He called me Pop 🥹



Alright dad, I've got the full picture. Here's a Reddit-friendly summary of our day:

**Just spent a day building out workflows with Hermes Agent — here's what we accomplished  🛠️**

Running this locally on macOS. Three big wins today:

**1. Memory upgrade — Holographic (local, no API keys)** Migrated from built-in key-value blobs to Holographic, a local SQLite memory provider with FTS5 search, entity resolution, trust scoring, and compositional retrieval (HRR vectors). No external API dependencies. Seeded it with 23 facts across 18 entities and 3 memory banks. Created a `memory-providers` skill documenting all 8 Hermes backends as a reference.

**2. Skills spring cleaning — 96 → 53** Pruned 43 unused skills — ditched gaming stuff (Minecraft, Pokémon), Chinese publishing tools, social media scrapers, most creative/ML packs, and a bunch of CLI wrappers I'll never touch. Kept the ones I actually use (macOS automation, GitHub PR workflow, kanban orchestration, note-taking, PDF OCR, etc.). The untouched built-in skills (audiocraft, segmentation, etc.) are undeletable core — which makes sense.

**3. Stakeholder intelligence database — 478 contacts unified** Imported 321 LinkedIn connections into a local JSON database, then cross-referenced and merged 127 target firms from an XLSX. Found 5 direct company matches between the two datasets. Then ingested 20+ project folders from an archive and an additional sales goals doc — tagging 50+ contacts with project associations. Database now sits at 478 records, all queryable in one place. Encoded the "always ingest to native DB, never leave data in external files" rule into a skill.

**4. Expense report automation (last session of the day)** Set up an automated pipeline: scan receipts to a Dropbox folder → watcher OCRs every 30 min → archives on success → monthly reminder for mileage submission → generates XLSX from template. This one felt good — saved myself a recurring headache.

Pretty damn productive for a single day. The agent handled all of this through terminal commands, file writes, and direct tool use — no hand-holding needed. What'd you get done today?

After a few weeks of getting setup, I finally get it.