docs: add 25 new community user stories to the collage (#37048)

Sourced from X/Twitter, blogs (Medium/Substack/dev.to), and YouTube since the
last refresh. Deduped against the existing 237 entries by id, url, and author.
237 -> 262 stories.

Highlights: 24/7 Mac Mini agent at $21/mo (@witcheer), automated TikTok
slideshow factory (@cyrilXBT), per-client isolated profiles as an AI-ops
business (@IBuzovskyi), PM briefing 20->8min (@aakashgupta), Railway+Telegram
deploy gotchas (Tessa Kriesel), compounding-cost field report (chintanonweb),
18-agent Kanban fleet (Tonbi), and several daily-automation setups.
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"headline": "One agent, many roles: nutritionist, developer, finance advisor",
"quote": "Users treat their AI agent as a unified personal assistant across life domains: health tracking, software dev, financial planning, language learning. Multi-role auto-routing with named roles.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "witcheer-macmini-24-7",
"source": "x",
"author": "@witcheer",
"url": "https://x.com/witcheer/status/2037530350763524482",
"date": "2026-03-27",
"category": "cost-optimization",
"headline": "24/7 agent on a Mac Mini for 2 months — $21/month",
"quote": "I've been running a 24/7 AI agent on a Mac Mini for 2 months. 18 cron jobs, 35 scripts, 6 custom skills, a structured context system that makes every session smarter than the last. Total cost: $21/month.",
"size": "lg"
},
{
"id": "cyrilxbt-tiktok-factory",
"source": "x",
"author": "@cyrilXBT",
"url": "https://x.com/cyrilXBT/status/2054611133911417266",
"date": "2026-05-13",
"category": "content-creation",
"headline": "Automated TikTok slideshow factory that works while you sleep",
"quote": "Hermes Agent = automated TikTok slideshow factory. It researches the topic, writes the script, formats the slides, outputs in the exact dimensions TikTok needs. 10 slideshows a week manually takes 30-40 hours. With Hermes it takes the time to review and approve.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "ibuzovskyi-3-money-setups",
"source": "x",
"author": "@IBuzovskyi",
"url": "https://x.com/IBuzovskyi/status/2060773706574479754",
"date": "2026-05-30",
"category": "business-ops",
"headline": "One isolated Hermes profile per client — sell AI ops to local businesses",
"quote": "Selling AI ops to local businesses: one Hermes profile per client, fully isolated — each gets their own SOUL.md, memory, cron. Charge $497/month per client to manage their workflows. 5 clients = $2,485/month recurring. Hermes runs the work, you keep the margin.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "akshay-hermes-folder-anatomy",
"source": "x",
"author": "@akshay_pachaar",
"url": "https://x.com/akshay_pachaar/status/2055629943891988719",
"date": "2026-05-16",
"category": "meta",
"headline": "The anatomy of the ~/.hermes folder — one folder controls everything",
"quote": "One folder controls everything your hermes agent knows, remembers, and can do. SOUL.md occupies slot #1 in the system prompt. state.db with FTS5 is what makes 'what did we discuss three weeks ago?' actually work across CLI and messaging.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "sudoingx-general-agent",
"source": "x",
"author": "@sudoingX",
"url": "https://x.com/sudoingX/status/2044405911150829709",
"date": "2026-04-15",
"category": "meta",
"headline": "Community admin: Hermes is the general agent, not a coding/research/automation agent",
"quote": "Someone posts a coding setup, someone posts an automation, someone posts an article they wrote with it. Same tool, different category, every day. Hermes is not a coding agent. Not a research agent. It is the general agent — one tool running every category of work a builder does.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "aakashgupta-pm-briefing",
"source": "x",
"author": "@aakashgupta",
"url": "https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2050349093969694825",
"date": "2026-05-01",
"category": "business-ops",
"headline": "PM competitive briefing went from 20 min to 8 min over 6 weeks — same prompt",
"quote": "Hermes just passed Claude Code in GitHub stars. The killer feature: it writes its own skills. My competitive briefing went from 20 min to 8 min over 6 weeks. Same prompt.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "datachaz-nesquena-webui",
"source": "x",
"author": "@DataChaz",
"url": "https://x.com/DataChaz/status/2061179421990740248",
"date": "2026-05-31",
"category": "meta",
"headline": "Open-source web UI for Hermes with 1:1 terminal parity in the browser",
"quote": "This guy literally open sourced a full web UI for Hermes Agent. 1:1 terminal parity right in your browser, zero build steps, a sleek 3-panel layout for chat, sessions, and file browsing. 100% free and open-source.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "kanika-daily-workflows",
"source": "x",
"author": "@KanikaBK",
"url": "https://x.com/KanikaBK/status/2054572674777797018",
"date": "2026-05-13",
"category": "personal-assistant",
"headline": "The real power is what it does every day without you prompting it",
"quote": "The real power of Hermes Agent is not what it does in a single session. It is what it does every single day without you prompting it. The first run of any workflow is the weakest version of it — after a month, briefings get sharper, shorter, more relevant without you changing anything.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "tessakriesel-railway-telegram",
