Tightening Hermes Secrets with Bitwarden
A practical walkthrough for moving Hermes API keys out of local env files and into Bitwarden Secrets Manager, with verification and cleanup steps.
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Don't Leave Good AI Workflows in Chat
A practical note on promoting repeated AI workflows into slash commands, scripts, and cron jobs, weighing judgment, cost, and safety trade-offs.
Shared AI Artifacts Aren't Private From a Hard-to-Guess URL
A security note on the Claude shared-chat and Artifacts leak, and why AI workspaces need clear boundaries between private, unlisted, and public content.
Voice Control for Hermes Agent over Telegram
How I wired Hermes Agent to accept Telegram voice notes, transcribe them locally, and reply with local text-to-speech without adding another paid speech API.
The Hard Part of AI PR Review Is Not Reading the Diff
A practical look at Alibaba OpenCodeReview, why diff-only AI review is not enough, and how to use AI reviewers without trusting them too much.
Tightening Hermes Agent Security for Local Sensitive Work
How I tightened my Hermes agent setup after adding a local model for PII and credential-sensitive work: tool limits, manual approvals, and a quiet watchdog.
Securing Hermes Agent with OpenShell
Why I run Hermes Agent inside OpenShell when it reads untrusted content, and how filesystem, network, process, and credential policy change the security model.
Deterministic Rails CI failures: read the evidence first
A Rails CI debugging story: following the evidence to shared test state, instead of weakening assertions to make failures disappear.
Rails Performance from the Metal Up: A Field Guide
A practical Rails performance field guide for diagnosing CPU, IO, GVL, GC, memory, Puma, and container-runtime bottlenecks before choosing a fix.
Durable codebase context for Hermes: GitNexus, LSP, AGENTS.md
How I gave Hermes a persistent local code graph, semantic diagnostics, and stable project instructions without turning agent memory into a stale symbol index.