Hermes Operations: Delegation, Voice, Cron, and Cost Discipline
Gated intake
Chat, text, and voice prompts can pass a quality gate before reaching an agent gateway. Commands require a separate action gate. Destructive or externally visible work needs human confirmation; unattended scheduled jobs should be limited to operations that can run within their existing permissions.
Delegation and cost
Delegate substantial coding work to a separate agent with an explicit model budget. Announce the selected model and require approval for upgrades. Compare cost, latency, and output quality using repeatable tasks rather than assuming the fastest model is the best default.
A practical rhythm
Scheduled digests, ingestion jobs, and integrity checks can share the gateway while keeping distinct permissions. Healthy watchdogs can stay silent and report actionable failures. Speech-to-text and text-to-speech require end-to-end validation; single-file HTML dashboards make reviewable outputs.
How the pieces connect
Illustrative architecture and workflow.