches formatting details like the featured image, block layout, and internal links, which is why you save it as a draft rather than going live directly.<\/p><p>While WordPress is used here as an example, Hermes Agent can connect to any CMS or service that exposes an MCP server. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-splitting-large-tasks-across-parallel-subagents\">3. Splitting large tasks across parallel subagents<\/h2><p>Hermes Agent lets you split large tasks into parallel workstreams using the <strong>delegate_task<\/strong> tool. By default, it spawns three subagents simultaneously &ndash; this parallel count is configurable upward in your settings.<\/p><p>Separately, <strong>max_spawn_depth <\/strong>controls how many levels of subagents can spawn their own subagents, up to three levels. The default keeps depth at one level (flat delegation), which is simpler and more predictable for most workflows.<\/p><p>Each subagent works in isolation and returns only a final summary. This keeps the parent agent focused on orchestration instead of getting buried in intermediate steps like searches or file reads.<\/p><p>The pattern is simple: split one large task into independent parts, assign each to a subagent, then merge the results. Say you want to analyze three competitors, with each subagent handling one:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Research these three competitors in parallel and return a structured comparison:\n1. Competitor A: pricing, features, recent product changes\n2. Competitor B: pricing, features, recent product changes\n3. Competitor C: pricing, features, recent product changes\nCompile the findings into a comparison table I can paste into our planning doc.<\/pre><p>The parent agent launches three subagents, each scoped to a single competitor with web access. They run in parallel, return summaries, and the parent combines them into one table.<\/p><p>You can also assign different models to different roles. Use a stronger model, like Claude Opus, for the parent to handle coordination and final analysis, and a lighter one, like Sonnet, for the research subagents.<\/p><p>One thing to keep in mind: by default, delegation is flat &ndash; subagents can&rsquo;t spawn their own subagents. Deeper hierarchies are possible by adjusting<strong> <\/strong><strong>max_spawn_depth<\/strong> in your config to up to three levels, but the default keeps things simple and predictable.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-automating-system-tasks-with-plain-english-commands\">4. Automating system tasks with plain English commands<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figure data-wp-context='{\"imageId\":\"69eb2fac06ffa\"}' data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/1777006526223-1.jpeg\" alt=\"An infographic of Hermes Agent automating system tasks with plain English commands\"><button class=\"lightbox-trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Enlarge\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\" data-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\">\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\"><\/path>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure><\/div><p>Hermes Agent handles shell automation through its terminal toolset, which works across six environments: your local machine, <a href=\"\/ca\/tutorials\/what-is-docker\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"follow\">Docker<\/a> containers, remote servers over SSH, and three sandboxed runtimes (Daytona, Singularity, and Modal).<\/p><p>You configure the connections once. After that, tell the agent which target to run commands on in any prompt.<\/p><p>For example, to clean up a staging server every Friday at 5 p.m. You can ask the agent to run it on a schedule:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Every Friday at 5 p.m., check disk usage on staging.domain.tld.\nIf any partition is over 80% full, delete temp files older than 7 days in \/var\/log and \/tmp, and send me a summary on Telegram.<\/pre><p>Then, Hermes Agent creates the <a href=\"\/ca\/tutorials\/cron-job\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"follow\">cron job<\/a> and runs it automatically through its background scheduling process &ndash; no crontab editing required.<\/p><p>The same approach works for rotating logs, restarting stuck services, pulling backups, or renewing certificates before they expire.<\/p><p>Routine work you&rsquo;d normally SSH in to handle manually, you can describe in plain English and schedule.<\/p><p>In terms of safety, Hermes Agent has a built-in approval system that flags potentially destructive commands, such as recursive deletes, and prompts you to confirm before running them.<\/p><p>For anything you want to review regularly, keep it as an on-demand prompt rather than a scheduled job. All commands are logged automatically to <strong>~\/.hermes\/logs\/<\/strong>, so if something breaks, you can trace exactly what ran.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-connecting-external-services-into-automation-pipelines\">5. Connecting external services into automation pipelines<\/h2><p>Hermes Agent connects to external services through APIs, so it can pull data from one tool, act on it, and send results to another in a single prompt.<\/p><p>For example, you might want a Monday morning summary of last week&rsquo;s subscription activity:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Every Monday at 9 a.m., pull new Stripe subscriptions from the past 7 days, group them by plan tier, and calculate MRR change compared to the previous week. Post the summary to our #revenue-updates Slack channel as a comparison table. Flag it if MRR drops more than 5%.<\/pre><p>Hermes Agent then pulls the data from Stripe, does the calculations, formats the summary, and posts it to Slack.<\/p><p>The same pattern works with any service for which Hermes Agent has a tool. The built-in tools already cover common needs like web access, file handling, and browser actions. <\/p><p>For everything else, you can point Hermes Agent to an MCP server for other apps like Stripe, GitHub, from your own internal API, and more. Those integrations become available in the next prompt.<\/p><p>That same Monday summary could just as easily pull data from GitHub instead of Stripe, or post to Linear instead of Slack, without changing how you write the prompt.