Personal Assistant Agent on Hermes: Morning Briefings and Inbox Triage

Melvin Vivas · X video post · 2026-07-19 · 0:41 · 271 views · Open on X

Topics: AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, Portfolio Projects · Level: beginner

Summary

Melvin Vivas shows a personal assistant he built on the open-source Hermes agent. It runs on his own setup with no subscriptions. Each morning it sends a briefing, and during the day it sorts his email and handles family tasks. The caption says the video itself was also made by the Hermes agent: it used Hyperframes with the Grok 4.5 model and finished in about 10 minutes.

Key points

• The morning briefing includes the calendar, overnight messages, the top three priorities, and a list of things that can safely be ignored today.
• Inbox triage sorts email into three piles: needs me now, can wait, and ignore.
• Human-in-the-loop: the agent drafts replies but never sends them without the user's approval.
• The same agent runs the family grocery list and the kids' schedule.
• His test for usability: his non-technical wife uses it.
• It's built on the open-source Hermes agent, self-hosted, with no subscriptions.
• Per the caption, the agent made this video with Hyperframes and Grok 4.5 in about 10 minutes.
• The full build walkthrough is on the creator's channel.

Resources mentioned

• Hermes Agent · tool · github.com · free
  Nous Research's open-source AI agent with CLI, TUI and desktop interfaces. It now supports hands-free activation with a wake word.
  Also in: Inspecting Coding-Agent Traces Live with JSONL Viewer (Codex, Claude Code) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes Agent: each bot is its own profile (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), An X research bot built with Hermes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Your Hermes Agent on Free LFM2.5-2.6B via OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 55 more
• HyperFrames · tool · github.com · free
  HeyGen's open-source framework built for agents that renders HTML/CSS/JS compositions to MP4 video frame by frame.
  Also in: Codex Astra Making a Demo Video with HyperFrames (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes Agent + HyperFrames: Turning a Web Page into a Video (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex + Hyperframes: AI-Made Explainer Videos (Example: Personal AI) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent-Made Video in 10 Minutes: Hermes Agent + Grok 4.5 + Hyperframes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Grok 4.5 · tool · x.ai · paid
  An LLM said to be trained in partnership with SpaceXAI, pitched as a general model beyond software engineering.
  Also in: Grok 4.5 Works Well as the Model Behind Hermes Agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Agent-Made Video in 10 Minutes: Hermes Agent + Grok 4.5 + Hyperframes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Parallel Agents With Different Models in Cursor Mobile (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 9 more
• Melvin Vivas – full Hermes assistant build video · video · free
  The creator's full walkthrough of building this personal assistant agent.

Try this

• Watch the full build video on the creator's channel.
• Try the open-source Hermes agent on your own setup.
• A daily briefing agent that sends your calendar, overnight messages, top three priorities, and what to ignore today.
• An email triage agent that sorts mail into needs me now, can wait, and ignore, and drafts replies only you can send.
• A family assistant agent that manages a shared grocery list and the kids' schedules.
• Have an agent make a short video with Hyperframes.