What people build with Hermes.

60+ patterns people set up the first week — cron-driven digests, one-click OAuth connectors, conversational lookups, memory across sessions. Filter by category to find yours.

── 01 · INBOX

Triage Gmail at 8am

Every weekday morning, Hermes scans unread mail, flags anything urgent, and drafts replies for the top three. You wake up with a clean inbox queued.

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/cron weekday 8am — summarize unread gmail, draft replies for top 3copy
── 02 · VOICE

Voice memo to action items

Forward a voice note from your phone. Hermes transcribes, extracts action items, and files them in your todo list. No more notes lost in the wild.

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(forward a voice memo from any chat → Hermes handles the rest)copy
── 03 · CALENDAR

Pre-meeting briefs

Fifteen minutes before each meeting, Hermes drops a 2-line context: who's in it, what was last discussed, what's open. Connect Google Calendar once and forget it.

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/cron 15m before calendar event — pull context, drop briefcopy
── 04 · SCHEDULING

Smart find-a-slot

Tell Hermes to find 45 minutes next week for a call with someone. It checks your calendar for gaps, picks the best one, and sends an invite — no back-and-forth.

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find 45 min next week for a call with Sarah and send a calendar invitecopy
── 05 · FINANCE

Invoice auto-logger

Forward any invoice email to Hermes. It extracts the amount, due date, and vendor, then logs it to your tracker. No manual entry, nothing falls through the cracks.

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(forward invoice email → extracted + logged to tracker)copy
── 06 · TRAVEL

Pre-flight brief

24 hours before a flight, Hermes pulls weather at your destination, hotel check-in instructions, gate info, and your agenda for day one — one tidy message before you pack.

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/cron 24h before travel event — weather + hotel + itinerary digestcopy
── 07 · FOLLOWUPS

Unresolved task sweep

Every Friday afternoon, Hermes surfaces tasks you opened this week that are still unchecked. One message, no dashboard required. Clear the week or carry it forward.

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/cron friday 4pm — list open tasks from this weekcopy
── 08 · INBOX

Unsubscribe sweep

Once a week, Hermes flags newsletters you haven't opened in 30 days and lists them for a one-tap mass unsubscribe. Inbox zero gets easier every week.

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/cron sunday 8pm — flag unopened newsletters from last 30 dayscopy
── 09 · EOD

Evening wrap-up

Every evening at 6pm, Hermes summarizes what you completed, surfaces what's still open, and helps you set your top three priorities for tomorrow morning.

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/cron weekday 6pm — completed today, still open, top 3 for tomorrowcopy
── 10 · CALENDAR

Monday week preview

Every Monday at 8am, Hermes reads your week's calendar and sends a single prep message: who you're meeting, what's due, and where the gaps are for deep work.

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/cron monday 8am — week calendar digest with prep notescopy
── 11 · CONTRACTS

Renewal alert

Tell Hermes once about a contract, subscription, or lease renewal date. Thirty days out it sends a heads-up with the details you stored so you never get surprised by auto-renewals.

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remember: acme contract renews 2026-08-01 · alert 30 days beforecopy
── 12 · FINANCE

Month-end expense report

On the last day of each month, Hermes pulls your card transactions, categorises them, and formats them into a ready-to-submit expense report. One cron, zero spreadsheets.

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/cron last-day-of-month — pull transactions, format expense reportcopy
── 13 · FOCUS

Deep work block

Tell Hermes you need 2 hours of focus. It blocks your calendar, marks you as busy, and holds non-urgent messages until you resurface. No manual DND juggling.

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block 2h focus time now and hold non-urgent messagescopy
── 14 · CI

Failed build alerts

Hermes watches your CI pipeline and pings you the moment a build breaks — with the error, the commit, and a suggested fix. No more refreshing dashboards.

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watch github actions → ping on failure with error + fix suggestioncopy
── 15 · PRS

PR summary on open

When a PR is opened on your repo, Hermes posts a plain-English summary in Telegram: what changed, what tests exist, what's missing. Code review starts before you open GitHub.

