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Understanding MCP: how your Hermes agent plugs into everything

MCP is the universal plug that lets your agent connect to new tools and data. Here is what it is, why Hermes speaks it out of the box, and how to connect…

John Lock · September 16, 2026 · 6 min read

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Scheduling tasks in Hermes: from a simple reminder to real automation

John Lock · September 15, 2026

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Set up the Hermes Telegram gateway in minutes

John Lock · September 15, 2026

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Skills: teach your Hermes agent repeatable workflows

Skills are your agent's procedural memory: repeatable, multi-step know-how captured once so Hermes does the job right every time. Here is how…

John Lock · September 15, 2026

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Hermes tools 101: give your AI agent its first hands

Tools are what turn Hermes from a chatbot into an agent that acts. Here is what tools are, the ~86 Hermes ships…

John Lock · September 14, 2026

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Persistent memory: your Hermes agent’s built-in brain

Persistent memory is living memory: a small, disciplined set of facts your Hermes agent keeps about you and its environment, injected into…

John Lock · September 14, 2026

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Switching from Vibe AI to easy-mcp-ai — why I moved my WordPress MCP connector

Vibe AI got this series started, but rate limits and timeouts pushed me to easy-mcp-ai — a free, faster, self-hosted WordPress MCP…

John Lock · June 26, 2026

Extending the Yoast-MCP bridge to support pages — and the primary_category trap

Using my own Yoast-MCP bridge to build the series hub pages surfaced a 500 error. Here is the primary_category trap and the…

John Lock · May 19, 2026

How to make Yoast SEO fields writable via MCP (step-by-step)

By default, Yoast SEO blocks REST API write access to its meta fields. This guide shows how to unlock them with a…

John Lock · May 13, 2026

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The minimal health stack, ranked by evidence: an S-to-C tier list

Protein, creatine, D3, olive oil, omega-3, magnesium, collagen, K2, GlyNAC, zinc, boron — ranked S to C by the actual strength of…

Pablo Vicento · September 11, 2026

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Collagen supplements: what actually works, and what I take

Collagen is over-marketed and over-promised — but there's a real evidence base underneath. What actually works for skin, bones, joints and muscle,…

Pablo Vicento · September 4, 2026

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Acetaminophen vs ibuprofen: what painkillers actually do to your body

I stopped taking painkillers in 2020. Tracing the evidence taught me the occasional pill was never the problem — but paracetamol's safety…

Pablo Vicento · August 13, 2026

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