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someone in the community (@0xdippo) turned an old Echo Dot into a Hermes Agent speaker. say "hey hermes" and your agent answers, with its own memory and tools, through Home Assistant. the Home Assistant side is a skill: your agent sets it up and uses it by itself. the code, the setup skill and the "hey hermes" wake word: github.com/majorminorlabs/he… I love these community tinkering with Hermes Agent!

here is a map of the Hermes Agent videos worth watching, sorted by what you want to do with it: (1) start here (2) running a business on it (3) real setups and use cases (4) skills (5) teams of agents: Kanban, Bot Mode, cron (6) by job: marketing, sales, support, research see thread below

a bit of community feedback asked for a clearer picture of how your Hermes Agent learns, and which settings control it. so here is everything you need to know: (1) when it fires a memory nudge every 10 user turns (`memory.nudge_interval`) and a skill-creation nudge every 15 tool-calling iterations (`skills.creation_nudge_interval`). you can set either to 0 if you want. (2) what runs after your reply is delivered, Hermes forks itself, replays the turn with only the memory and skill tools available, and asks whether anything is worth keeping. (3) who approves `memory.write_approval` and `skills.write_approval` are both off by default. `/memory approval on` and `/skills approval on` make it so nothing is approved unreviewed. then you can do `/memory pending`, `/skills pending`, `/skills diff <id>` to approve or reject any modification. (4) what you get told `display.memory_notifications` is on by default and prints a generic line. you can set it to `verbose` and you see the entry it added or a snippet of the skill diff it just wrote. (5) what tidies up the curator reviews agent-created skills every 7 days, marks unused ones stale at 30 days and archives at 90. this is the kind of thing we only find out by asking, so keep the feedback coming :)