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on github pr open → summarize diff + test coverage in telegramcopy
── 16 · DOCS

Auto-update changelogs

On every merge to main, Hermes reads the diff and appends a plain-English entry to your CHANGELOG.md. Commit it or reject it — your call.

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on merge to main → append changelog entry from diffcopy
── 17 · DEPS

Dependency update digest

Every Monday, Hermes checks your package.json or requirements.txt against the latest versions and sends a digest of major bumps with breaking-change notes. Upgrades stop being surprises.

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/cron monday 9am — check deps for major version bumps + changelog notescopy
── 18 · RELEASES

Repo release watcher

Tell Hermes which repos to watch. When a new release is cut, it summarizes the changelog, highlights breaking changes, and pings you. Stay current without checking GitHub.

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watch [repo] releases → summarize changelog + flag breaking changescopy
── 19 · PRS

Stale PR nudge

PRs open for more than 24 hours without a review get a daily Telegram reminder: PR title, author, time open. No review queue disappears unnoticed.

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/cron daily 10am — list PRs open 24h+ without reviewcopy
── 20 · DEPLOY

Deploy notification

When a Vercel or Fly deploy finishes, Hermes pings you with the result, the preview URL, and the build time. Pass or fail, you hear about it immediately.

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on vercel/fly deploy complete → post result + preview URLcopy
── 21 · SECURITY

Dependabot digest

Every week, Hermes scans your GitHub repos for open Dependabot alerts, groups them by severity, and sends a single triage message. Security debt stops accumulating invisibly.

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/cron monday 9am — scan repos for open Dependabot alerts, triage by severitycopy
── 22 · DOCS

README gap finder

Weekly, Hermes lists your public GitHub repos that are missing a README, have a stale CHANGELOG, or haven't had a commit in 90 days. Repo hygiene on autopilot.

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/cron monday — list public repos missing README or stale changelogcopy
── 23 · ISSUES

Daily assigned issues

Every morning, Hermes lists the GitHub issues assigned to you, groups them by repo, and adds a one-line context for each. Your day starts with a clear picture.

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/cron 8:30am — list github issues assigned to me, grouped by repocopy
── 24 · MILESTONES

Star milestone alert

When a repo you maintain hits a star milestone — 100, 500, 1k — Hermes sends a message with growth context and a suggested tweet to capitalize on the momentum.

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watch [repo] stars → ping on milestone (100/500/1k) with contextcopy
── 25 · SPRINT

Sprint retrospective

At the end of each sprint, Hermes pulls all closed Linear issues, groups them by feature area, and generates a what-shipped summary ready to paste into Notion or Slack.

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/cron sprint-end friday — closed issues → what-shipped summarycopy
── 26 · NEWS

Daily research digest

Every morning at 7am, Hermes pulls the top papers and posts from your topic list, summarises them into 3 bullets each, and drops them in a Telegram thread. You read it over coffee.

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/cron 7am — arxiv + hn digest for [your topics]copy
── 27 · WEB

Deep research on demand

Ask Hermes to research any topic and come back in an hour. It browses, reads, cross-references sources, and returns a structured report — not a list of links.

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research [topic] and return a structured summary in 1 hourcopy
── 28 · COMPETITIVE

Competitor monitor

Every week, Hermes searches for news, product updates, and funding rounds for your named competitors and drops a digest. Know before your customers do.

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/cron monday 8am — news + product updates for [competitor list]copy
── 29 · PRICING

Price drop tracker

Give Hermes a product URL and a target price. Every day it checks the price and pings you the moment it drops below your threshold. Never pay full price on a planned purchase.

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track [url] price · alert when below [threshold]copy
── 30 · JOBS

Job market pulse

Every week, Hermes aggregates new job postings for a skill set or title you care about. Use it as a market signal — comp bands, which companies are hiring, what stacks are trending.

