Talk from Telegram, iMessage, or Slack. It works every app at the same time.
Four things I actually used it for — none of these are “make me a website”
01 · Read the installer. Do not run it.
Someone sent me curl | bash. I told Hermes: do not execute that. Tell me what it actually does.
The command was a Produck / prduck upload script. Hermes downloaded the installer as text, checked the checksum, unpacked the bundled program, and read the source. It never ran the pipe.
Then I asked it to put their data-handling page next to the code. The site says a thin extract leaves your machine and that raw transcripts never leave. The upload path sends the parsed chat — prompts, replies, plans, diffs, tool input and output — and stores that blob. scan --dry-run shows a skinny preview. Real upload is the fat one.
That is the use case: a computer that will open a dangerous file, read it, and argue with the vendor’s privacy page, because you told it not to press Enter.
Telegram · browser · the file itself, unexecuted
02 · A teammate gets their own Hermes from my chat
I asked if Barry’s laptop was on the network. An hour later Julia had a private bot on that Mac.
Hermes checked Headscale (the status line can lie, so it pinged). When the Mac was up, it SSHed in, installed Hermes, and copied my Grok login over so the model worked. Then it talked to BotFather as me, created @julias_clearsky_bot, allowlisted only Julia, and started the gateway on Barry’s machine. I never sat down at that keyboard.
When we were done with the laptop on the mesh, I said remove it. It listed the live nodes, asked me to confirm the exact ID, and deleted only Barry’s node. Everything else stayed.
Telegram · Tailscale / Headscale · SSH · BotFather · Barry’s Mac
03 · Open Slack, Fireflies, Notion, and GitHub without opening them
The team works in Slack. I talk in Telegram. Hermes is logged into both, plus the rest of the stack.
Barry dropped SOX PDFs in a Slack group with me and Julia. I did not download them. I told Hermes, in Telegram, to read those files. In the same thread it pulled the Fireflies recording of Session 1, opened my Notion onboarding, and looked at a whiteboard photo I sent. I pasted a Fireflies login callback into the chat when it needed one.
GitHub was missing on the company server. Hermes SSHed my Clearsky Mac and copied that login across. After that, one conversation could see Slack, the meeting transcript, Notion, Drive, Gmail, and the company GitHub org — without me tab-hunting.
Telegram · Slack · Fireflies · Notion · Drive · Gmail · GitHub · the work Mac
04 · The company server is just another computer I text
I moved my work Hermes onto clearskyserver from the phone. Same agent, new box, Slack still attached.
The extra Mac had the company bot. I wanted it on the Headscale box instead. From Telegram, Hermes installed Linux Hermes there, copied Slack, Composio (Notion / Gmail / Calendar / Drive), and the Grok login, then took Hermes off the Mac so two gateways would not fight over the same token.
I also texted “add a node to my Tailscale network.” It minted a Headscale join key, sent the two fields (auth key + custom server), and listed who was online. Later: “list the nodes,” “is the laptop up,” “copy this file to the desktop.” The mesh and the server are things I talk to, not a dashboard I live in.
Telegram · SSH · Headscale · Slack · Composio · the company Linux box