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Hermes

Hermes is the always-on AI agent and chat gateway that runs this box's knowledge and automation layer. In the Stack Sovereignty course roadmap it is "Week 2" — the orchestrator that sits above the on-box claude-code, deciding what needs doing and delegating execution. Hermes curates and maintains this wiki.

Role on the box

  • Orchestrator: tasks claude-code (the "VPS architect") to install/configure services on the box, and spawns research subagents — keeping heavy work out of its own context. See ai-agent-orchestration.
  • Knowledge layer: owns the karpathy-llm-wiki structure, runs the daily ingestion pipeline, and files curated pages.
  • Interface: reachable from chat; scheduled work runs via cron rather than a hand-rolled bot.

Why the two-agent split

The division of labor is deliberate: Hermes reasons and delegates; claude-code executes on the box. Deterministic clockwork (backups, cert renewal) stays as plain code — intelligence is reserved for judgment. This is the concrete answer to "run your own AI agents on infrastructure you own."