<\/p><p>Keep in mind that pipelines like these <strong>don&rsquo;t replace dedicated workflow tools<\/strong> like Airflow or Temporal. If your workflows need strict ordering, guaranteed retries, or fully deterministic runs, use a tool designed for that. <\/p><p>Hermes Agent works best when you want the agent to make <strong>judgment calls mid-pipeline<\/strong>, such as deciding what to flag, how to format a message for a specific channel, or how to handle unexpected data.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-6-automating-your-deployment-pipeline-to-handle-its-own-edge-cases\">6. Automating your deployment pipeline to handle its own edge cases<\/h2><p>Hermes Agent can handle your full deployment pipeline, from pulling the latest commit to checking that the service is healthy after it goes live.<\/p><p>What makes it different from a plain script is that it learns from each run. Successful deployments turn into skills that can be reused. Failed ones become skills that capture what went wrong and how to avoid it next time.<\/p><p>Here&rsquo;s a typical deployment prompt:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Deploy the latest commit from origin\/main to staging, then promote to production once staging is verified.\n1. Pull the branch and show me the commit diff.\n2. Run the test suite. Stop and report if anything fails.\n3. Build the Docker image and deploy to staging.\n4. Tail the health check endpoint until it returns 200.\n5. Keep checking the health endpoint for 5 minutes. If it stays healthy, promote the same image to production.\n6. Verify the production health check and report elapsed time and any warnings from both deploys.<\/pre><p>The first time you run this, you&rsquo;ll need to provide some context, such as which branch to use, where the Dockerfile lives, and what &ldquo;healthy&rdquo; means for your service.<\/p><p>If something unexpected happens, like step 3 failing because the image tag is already in use, Hermes Agent may pause and ask how to handle it, or attempt a fix on its own, depending on how ambiguous the situation is. <\/p><p>Either way, once the problem is resolved &ndash; say, by appending a timestamp to the tag &ndash; Hermes Agent saves that fix as a skill. The next time the same issue comes up, it handles it without asking.<\/p><p>This is where an AI DevOps agent begins to differ from a CI\/CD script. A script does exactly what you wrote, every time. Hermes Agent does what you wrote, plus what it has learned from previous runs on your setup.<\/p><p>That said, for regulated environments where <strong>every deploy needs a signed, tamper-proof audit log, stick with a dedicated platform<\/strong>. The agent&rsquo;s learning loop is not a substitute for compliance tooling.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-7-scheduling-automated-briefings\">7. Scheduling automated briefings<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figure data-wp-context='{\"imageId\":\"69eb2fac076b5\"}' data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/1777006526232-2.jpeg\" alt=\"An infographic of Hermes Agent scheduling automated briefings\"><button class=\"lightbox-trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Enlarge\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\" data-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\">\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\"><\/path>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure><\/div><p>Hermes Agent can run autonomous workflows using a built-in cron scheduler. You describe the schedule in natural language, and the results show up in whichever channel you&rsquo;ve connected.<\/p><p>Simply tell the agent what you want and when, like:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Every morning at 7 a.m., send me a Telegram message with:\n- The weather in my city\n- My calendar events for today\n- Top 5 posts from Hacker News tagged \"AI\"\n- GitHub notifications I haven't opened yet\nKeep it under 500 words.<\/pre><p>When running, a fresh agent session pulls from all four sources each morning, formats everything into a single summary, and delivers it to Telegram before your day starts.<\/p><p>Daily briefing is just one example. The same approach works for weekly reports, monthly cleanup jobs, hourly health checks, or any recurring task that would otherwise depend on you remembering to run it.<\/p><p>Note that each scheduled run calls your LLM provider, so high-frequency jobs with detailed prompts can<strong> add up costs<\/strong>. Setting a monthly spending cap in your provider&rsquo;s dashboard before you start is the simplest safeguard.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-8-conducting-automated-research-and-data-processing-tasks\">8. Conducting automated research and data processing tasks<\/h2><p>Research usually follows the same three steps: gather information from multiple sources, turn it into something useful, and return a clean summary. <\/p><p>Hermes Agent can handle that entire flow from a single prompt. Because the agent saves findings between runs, conducting regular research can become cumulative &ndash; each run builds on the last.<\/p><p>Say you track AI regulation news and want a weekly summary:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Every Friday at 5 p.m., search BBC, Reuters, and AP RSS feeds. Read the top 5 articles from each source, then return a summary with:\n- The 3 biggest stories of the week\n- Which outlet broke each one\n- One line on what's new since last week\nSave the summary as a Markdown file I can paste into Notion.<\/pre><p>Hermes Agent queries each source, reads the articles, compares them with findings from the previous week, and produces a structured summary in your chosen format. The &ldquo;what&rsquo;s new since last week&rdquo; line is only possible because it remembers what it already reported.<\/p><p>The same approach applies to data-related tasks such as tracking pricing changes across vendors, monitoring job boards for specific roles, or collecting weekly academic papers on a topic.<\/p><p>For this use case, <strong>naming specific trusted sources<\/strong> in your prompt rather than relying on open web search is beneficial. The output is only as reliable as what you point it at. Always verify summaries against the original articles before acting on them.