"source": "blog",
"author": "Tessa Kriesel",
"url": "https://tessakriesel.com/how-i-deployed-hermes-agent-on-railway-with-telegram-and-every-gotcha-i-hit-along-the-way/",
"date": "2026-05-13",
"category": "integrations",
"headline": "Deployed Hermes on Railway with Telegram — the 10 undocumented gotchas",
"quote": "Runs as a persistent Docker service on Railway with Telegram as the interface. Official docs don't cover Railway/Docker deployment — this guide fills the gap. There are 10 specific gotchas that will break your deploy if you don't anticipate them. Full working files included.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "defi0xjeff-30-skills",
"source": "blog",
"author": "0xJeff (Substack)",
"url": "https://defi0xjeff.substack.com/p/hermes-200-and-30-skills-later-here",
"date": "2026-04-20",
"category": "research",
"headline": "$200 and 30 skills later — training Hermes as a personal analyst",
"quote": "Hermes picks 15 of my X bookmarks, ranks by priority based on my investments and interests, summarizes, and proposes next steps. The Reflect skill synthesizes past info, connects relationships, detects patterns — Top 5 Daily Insights and why they matter.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "jahangir-stackademic-field-report",
"source": "blog",
"author": "Jahangir (Stackademic)",
"url": "https://blog.stackademic.com/forget-chatbots-hermes-agent-is-an-ai-that-actually-learns-from-you-d8d517be7b88",
"date": "2026-05-13",
"category": "dev-workflow",
"headline": "After a 15-tool-call monitoring pipeline, Hermes wrote the skill unprompted",
"quote": "After a multi-step monitoring pipeline setup (Prometheus/Grafana/alerts) in ~15 tool calls, Hermes unprompted entered a reflection phase and generated a skill at ~/.hermes/skills/devops/monitoring-pipeline/SKILL.md — adjusting variables per new context, not just template reuse.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "sathishraju-switched-from-openclaw",
"source": "blog",
"author": "Sathish Raju (Medium)",
"url": "https://medium.com/@sathishkraju/i-switched-from-openclaw-to-hermes-agent-heres-what-nobody-told-me-5f33a746b6ca",
"date": "2026-04-22",
"category": "dev-workflow",
"headline": "Sr AI Architect: 40% less task time on domain-similar tasks after 20+ skills",
"quote": "Think of Hermes as an assistant who writes their own manual after finishing a task — so they do the job better next time. Cutting task time by 40% on domain-similar tasks after 20+ skills are accumulated.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "avichawla-masterclass-three-agents",
"source": "blog",
"author": "Avi Chawla",
"url": "https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/hermes-agent-masterclass",
"date": "2026-05-13",
"category": "dev-workflow",
"headline": "Three isolated agents — a programmer, a researcher, a designer — each with its own Telegram bot",
"quote": "Run three fully isolated agents — a programmer (uses Claude Code), a deep researcher, and a designer — each with its own personality, memory, skills, and Telegram bot. Hermes packages a gateway around a learning agent.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "chintanonweb-smarter-and-the-bill",
"source": "blog",
"author": "chintanonweb (dev.to)",
"url": "https://dev.to/chintanonweb/hermes-agent-gets-smarter-every-day-so-does-the-bill-4i8o",
"date": "2026-05-15",
"category": "cost-optimization",
"headline": "Compounding autonomy is a property you manage, not just enjoy",
"quote": "A skill is a cache for reasoning, not just data — re-derivation cost drops toward zero. But the same loop compounds cost drift, skill rot, and trust surface. One challenge entrant reported a $47 surprise bill from an overnight run. Skill-cached runs were ~63% cheaper than re-derivation.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "emmanuel-run-yourself",
"source": "blog",
"author": "emmanuelthecoder (dev.to)",
"url": "https://dev.to/emmanuelthecoder/hermes-the-self-improving-agent-you-can-actually-run-yourself-555l",
"date": "2026-05-15",
"category": "privacy",
"headline": "The self-improving agent you can actually run yourself — Termux included",
"quote": "A persistent agent that runs on your own infrastructure, reaches you across messaging platforms, and gets more capable with use. Supported platforms include Linux, macOS, WSL2, and Termux — start on your laptop, continue on Telegram.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "moonsat-polymarket-weather",
"source": "blog",
"author": "Moonsat (Medium)",
"url": "https://moonsat.medium.com/hermes-agent-polymarket-how-i-built-self-learning-weather-trading-bot-100-5-000-guide-233fd4a008f2",
"date": "2026-04-20",
"category": "trading",
"headline": "No-code Polymarket weather-trading bot driven by plain-English prompts",
"quote": "A weather trading agent that scans 20 cities across 4 continents and 3 forecast sources, with Expected Value and Kelly Criterion position sizing — set up by copy-pasting prompts to Hermes, which clones the repo, creates the wallet, and approves the contracts on-chain.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "tonbi-18-agent-kanban-fleet",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "Tonbi's AI Garage (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKVRqcpTT6s",
