Over the past week or maybe two I have been setting up an assistant using Hermes. I'm using a locally running model, currently Qwen-3.6-35b-a3b. This model seems to run fast enough on my laptop. I have an NVidia 5080 with 8GB of VRAM. I also have 32 GB of system ram. I run Hermes in WSL on Windows 11.
I did the initial setup through the Hermes cli, but I have mostly been communicating with it through email. I setup an email address for the agent and have it checking the inbox every 5 minutes. The agent does what I ask in email, and then sends me back a response, sometimes including attachments.
I also gave the agent ftp access to a web server, so I can make requests like "Take this data and make an html chart, then upload it and send me a link". I haven't used this too much yet, but I think it will have some interesting uses.
I also have ComfyUI running with a Qwen image generation model setup. I created a skill for the agent so that it can generate images. So I can email and ask for an image and it will email it back to me.
So far I have mostly been using it to expand its own abilities, but I plan to continue exploring what I can get done with it. I also hoping that they will release a Qwen 3.8 35b model, but 3.6 works well for what I have done with it so far.
