Note Content (Markdown) # Hermes Agent and Easier Second Brain Research Prepared on: 2026-05-27 (Europe/London) This workspace contains a researched design and an inactive deployment pack for placing Hermes Agent alongside the existing `n8n project` GCE workload. ## Outcome - Recommended architecture: Hermes Agent in an isolated container, an Obsidian-compatible Markdown vault as the durable source of truth, Hermes `llm-wiki` first, then QMD or gbrain only after benchmark evidence. - Latest Hermes release verified from the official GitHub releases page: `v0.14.0` / tag `v2026.5.16`, released 2026-05-16. - The public Easier Agency site was reviewed. Easier Now exposes a login page publicly; no login or private data access was attempted. - No Notion connector is available in this session. After explicit approval, key public/shared Notion pages were sampled through the browser to inform planning; no bulk export was performed and no Notion content was uploaded as raw source. - The GCE VM was prepared over SSH as `admin@34.27.189.109` using the existing `easier_validation_gce_ed25519` key. Hermes is staged at `/srv/easier-hermes` but remains inactive: no image build, container, port, gateway, connector, provider credential or cron job was started. ## Files - `docs/00-roadmap.md`: staged roadmap from inert prep to controlled autonomy. - `docs/01-agent-org-design.md`: Easier-specific agent organisation design. - `docs/02-first-agent-founder-ea.md`: superseded future specialist profile. - `docs/03-memory-layer-evaluation.md`: retrieval and memory benchmark plan. - `docs/04-connector-risk-register.md`: Slack, Fathom, Airtable, Notion and other connector risk boundaries. - `docs/05-gce-activation-runbook.md`: exact activation sequence for the GCE host. - `docs/06-vault-governance.md`: vault rules, sensitivity classes and migration policy. - `docs/07-open-questions.md`: questions for Anthony before live agent usage. - `docs/08-soul-md-design.md`: current Hermes `SOUL.md` best-practice notes and Easier design implications. - `docs/09-easier-ai-operating-model.md`: agency capability model and revised `COO / AI Ops Manager` first-profile recommendation. - `docs/10-memory-filter-and-digest-cadence.md`: how raw artifacts become useful memory without bloating context. - `docs/11-coo-ai-ops-agent.md`: first-agent design for the COO / AI Ops Manager. - `docs/12-metaswarm-gbrain-inspiration.md`: what to adopt from metaswarm and gbrain, and what to delay. - `docs/13-anthony-decisions-2026-05-28.md`: latest answered product and operating decisions from Anthony. - `docs/14-coo-v0-dry-run-plan.md`: how to test the COO packet before any live connectors. - `research/hermes-obsidian-second-brain-recommendation-2026-05-27.md`: research dossier, recommended design, rollout and risk analysis. - `research/repository-and-deployment-strategy.md`: private GitHub repository boundary, live-vault exclusion and Google Cloud deployment route. - `research/8figureagency-hermes-field-notes-review.md`: review of Jordan Ross's Hermes field notes and what to adopt or delay for Easier. - `deployment/README.md`: infrastructure status and controlled activation sequence. - `deployment/prepare-hermes-host.sh`: inert host preparation script. It stages pinned Hermes source and empty storage; image build is opt-in with `HERMES_BUILD_IMAGE=1`, and it does not start an agent or connect services. - `deployment/compose.yaml`: intentionally profile-gated container definition. - `deployment/config/config.yaml.template`: conservative Hermes configuration with autonomous maintenance disabled. - `deployment/config/hermes.env.example`: non-secret, inactive environment template. - `deployment/vault-template/`: proposed Obsidian/Hermes vault governance skeleton. - `deployment/vault-template/SOUL.md`: first Easier Hermes soul draft for review before copying into a live Hermes profile. - `.gitignore`: protection against accidentally committing live vault content, secrets, sessions or retrieval indexes.

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