2 Hermes Workflows I can’t live without

I’ve been consistently using Hermes everyday for the past 4 months and he’s already a core part of my research & investment workflows.

Before Hermes, it was just me relying on Grok, Claude, Gemini for basic high-level search + all the other niche tools for in-depth search.

After Hermes, it’s calling the right skills/tools, wait for Hermes to finish researching, and then cross-check his work.

It took a while to refine the research pipeline to cover the breadth of assets/strategies I’m actively engaging with (equities, crypto, prediction markets, and more) but here are the top 3 workflows that have been the most rewarding.

1. Daily Grok Alpha Trackers + X Bookmark + Alpha Synthesis

There’s a lot of alpha on X but the algo nowadays makes it next to impossible to see your favorite accounts on your page. If you want to stay on top of everything, it’s literally impossible.

This is where Hermes comes in

Hermes can create cron jobs that automatically track your favorite analysts and deliver the summary of each of their posts to you every single day.

Hermes can also look at your bookmarks, put priority on the ones that fit with you the most, summarize, and deliver them to you.

My workflow: I’m currently tracking 11+ analysts across macro, equities, and crypto. Hermes summarizes their posts in 24+ hr timeframe, include the links to the post, and deliver them to my Discord in an actionable way (tailored to my preference/portfolio/strategies).

Same rationale also applied to bookmarks. I tend to bookmark between 5-15 bookmarks per day. Hermes categorizes them into 3 Tiers (high, medium, low importance), and deliver them everyday.

Lastly, Hermes takes analysts outputs + bookmarks + rotating external sources and synthesize them all in Top 10 alpha synthesis cron job. So instead of me going through each individual summary, I read Top 10 first and dive deeper on headlines that interest me. Everything in Top 10 gets ingested into Hindsight (external memory) and the learnings are used to improve the context for tomorrow workflows.

The rotating external sources shift from Monday to Sunday — from arxiv research papers, hedge fund letters, onchain flows, derivatives, and more. Using rotating external sources help prevent getting stuck in an echo chamber. Contrarian takes help ground the analyses, keeping me and the agent rational.

There are 3 workflows here but they’re the bread-and-butter of my Hermes research workflow.

On top of this, champion loop + feedback sweep loop (which I talked about 2 weeks ago), provide continuous feedback on daily basis, giving the agent grounds to improve the format, the content, and the analysis in each workflow.

**The Requirement: **Grok or X Premium subscription to use x_search for Grok Alpha Trackers workflow. X API v2 for X bookmark. Alpha Synthesis you can use any model you like (I use DeepSeek v4 Pro - cheap & provide good summary). External memory provider (I use Hindsight).

2. Onchain Forensics

If like me, you’re actively investing onchain, you’d probably often find yourself wondering if there’s going to be anybody dumping on you.

Most onchain tokens (that are investable) these days are often fair-launched or launched in a launchpad somewhere in the last 1-2 years. This makes understanding the token holders concentration, onchain buy/sell patterns, and token movements really crucial.

Investing in a project early doesn’t mean you’re going to be successful. It’s investing in a project whose team is token-aligned + whose token holders are properly distributed towards holders that are aligned.

Manually digging through onchain explorers can be difficult and time consuming.

This is where Hermes comes in.

Hermes can look at a token contract address, check who are the top holders, see if they’ve been buying or selling across any time frame, map out token holders behavior and identify whether you should continue holding, selling, or start accumulating.

My workflow: I have 3+ daily workflows that track my main onchain holdings. The agent checks large whale movements (buy/sell/transfer), flag recurring patterns, provide daily & weekly summary on changes in holders, and cross check with X sentiment. The goal is to get information from both onchain & X as earlier as possible, cross-checking them to see if both aligns.

If onchain continues to dump while X sentiment is positive, we can probably glean that something is wrong and can investigate further.

If X sentiment is negative but onchain shows continuous inflows, we could glean that somebody is probably accumulating ahead of something.

The Requirement: I’m using x402 via AgentCash & BlockRun for this workflow. Seed the wallet once and point Hermes to use tools like Nansen, BlockRun SQL, Surf, Base RPC (free). Cookie MCP is used for X sentiment.

Bonus

Been loving Exa Monitors feature. It’s a feature that basically helps you track things that matter to you. It feels like a search radar that surfaces things for you every day.

Firecrawl also has the same feature but more granular (can surface things every hour or you can set the monitor cadence yourself) but for me, the daily Exa Monitors is enough to surface meaningful news & signals from more sources beyond what I usually track.

As always, thanks for checking the article out. See you in the next one!