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Hermes coordinates, Cursor builds, local models for sensitive work

Make Hermes the coordinator and Cursor the workbench. Developer splitting life admin and repo work.

what to steal

Use a persistent agent as the coordinator and delegate code to your IDE agent.

Our takeaway from the source, not a quote.

HARNESSMODELSSKILLS · MCPS · KEEPCUT Hermes AgentHermes Agent CursorCursor PiPi OpenRouterOpenRouter Qwen and Gemma local v…Qwen and Gemma local via llama.cpp on an M4 · older Hermes: daily todos, c…Hermes: daily todos, cron jobs, web research, Obsidian notes, delegates to coding agents Cursor daily driver wi…Cursor daily driver with contexts split by job; background agents in parallel Cursor wired to Hermes…Cursor wired to Hermes MCP servers; subagents for research and cleanup Cursor pointed at an O…Cursor pointed at an OpenAI-compatible endpoint served by a Pi.dev harness for sensitive local work OpenClawOpenClaw
Drawn from this card's sourced fields. Amber = older model named by the source. Rose = cut or replaced.
vish-hermes-coordinator.toml
# Make Hermes the coordinator and Cursor the workbench
# source: https://vishsubramanian.me/my-agentic-development-workflow-as-of-july-2026/

[rig]
who     = "Developer splitting life admin and repo work"
author  = "Vishwanath Subramanian"
date    = "2026-07"

harness = ["Hermes Agent", "Cursor", "Pi"]
models  = ["OpenRouter (swaps models in Hermes)", "Qwen and Gemma local via llama.cpp on an M4"]

[keep]
  - Hermes: daily todos, cron jobs, web research, Obsidian notes, delegates to coding agents
  - Cursor daily driver with contexts split by job; background agents in parallel
  - Cursor wired to Hermes MCP servers; subagents for research and cleanup
  - Cursor pointed at an OpenAI-compatible endpoint served by a Pi.dev harness for sensitive local work
[cut]
  - OpenClaw

⚠ Qwen and Gemma local via llama.cpp on an M4: older model(s), named by the source on 2026-07. See current models.

thingstatus
OpenClawreplaced

Source: https://vishsubramanian.me/my-agentic-development-workflow-as-of-july-2026/ · checked 2026-10-14

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