Work & OperationsDone with Hermes Agent Sep 13, 2026
Build a personal assistant for email, briefings and planning
Marc Bara added 50+ capabilities to Hermes Agent over 15 days, including email triage, briefings, calendar planning and an MCP link to his invoice system.
- What They Did
- Marc installed Hermes Agent from Nous Research as a chat interface. He added more than 50 capabilities himself, such as email triage, daily briefings, calendar and task planning, meeting notes, and research radars. He built a custom MCP server that gave the agent direct interaction with his task, project, client, and invoice system rather than treating it as disconnected data.
- How It Went
- The agent became an operating layer across Marc's work, research, personal organisation and family life within 15 days. He documented the day-by-day changes in a public timeline.
- Worth Knowing
- The full day-by-day timeline link is included in the original post.
Try it yourself with Hermes Agent
Set yourself up as my personal assistant. First, triage my inbox each morning into [urgent / needs reply / FYI], then write a short daily briefing with today's calendar and a suggested plan for my time. Finish when I have a working morning briefing for [my email and calendar], and show me any reply or calendar change before you send it.
Do this with a skill.
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