Hermes

A personal automation agent, run by its users on their own servers.

What Hermes does

Hermes carries out everyday tasks at the direction of its users, in ordinary conversation. Connected to Google, it can:

Manage calendars — create and edit events, check schedules, find times that work, and pull details (flights, appointments, deadlines) out of documents and correspondence onto the right calendar.
Work with documents and files — find, read, summarize, and edit documents in Google Docs and files in Google Drive when asked.
Handle routine paperwork — turn an itinerary or confirmation into calendar entries, keep related events and reminders up to date.

Around the Google services above, Hermes also automates the rest of its household's self-hosted world — home lighting and sensors, media scheduling, and monitoring — using the operator's own accounts and hardware.

How it works

Hermes is self-hosted software running on servers physically owned and controlled by its operator. A user chats with the agent; for each request, Hermes uses the access granted on the Google consent screen to perform the requested actions directly against the user's own Google account, and the language-model provider configured by the operator to understand and plan the work.

It is not a public service: it is used only by the operator and a small number of household members and personal acquaintances, each individually invited. It does not offer accounts, and it is not advertised or sold to anyone.

Privacy. How Hermes accesses, uses, stores, shares, and protects Google user data — and what it never does with it — is described in the privacy policy.

Contact

Questions about Hermes can be directed to admin@fudo.org.

Last updated: October 20, 2026