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Notes from building autonomous engineers.

• 2026-09-11 · 4 min

  Your coding agent can now run an autonomous engineer

  Kairos is free. Install one skill and Claude Code, Codex, pi, or Hermes sets it up, agrees the rules with you, and hands it work.

• 2026-08-06 · 4 min

  Hermes picks up the phone: your agent calls you now

  We gave our Hermes agent a voice and a phone line. It calls you on its own, briefs you hands-free, and talks in real time — while its brain stays the authority on facts and actions.

• 2026-08-04 · 7 min

  Claude Code as your DevOps engineer: AWS, Terraform, Cloudflare

  Scoped AWS profiles, plan-gated Terraform, browser-approved Cloudflare scopes, and a memory that keeps what the last incident taught — the setup that lets Claude Code do real infrastructure work.

• 2026-07-15 · 5 min

  Hermes quickstart: install your agent, then let it hire a developer

  From nothing to a personal agent in your chat app to an autonomous developer on your repo — one terminal session, one message, one browser tap.

• 2026-07-14 · 6 min

  What makes an agent autonomous

  Most tools wearing the label are workflow automation with a model inside. Five properties separate a true autonomous engineer from a very good trigger — and trust is the hard one.

• 2026-07-13 · 7 min

  Recall, not re-reading: how backant-memory works

  Agents re-read the repo every morning. We built a local-first memory with a real retrieval formula and a typed graph instead — here is how it works.

• 2026-07-13 · 8 min

  Steer your autonomous engineer from chat: Kairos meets Hermes

  Set up an autonomous engineer from any chat surface, ask it why, tell it what matters, and approve its risky actions — on any Hermes configuration.

• 2026-07-13 · 3 min

  BackAnt x Hermes: steer your autonomous engineer from Telegram

  backant-kairos 1.5 pairs Kairos with Nous Research Hermes. Install, question, steer, and approve an autonomous engineer from Telegram.