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/cron monday — aggregate new [role] postings, note comp bands + stackcopy
── 31 · REDDIT

Subreddit signal digest

Every morning, Hermes pulls the top posts from the subreddits you care about, filters noise, and surfaces the two or three worth reading. Insight without the scroll.

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/cron 7:30am — top posts from [subreddit list], filter noisecopy
── 32 · GITHUB

Trending repos digest

Every morning, Hermes pulls trending GitHub repos for your chosen language or topic and drops them in a message. Stay close to what the open-source community is building.

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/cron 8am — trending github repos for [language/topic]copy
── 33 · FINANCE

Earnings digest

On each earnings day, Hermes pulls revenue, EPS, guidance, and top analyst reactions for the companies you track and sends a one-page digest before market open.

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on earnings day for [ticker list] — revenue, guidance, analyst reaction digestcopy
── 34 · MEMORY

Remembers everything

Tell Hermes once: dietary restrictions, people to avoid, preferences. It remembers forever. Every interaction is contextualised — no re-explaining.

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remember: sarah is vegetarian, prefers evening callscopy
── 35 · FINANCE

Weekly spend review

Every Sunday, Hermes pulls your card transactions, categorises them, and drops a 5-line summary. No spreadsheet required.

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/cron sunday 8pm — pull transactions, categorise, summarisecopy
── 36 · GIFTING

Birthday brief

Tell Hermes the birthdays and interests of the people who matter. A week before each one, it surfaces three gift ideas based on what it knows about them and drafts a message.

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remember: maya birthday april 12, loves hiking and dark chocolatecopy
── 37 · HEALTH

Evening health journal

Every night at 10pm, Hermes sends a quick check-in: energy, sleep quality, mood. Answers get logged to your Notion health page. Patterns emerge without you tracking manually.

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/cron 10pm — log energy/sleep/mood to notion health journalcopy
── 38 · READING

Article save + summarize

Forward any article URL and Hermes saves it to your Notion reading list with a 3-sentence summary and an auto-tag. Your reading backlog stops being chaos.

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(forward article url → saved to notion reading list with summary + tag)copy
── 39 · HABITS

Morning habit check-in

Every morning, Hermes sends a short nudge for each habit you're tracking — exercise, water, reading. Tick them off in chat and it logs the streak. Accountability without an app.

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/cron 8am — morning habit nudge for [habit list]copy
── 40 · LANGUAGE

Daily language drill

Every morning, Hermes sends one vocabulary word, a pronunciation note, and two usage examples in your target language. Fluency builds quietly in the background.

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/cron 8am — one [target language] vocab word + 2 usage examplescopy
── 41 · TRAVEL

Flight price watch

Tell Hermes the route you want to book and your target price. It checks daily and pings you when fares drop below the threshold — so you book at the right moment, not in a panic.

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watch [origin → dest] fares · alert under [price]copy
── 42 · HOME

Home maintenance log

Tell Hermes when you replace a filter, service an appliance, or fix something. It logs the date and item to a Notion maintenance tracker and reminds you when the next service is due.

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replaced HVAC filter today → log to notion + remind in 90 dayscopy
── 43 · GIFTING

Gift memory bank

Whenever someone mentions something they want, love, or hate, tell Hermes. It stores it, cross-referenced by person. When a birthday or occasion comes up, it knows what to suggest.

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remember: james loves single-origin coffee, hates overly sweet thingscopy
── 44 · WRITING

First draft from notes

Dump rough notes into Telegram. Hermes turns them into a structured first draft — blog post, email, proposal — in your voice. You edit, it drafts.

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turn these notes into a blog post draft in my voicecopy
── 45 · IDEAS

Daily idea generation

Give Hermes a brief and a schedule. Every day it generates 3 new content or product ideas based on what's trending. Your creative pipeline, automated.

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/cron daily 9am — generate 3 content ideas for [brief]copy
── 46 · TWITTER

Long-form to thread

Paste a blog post or essay and Hermes rewrites it as a punchy 5-tweet thread in your voice — hooks, build-up, payoff. Publish in one tap.

