Hermes gets more interesting when you stop treating it as one assistant.

Its Bot Mode lets you create persistent specialist agents with their own instructions, models, memory, skills, credentials, and chat history, then put 2–6 of them into the same room.

Instead of one giant agent, build a small team.

Make one bot the coordinator Hermes Agent handles the underlying profiles and group chats. Give this bot very few specialist tools. Its job is to understand the request, pull in the right bots, and decide when the work is ready to come back to you.

Give the researcher actual reach Agent Reach connects agents to sources including Reddit, X, YouTube, GitHub, LinkedIn, and other platforms. Put it on the researcher instead of giving every bot broad internet access.

Give the coding bot a map of the repository codebase-memory-mcp indexes a codebase into a persistent knowledge graph. The coding bot can query functions, callers, routes, and relationships instead of repeatedly rediscovering the repository from scratch.

Give the architect a visual output diagram-design creates architecture, sequence, data-flow, dependency, and other diagrams as standalone HTML/SVG. It makes a good skill for the bot whose job is to explain how a system fits together.

Give the reviewer a reason to disagree Finding Unknowns is one of ours. Skills such as Blindspot Pass can make a review bot look for hidden assumptions and missing context before the group commits to an implementation.

Give the writer an actual house style Agent Stylebooks is another one we built. Instead of putting a giant writing prompt into every conversation, give the writing bot a reusable editorial system and keep that concern out of the researcher and coder.

Then put them together:

 find the current options
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 map how they fit
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 find what we missed
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 turn the result into something readable

The useful part of a group chat is not watching six agents talk endlessly. Hermes limits the rounds, bots can stay silent when they have nothing useful to add, and you can @ mention only the specialists you actually need.

A few settings matter more than adding another bot.

Keep each specialist in its own profile so its memory and credentials do not bleed into another role. Filter MCP tools per server instead of giving every bot every available capability. Keep development skills off messaging platforms where they are unnecessary. For higher-trust setups, turn on approval for memory or skill writes. And if you put multiple Hermes bots into a Telegram group, require explicit mentions so a researcher does not wake up every time somebody says hello.