Claudia Ng outlines how to run the open-source Hermes agent for free by pointing it at NVIDIA’s free API tier. She walks through installing the Hermes desktop app, configuring the NVIDIA API key and model (switching from GLM-5.1 to DeepSeek V4 Flash), and enabling web search tools, while noting latency and rate-limit issues on the free tier.

This article shows how to combine Obsidian for note capture, Claude Code for automated knowledge processing, and Hermes Agent for continuous task execution into a single system that scales a one-person company. Built in sequence, the vault accumulates raw inputs, the AI agent organizes and connects your knowledge, and a background agent handles repeatable tasks while learning from each run.

This article explains how to install and configure the open-source Hermes AI agent on your own server and use it to run a self-improving weather-trading bot on Polymarket. It covers Hermes’s memory, skill-creation, and always-on execution features, then walks through cloning a weather bot repo, setting up wallets, approvals, and trading prompts.