The anatomy of a reusable skill
You type a request into Slack — "pull the three biggest AI policy stories this week and summarize each in two sentences" — and Hermes delivers something useful, unattended.
AI Knowledge Series / intermediate
Hermes for Content Pipelines
Build scheduled briefings, content drafts, and social posts with Hermes Agent's autonomous content creation.
The problem
It starts with the situation you're actually in.
Hermes Agent is an open-source, MIT-licensed autonomous agent from Nous Research that runs unattended across messaging platforms, persists memory, and generates reusable skills. You learn to separate its verified capabilities from the marketing claims.
You have a full stack of worksheets behind you: a capability inventory, a setup checklist, a permissions worksheet, two skill prompts, a briefing pipeline, a style brief, a repurposing skill, a scheduling worksheet, a review-gate map, an integration map, and a maintenance schedule. Each one solved a piece.
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do.
The gap between a good briefing and a finished draft
You approve a briefing, then turn it into a finished draft instead of stalling at "now what?".
The four failures, named
An agent that drafts, repurposes, and schedules without you watching is fast. The same loop that turns one approved draft into nine posts will, if a fact slips through, publish one error nine times before you finish your coffee — so you learn to catch it.
A connection is a dependency, and dependencies fail
You keep your pipeline running by understanding the unglamorous reason it usually works — and the dependencies that quietly break it.
Inside the book
A closer look at the work inside.
Build Your One-Page Pipeline Inventory
The artifact you carry through the whole book. List every step you currently perform to go from raw input to published content — one line each — then judge each one. Work the prompts in order.
What Hermes Is, Stated Plainly checklist
- The briefing assembles on a fixed cadence from a defined source list and lands in your channel each morning.
- An approved briefing flows into a first draft in your house style.
- The draft is reshaped into platform-specific posts automatically.
- You review and approve at two checkpoints; everything else runs without you.
The permissions worksheet
The load-bearing artifact. For every capability, set the agent's level before connecting it to anything live: No (cannot do it), Ask (must get your approval each time), or Auto (may act alone). Until you trust a step, Ask is the right default for anything that reaches an audience.
Workspace ready
Run this before any chapter-4 briefing touches a real source.
- Build installed, host machine chosen.
- Model selected for drafting and for routine work, spend ceiling set.
- Exactly one platform connected, in a dedicated low-risk space.
- Test message sent and a response confirmed.
- Memory scope written: remember / never-store / review cadence.
- Permissions worksheet completed, "Send" set to Ask.
- Both worksheets saved alongside your another chapter inventory.
Trust is a configuration, not a feeling checklist
- Trust comes from explicit configuration — where the agent runs, which model powers it, and what it may touch — not from a good demo.
- Install one build, choose models deliberately by task and cost, and verify current pricing with the provider before committing.
- Connect a single low-risk platform first so mistakes are cheap and visible.
- Scope memory before it accumulates and never let it store secrets or private data.
- The permissions worksheet is your contract with the agent; keep audience-facing sending at Ask until you build review gates later in the guide, where these boundaries get their.
The permissions worksheetInside the book
Visual preview
A diagram you can keep open while you work.
Table of contents
9 chapters, built to be read in order.
01
What Hermes Actually Does for a Content Pipeline
02
Setting Up a Trustworthy Workspace
03
Writing Prompts and Skills the Agent Can Reuse
04
Building Scheduled Briefings That Run Without You
05
Turning Briefings into Content Drafts
06
Producing and Scheduling Social Posts
07
Quality Control, Review Gates, and Safety
08
Connecting, Maintaining, and Scaling the Pipeline
09
Your Running Content Pipeline
160
Pages
13,209
Words
60
Exercises, checklists & tools
9
Chapters
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