"date": "2026-06-01",
"category": "dev-workflow",
"headline": "18-agent fleet on the Kanban board that scouts pain points and auto-ships tools",
"quote": "18 agents working in parallel, 97 completed tasks. Scout agents hunt real pain points, an orchestrator scores against a rubric — anything under 65/100 gets shelved — then a builder+tester ship a working CLI tool. The system self-healed a broken deliverable on its own.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "zsecurity-red-team-telegram",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "zSecurity (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwV5p1L0COI",
"date": "2026-05-01",
"category": "privacy",
"headline": "24/7 cloud red-team 'AI hacking team' controlled from Telegram",
"quote": "C2 via Telegram: launch tasks from your phone. It autonomously researches SMS gateways, creates a custom SMS skill, deploys a tracking page that harvests GPS, and makes everything publicly accessible using a Cloudflare Quick Tunnel — for ethical red-team engagements.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "sharbel-junior-operator",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "Sharbel A. (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZAcWtwoDI",
"date": "2026-05-25",
"category": "business-ops",
"headline": "Runs Hermes as a 'junior operator' across 5 money-making workflows",
"quote": "If I wanted Hermes to pay for itself, I'd treat it like a junior operator, not some magic money printer. Find 25 B2B companies that could benefit from a content system, capture name/site/why-they-need-it, draft three message variants for review.",
"size": "md"
},
{
"id": "sharbel-polymarket-alerts",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "Sharbel A. (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZAcWtwoDI",
"date": "2026-05-25",
"category": "trading",
"headline": "Polymarket movement-alert agent that researches but never trades",
"quote": "Monitor Polymarket categories for unusual movement: crypto, elections, AI, sports, macro. Do not place trades. When a market moves more than 8% in 24h or volume spikes, send me a brief with the link, price, possible reason, and related news.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "vivek-shetye-trip-memory",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "Vivek Shetye (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNVmPGcffg",
"date": "2026-05-04",
"category": "personal-assistant",
"headline": "Telegram assistant recalled Japan-trip preferences while planning a France trip",
"quote": "In a new Telegram conversation I said 'help me plan a trip to France' and the agent referenced the past Japan conversation, recalling my preferences — nature, history, mid-range budget. That's the difference between a chatbot and a personal assistant.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "codehead-daily-operator",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "CodeHead (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GjyOQy19so",
"date": "2026-05-14",
"category": "personal-assistant",
"headline": "7am filtered tech briefing + a check-in that spots tasks worth automating",
"quote": "Every day at 7am Hermes sends a tech/AI summary — not generic, filtered for being a software engineer and YouTube creator — and it says 'the thing you described doing manually every Thursday could be automated. Here's how.'",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "alexfinn-2am-microapp",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "Alex Finn (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoBD7Lc-0MI",
"date": "2026-05-10",
"category": "dev-workflow",
"headline": "Scheduled Hermes to build a useful micro-app for him every night at 2am",
"quote": "I want you to schedule a task for yourself to do every single night at 2am. It should be a micro app, UI, or system that helps us get closer to my personal goals — save us time, make us more productive, or just be generally useful.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "alexfinn-memory-wiki",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "Alex Finn (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQHlyGA2cZM",
"date": "2026-05-22",
"category": "personal-assistant",
"headline": "A clickable 'memory wiki' of everything worked on, plus a 9am priority routine",
"quote": "Build a memory wiki — a site with all subjects we've talked about and daily logs. Every morning at 9am ask me what my number 1 priority is, then come up with tasks to help with that priority, then update your memories about me accordingly.",
"size": "sm"
},
{
"id": "worldofai-recursive-crm",
"source": "youtube",
"author": "WorldofAI (YouTube)",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBp_PXBbe80",
"date": "2026-05-20",
"category": "creative",
"headline": "Recursively built a Supabase-backed CRM dashboard where each build reuses prior components",
"quote": "Used the Hermes Desktop App to recursively generate a CRM dashboard where each build reuses components from prior generations; it can also build full videos using official HyperFrame skills — HTML-native, full control over scenes, animations, and rendering.",
"size": "sm"
}
]