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Hermes Research Desk
An autonomous researcher that reads, digests, and files.
Intermediate build · Research · 5 parts · Running cost: Free tiers + model usage
Hermes handles long research runs: it searches the live web, pulls sources into a structured index, and writes findings into your workspace where you actually work.
What drives the cost: Low — open-weights brain keeps token costs down
The parts
Agent shell
Hermes Agent — Agent. Autonomous research agent built for long unattended runs.
Brain
DeepSeek V4 — Model. Open-weights frontier model — strong reasoning at a fraction of the token price.
Alternatives: DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, Gemini 3.8 Flash
Web search
Exa — Tool. Semantic search tuned for research queries, not ad-ranked links.
Source index
LlamaIndex — Tool. Turns collected documents into a queryable knowledge base.
Alternatives: LangChain
Workspace (optional)
Notion — Tool. Findings land as structured pages your team can read.
Alternatives: ClickUp
Run this build
Start the build and it becomes a checklist: for each part, mark the one you already have, pick an alternative of the same kind, or compare the options side by side. Every part you confirm goes onto your stack, and the build is complete when every required part is filled.
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