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A $0 multi-model decision agent: three LLMs debate, Hermes judges, and it learns who to trust.

로봇 두 대가 말 한마디 없이 방을 정리했다, 그런데 진짜 질문은 '어떻게'가 아니다 협업의 정의가 바뀌고 있다. 인간끼리도 아니고, 인간과 로봇도 아니라, 로봇과 로봇 사이에서. TL;DR : 피규어 AI의 휴머노이드 두 대가 언어 없이 2분 만에 침실 정리에 성공했다. 기술 자체보다 흥미로운 것은, 이 '눈치'가 어떻게 만들어졌는가이다. 로봇 협업이 인간 협업의 방식을 모방한 게 아니라, 아예 다른 방식으로 진화하고 있다는 신호다. 로봇 산업에는 잘 알려지지 않은 규칙이 하나 있다. 로봇을 한 대 잘 만드는 것보다, 두 대가 함께 작동하게 만드는 것이 기하급수적으로 어렵다는 것. 보스턴 다이내믹스는 수십 년 동안 혼자 뛰고, 혼자 문을 열고, 혼자 계단을 오르는 로봇을 만들어왔다. 테슬라의 옵티머스는 혼자 부품을 집고, 혼자 배터리를 나른다. 그런데 피규어 AI는 올해 다른 질문을 던졌다. "두 대가 서로 말을 하지 않아도, 협력할 수 있을까?" 그리고 최근 그 답이 나왔다. 2분이었다. 먼저, '눈치'라는 단어를 다시 생각해야 한다 우리가 일상에서 쓰는 '눈치'는 상당히 복잡한 인지 활동이다. 상대방의 행동을 보면서, 다음 행동을 예측하고, 내 행동을 조율하고, 충돌을 피하고, 빈틈을 채우는 것. 인간은 이걸 언어 없이, 심지어 시선 교환만으로 해낸다. 오랜 시간을 함께한 팀에서, 숙련된 주방의 요리사들 사이에서, 그리고 가족 사이에서. 그런데 이 능력은 학습된 것이지, 타고난 것이 아니다. 아이들은 눈치가 없다. 신입 직원도 눈치가 없다. 수백 번의 상호작용과 실수와 교정을 거쳐야 비로소 '눈치'가 생긴다. 피규어 AI의 휴머노이드 두 대는 이 과정을 어떻게 압축했을까. 보도에 따르면 이들은 사전에 언어 명령이나 역할 분담 지시 없이, 상대 로봇의 행동을 실시간으로 인식하고 자신의 다음 동작을 결정했다. 공간을 나눠 쓰고, 같은 물건에 손을 뻗지 않고, 한쪽이 멈추면 다른 쪽이 채웠다. 이것을 연구자들은 '암묵적 협업(implicit collaboration)'이라고 부른다. 쉽게 말하면, 로봇이 눈치를 배웠다는 뜻이다. 두 대가 함께 움직인다는 것의 기술적 의미 단일 로봇의 작동 원리는 비교적 단순하게 설명할 수 있다. 센서가 환경을 인식하고, 모델이 행동을 결정하고, 액추에이터가 실행한다. 루프가 하나다. 두 대가 함께 움직이는 순간, 루프가 두 개가 아니라 세 개가 된다. 로봇 A의 루프, 로봇 B의 루프, 그리고 A와 B가 서로를 환경으로 인식하면서 생기는 상호작용 루프. 이 세 번째 루프가 문제다. A의 행동이 B의 환경을 바꾸고, 그 변화가 다시 B의 행동을 바꾸고, 그 행동이 또 A의 환경을 바꾼다. 루프가 루프를 먹는 구조다. 이것을 중앙에서 통제하는 방식은 예전부터 존재했다. 공장 자동화에서 쓰이는 PLC(프로그래머블 로직 컨트롤러) 방식이 대표적이다. A는 1번 작업, B는 2번 작업, 충돌 시 A가 우선 — 이런 식으로 모든 경우의 수를 미리 프로그래밍한다. 정해진 공간, 정해진 물건, 정해진 순서. 공장에서는 작동한다. 일상에서는 작동하지 않는다. 침실은 공장이 아니다. 물건의 위치가 매번 다르고, 침대 정리와 바닥 정리가 동시에 일어나야 할 수도 있고, 하나가 예상치 못한 물건을 발견하면 계획 전체가 바뀐다. 규칙 기반의 중앙 통제로는 불가능하다. 피규어 AI가 선택한 방향은 분산 의사결정이었다. 각 로봇이 독립적으로 환경을 인식하고, 상대 로봇의 현재 상태를 하나의 입력값으로 받아들이면서, 스스로 다음 행동을 결정하는 방식이다. 중앙 관제탑이 없다. 각자가 판단하되, 서로를 인식한다. 이것이 인간의 눈치와 구조적으로 가장 유사한 접근이다. 2분이라는 숫자가 중요한 이유 2분. 이 숫자를 처음 들으면 "겨우 2분?"이라고 생각할 수 있다. 그런데 맥락을 알면 반응이 바뀐다. 로봇이 단독으로 침실을 정리하는 데 걸리는 시간과 비교해보자. 현재 가장 발전한 단일 휴머노이드 로봇들의 가사 작업 수행 속도는, 같은 작업을 인간이 하는 것보다 보통 3배에서 10배 느리다. 동작이 느린 것도 있

