4 levels of Hermes Agent setup:
LEVEL 1: main agent
You → Hermes Agent
this is your main agent and your prototype area, where you test new workflows and refine them. it doubles as your orchestrator until you have something worth breaking out
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LEVEL 2: specialized agents
You → SEO Agent
You → CMO Agent
You → Ops Agent
once a workflow is solid, break it out into its own agent with its own credentials, memory and scope.
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LEVEL 3: orchestrated team
You → Orchestrator
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Specialist Agents
bring the orchestrator back in. it now steers the company of agents you have built.
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LEVEL 4: automated team
Cron / Events → Orchestrator
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Agent Team
add task lists so the team works async. cron and events fire jobs, the orchestrator routes them through the task bus, the team handles the work without you
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take small steps, you DO NOT want to automate slop.
if your output at level 1 is mediocre, you are about to scale mediocrity. 20 agents shipping low quality work at speed is worse than 3 shipping great work slowly.
I would rather run fewer agents with better output than MAXXING the agent count and spitting out more of the same.