<\/p><p>If you need to retrieve data from paywalled or login-gated content, Hermes Agent can authenticate via its browser tool. Cookies and logins are reset by default after each session, though.<\/p><p>To keep them alive across restarts, set <strong>browser.camofox.<\/strong><strong>managed_persistence<\/strong> to <strong>true<\/strong> in <strong>config.yaml<\/strong>. This only works with the Camofox browser backend.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-9-maintaining-long-running-workflows-across-server-restarts\">9. Maintaining long-running workflows across server restarts<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figure data-wp-context='{\"imageId\":\"69eb2fac07bcd\"}' data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/1777006526240-3.jpeg\" alt=\"An infographic of Hermes Agent maintaining long-running workflows across server restarts\"><button class=\"lightbox-trigger\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Enlarge\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\" data-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\">\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\"><\/path>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure><\/div><p>Most automation tools lose their state when something restarts &ndash; a server reboot, a container update, or a power outage. You end up having to start everything from scratch.<\/p><p>Hermes Agent handles those interruptions differently. The scheduler persists across gateway restarts using the SQLite state database. <\/p><p>For scheduled jobs that were missed during downtime, you can configure each one to either catch up (run once immediately on restart) or skip (resume on the next scheduled interval) &ndash; depending on whether rerunning a missed job makes sense for that task.<\/p><p>For longer pipelines that were mid-run when the restart happened, Hermes Agent resumes from the last completed checkpoint rather than restarting the entire workflow. <\/p><p>A simple example is uptime monitoring with alerts:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Every 5 minutes, check https:\/\/domain.tld returns 200. If it fails, alert me on Telegram.<\/pre><p>This job runs continuously. If your VPS reboots for a kernel update, the agent resumes immediately after the restart and resumes the schedule where it left off.<\/p><p>Note that Hermes Agent <strong>depends entirely on the machine it runs on<\/strong>. Skills, memory, session history, and scheduled jobs all live on that system. <\/p><p>This means the agent can persist workflows across restarts, provided the host remains available.<\/p><p>Make sure to back up the agent&rsquo;s working directory regularly with <strong>hermes backup<\/strong>, monitor disk space, and apply security updates on your own schedule. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-10-combining-all-of-hermes-agents-layers-into-one-routine\">10. Combining all of Hermes Agent&rsquo;s layers into one routine<\/h2><p>Hermes Agent becomes most powerful when memory, tool integrations, delegation, and scheduling work together as a <strong>unified automation<\/strong>.<\/p><p>A good way to see this in action is a weekly operations prompt:<\/p><pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">Every Monday at 8 AM:\n1. Pull last week's calendar and the meetings I attended\n2. Check GitHub and Linear for anything blocked, overdue, or needing my input\n3. Delegate a subagent to summarize new activity in my main Slack channels since last Monday\n4. Generate a planning doc with: what moved last week, what's stuck and needs my attention, and meetings and priorities for the week ahead\n5. Post it to my Slack DM\n6. Save a new skill whenever you find a pattern worth repeating<\/pre><p>This single prompt covers every layer from previous use cases.<\/p><p>You don&rsquo;t need a separate scheduler, memory database, or custom script to connect to any of it. It all lives in Hermes Agent&rsquo;s configuration and runs automatically every week.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-start-using-hermes-agent-for-your-own-workflows\">How to start using Hermes Agent for your own workflows<\/h2><p>To get started, you&rsquo;ll need a running Hermes Agent instance on your server. <\/p><p>If you haven&rsquo;t, follow our guide to setting up Hermes Agent on a VPS &ndash; covering everything from server preparation to what to do after installation.<\/p><p>Once the agent is running and you&rsquo;ve confirmed a basic conversation works, pick one use case to start with. The simpler the better. <\/p><p>A morning briefing, a weekly research summary, or a scheduled server check are all good first workflows &ndash; contained enough to set up in one sitting, useful enough that you&rsquo;ll actually keep running them.<\/p><p>From there, the pattern is the same every time: get one routine working reliably, then layer on the next. For instance:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add memory once you notice you&rsquo;re repeating context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add MCP connections when you want the agent to reach into your tools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add subagents when a task is big enough to split.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add scheduling so it runs autonomously when you want.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Most of what Hermes Agent becomes over time isn&rsquo;t planned upfront. Each working routine adds a skill, each skill makes the next routine faster to set up, and after a few months, the agent knows your stack well enough to handle edge cases it&rsquo;s never seen before.<\/p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a class=\"hgr-tutorials-cta hgr-tutorials-cta-vps-hosting\" href=\"\/ca\/vps-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/VPS-hosting-banner-1024x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77934\"  sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermes Agent use cases primarily focus on running an always-on assistant with memory, automating multi-step workflows, and building subagent teams that run in parallel. 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