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Hermes Agent Automation Blueprints: Build ANYTHING!
AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast · 2026-06-12 · 10 min
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Build Free AI Agents in 1 Click: Hermes Automation Blueprints Discover how to use the new Hermes Agent automation blueprints to turn scheduled tasks into powerful AI workflows without writing any code. Learn to automate your daily research and integrate it directly into your memory system for free.
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Problem solved
How
Hermes Automation Blueprints turn scheduled tasks into no-code, copy-paste workflows so agents automate research and ops for you.
Benefits
- Turn scheduled tasks into clickable workflows in one click
- No code or cron syntax required, just copy and paste
- Custom-made templates designed by Nous Research
- Logs everything into your Obsidian memory vault
- One-time setup gives you a research agent forever
Use cases
- Set up a weekly AI News Digest blueprint that writes a markdown research report into Obsidian
- Research report pulled latest news (Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5) with links automatically
- Swapped search API to FireCrawl as a free way for agents to search the web
- Reused research blueprint for competitor monitoring, content ideas and SEO ranking monitoring
- Cut a daily one-hour research task to a one-time 30-minute setup for a forever research agent
KPIs / results
- One-hour daily research replaced by a 30-minute one-time setup
- 100% free stack: Firecrawl, GitHub, Hermes and the API all free
📑 Chapters — tap a time to jump there
00:00
Intro: New Hermes Automation Blueprints
- New Automation Blueprints turn scheduled tasks into one-click workflows
01:31
Research and Intelligence Workflows
- Set up research and intelligence workflow
- Competitor monitor and AI News Digest
02:50
How It Works: No-Code Copy & Paste
- No-code copy-and-paste blueprints, no cron syntax needed
03:34
Automating Your Obsidian Vault Memory
- Weekly digest written as markdown into Obsidian memory
- FireCrawl swapped in as free search
05:28
DevOps, Business Ops & Multi-Skill Workflows
- DevOps, business ops and multi-skill workflow blueprints available
06:15
The 100% Free Automation Stack
08:25
Connecting APIs and Managing Memories
- Connect APIs and trigger memories manually or on schedule
09:26
Join the AI Profit Boardroom
- Get the full setup inside the AI Profit Boardroom
Hermes Agent have a brand new Automations Blueprint setup that means you can turn scheduled tasks into clickable, fillable, conversational workflows in like one single click. So this is a new Automation Blueprints update for Hermes Agent that's just dropped a few hours ago as you can see. And essentially what this means is there are separate templates that you can build directly with Hermes Agent. So we actually tested out one today, set up in like one single click, you can see over here. And you can also organize them with different agents. And basically what this means essentially is with Automation Blueprints, a scheduled task becomes a workflow that anyone can build, which is pretty amazing in itself. So for example, we could say, okay, Monday 9am, Hermes is going to create this, and then it's using the Automation Templates, which you've got on this section, and they're super easy to set up. So I'll show you an example of what we actually did today using what I call the Hermes Automation Engine. So you can set up an engine and an agent that works for you 24-7, even whilst you're not online. And so for example, what we've got here is a setup where we can take a scheduled task, like you can see, and then plug it into our AI agents. And so for example, there's all sorts of development workflows you can get with this. So we've got a trigger for a scheduled nightly. And then you see the setup, you can literally just copy and paste this into your Hermes agent, and then set up the workflow. And anything that needs to configure, for example, like an API, it'll just quickly come back to you. So the one that we actually set up, which I think is actually probably the most useful, was the research and intelligence workflow. And there's two down here. So there's one where you can actually monitor your competitors. And the other one is the AI News Digest. So that's something that I do every single day. And so what it does, essentially, is we copy this text, and we can use this blueprint, and then we plug it into Hermes agent. So if we go into Hermes agent here, you can see inside the chat, we can plug this into any of our different profiles, which is pretty amazing in itself. And then if we go into, for example, the manage section here, and we check the scheduled tasks that we've created, you can see here that we have that weekly AI digest, the one that comes from the Hermes blueprint templates. So the benefits of this is that it saves you time, it's easy to get custom made templates, you can easily organize it and set it up. And then also, if you want to customize it, you can tweak and change it just by going back and forth with Hermes inside the chat. You can also edit it quickly delete it, you can pause it if you want to. If you don't pause it, then it will run at the set time. So for example, this is running out weekly on Monday. And so the cool thing about this is you don't need to create the templates yourself. These are just running the background, and they turn just like raw scheduled tasks into something that you can quickly schedule. So how does it work? Well, basically, automation blueprints before, you know, an automation in Hermes meant you have to like, add it yourself, set up the triggers, think about which API's you need, and sometimes it wouldn't work properly. Now what you have is just a copy and paste setup where you can copy and paste the blueprint into Hermes agent and go from there. Now you might say, you know, cron jobs, they sound technical, actually no, because you don't even need to do this, right? You don't write any syntax or code for this, you just give the recipe from the automation blueprint section on the setup here, as you can see, and then plug those into Hermes agent, and they're ready to go and they're set up. And I'll show you an example of what that actually came out as. But basically, here's a whole pipeline. So essentially, you've got the blueprints, then we turned it into a weekly digest, which you can see here is a markdown file. And this is something the agent writes for us directly into our Obsidian vault. So the cool thing about this is, it's going to take the schedule note. And then it plugs it into our memory system so that it can retrieve those notes and help us come up with, for example, like social media content ideas, or content ideas or different things that we could build each week. So you can see, this is the full research report. And it's actually pulled in the latest news. So for example, you know, Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5, they just came out, and it's already given us the link and found the research. How did it do that? Because