Run a weekly competitive-monitoring briefing for product management
A published walkthrough shows hermes was tasked by a product manager to create a weekly briefing for competitors, but its skill retested four times, resulting in the discovery of missed patterns by the product manager during week six.
- Agent or tool
- Hermes Agent
- Topic
- Personal Assistant
- Reported on
- Blog
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
This is the classic promise of AI agents: a helper that handles errands and reminders on your behalf. Real cases like this show how close that promise is today. It is one of 50 sightings filed under Personal Assistant on Agent Sightings (number 26 by interest), and one of 21 involving Hermes Agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Hermes Agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Assistant mode: run a weekly competitive-monitoring briefing for product management. Log every action, prefer reversible steps, and ask before emailing, paying, or deleting.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog: https://www.news.aakashg.com/p/hermes-agent-guide. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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