I have been running a multi agent setup for Hermes agent for the last several weeks. Honestly? It took me a while to get here. I installed OpenClaw in the midst of the hype, stared at it for an hour, and never went back to it. Why? I didn’t know what to use it for. I watched the timeline on X about all these things going on and the Mac Mini crazy and sat there scratching my head, but I really wanted to get in on it.
When you ask “What do you use your AI agent for?”, many people out there will give answers like “anything” or “everything” or “coding”, and I have been known to give those answers too. Today, I want to walk through some ideas for how you get started with what to use Hermes Agent for, so you can make the most of it. I’ll give you some examples on how you can start using it for yourself, going into some of my weird use cases as examples.
# How to Figure Out What to Use Hermes Agent For
My personal philosophy when it comes to AI is I treat AI as my assistant. I don’t use it to replace my thinking, I use it to point me in the right direction. I make it do grunt work, then I verify and proceed. For automated tasks, I only have AI automate and execute things I already understand how to do. This is my personal philosophy and your milage may vary based on the way you do things.
So what things do you use a personal AI agent for? That’s the question we all ask.
What I have found to be extremely helpful was writing down things I did for a day, then taking a good look at that list. After, I went further and added and expanded to the list over the course of a week or so.
I asked myself things like “What are the things that took a lot of time?” and “What are things that I have to do, but didn’t provide a lot of value to my workflow?”.
Make that list, and start playing with Hermes.
## The Softer Stuff
Here’s another thing to ask yourself, “What are some issues in your life day to day?”. I don’t mean figuring out which model to run on your local hardware, I mean the softer stuff, the stuff that impacts your life as a human being. Are there things you forget to do? Are there things that you have to deal with that just make your life harder to deal with?
I ended up coming up with a couple of more really helpful ideas when I asked this question.
After some brainstorming, I got to work.
# The Agent Crew
Of course, I didn’t just start with one agent, I started with a bunch. One great thing about Hermes is that you can configure different profiles, each using a different provider/model, and change that model easily from the TUI at any time. I like to tinker so this was a huge plus for me, to compare how models responded side by side.
Here is a break down of my current agent crew, and what provider/model they use currently. I access them using the Hermes TUI and over Telegram.
## Tech Research Agent
Generally I use this agent a topic and ask for a research brief, along with citations. For me, citations are key, because I want to go read the academic papers / source material. For example, I used this agent to help me learn how to do model quantizations, I didn’t have to agent do it for me, but I had it teach me how to do it myself.
This agent uses on the Nous portal currently, with MiniMax M2.7, but I’ve had it use other models/providers in the past such as models off of NVIDIA NIM.
## Tech Task Master Agent
I use this agent for building skills for Hermes, and I also had it do all my TUI customizations for all of my agents yesterday. This is really the anything agent.
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