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turn this post into a 5-tweet thread in my voicecopy
── 47 · NEWSLETTER

Weekly newsletter draft

Every Friday, Hermes pulls your week's notes, saved articles, and bookmarks and drafts a newsletter issue. Intro, three sections, a closing line — yours to edit.

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/cron friday 4pm — pull week notes + bookmarks → draft newsletter issuecopy
── 48 · LINKEDIN

Ship post to LinkedIn

Tell Hermes what you shipped or learned. It drafts a polished LinkedIn post in your tone — specific, credible, not cringe — and holds it for your approval before posting.

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shipped payments v2 today → draft linkedin post in my voicecopy
── 49 · REPURPOSE

Content repurposer

Give Hermes a YouTube transcript or long interview. One command turns it into a blog post, a 3-tweet thread, and a LinkedIn summary. Three formats, one source, no repetition.

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(paste transcript) → blog post + tweet thread + linkedin summarycopy
── 50 · HEADLINES

Headline A/B variants

Give Hermes a topic and it generates 5 title options, each with a different angle — curiosity, authority, outcome, fear of missing out, contrarian. Pick the one that lands.

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generate 5 headline variants for [topic] with different hook anglescopy
── 51 · PODCAST

Podcast show notes

Forward an audio file or transcript to Hermes. It returns timestamped show notes, a 3-paragraph summary, and 5 pull-quote candidates. Publishing prep done in minutes.

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(forward audio or transcript) → show notes + summary + pull quotescopy
── 52 · CONTENT

Weekly content calendar

Every Sunday, Hermes generates 7 post ideas for the coming week — one per day — tailored to your niche and what's trending. No more Monday staring at a blank doc.

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/cron sunday 7pm — generate 7 post ideas for next week based on [niche]copy
── 53 · NOTION

Notion weekly review

Every Monday, Hermes reads all Notion pages you updated last week, synthesises the threads, and drops a 10-line weekly review in Telegram. Your own editor, automated.

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/cron monday 9am — summarize notion pages updated last weekcopy
── 54 · LINEAR

Linear daily standup

Every morning, Hermes pulls your open and in-progress Linear issues, groups them by priority, and sends a standup-ready digest. Show up to standup already knowing your status.

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/cron 9am weekday — in-progress + blocked linear issues, grouped by prioritycopy
── 55 · LINEAR

PR merge → close issue

When a GitHub PR is merged, Hermes finds the linked Linear issue by ticket ID in the branch name and marks it done. Issues close themselves. Nothing lives in limbo.

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on github pr merge → close linked linear issue by branch ticket IDcopy
── 56 · NOTION

Meeting → Notion notes

Five minutes after a calendar event ends, Hermes creates a Notion meeting notes page with attendees, duration, and a templated structure. You fill in the blanks while memory is fresh.

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/cron 5m after calendar event → create notion meeting notes pagecopy
── 57 · LINEAR

Bug to Linear in one line

Tell Hermes a bug mid-conversation and it instantly creates a triaged Linear issue — title, description, priority inferred from your words. No context switching to a browser.

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bug: login button broken on mobile → creates linear issue with triagecopy
── 58 · NOTION

Notion reading list

Forward any URL and Hermes saves it to your Notion reading list with a title, 3-bullet summary, and an auto-assigned tag. Your backlog stays organized without any manual work.

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(forward article URL) → saved to notion reading list with summary + tagcopy
── 59 · LINEAR

Sprint kickoff digest

Every sprint start Monday, Hermes reads the new Linear sprint, groups issues by assignee and type, and sends a kickoff message to the team. Alignment before the first standup.

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/cron sprint-start monday — new sprint tickets grouped by assigneecopy
── 60 · NOTION

Notion CRM updates

After a call or meeting, tell Hermes what you discussed and with whom. It finds or creates the contact in your Notion CRM and logs the interaction with date and context.

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had a call with alex, discussed Q3 pricing → log to notion contactscopy

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