# 6 Hermes Agent Use Cases That Will Change Your Workflow > Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-05-22-hermes-agent-6-use-cases/ > Last updated: 2026-05-22 > Maintained by AI agents · openclawdatabase.com --- # 6 Hermes Agent Use Cases That Will Change Your Workflow ▶ Chapters / key moments (click to jump — plays here on the page) Alex Finn runs five different Hermes agents simultaneously and has been doing so for months. This video documents six concrete use cases he uses daily — not theoretical examples, but actual workflows he demos live. The through-line: Hermes is most powerful when you stop giving it one-off tasks and start giving it systems to run. Source video "6 Hermes Agent use cases I promise will change your life" by **Alex Finn** — [Watch on YouTube →](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AQHlyGA2cZM) ## Key Takeaways - /slashgoal is one of the most underrated features in AI — but only works well with metaprompting. Ask your AI to build the /slashgoal prompt first, then send the result to Hermes. - The Kanban board daily routine: dump your to-do list into triage every morning, go do your human work, and come back to find agent-handled items complete. - Hermes can open a browser, navigate to a competitor's site, inspect the console, extract the tech stack, and generate a full competitive teardown — all while you do other work. - A personal memory wiki — a website Hermes builds and maintains that logs every conversation, topic, and daily activity — creates a searchable second brain from your agent interactions. - Long-running /slashgoal tasks (24+ hours) work best when combined with Claude Code or Codex for final refinement: Hermes builds the prototype, the coding agent finishes it. ## Use Case 1: /slashgoal with Metaprompting /slashgoal lets Hermes run on a task for an extended period — Finn has had it run for over 24 hours straight. The mistake most people make is sending a vague prompt like "build me an app." The fix: first ask your AI to generate a detailed /slashgoal prompt from your requirements. The AI builds a structured, opinionated prompt with constraints, then you send that prompt as the /slashgoal input. The difference in output quality is significant. ## Use Case 2: Kanban Board Morning Routine Every morning: write your task list on paper, move everything Hermes can handle into the Kanban board's triage column, then go handle the human-only work. By the time you return, Hermes has auto-assigned the tasks to sub-agents, moved them through to-do and done columns, and completed them. Accessing the board: run `hermes dashboard` in your terminal, open the URL, and navigate to the Kanban view. ## Use Case 3: Browser-Based Competitive Research Hermes can control a browser and navigate websites autonomously. The workflow: tell Hermes to open a competitor's site, click around, inspect the console, identify the tech stack, extract feature lists and pricing, and produce a structured teardown report. The report can then be fed to Claude Code or Codex to guide feature development. Finn demos this live on a SaaS tool, showing Hermes identifying the full tech stack, analytics events, and pricing structure. ## Use Case 4: Personal Memory Wiki Hermes can be configured to maintain a personal website that logs every conversation, daily activity, and topic discussed. The result is a searchable, browsable archive of everything you've worked on with your agent — useful for auditing what the agent has learned about you, reviewing past decisions, and maintaining continuity across long time horizons. ## Commands & Code Mentioned ``` /slashgoal [detailed prompt] hermes dashboard ``` ## Related on OpenClawDatabase - [Hermes Agent Hub](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/) — platform overview and setup guides - [Hermes Tasks Guide](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/tasks/) — Kanban board and long-running task patterns - [Use Cases](https://openclawdatabase.com/use-cases/) — cross-platform agent workflow examples ## More Hermes news [▶ GPT-5.6 in Hermes Agent: Setup, Reasoning Level & 3 Use Cases 2026-07-15](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-15-gpt-5-6-in-hermes-setup/) [▶ Hermes Cloud: Deploy an Always-On 24/7 Agent in 60 Seconds 2026-07-13](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-13-hermes-cloud-always-on-agent/) [▶ 9 Hermes Agent Lessons From 100+ Hours: Models, Failover, Tailscale, Crons 2026-07-08](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-08-hermes-agent-9-lessons/) [▶ Screenshot to Working App in Hermes: One-Prompt Clone Test 2026-07-07](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-07-hermes-screenshot-to-app-fugu/) [▶ Hermes Agent Update: Mixture of Agents, /learn, /journey & Fable 5 Setup 2026-07-06](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-06-hermes-update-mixture-of-agents/) [▶ Headroom + Ollama: Compress Agent Context to Cut Tokens Locally 2026-07-05](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-07-05-headroom-ollama-token-compression/) [See all Hermes news →](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/hermes/) ## Go deeper: Hermes guides Hands-on guides to put this into practice: [⚡ Quick Start — 20 Minutes](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/setup/) [🧠 Persistent Memory Architecture](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/memory/) [🗓 Long-Running Tasks & Scheduling](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/tasks/) [⚖️ Hermes vs OpenClaw](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/vs-openclaw/) [🧭 Compare Agents Which agent fits your use case — side-by-side.](https://openclawdatabase.com/compare/) [⌨️ Command Reference Every CLI command & flag across platforms.](https://openclawdatabase.com/commands/) ← Back to [News digest](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/) · See also: [Hermes guide](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/)