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Recipes for making it yours
Tutorials and patterns for turning your meraGPT box into an AI that’s actually your own: memory, messaging, automation. Practical things you can set up in an evening.
August 22, 2026 · 6 min
A daily standup, written from your git commits
A weekday CRON job that reads your GitHub commits each morning and writes your standup: what you shipped, what you are mid-way through, and what looks blocked. Delivered to Slack before the meeting, off work you already did.
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August 22, 2026 · 6 min
A nightly journal your agent keeps for you
A private journaling setup that pings you first. A nightly cron nudges you with two questions over Telegram, a memory skill files your reply under memory/journal, and a Sunday cron reads the week back. Entries are plain markdown on your own box.
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August 22, 2026 · 6 min
The private ChatGPT alternative you actually own
An honest look at what a private ChatGPT alternative can and cannot mean, what you give up coming from ChatGPT, and what you get instead: memory that lives on your own box, an agent that runs on a schedule, and costs that track your usage on your own key.
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August 22, 2026 · 7 min
How to run the Nous Hermes agent without managing a server
The Hermes Agent from Nous Research is open source, so you can self-host it for free, or let someone run the box. An honest comparison of the two routes, what upkeep self-hosting really means, and how the managed path gets you a talking agent in about three minutes on your own key.
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August 22, 2026 · 7 min
Turn your Hermes Agent into a Slack bot
The Slack companion to the Telegram and Discord setups. Socket Mode, the app-level token and bot token, the four scopes that matter, the v0.16 Channels admin panel, and the gotchas Slack adds on top.
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June 18, 2026 · 5 min
Private by default, not by promise
Who can see your AI conversations on meraGPT? Only you. Your chats and memory live on your own box, not in a company account, so privacy is a property of owning the machine, not a policy you have to trust.
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June 17, 2026 · 6 min
Teach your agent to remember you
The thing that makes a meraGPT box actually yours is memory. A no-SSH, ten-minute setup that gives your agent a private, portable memory of who you are, on your own box, that nobody else can read.
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June 5, 2026 · 6 min
A morning calendar brief, before your inbox
A cron job that reads your Google Calendar at 7am and Telegrams you the shape of the day. Five inputs, one paste, one less morning ritual.
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June 3, 2026 · 7 min
Drop URLs to your agent, get a private reading list
A skill that turns any URL you Telegram to your box into a structured note in memory, with a Sunday digest of what you actually read. No third-party reading-list service involved.
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June 1, 2026 · 6 min
A weekly git digest for solo projects
A Sunday cron that reads your GitHub activity for the week and writes the kind of status update you would have written yourself. Includes the accountability bit for things you said you would do.
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May 31, 2026 · 6 min
Turn your Hermes Agent into a Discord bot
The Discord companion to the Telegram setup. Bot token, the v0.16 Channels admin panel, allowlist by channel or guild, and the gotchas Discord adds that Telegram does not.
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May 29, 2026 · 5 min
Add a Kanban board to your Hermes box in one paste
Hermes plugins install from any GitHub URL. Here is the install flow with the Kanban board as the worked example, plus what a good plugin looks like under the hood.
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May 29, 2026 · 5 min
A morning Hacker News brief on a cron
A click-by-click tour of the Hermes CRON tab using a daily Hacker News summary as the worked example. Three fields, one schedule, and your agent wakes up before you do.
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May 27, 2026 · 6 min
Turn your Hermes Agent into a Telegram bot
A 10-minute walkthrough for chatting with your Hermes Agent from Telegram. Bot token, gateway config, and what works well in practice.
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May 27, 2026 · 7 min
A daily inbox brief, written by your agent
How to set up a Hermes cron job that reads your morning inbox, triages it, and produces a one-screen summary by the time you finish coffee.
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