Build your agent

Start from a kit or from scratch. Either way, it's yours: you choose the model, the skills, and the access.

  • PortableCopy and download your setup. Leave anytime.
  • CustomizableSwitch models, add skills, and decide which accounts it can use.
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Research Assistant

by Matthew Goldey

For academics and anyone who needs a brief with sources, open questions, and a record of what was checked.

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Personal CRM

by Mari Zumbro

Turn a LinkedIn export into a private network map, then add notes and follow-up help.

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Small Business Skills

by Mari Zumbro

Skills for Hermes to organize receipts, financial documents, action items, and spreadsheets for you and your accountant to review.

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AI Signal Guide

An AgentMarkit starter kit

Make sense of AI research and new tools, with explanations that connect to what you're actually working on.

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Mix and match

Start with a clean Hermes

Choose the skills you want on one private machine. Connect accounts separately after it is installed.

Choose your skills
Your fitness agentExample

YouI only have 30 minutes today.

AgentLet's keep the main lifts and finish with five minutes of mobility.

Personal Trainer

by Mari Zumbro

Plan your workouts, remember your weights, and adjust when life gets in the way.

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Build a starter kit with us

Know a job inside out? Bring the real workflow. We can turn it into a starter kit, try it on real work, and decide together when it is useful enough to share.

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Or start from scratch

Rent a blank computer, put Hermes on it, and set up the skills yourself. The workshop walks you through it.

  1. 1Choose the machine
  2. 2Choose the model
  3. 3Give it a job
  4. 4Choose where to talk to it
Open the guide

Off-the-shelf agents, too

One of them might be a better fit for what you need. Check our field notes for what we've tried and what we'd consider using.

Read the field notes

Take it with you

Copy your setup and saved work to your own cloud machine or computer. You can keep building on it after you leave.