Hermes Agent Prompt Kit
The three prompts behind my Hermes review — an X research scout, an unattended-job runner, and a legible-and-safe setup — plus the TASKS.md and STATUS.md templates, in one drop-in folder. Give an agent one real job you can walk away from.
Three steps, then hands off
Copy the folder.
Drop the whole folder somewhere and rename it for your job. The prompts, the two templates, and the results/ folder are already wired together.
Set up and kick off.
Run the setup prompt once to prepare a clean, safe workspace, fill in the JOB block in TASKS.md, then paste the kickoff prompt to register the batch on cron.
Walk away.
The 45-minute batch worker wakes a fresh agent each tick, does one bounded batch, and checkpoints to the ledger. Read STATUS.md to see exactly what it did.
What's inside
X research scout prompt
Point Hermes at one X object — a product, a claim, an account — and get a sourced research brief, not a pile of posts. Forces native Grok x_search, so it spends zero personal X API credit.
Job-kickoff prompt
Paste once to start the job. Verifies the cron scheduler is actually firing, registers the recurring batch, and runs the first batch.
45-minute batch worker (DISPATCH)
The recurring prompt the cron runs every 45 minutes: wake a fresh Hermes, read the ledger, do one bounded batch, checkpoint, exit. State lives in the files, so a missed tick or a sleeping Mac costs nothing.
Legible-and-safe setup prompt
Run this first. Prepares a clean workspace: preflight checks, the ledger contract, the browser ladder, and the safety floor — plus the guard that makes every self-written skill wait for your approval.
TASKS.md job-brief template
The one file Hermes reads to know the job: one bounded goal, its checkable success condition, task states, and the execution protocol. Fill in the JOB block.
STATUS.md ledger template
The file you read to see what the agent actually did. Hermes rewrites it after every task — states, batch log, resume-from — so a fresh run rebuilds from it alone.
README / quickstart
The drop-in map: what each file is, the run order, and the results/ folder every task writes into. Copy the folder, rename it for your job, go.
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