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This is a brief snapshot post — mostly for future-me to look back on — about my early success with Hermes Agent. I’ve only been running it for 9 days, so treat everything here as first impressions, not a long-term review.

I tried OpenClaw in the past. It was interesting — I even mentioned it when writing about AI autonomy levels — but it never quite clicked for me. Hermes feels different so far: it seems to understand what I’m asking for more often, with less re-explaining and less “yes, but that’s not what I meant.”

Many people don’t have access to enough GPUs running in their own internal network to run LLMs, and at the same time, they want to be able to able to surface data to that LLM without putting the data publicly available online. n8n offers a nice solution to do this.