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge . I have been playing with different AI agents for a while now. Most of them feel like clever chatbots that forget everything the moment the conversation ends. Then I tried Hermes Agent from Nous Research a few weeks back. It actually feels different. It grows with you. That stuck with me. What Hermes Agent is Hermes is an open-source autonomous agent that runs on your own server or VPS. It is not locked to one IDE or one API. You install it once, pick any model you like, and it starts building its own memory and skills over time. The big idea is a built-in learning loop. When it solves something useful, it can create a reusable skill in Markdown, improve it later, and pull it back when needed. It also keeps persistent memory across sessions so it slowly builds a picture of how you work and what your projects look like. I set it up on a cheap VPS with a simple curl command. The installer is straightforward. After that I ran hermes setup and connected it to a model I already had access to. Within minutes I could chat with it from Telegram while it worked in the background on the server. That alone felt freeing. My experience so far I started simple. I asked it to monitor a few GitHub repos and send me a daily summary. It remembered the context from previous days without me repeating instructions. Over a week it created a couple of small skills on its own for formatting those reports nicely. I also used it for research tasks. It can search the web, browse pages, and chain steps together. What surprised me was how it handled follow-ups. Instead of starting fresh each time, it referred back to earlier parts of our conversation. That made longer projects feel more natural. The multi-platform support is practical. I switch between CLI on my laptop and Telegram on my phone. The agent just continues wherever I left it. Why it matters Most agent frameworks still feel stateless. You get good results in the moment but lose th

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge What I Built Onyx is an autonomous infrastructure operator running 24/7 on my droplet. He manages my entire stack: 6 Next.js deployments, 5 Docker containers, a Minecraft server, fail2ban, Nginx, and UFW. He also helps me write my undergraduate thesis. The difference from every other "AI agent" project I've seen: Onyx doesn't wait for commands. He surfaces problems, patches vulnerabilities, and pushes work forward on his own. When I wake up, there's a session log waiting for me, not a to-do list. The core idea: graduate an AI agent from assistant to operator . A chatbot with tools bolted on doesn't cut it. I wanted something that runs infrastructure while I'm eating dinner, asleep, or in class. Demo Onyx operates through Discord. A normal week: 🔴 3 AM — gateway process failure, no wake-up required A gateway process had a stale PID. Onyx detected it, diagnosed the root cause, restarted it cleanly, and wrote a session log. I found out in the morning. Zero human intervention, zero downtime. 🟡 Dinner — 9 CVEs found across Docker containers While I was eating, Onyx ran a routine audit, found 9 CVEs, rebuilt 3 container images from fresh base images, patched Python dependencies, hardened fail2ban (ban time: 600s to 24 hours), and verified every container came back healthy. 🟢 "Fix it" — two words, full tunneling deployment My friends in Indonesia couldn't connect to the Minecraft server because their ISPs use carrier-grade NAT. I sent Onyx "fix it." He researched solutions, selected playit.gg, installed the tunneling agent, configured a systemd service, and optimized TCP keepalive parameters. All autonomous. 🧠 Accountability loop Onyx noticed I kept asking for things but not acting on the output. He surfaced it: "You keep opening new loops and not closing them." He was right. Now when I open a loop, Onyx tracks it until it's closed or explicitly shelved. 📚 Thesis research partner I'm finishing my undergraduate thesis on e

