Pillar articles on building and running your own agentic AI assistant — what an agent is, how it differs from a chatbot, and how to install and extend one.
Hermes proposed the jobs and I said do it. Weeks later nothing was arriving. Three things broke, and five changes keep them…
John Lock
October 19, 2026
In a busy agent, cost is decided by how you route work across models, not which one you pick. The principle: reason…
John Lock
October 8, 2026
MCP is the universal plug that lets your agent connect to new tools and data. Here is what it is, why Hermes…
John Lock
September 16, 2026
Connect Hermes Agent to Telegram: create the bot, allow your user ID, start the gateway, keep it running on Windows, and use…
John Lock
September 15, 2026
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
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
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
Your first coding project with an AI agent: a single-file dashboard of all your AI tools. Start cheap to sketch, switch to…
John Lock
September 4, 2026
Four things I actually use my Hermes agent for every week — summarising YouTube videos, researching a PC purchase I then built,…
John Lock
September 3, 2026
A visual map of the Hermes Desktop interface — where everything lives, how the model picker works, and a cheat-sheet for every…
John Lock
September 1, 2026
