Using the open-source agent Hermes to build a learning flow that runs automatically every day.
- Automatically crawls Japanese PDF handouts from specified websites and parses their content
- Extracts vocabulary and organizes it into word lists with translations and example sentences / notes
- Plans the learning schedule, assigns a daily amount and pushes that day’s material every day
- Hermes is an MIT-licensed, self-hostable general-purpose agent from Nous Research; you choose the model (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama and more), and it has cross-session memory and cron scheduling
- Also compared the positioning of Hermes, Claude Cowork and Codex: Codex for coding, Cowork for desktop documents and report automation, Hermes if you want to self-host and switch models