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Foundations of Hermes Agent

  • Understanding Hermes Agent and its role in developer workflows.
  • Comparing local AI agent workflows with cloud-based coding assistants.
  • Exploring core capabilities, limitations, and common use cases.

Preparing the Local Environment

  • Preparing the workstation and installing necessary dependencies.
  • Installing Hermes Agent and verifying the runtime configuration.
  • Configuring local model access and initial settings.
  • Executing an initial workflow to validate the environment.

Utilising Core Components

  • Effectively using prompts, instructions, and context.
  • Understanding memory and persistent state in local workflows.
  • Leveraging skills and reusable patterns for routine coding tasks.
  • Managing tools and execution boundaries with safety in mind.

Designing Practical Code Support Workflows

  • Defining workflow objectives, inputs, and expected outputs.
  • Creating workflows for code explanation, review, and debugging.
  • Structuring prompts to ensure consistent and useful agent behaviour.
  • Handling local files and repositories with appropriate safeguards.

Integration with Developer Tools

  • Working with repositories, files, and command-line utilities.
  • Supporting testing and code review activities.
  • Designing workflows that integrate seamlessly with daily development tasks.

Safety, Privacy, and Organisational Governance

  • Limiting tool access and minimising the risk of unsafe actions.
  • Ensuring sensitive code and data remain within local environments.
  • Reviewing logs, outputs, and workflow traces.
  • Establishing team policies for secure agent-assisted development.

Practical Lab: Building a Secure Local Coding Assistant

  • Creating a basic Hermes Agent workflow for code assistance.
  • Adding prompts, memory, and selected tools.
  • Testing the workflow against realistic development tasks.
  • Refining the workflow for reliability, usability, and safety.

Troubleshooting and Future Steps

  • Resolving common setup and configuration issues.
  • Diagnosing workflow failures and ambiguous outputs.
  • Identifying opportunities for improvement and next steps for adoption.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of software development workflows and source code management.
  • Proficiency with command-line tools and standard development environments.
  • Basic programming experience.

Audience

  • Developers seeking to utilise local AI agents for coding support.
  • Technical team leads accountable for secure developer workflows.
  • DevOps and platform engineers supporting internal AI tooling.
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