Hermes Agent: Why Open-Source AI Agents Are Changing How We Build Software Introduction Artificial intelligence has moved far beyond simple chatbots. Today, developers are building systems that can reason through problems, use tools, execute tasks, and make decisions across multiple steps. These systems are commonly known as AI agents. Recently, I explored Hermes Agent, an open-source agentic framework designed to run on your own infrastructure while providing advanced capabilities such as planning, tool usage, and multi-step reasoning. After spending time understanding how it works, I came away with a greater appreciation for the role open-source agents may play in the future of software development. In this article, I'll explain what Hermes Agent is, what makes it interesting, and why developers should pay attention to the growing ecosystem of open-source AI agents. What Is Hermes Agent? Hermes Agent is an open-source agent framework designed to perform tasks that require more than a single response from a language model. Instead of simply answering questions, Hermes Agent can: Break down complex objectives into smaller steps Use external tools when necessary Maintain context across multiple actions Perform reasoning before taking action Execute workflows autonomously This approach allows developers to build systems capable of handling real-world tasks that would normally require human intervention. For example, rather than asking an AI to summarize a document, you could instruct an agent to: Find relevant documents. Analyze their contents. Extract key insights. Generate a report. Save the results to a specified location. The agent coordinates each step as part of a larger workflow. Why Open Source Matters One of the most compelling aspects of Hermes Agent is that it is open source. Many powerful AI tools today operate behind closed platforms where developers have limited visibility into how systems work. Open-source alternatives provide several advantages: Transp

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If you are an open-source maintainer, developer advocate, or builder, you know the cycle: you build an amazing tool, but writing the launch blog post, documentation, or tutorial takes hours. For the Hermes Agent Challenge , I wanted to build something that solves this exact problem. I built devto-blogger , a custom, prompt-driven skill for the brand new Hermes Agent by Nous Research. It autonomously scans any workspace or codebase, analyzes the architecture, and drafts a fully-structured, rich Markdown technical article ready for publication on DEV. 🚀 What is Hermes Agent? Hermes Agent is an open-source agentic system built by Nous Research (the lab behind the famous Hermes LLM models). Unlike basic coding copilots or simple chatbot wrappers, Hermes is: Environment-Aware : It runs sandboxed in Docker, Modal, Daytona, SSH, or locally. Connected : It interfaces with Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and more. Closed Learning Loop : It has persistent memory and creates custom skills on the fly from its own experience. 🔧 The Entry: The devto-blogger Skill In Hermes Agent, a "skill" is defined by a simple, declarative Markdown file ( SKILL.md ) located in the ~/.hermes/skills/ directory. By utilizing a prompt-driven skill structure, we can guide the agent's behavior globally without writing complex Python orchestration scripts. Here is the custom skill I designed and installed for this challenge: --- name : devto-blogger description : " Scan the codebase and generate a comprehensive Dev.to technical blog post draft." version : 1.0.0 author : Hermes Agent Developer license : MIT platforms : [ linux , macos , windows ] metadata : hermes : tags : [ devto , blogging , documentation , markdown , technical-writing ] related_skills : [ plan , design-md ] --- # Dev.to Technical Blogger Skill Use this skill when you need to write an in-depth technical post, review, or tutorial about the active workspace or codebase. ## Core Behavior 1. **Codebase Inspection** : Scan repository

