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.
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.
| thing | status | why (per source) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenClaw | replaced | Tired of restarting the gateway and debugging broken jobs after every release |
Source: https://vishsubramanian.me/my-agentic-development-workflow-as-of-july-2026/ · checked 2026-10-14
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