"Useful for Me or Not?": His Hermes Agent Checks Every New AI Tool Against 3 Questions Before He Adds It
- Level Beginner
- Setup~30 min (estimated)
- Evidence Anecdotal
- CostNot stated in source
- No-codeYes
What they did
Does your feed throw a new AI tool at you every day? A private equity professional pastes each new tool's link into his Hermes Agent and asks "useful for me or not". It reads the site and answers against what he actually runs, checking 3 things: how many agents would use it, whether it reaches the app he lives in all day (at work, his email only works through the desktop app), and whether his agent already does it. The last one he asked about got "not now, maybe later". He also had it list every change he'd made to it, and found some fixes would be wiped by the next update.
How it went
A quick yes/no/later on each new tool, based on your own setup.
Worth knowing
- One X post. The agent's view depends on what you've told it about your setup, so keep that list up to date.
Prompt
Cleaned version rewritten from the source — not a direct quote.
Here's a link to a new tool: [link]. Read it and tell me if it's useful for me, based on what I actually use: [my setup]. Check 3 things: 1) how many of my agents or apps would use it, 2) does it work with [the app I use all day], 3) can you already do this? Answer yes, no or later, in 3 lines. Also list every change I've made to your setup and which ones would survive an update.
Recommended
Try it in Grok Bot
Grok Bot can run the same 3-question check on any link you send it.
- Copy the prompt (button below).
- Open Grok Bot chat and paste it. Replace any [bracketed] placeholders.
- Connect the listed tools (Email) as connectors when Grok Bot asks.
- If the task repeats, ask: "Make this a daily routine."
Alternatives: the same prompt works in Hermes Agent, Claude, ChatGPT Agent, OpenClaw.
Set it up
Tools: Email · Stack: Hermes Agent
- Read the original source for full context.
- Connect the tools your agent needs.
- Paste the prompt and replace [bracketed] placeholders.
- Run once manually and check the output before scheduling it.
Generic suggested steps, not from the source.
Evidence
First-hand X post: 3-question check for new tools, example verdict on a gateway product ('not now'), lesson about local patches being wiped by updates
Source: X · 2026-10-20 · Verified by us: not yet · Report broken or outdated