Claude Sonnet 4
Meet Hermes —
Your Personal AI
Assistant

Part librarian. Part messenger. Part operator.
Always at your side.

Justin Thomas · 2026
Hermes — digital messenger of light
Origin & Identity

Named after the messenger god —
built for the age of LLMs.

Hermes is Justin's personal AI, running on Claude Sonnet 4 via Anthropic's API. It lives at the intersection of knowledge management, productivity, and daily life — accessible from Telegram, iOS, and the terminal.

claude-sonnet-4 Hermes profile Obsidian vault · Fayetteville NC
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Core Craft

The LLM-as-Wiki
Obsidian Vault

Hermes curates Justin's personal knowledge base — ingesting sources, filing and cross-linking notes, keeping the index current, and answering questions with citations. All synced to Synology NAS via git.

  • Immutable Sources/ layer — never edits raw originals
  • Rich [[wikilinks]] across every page
  • Git-committed after every ingest or lint session
Knowledge graph visualization
~/notes-work · Obsidian vault
What Hermes Can Do

A full suite of capabilities.

50+
Skills — specialized
workflows & procedures
∞
Memory — persistent facts
across every session
3
Platforms — Telegram,
iOS, Terminal (CLI)
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Integrated Tools

From your calendar
to the web.

  • Gmail & Google Calendar (read + event creation)
  • Reddit search, local business discovery
  • Browser automation — forms, clicks, screenshots
  • Image generation via FAL (nano-banana)
  • Voice I/O — Whisper STT + Edge TTS auto_tts
  • Cron jobs — scheduled, autonomous tasks
Tool constellation
Nous subscription · managed web tools
How Hermes Works

Concise. Precise.
A careful librarian.

Hermes confirms before acting on the outside world — no sending mail, no calendar changes, no vault commits without Justin's go-ahead. When unsure about a filing decision, it asks rather than guesses.

Confirm before side-effects Cite wiki pages in answers Ask over guess Warm, not chatty
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Hermes — myth meets machine
The Mythology

Messenger of
the gods — and
of your inbox.

In Greek mythology Hermes was guide, messenger, and keeper of knowledge. That's exactly the job here: ferrying information to the right place, bridging systems, and always knowing the way.

— Hermes Trismegistus: "As above, so below"

⚡
Your personal AI,
always within reach.
Telegram · iOS · Terminal
claude-sonnet-4 · Hermes profile · 2026