Answer your agent with taps instead of reading walls of text
An open-source app for Hermes Agent turns replies into checklists, option pickers, product comparisons and command approvals, and your tap goes back to Hermes. It runs on your own server.
Source
@CamiAi__ on X · 2026-10-15
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-16.
What they did
An open-source app for Hermes Agent turns replies into checklists, option pickers, product comparisons and command approvals, and your tap goes back to Hermes. It runs on your own server.
Result (as claimed)
Open source.
Tools they used
Cost: Hermes Agent: free plan, paid from $20/mo. Checked 2026-10-14.
Set it up
Pick a contained repo or task
Start on a branch or side project where mistakes are cheap.
Install and configure
Set up Hermes Agent. Read what it can run on your machine and limit permissions where possible.
Run it on a real task
Give it a well-scoped issue and let it work. Review the diff like any pull request.
Add guardrails
Keep tests and CI in the loop, and never let an agent push to main or touch production secrets unattended.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Answer your agent with taps instead of reading walls of text What the original author did: An open-source app for Hermes Agent turns replies into checklists, option pickers, product comparisons and command approvals, and your tap goes back to Hermes. It runs on your own server. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Open source. Source: https://x.com/CamiAi__/status/2110744963591885270 Tools they used: Hermes Agent Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Answer your agent with taps instead of reading walls of text What the original author did: An open-source app for Hermes Agent turns replies into checklists, option pickers, product comparisons and command approvals, and your tap goes back to Hermes. It runs on your own server. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Open source. Source: https://x.com/CamiAi__/status/2110744963591885270 Tools they used: Hermes Agent Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Answer your agent with taps instead of reading walls of text What the original author did: An open-source app for Hermes Agent turns replies into checklists, option pickers, product comparisons and command approvals, and your tap goes back to Hermes. It runs on your own server. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Open source. Source: https://x.com/CamiAi__/status/2110744963591885270 Tools they used: Hermes Agent Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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