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Guides to the work: what an agent template is, what an agent harness is, how to run your first one, the keys and permissions it needs, and how to publish your own.
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A folder of instructions and skills for an agent — written by someone who did the job, and published so you can run it.
Will AI replace your job?The evidence says tasks move before jobs do, and which tasks is measurable.
Run your first agent templateDownload it, unpack it, point your harness at the folder, and read what it did.
What's inside an agent templateThe files, and the four ideas in them: a goal, a guardrail, a set of skills, and a memory.
Run an agent
The program around the model: tools, files, memory, a loop and a limit.
Set up Hermes as your agent harnessOne install, a model and a key, then a template's skills into a profile.
Run an experiment on your own workOne task you repeat, one agent, two weeks, and a written record of what came back.
Hermes Cloud: start with a hosted agentYour own instance in about a minute, what it costs per day, and how to decide what it may touch.
The types of AI agent, from writing its own skills to a fixed promptEvery agent sits between one that can rewrite its own instructions and one that only varies the value you feed it. What each end is good for.
How to narrow an agent: from loose permissions to a fixed oneSeven steps that replace an agent's judgements with artefacts, and the reason each one exists.
The parts of an agent: goals, guardrails, memorySix parts, in the order they matter: instructions, skills, tools, memory, guardrails, report.
API keys and permissions for an agentGive it the smallest key that does the job, keep it out of the repository, and know how to revoke it.
What to let your agent touchThe reach inventory, read before write, and a stop you can find in a hurry.
Where your agent runs: laptop, server or hostYour own machine, a machine you keep for it, or somewhere you rent by the hour.
Keep your agent in GitVersion the instructions, never the secrets, and keep a diff you can read.
From prototype to production: running an agent for a teamIdentity, secrets, records, approvals and cost: five things that change when others depend on it.
Publishing
Who it is for, what is in it, how to start, and what will break.
Who can see your agent templatePrivate while it waits, shared with the people you name, visible when you say so.
Package an agent template to shareTurn a working agent into one archive a stranger can run.
What review checksWhat a reviewer reads, what gets a template turned down, and when you hear back.
Working with others
Who else can read a template before it publishes, and what they can do with it.
Share an agent template with your teamHand someone a pack without publishing it to the catalogue.
Work on an agent with someone elseWho holds the real copy, how to hand one over, and who gets credited.