This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge
What I built
It was a Tuesday. I gave Hermes Agent a research task before bed: "analyse the top open-source agent frameworks and write a comparison report." Reasonable task. Maybe 10 minutes of work. I'd check the output in the morning.
I woke up to a $47 bill and a 34-page report that no one asked for.
Hermes had hit a tricky subtask around 2am, retried with different approaches, gone deeper on each one, and kept going, because that's what it's supposed to do. Autonomous agent. Autonomy is the feature. The problem is that autonomy doesn't come with a receipt until after you've already paid.
