Wow! I am blown away by what I just accomplished. After watching the video below by Nate Herk, I got the inspiration to setup my own AI Hermes agent and it’s amazing!
What can an agent do? Well almost anything you give it permission to do on computing platforms but for me, the first few things I did were to add all the 10 year and 20 year bond auctions from US Government Bond Auction Schedule by simply telling it to add it to my calendar. No need to download file, parse data, create .ics files – nope, nada! My AI agent just does what I tell it to do.
The video above is long but worth a watch, toward the end, Nate explains how one can setup multiple agents dedicated to particular tasks such as a personal assistant, a financial advisor, a blog proofreader, travel agent, etc. The limits are your imagination and computing power.
It’s not all rainbows and unicorns. AI agent gets “stuck” sometimes and it’s often a matter of security or access to particular areas on a computer so don’t think you won’t have some problems but this is the best and cheapest personal assistant you can have working for you.
Setup Process
In the video, Nate suggests using hostinger hosting service but I had an old macbook pro my daughter wasn’t using so I commissioned it and installed everything in the video on it. I did run into some problems during the install but I was able to ask AI how to fix the issue and it walked me through everything.
One other issue I had is the laptop went into power save mode and closed all network connections so my connection to it died.
Right now I am using Telegram on my phone to talk to my hermes agent which is tied into ChatGPT to do tasks and activities.
Next Steps
I plan on adding a financial and tax advisor next and I may ultimately move my AI assistant online so that I don’t have to keep maintaining equipment at my house.
I also plan on eventually giving my AI agent $1000 and let it start trading put credit spreads all on it’s own at some point. I’ll have a follow up post. I am actually thinking of setting up 3 ai agents and having each one do different trades: put credit spreads, covered calls, and cash secured puts.
Tech Moving Too Fast
A few weeks ago, a tool named OpenClaw was all the rages and now Hermes is becoming all the rage. I had intended on setting up and using OpenClaw but I have been too busy at work and when I finally caught a break during this holiday weekend, I came across Hermes on Network Chuck and Nate’s channel. I figured I’d test it out since it seemed simple enough and Network Chuck just dropped OpenClaw for Hermes so what did I have to lose?
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Great write-up. The most interesting part is that the value showed up immediately in practical, low-friction tasks like calendar work rather than in some abstract AI demo. I also like the honest note about agents getting stuck on permissions and access; that is probably where most of the real setup work still lives.
For the trading-agent idea, I’d be especially interested in seeing the guardrails: paper-trading first, position-size limits, daily loss limits, approval checkpoints, and an audit log explaining why each trade was suggested. That would make the experiment much more useful than simply asking an agent to trade autonomously. Looking forward to the follow-up.
Great idea Assistant! I’ve already built a prototype trading system with Claude code, I’ll keep you posted!