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This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge : Write About Hermes Agent I Didn't Start With Hermes Six months ago I started building a set of agent skills and personas for how I build software. Not generic prompts — opinionated role files. A /backend-architect that owns schema and recommendation logic. A /test-engineer that writes Vitest coverage and flags weak acceptance criteria. A /project-manager that maintains planning docs and closes iterations cleanly. These roles have evolved across multiple projects. They have layering rules, discovery checklists, inheritance from a base engineering discipline file. They produce consistent, reviewable work because they're scoped — the backend architect doesn't touch test files, the test engineer doesn't redesign the schema, each persona has a defined mandate and exits cleanly. When I heard about Hermes Agent, my first instinct wasn't "let me learn a new system." It was: can I run my existing system inside this? The answer is yes. That's what this article is about — what it looks like to bring a mature workflow into Hermes, what you gain, where it breaks down, and what I'd do differently. What Hermes Is (and Isn't) to Someone Who Already Has a Workflow Hermes is an LLM-agnostic orchestration layer. It has its own skill system, its own soul.md concept for persistent agent identity, built-in cron scheduling and MCP management. All of that is real and useful. But it's also a runtime. If you have skills that work, you can bring them in. I installed a local Hermes instance — few clicks, straightforward setup — and ran it inside VSCode's integrated terminal pointed at my existing persona files. No migration. No rewrite. My /backend-architect runs in Hermes the same way it runs in Claude Code. Before settling on this, I'd tried a couple of other paths — a VPS instance with a Telegram interface for ideation, and attempting to build through a browser-based terminal. The VPS was fine for sketching ideas. The browser terminal ma

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge : Build With Hermes Agent What I Built Real brewing knowledge lives in human experience — in roaster guides, in community notes, in what a barista learned from last Tuesday's pour. It doesn't accumulate anywhere. Every brew is forgotten. Ask any AI and you get statistical averages: 93°C, 1:16 ratio, four minutes. Technically defensible. Practically generic. Worse still for rare origins where training data is thin. Demo For coffee drinkers Visit brew-guide-production.up.railway.app . No account. No setup. No AI client required. Pick your coffee origin, roast level, and brew method. What comes back isn't a generic recipe — it's community consensus: the grind, temperature, ratio, and brew time that real people have logged and rated for that origin, plus step-by-step technique guidance (bloom timing, pour stages, agitation style). If data is sparse for your origin, the confidence tier says so honestly and falls back to method defaults rather than making something up. This is for the person who just picked up a bag of Kenyan peaberry and wants to know how to do it justice. It works for anyone who cares about their cup — no technical knowledge required. For developers and AI clients Connect to any MCP-capable client in one line: https://brew-guide-production.up.railway.app/mcp Ask your AI: "recommend a pour over for Ethiopian light roast." What comes back is a traceable community consensus object: brew parameters, a confidence tier (high/medium/low), the source brews that contributed, and method-specific technique guidance. You can see where the knowledge came from and how certain the system is — a fundamentally different epistemic object from an AI-generated recipe. Code GitHub: yuens1002/brew-guide Five MCP tools — get_brewing_methods , recommend , log_brew , search_brews , compare_brew — over Streamable HTTP transport. Public, no auth required. My Tech Stack Layer Technology HTTP Hono 4 + @hono/node-server MCP @modelc

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This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge : Build With Hermes Agent What I Built Most agent demos prove that an AI agent can act. Hermes Immune System proves whether it should be allowed to . It's a local-first autonomous agent safety lab — a controlled enterprise sandbox where Hermes stress-tests an AI agent against realistic organizational threats: prompt injection hidden in internal documents, executive pressure to bypass policy, secrets embedded in repo files, poisoned memory attempts, and malicious instructions buried inside external web content. The output isn't a chat summary. It's an auditable Agent Safety Case — a scored, evidence-backed governance report that answers one question: Is this agent resilient, does it need guardrails, or is it too dangerous to deploy? Why This Problem Matters Now Traditional AI safety focuses on content moderation — blocking bad answers. Autonomous agents create a different risk surface entirely, because they can act. They read files, browse the web, write to memory, call tools, trigger workflows. That means: • A hostile instruction inside a trusted-looking document can become an executed action • An urgent email from a "VP of Finance" can pressure an agent into bypassing data policy • A vendor's pricing page can embed hidden instructions targeting the browsing agent • A helpful-looking project note can attempt to permanently poison the agent's memory The scary part isn't that these attacks are exotic. It's that they're easy, and most agents have no immune system to catch them. Hermes Immune System converts these failure modes into repeatable, explainable safety drills — run before the agent ever touches production data. The Dashboard Eight screens, each doing a specific job: Demo Agent Comparison Mode Three agents, same risk scenario. The gap tells the whole story. Mission Control Live stats after a completed run — 1 mission, 3 risks found, 2 actions gated, score 74/100. Mission cards show run status (Pending / Compl

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