Currently, TikTok is heavily boosting views and engagement for slideshows, you can check out these channels.
## Why this stack
Slideshows are the highest leverage format on TikTok right now:
• Algorithm still pushes them aggressively (cheap content, infinite supply problem on TT's side)
• No filming, no editing, no face required
• Hook-driven → you can A/B test 50 hooks/day
• Draft uploads bypass most bot detection that hits the direct-publish API
The bottleneck was never ideas. It was the assembly line. Hook → niche → image direction → 8 slide compositions → caption → schedule. Doing this manually = 20 mins per post. For 30 accounts = a full-time job you hate.
Hermes Agent is the right tool because it's not a framework you npm install and wire up it's an autonomous CLI agent that lives wherever you put it (my $5 Hetzner box), with built-in skills, cron, MCP, and subagent delegation. The whole pipeline is just skills that the agent loads + cron jobs that fire them on schedule. No queue infrastructure, no worker pool to manage.
## Step 1: Install Hermes Agent
One-liner install on the VPS:
```bash
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
```Pick a provider:
```bash
hermes model
```I run with Anthropic via OAuth (Max plan) for the agent-y stages (hook research, image direction, caption) and a cheap OpenRouter fallback for high-volume polls. You can also wire Nous Portal, OpenAI Codex, DeepSeek, Z.AI, Kimi hermes model walks through it all.
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