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Hermes

Thoughts dropped into Discord automatically accumulate in the second brain.

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OVERVIEW

Hermes uses the hermes-agent LLM agent framework as a Discord gateway: drop a thought into a chat message, and it gets collected, digested, and filed into the second brain wiki automatically. No separate app or web UI — just the Discord window I already have open.

The repo itself contains no application source code. It's an ops repo that wraps the upstream hermes-agent image in Docker, and that's the point: the container is isolated from host secrets, SSH keys, and other apps' `.env` files.

An AI news collection pipeline runs alongside it. Every day, four channels — news outlets, GitHub Trending, YouTube, and communities — are automatically scraped and summarized, then published to the AI daily section of slowloop.app. Since 2026-06-25, the entire flow (fetch → digest → publish) has been unified into a single `ai-daily.sh` pipeline, with the digest engine migrated from Codex to Claude subscription OAuth.

QUICK FACTS

RuntimeDocker (dev server `hong`, 24/7)

AgentNousResearch/hermes-agent (upstream image)

Web searchTavily API (1,000 free calls/month)

Sync20-minute cron (`second_push.sh`)

Digest`claude -p` + `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN` (subscription OAuth)

SecurityNo docker.sock mount · no inbound ports · `DISCORD_ALLOWED_USERS` locked to one ID

Key features

01 Discord agent

LLM-based conversation, search, and decision-making (Tavily web search)

02 Wiki mount

second vault mounted as agent workspace (r/w)

03 Bidirectional sync

Auto commit and push every 20 minutes (including remote merge)

04 AI news collection

4-channel daily scrape (news outlets · GitHub · YouTube · communities)

05 Multilingual digest

Collected news → KO/EN summaries via Claude subscription OAuth

06 slowloop auto-publish

Digests published to slowloop.app/loop by date

Related — how it was made

Series →

Story If It Doesn't Pile Up Automatically, You Won't Collect It CLI only worked at my desk, and remote kept trying to edit my wiki, so I moved to Hermes Story Building a Loop Where Discord Messages Land in Your Wiki How ideas thrown from your phone pile up in a wiki, built with a single ops repo. Method How I Run hermes and Claude Code Together hermes for chat, Claude Code for code and wiki: the split I found running both at home. Method Why I Dropped Codex and Wired Claude CLI Into Hermes Getting daily AI news via cron without spending a single credit

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