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Hermes Research Desk
An autonomous researcher that reads, digests, and files.
Intermediate build · Research · 7 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.
Kit. You pick every part and run it yourself. Any model, any server, any search — and the bill is the sum of the parts.
A Hermes agent that runs long unattended research passes, indexes the sources and files findings where you work.
First-run setup: about 60 minutes.
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.
Channel
Options: Telegram (The quickest first channel to set up); WhatsApp; Slack; Discord. Where you talk to the agent. Both shells speak 50-plus channels; pick the one your phone already has.
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
Hands (optional)
Composio — Skill. One MCP endpoint for 1,500-plus apps, so findings can be filed into the tools you already run.
Alternatives: n8n
Run this build
Start the build and it becomes a checklist: for each part, mark the one you already have, pick an alternative of a kind the slot takes, or compare the options side by side; for a plan, a channel or a policy, choose one of the options. Every part you confirm goes onto your stack, and the build is complete when every required part is filled.
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