Built a 100k-Document RAG System by Hand. Hermes Read the Architecture in 47 Seconds.

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge

For the past six months, I have been building what Hermes does by hand.

Not as a thought experiment. Actually building it: a hybrid BM25 + vector search engine on Cloudflare Workers, a Gemma 4 MoE reflection layer, 100,000+ documents indexed, an MCP server with Durable Objects, multimodal image ingestion with Llama 4 Scout. I won the OpenClaw Challenge writing about spec-writing agents. I built bookmark-cli — a personal knowledge engine with 45,053 tweets indexed from years of reading.

When the Hermes Agent Challenge dropped, I had one question: does the tool do what I taught myself to do?

This is that experiment.