Hermes Bible: You Can Copy REAL Agent Workflows

Hermes Bible is a community-run workflow wiki built by Luke the dev that indexes Nous Research's docs and adds the production examples the official site is missing.

What Hermes Bible is

Hermes Bible is not affiliated with the Nous Research team — it sits on top of their knowledge base and lets anyone submit workflows that are actually running in production. The site has dedicated pages for the desktop app, hidden power-user commands, the /goal slash command, and a 15-level mastery roadmap.

The 15-level mastery roadmap

Levels 0–1 are one-shot prompts and basic chat. Level 2 adds the apprentice model plus soul.md. Level 3 introduces commands and skills, level 4 adds integrations, level 5 covers orchestration with parallel sub-agents over MCPs, and level 6 (the builder tier) covers scheduled and async tasks via the v0.17 delegate update. Levels 7–14 push into agentic power-user territory using /go. Most users are stuck at level 0 or 1 because they never configure agents.md and user.md properly — soul.md matters less than those two.

/goal and loop engineering

The /goal command turns a chat into a structured task. The Bible ships a companion flow with 21 copy-paste commands across six categories: research, lead generation, content, email, operations, and development. Recommended starter loop: research cloud code every 5 minutes, output to markdown, optionally pipe through LLM wiki. Do not trust the output as-is — loops lack an adversarial review loop, so a second agent must fact-check. Skip code refactoring as a /goal task; route that to Claude Code, Kimi Code, or Kilo Code instead, with Hermes acting as orchestrator.

Missing tip: tmux for 24/7 sessions

The Bible's hidden-features page omits the tmux trick. Run tmux inside a project directory (e.g. ai-research with claude), use tmux ls to list sessions, and tmux attach -t 0 to rejoin. Pair this with /goal and you have a self-resuming loop system that survives disconnects.

Pro-tier: Jira pipeline

A documented production pipeline watches Jira tickets, dispatches a coding agent, routes output to a review agent, then a CI agent, with a human keeping merge authority. Hermes' internal kanban handles agent-to-agent coordination while Jira stays the source of truth. Cost estimate per task runs about $12.

X research without API costs

For X research, the Bible documents a workflow that pairs Hermes with Grok to scrape trending news, avoiding the X API paywall if you already have X premium.

Eight compoundable loops

The community lists eight loops worth running: self-improvement, curator, memory, kanban dispatcher, compression, and sub-agent loops, mostly built on /go. Reserve loops for system checks and recurring research notes; add a verifying agent on top.