Anybody giving Hermes access to do REAL work (removing safeguards)
I started with an install on a single Hetzner $10 VPS server and fully gave Hermes full access to be my sys admin, network admin. I already had 7-8 others for my MSP business (army of 1) and knew that I wanted to downsized my VPS fleet and move hosts with Hetzner's pending price increase. Netcup would be my new home with a few of their bare-metal boxes.
I purchased the first box, provisioned it and gave Hermes access and told him to clone himself. He cloned himself with no issues. I purchased 3 more boxes and gave him those also to provision according to my standards. Done. Apps deployed with data/databases moved. We even converted his old self (original server) as a warm standby. He backs himself up to an S3 and his warm-standby pulls it down every 15-minutes, pings is new box to make sure it's up, he's running and Telegram is running. If he's dead, new box turns on and messages me in telegram to let me know.
He does EVERYTHING for me. I was already using LiteLLM with Open WebUI so I've always kept plenty of provider API keys. All of them are assigned to him through LiteLLM as a virtual key. Makes it easy to track spending. I've been a little wild with him. He's the orchestrator/conductor. He delegates tasks to other models. He's pretty amazing with the right guardrails and prompts.
I definitely wouldn't recommend or encourage that anyone give their Hermes agent the access that I've given mine, because there have been some growing pains. We've also developed some really amazing tools/products/services and even just sold a subscription to a product that i had an idea for (started ideation/discovery on a Wednesday and sold the subscription the following Tuesday for $500/mo).
I probably have 15 products in some phase of development right now. All of them are customer-facing for SMB.