Build a personal assistant for inbox, briefs, and planning
Marc Bara used Hermes Agent to manage email, planning, notes, research, and invoices across work and home in 15 days.
- What they did
- Marc started with Hermes Agent, a chat-style assistant from Nous Research, and then extended it with more than 50 capabilities. They added inbox sorting, morning briefings, scheduling help, task management, note-taking for meetings, and tools for monitoring research topics. To make it more useful, they also connected it to their task, project, client, and invoice tools through a custom MCP server.
- How it went
- Within 15 days, the agent had become a core layer in Marc’s day-to-day routines, spanning work, research, personal organisation, and family life. They also recorded the rollout as a public day-by-day timeline.
- Tips
- Begin with a few recurring jobs that are easy to review, then widen the scope once the basics are stable. Keep a human approval step in place for anything that sends, books, pays, or deletes.
Try it yourself with Hermes Agent
Act as my personal assistant for [email], [briefings], [calendar], [tasks], and [planning]. Each morning, review my incoming mail and group it into [urgent], [needs reply], and [FYI], then prepare a short briefing with today’s schedule and a simple plan for my day. If you need to send a message, change a calendar event, make a payment, delete anything, or submit a form, pause and ask for my approval first. Also connect your suggestions to [my task/project/client/invoice system] when relevant, and end by showing me what you did plus anything that still needs a decision from me.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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