Hermes Agent
Software
Providing every YC employee with an agentic assistant via VM fleet
"We ended up provisioning a fleet of 50 plus Hermes agents that were running in VMs. These were definitely pretty helpful but they required a lot of configuring for people to get value out of them. It was just inherently kind of difficult to manage this flee..."
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Daily email and calendar briefing, scheduling meetings, weekly health check reports integrating smart scale and fitness app data via MCP, scheduled reports
"Hermes is the only open source agent on this list and it gives me the most control. It runs on my Mac mini, and I talk to it through Telegram. Hermes agent does not collect telemetry, usage data, or analytics. Your conversations, memory, and skills are all ..."
"I'm still using Hermes and Grokbot."