Research & KnowledgeDone with Hermes Agent 2026-10-12
Run a weekly competitive-monitoring briefing for product management
A product manager had Hermes produce a weekly competitor briefing; its skill rewrote itself four times and by week six surfaced patterns he had missed manually.
- What They Did
- The author set up a competitive monitoring workflow in Hermes on a Tuesday and gave it the same prompt every Monday for six weeks. Every 15 tool calls, Hermes reviews the session and saves a workflow file to its skills folder, which the author can read, edit or delete. The competitive briefing skill was rewritten four times.
- How It Went
- Task time fell from 20 minutes in week one to 12 in week four and 8 by week six. By week six the briefing surfaced competitor patterns he hadn't caught in three weeks of manual work.
- Worth Knowing
- The full SKILL files, setup steps and limitations section are behind a paywall, so the details of how to copy this are not visible in the free portion.
Try it yourself with Hermes Agent
Every [day of week] at [time], research what these competitors did in the past week: [competitor names and URLs]. Check their blogs, changelogs, pricing pages, job postings and press, and write a one-page briefing with what changed, why it matters for [my product], and any patterns across weeks. Save a short skill noting what worked so each week's briefing improves, run the first briefing now, and show it to me before you schedule the recurring job.