Hermes Agent — Autonomous Business Systems
Two autonomous income pipelines built on an open-source agent framework.
Systems architecture and orchestration on top of Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent framework — two real, independent pipelines: a local social-arbitrage signal scanner, and a VPS-hosted digital-product publishing pipeline that autonomously researches, writes, designs, and ships products to Gumroad.
// Architecture
Quantized Qwen3-14B via Ollama on dual RTX 3060s — signal scanning runs entirely on local hardware, no API cost
Cron-orchestrated market-hours scans plus 2-hourly news-velocity monitoring, systemd-managed gateway service
Kanban-staged agent handoff — researcher → copywriter → designer → publisher — running in Docker on a hardened VPS
Live product publishing via the Gumroad API, Cloudinary/APITemplate for design generation, MCP integrations for Etsy
// What's Actually Hard Here
This is built on someone else's agent framework, not from scratch — and that's the honest, harder version of the story. It required patching two real bugs in the upstream code (a worker-model environment-variable inheritance bug and an OAuth null-pointer crash) and a full VPS security hardening pass — SSH key-only auth, fail2ban, an unprivileged container user. Debugging and extending code you didn't write, safely, is a different skill than writing a toy agent from zero.
Internal system — no public deployment