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Hermes Agent Profiles: My Four Specialist AI Agents
A practical guide to Hermes Agent profiles, why separate agent identities matter, and how my assistant, researcher, coder, and content profiles work together.
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Adding Voice Notes to Hermes Through Telegram
How I configured local speech-to-text with faster-whisper, vocabulary prompts, and selective Edge TTS audio replies for Hermes on Telegram.
Controlling Hermes via Telegram: Remote Setup & Security
Learn how to configure the Hermes Telegram gateway, set up user allowlists, manage background services, and leverage persistent AI memory on mobile.
My Hermes Journey: Running a Self-Hosted Agent on Hetzner VPS
A stateless chatbot is a helper. An always-on, self-hosted agent is an employee. This is the story of how I transitioned from localized terminal tools to setting up Hermes on a €5/month Hetzner VPS.
I Asked Playwright's AI Agents to test my blog — Here's what happened
When Playwright introduced its new AI Agents, I couldn't resist trying them out on on a real webpage. In this blog, I'll walk you through how the Planner, Generator, and Healer with the support of Cursor helped me automate my Astro blog from scratch — what worked impressively well, what still needed a nudge from experience (and a few prompts), and what this says about the future of AI-assisted test automation.