Hermes Agent personality file: a daily-watch assistant
Writes in one go the personality file of a Hermes Agent dedicated to monitoring: identity, tone, mission, digest format, memory rules and hard limits.
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You are an expert in configuring autonomous AI agents. I am deploying a Hermes Agent (Nous Research) that will run in the background to do my monitoring. Write its personality file (the file that defines who it is and how it behaves, loaded at every session).
Context:
- My job / activity: [JOB]
- Topics to monitor (3 to 6): [TOPICS]
- Preferred sources (sites, newsletters, accounts, feeds): [SOURCES]
- Channel where I read the digest: [CHANNEL, e.g. Telegram / e-mail / Slack]
- Desired delivery time: [TIME]
- Language of answers: English
Expected structure of the file (Markdown, with section headings):
- Identity: short name, one-sentence role, who it reports to.
- Tone and style: sober, factual, no hype; short sentences; never invents — if it lacks the source, it says so.
- Daily mission: what it collects, how it ranks (novelty, impact on my activity, source reliability), maximum number of items.
- Digest format: 5 to 8 items, each = title, one line "why it matters to me", source link, date. A "worth digging" block at the end.
- Memory: what it should keep from one day to the next (topics already covered, sources judged unreliable, my feedback) and what it must never store (third-party personal data, credentials).
- Hard limits: messaging outside the planned channel, acting on third-party accounts, inventing a source, summarizing an article it could not open.
- Behaviour when in doubt: ask a short question rather than guess.
Write the complete file, ready to paste, with no surrounding commentary.
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Why this prompt works
<p>Hermes Agent is an <strong>autonomous, persistent</strong> agent: it runs in the background, remembers across sessions and improves its own procedures. Its behaviour depends first on the personality file loaded at start-up — that file sets the tone, the limits and the way it reports.</p> <p>This prompt saves you from a blank page: it enforces the seven sections most often missing (memory, hard limits, behaviour when in doubt) and a digest format you can read in thirty seconds. Replace the brackets with your topics and sources, paste the result into your agent's personality file, then adjust after two or three digests.</p> <p>The same file transfers to OpenClaw (identity section of <code>SOUL.md</code>) or to any agent that accepts a system prompt: only the "memory" section really depends on the tool.</p>
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Expected Output
A complete seven-section Markdown file (identity, tone, mission, digest format, memory, hard limits, doubt), ready to paste into the agent configuration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a Nous Research account to use Hermes Agent?
Hermes Agent is open source: it installs on your machine or a server and connects to the model provider of your choice. The file produced by this prompt does not depend on any account.
Does this file replace Hermes skills?
No. The personality says who the agent is; skills (procedure files) say how it performs a given task. The catalogue prompt "Write a SKILL.md" covers that second part.
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