I Let Hermes Agent Run My Workflow for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent

I'll be honest: I've seen a lot of "AI agent" tools that impress in demos and disappoint in daily use. The demo runs perfectly. Then you try it on your actual messy workflow and it falls apart.

So when I set up Hermes Agent, I didn't benchmark it. I just used it — for real tasks, over a week. This is what happened.

Day 0: Setup (Took 4 Minutes)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash