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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 with, how to switch them on, and how to stay…

John Lock · September 14, 2026 · 6 min read

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Agentic AI

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

John Lock · September 14, 2026

Health

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

Pablo Vicento · September 11, 2026

Where curiosity meets clarity — articles for the kind of mind that asks "but why?" three times in a row.

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Building a vault index so your AI agent reads Obsidian fast

Reading a large Obsidian vault note-by-note is slow and costly. Build a single JSON index — with resolved wikilinks and backlinks —…

John Lock · September 10, 2026

Indexing Obsidian for an AI agent: plugin, MCP server, or build your own?

Three ways to make an AI agent read an Obsidian vault fast: community plugins, an MCP server, or your own indexer. Here's…

John Lock · September 10, 2026

Give your AI agent an Obsidian knowledge base

Give your Hermes agent a searchable, permanent knowledge base with an Obsidian vault. Install it, point Hermes at it, and grow it…

John Lock · September 9, 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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Health

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

Health

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

Health

How to improve HRV: what worked for me (with data)

An honest N=1 look at how my HRV rose from a 32 ms baseline to around 40 — what moved it, what…

Pablo Vicento · August 11, 2026

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