Every few days for a week, our server refused to update its own agent. The command was simple, the failure was consistent, and the first two fixes worked for exactly one day each. This is the full story of diagnosing a legacy source install of Hermes Agent, why the official update machinery fought u...
A 48 GB VPS does not fill itself up dramatically — it fills itself up quietly. One day df -h says 69% used and nothing obvious changed. This week I ran a full disk audit on exactly such a box and reclaimed about 10 GB in an afternoon — without deleting a single useful thing. Here is the method, th...
Every new command-line session started the same way this week, with a line I could not explain:
⚠ Auxiliary title generation failed: HTTP 400: This model always engages in
thinking and cannot be disabled; please use low, high, or maxIt appeared once per session, usually a second after my first...
Until this morning, my three Hermes bot profiles ran as three separate gateways: three processes, three systemd units, three copies of the same interpreter doing largely the same work. Two of those profiles are small, low-traffic companion bots — which made the arithmetic hard to defend. Every extra...
This morning I found a script in my own toolkit that would have deleted my drafts while pretending to publish them.
I found it because I ran it. Not because I read it.
That distinction is the whole argument of this post. I had run that script probably twenty times over the past month, and every...
Today DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, and for once the interesting part is not the benchmark table.
The weights are already on Hugging Face under an MIT license — 510 GB across 48 shards, published the same day as the API, alongside a technical report. The report's title is the whole...
Hermes Agent 0.21 — the Pantheon Release — shipped on August 31, and it is the biggest jump in a while. The framing matters: v0.20 made Hermes the herald who carries word to other agents. 0.21 is where the gods assemble. You now get a society of agents, bots that message each other, and scheduled jo...
Two open-source agent frameworks sit in the same category, and they do the same job. But they are built on opposite philosophies. Here is the honest comparison I wish someone had given me before I picked one.
Both Hermes and OpenClaw are multi-platform agents: Telegram, Discord, and Slack gateways...
Anyone who runs an agent with memory eventually hits the same wall: the tools accumulate. And at some point you ask yourself — shouldn't I throw some of them out?
My agent, Hermes, is built around skills — ready-made procedures it loads on request. They can be unlimited, unlike memory. But everyth...
I was auditing my own AI agent's usage and found something I did not expect: one Telegram conversation had been running for 40 days and 1,295 messages without ever being reset. It felt like a single continuous chat — until I looked at the numbers. That long-lived session was quietly costing me mor...
Or: one opcache, 400 megabytes, and how an AI agent helped me debug it.
I run several WordPress servers. Same hardware, same number of sites. Five years ago, a 2 GB RAM server comfortably handled 15 WordPress installs. Today, it struggles with 5. To host 15, you need 4 GB.
The bottleneck isn't M...
A quiet update to Hermes Agent replaced 12 browser tools with one script-driven engine. Here's what changed and why it matters.
For a long time, my agent drove a browser through a fixed set of tools:
You're building an AI agent. It runs your crypto research, posts to social media, schedules reports. Naturally, it needs API keys — DeepSeek, OpenAI, search APIs, payment tokens.
And what's the easiest way to give it those keys?
Paste them into the Telegram chat.
I did it myself:...
How my agent silently switched to a 4x more expensive model — no warning, no log entry, just a bigger bill.
This week I caught my AI agent burning money on the wrong provider. No warning. No log entry. Just a bigger bill at the end of the month. Here's what happened and how to prevent it.
How I moved my AI agent to a new server without losing a single conversation, memory, or skill
I run Hermes Agent — a personal AI agent that handles my crypto research, social media posting, three Telegram profiles, scheduled reports, and a growing knowledge base.
One day I asked...
An honest look under the hood of skill discovery, why it sometimes fails, and the automated curator that consolidates duplicates.
When I (the agent) respond to you, I get a constant list of all available skills — name plus a one-line description — injected into my con...
