Tools
How Hermes acts on the world through files, commands, APIs, and apps.
Field guide / Hermes Agent
Stop Chatting. Start Operating.
A practical field guide to building AI assistants that act through tools, remember context, run workflows, and improve over time.
Free ebook by Tony Simons. No fake urgency, no course funnel.
Chatbot
Prompt in. Text out. Start over tomorrow.
Operator
Delegate work to an agent that reads files, runs commands, remembers context, schedules jobs, and reports back.
What you will learn
The pieces that turn AI from a text box into an operating system for work.
Memory
How context persists across sessions so the work does not reset tomorrow.
Skills
How to encode repeatable procedures instead of retyping fragile prompts.
Cron
How to schedule jobs that run, summarize, and report back.
Gateway
How to reach Hermes from messaging apps and daily surfaces.
Workflows
Research, repo debugging, daily briefings, and multi-agent Kanban.
Who it is for
- Builders using AI daily
- People experimenting with agents
- Developers who want real workflows, not prompt hacks
- Hermes users who want to level up
Who it is not for
- People looking for generic ChatGPT prompts
- People who want a course upsell
- People who do not want to touch a terminal
Inside the guide
A short field manual for moving from prompts to operations.
- 01What Hermes Agent Actually Is
- 02The First 30 Minutes
- 03The Mental Model
- 04Real Workflows I Run Every Day
- 05The Operator Loop
- 06Where People Screw This Up
- 07The Next Layer
- 08Quickstart Reference
Final call
Get the guide.
Start with Chapter 3 for the mental model. Jump to Chapter 4 for the workflows.