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The most popular Python project you've probably never heard of has 252,000 GitHub stars and merged over 1,800 pull requests in a single week. It's Hermes, a self-hosted AI agent you program just by talking to it. And it never clocks out. It runs 24/7 on a box in your house, wakes up every 15 minutes, keeps your YouTube channel in sync, and has your morning briefing ready before you're up. Mine started as a few config files. A few months later, it's 16,000 files of skills, memories, and tools it built for itself, all while I wasn't watching. Jeff Triplett joins me to explore this honestly weird but kind of amazing world. And yes, Hermes has a few words for you, too.



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Hermes: github.com

Ollama cloud models: ollama.com

https\://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com

Hermes Web UI: get-hermes.ai

built my own UI: blobs.talkpython.fm

the Hermes Dashboard: blobs.talkpython.fm

the audio from the chat example: blobs.talkpython.fm

the CLI: blobs.talkpython.fm

Tailscale: tailscale.com

Hindsight: hindsight.vectorize.io

trmnl display: trmnl.com

JEV: typesafe.ai

Home Assistant Green: www.home-assistant.io

QMD - Query Markup Documents: github.com

OrangePi: www.orangepi.org



Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com

Episode #567 deep-dive: talkpython.fm/567

Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm



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