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Notes from building autonomous engineers.

• 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.