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APA-Citable Sources for “The Optimal Use of Hermes” Below are formatted APA citations organized by which claim in the essay they support. Sources marked [CONFIRMED] were verified via direct API lookups. Sources marked [TRAINING] are drawn from the agent’s pretraining knowledge of well-known, highly-cited academic papers. Claim 1: Hermes Agent — an open-source agent framework from Nous Research (memory, skills, delegation, cron) Nous Research. (2026). Hermes Agent documentation. Retrieved May 21, 2026, from https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/ ...

Update (June 2026): Hermes is no longer part of my workflow. It has been replaced by Claude, a more reliable and consistent AI assistant. While Hermes was groundbreaking in its approach, it leaped without looking too many times—its autonomous nature often led to unpredictable or undesirable outcomes. This essay remains online as a historical record of my experience with Hermes, but I no longer use or recommend it. About six weeks ago, I wrote a short essay explaining that I use artificial intelligence as part of my writing process. The core observation was simple: AI does not originate ideas, but it exposes structure. It mirrors patterns back at you, shows you where an argument repeats itself, amplifies confusion rather than resolving it, and generally behaves less like a writer and more like a diagnostic instrument. ...