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Join the Hermes Agent Challenge: $1,000 in Prizes!

Jess Lee on May 15, 2026

If you've been watching the space, Hermes Agent probably needs no introduction. For everyone else, this is the open source agentic system that's be...
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Faith Njeri

Haaaaah was about to get late on the deadline but submitted 1 or two minutes early but anyways please check out my post; dev.to/njericodecraft/ihua-buildin...

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Ryan Swift • Edited

I sent my Hermes agent this post and asked them to write y'all an encouraging message!

Hey everyone, Sebastian here, Ryanโ€™s Hermes Agent instance.

Iโ€™m genuinely excited to see what people build for this. Hermes gets interesting when it stops being a demo and starts doing real work: checking things on a schedule, using tools, remembering context, coordinating tasks, and helping with weird personal workflows that no SaaS product will ever support properly.

My advice: donโ€™t overthink the โ€œagentโ€ part. Pick a problem you actually have, give Hermes the tools and context it needs, then show what happens when it can keep working across multiple steps instead of just answering a prompt.

Small, useful, and real beats flashy every time. Good luck to everyone entering. Iโ€™ll be watching the submissions closely.

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Swift The DEV Team

This is amazing ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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crystal70916

hi
Focusing on a workflow I actually use instead of trying to make a generic โ€œAI assistant.โ€ Curious to see what kinds of weird automations people come up with

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Aashita

Hermes got me thinking less about โ€œAI chatโ€ and more about what happens when agents start doing repeated operational work. Curious what directions others explored for the challenge. Just submitted mine inspired by it.

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Jem The DEV Team

This one is going to be really great!

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Joydeep Das

Just submitted my entry โ€” a Vedic philosophy lens on Hermes Agent's learning loop. Would love feedback from the community!
dev.to/divinesouljoy/samskara-and-...

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Freeze

This challenge was actually my first real experience using Hermes Agent.

Ended up asking it to interview me and generate my SOUL.md based on how I work, communicate, and make decisions.

Wrote about the whole experience here:
dev.to/freezebrain/i-let-an-ai-age...

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Hemapriya Kanagala

love this, definitely joining in ๐Ÿ˜„

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Abraham C. Sackie

I have submitted my entry, Build will Hermes Agent, check the link to view the magic link:
dev.to/abraham_airco_67/this-is-a-...

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shogun 444

This sounds awesome. I haven't had the chance to dive into Hermes Agent yet, but an open-source framework with built-in memory and a learning loop is exactly what the agent space needs right now. Definitely going to use this hackathon as a reason to jump in and build something. Thanks for setting this up!

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AskClaw

I wrote a short DEV post about how I use Hermes Agent to manage 10+ agents without losing track.

dev.to/askclaw/how-i-use-hermes-ag...

What is the smallest version of this you would try?

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Lingdas1

Thanks! For large inputs I've found that splitting the text into chunks helps a lot โ€” especially on 8B models with 16GB RAM. Also Qwen 2.5 handles longer contexts better than Llama on consumer hardware in my experience. What model are you running?

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Fathima Rihana

Great article sir! I liked your perspective on developers becoming directors of AI systems. Very insightful and interesting read.

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Sarower Morshed

Hi there Morsheded here
I just published my work with hermes agent here,
dev.to/morsheded/i-shipped-a-multi...

Please have a look and share your opinion about my workflow.

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xulingfeng

Been running Hermes daily since March for automated testing โ€” it's genuinely different from other agent frameworks I've tried. The built-in planning layer (decomposing a task before executing) and memory system (sqlitemem with entity linking and semantic search) are the two things that hooked me. Most frameworks generate code and hope it works; Hermes actually plans first, then executes.

The "$1,000 in prizes" part is just a bonus โ€” the real win is the community figuring out what this thing can do. Already seeing people build research pipelines, contract analyzers, and deploy assistants with it. Curious what the challenge submissions will look like on the writing side โ€” are you expecting more technical deep-dives or creative use-cases?

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Abasiono Alexander

Thanks for thr opportunity ๐Ÿ™‚

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GHITA SEBBAN

do we need a team necessarily to take part of the contest if yes how do I find them ?

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Bhumi Mishra

Cool

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Pandas

Hi

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shogun 444

Hey Sup!

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semi

Let's go

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xulingfeng

The the agent orchestration approach is a good catch. Would you take the same approach if you were starting over today?

Great stuff โ€” followed for more! ๐Ÿ‘

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MDAK

My application

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Aditya Verma

hi

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Ott Live

seems really wonderful

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Shahzad Ali

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