it got the notes from the automation blueprint from news research, and then we could quickly plug it in, which is pretty cool. And also, if you need to adapt it, like for us, for example, we actually changed the search API to FireCrawl, because it's a free way for agents to search a web. And we got the API there. And then it can create research reports as well. And what it actually does is it plugs it into our memory system over here. So if we go to our recent memories, you can see that scheduled task, we triggered it early just to show you what it looks like. And that scheduled task, which you can see over here, is now plugged into our Obsidian memory. So if I ask my Hermes agent about this particular research report, or if I ask it for social media content, it's automatically going to take the notes from the scheduled task, pull it into Hermes agent, and then we can use that for content or for ideas and that sort of thing, which is pretty amazing in itself. And then you can run more if you want to. So if you go back into Hermes here, you can take more blueprints from news research and plug them into Hermes to automate and build whatever you want, which is pretty amazing. And so this was just a really powerful way of how you could automate research, but you could do this for any of this stuff. I mean, there's so much different blueprints inside here, I'm sure they're going to expand it as well. So for example, you've got the nightly backlog triage of tasks to be done. If you're a coder, automatic PR code reviews, you have the docs drift detection system. There's also an audit here, which looks super useful. You have DevOps monitoring. So every single use case you can think of, you've got over here and you can actually navigate on the right hand side and find stuff. So for example, they have multi-skill workflows, which combine multiple different skills together. You have business operation stuff, you have GitHub event automations, quick reference stuff. I mean, what you can actually do is actually give the documentation to Hermes and say, hey, based on my current schedule tasks, turn these into automation workflow blueprints, and then you could give those tasks to someone else, right? So pretty amazing stuff. And I call this the Goldie Hermes automation engine, because before, you know, let's say for example, you were doing research. Well, you might spend an hour every morning doing that forever. Whereas with this new setup, you can take the blueprint from Hermes, you can plug that into Hermes agent, and then it's 30 minutes to set up once, and you've got a research agent forever. And actually, you can use this for free because Firecrawl is free, GitHub is free, Hermes agent is free, and also the API is free as well. So it's all free as this update. Some people say it's not. Yes, it is. I mean, every element of this you can do for free. And you might say, well, okay, this sounds like a lot of work. But actually, the opposite is true, because you just copy and place a blueprint, so you're good to go. And then every step is good to go. Now for the actual research blueprint that we used, how it works is you connect the research tools, so Firecrawl and GitHub. Then you've got one script that does some monitoring. Hermes will schedule it as a blueprint using the automation blueprint documentation here. From there, it lands in your agent operating system inside the memory tab. So for example, here, we'll have it inside the memory tab over here, and we can see all of our recent memories and what we've created recently, which is super powerful and useful to come back to. And it's going to run on schedule weekly. So this is running in the background whenever we need it. And if we need to trigger it manually, we can say, okay, just do this manually as well. And again, you might say, well, I'm not technical enough to wire all this. You don't have to wire it at the hand. That's a whole blueprint's update, right? You tell Hermes what you want in plain English. It goes off and it builds the job. Now, you could use the same sort of system on different jobs. You know, you could actually, for example, use that research blueprint and use it for monitoring your competitors, for coming up with ideas for content, for monitoring your competitors' rankings for SEO, for example, or even like a mention monitor. You know, you can customize these blueprints as much as you want to. And so if you do any kind of research or any of the use cases on that news research page, this is going to be useful and powerful for you because you don't have to design it yourself. And also, if it's designed by one of the best AI labs in the world, aka news research, then you know usually that's going to be pretty reliable. And the cool thing is it's a one-time setup, which is pretty simple and easy. And so what you learned today is how to use automation blueprints with Hermes. You learned how to basically connect your agent to all these different APIs so that you don't have to do any of the work. Hermes just goes off and does it for you. You also learned how to stop losing things because everything that you do with these scheduled tasks, you should be logging inside your Obsidian memory so that you can come back to it whenever you want. I mean, we have a full galaxy here where we can monitor everything that we've built, we've created, and we can see it all right there, which is pretty amazing. And we can come back to it inside our agent operating system. And then also, you got your mornings back because you save time with all of these different automations that you get. So that's basically the whole setup, how to use it, the new automation blueprint system, how it works, etc. And it's super easy to do. You know, this is a great update. I've seen Hermes come out with just so many cool updates right here. So it's pretty amazing. And, you know, you can see how it works as a diagram right here. So thanks so much for watching. If you want this whole setup, I mean, you could build it yourself, the agent operating system. If you want the system from me, you can get it inside the AI Profit boardroom. You get the Obsidian memory setup. You get the memory galaxy with Obsidian. You get the section where you can manage all your agents and your profiles in one place. And you get the agent operating system with a video tutorial on how you set it up. And we also add new daily updates, as you can see right here. And then anything useful that comes out, like, for example, recently, we built out a Hermes Idea Factory. And you can get it right here. If you want to build teams with AI agents, including Hermes, Claude, etc., well, we have a video tutorial. And we have that built into the agent operating system, too. And then you can ask questions inside the community, get help and support whenever you want to. Inside the calendar, you can drop off weekly coaching calls. We have a map where you can meet people in your local area who are using AI agents like you. And this is all inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Link it in the comments description or go to the AI Profit Boardroom.com to get access. Thanks for watching.