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Hermes Agent For Content Creation: A Five-Prompt Content Line In Your Agent OS

By Julian Goldie · 9 November 2026 · agentos.guide

Hermes Agent for content creation fits into your Agent OS as a production line: one source goes in, and drafts, audio and visuals come out for you to approve.

This guide gives you a quick start, five prompts to paste in order and the weekly workflow that links them.

Every tool named below is in the official Hermes docs or the v0.23.0 plugin catalogue.

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Quick Start: Five Moves Before Prompt 1

1. Create a separate profile with hermes profile create studio, as the profiles guide shows, so content skills stay apart from your other agents.
2. Choose your image model in hermes tools; the image generation page lists eleven FAL.ai options.
3. Switch on video only if you need it, via hermes tools → Video Generation.
4. Connect one review chat through the messaging gateway, with its allowlist set.
5. Install the official audio plugins: hermes plugins install elevenlabs-music and hermes plugins install elevenlabs-sound-effects.

Then open the profile with studio and work through the prompts below.

Prompt 1: Learn My Style From Real Samples

Feed it finished work, not adjectives.

/learn ~/content/best-pieces/ — read every file in this folder and
build a skill called house-style. Capture sentence length, openings,
sign-offs, words we never use and how we format headings.
Add a final step: run the humanizer skill on every draft.
Add this rule at the top: every output is a draft for review.
Show me the skill before you save it.

The skills documentation confirms /learn works from a folder, a URL, a PDF or pasted notes, and saves to ~/.hermes/skills/.

The humanizer skill is bundled, listed in the skills catalogue as a pass that removes AI-isms.

A florist would point it at her last ten shop updates and a few bouquet descriptions.

Prompt 2: One Transcript, Four Formats

This is the prompt that does the heavy lifting.

Take the transcript of [video URL] with the youtube-content skill.
Using house-style, write:
1. a blog post with H2s and source links,
2. a thread of 6 to 8 posts,
3. a newsletter section of about 200 words,
4. three short captions.
Save each to ~/content/drafts/[date]/ as its own file.
Draft only: do not publish, schedule or send anything.

The catalogue describes youtube-content as turning transcripts into summaries, threads and blogs.

What comes back: four files in one dated folder and a short list of what each one covers.

If the thread reads like the blog post chopped into pieces, add a line to house-style: "Threads open with a claim, not a summary."

No video? Swap the first line for a folder of meeting notes or a podcast transcript and keep the rest.

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Prompt 3: The Audio Pack

Turn the newsletter section into something people can listen to.

Read ~/content/drafts/[date]/newsletter.md aloud with text_to_speech.
Then make a 20-second calm instrumental intro with ElevenLabs Music
and a short whoosh sound effect for the transition.
Send all three audio files to my review chat.

The TTS page lists eleven providers, with Edge TTS as the keyless default.

The official ElevenLabs Music plugin handles songs from 3 seconds to 10 minutes; Sound Effects covers clips from 0.5 to 30 seconds.

Both use your ELEVENLABS_API_KEY and bill to your own ElevenLabs account.

Prompt 4: The Visual Pack

From the blog draft in ~/content/drafts/[date]/, create:
- one 16:9 header image with image_generate,
- one short vertical clip with video_generate from that image,
- one square social graphic in Canva using our brand template.
Send links and files to my review chat. Publish nothing.

Video lives in the opt-in video_gen toolset; per the tools reference, passing an image animates it and leaving it out generates from text.

Canva is a Nous-approved MCP: run hermes mcp install canva and then hermes mcp login canva.

Selling physical products? The official Meshy plugin adds 3D models, and every credit-spending call asks you first with an estimated cost.

Prompt 5: The Weekly Content Calendar

Create a cron job for every Monday at 8am:
read this week's rows in my Notion content calendar, run Prompt 2
on any row with a video link, run Prompt 3 on the newsletter,
and post a summary of every draft to my review chat.
Attach the house-style and youtube-content skills.
Draft only: never publish, schedule or send.

The cron guide takes plain-language schedules, attaches skills and delivers results to a chat, files or a platform target.

Notion is another Nous-approved MCP for pages and databases.

The Weekly Workflow

That Friday step is what makes the drafts better each week.

Keep the human days fixed, because they're the only brake on publishing this setup has.

Guardrails For Anything That Publishes

Hermes has no built-in hold for outgoing posts; its approval system is for risky shell commands.

• End every prompt with "Draft only".
• Add trust: untrusted to publishing servers so each write call asks first, as the MCP config reference describes.
• Postel's sign-in drops its package's untrusted setting, according to the catalogue, so set it back yourself.
• Skip the community acedatacloud-media plugin unless you accept that it spends credits with no approval prompt.

To post on X after review, use the xurl skill or the community Postel or AdaptlyPost plugins.

X Chat is a private-message gateway, so it won't post anything to your timeline.

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What Each Prompt Needs Switched On

Every media plugin landed with the v0.23.0 release, so update Hermes before you install them.

Google Docs users: there's no Docs connector, but the bundled google-workspace skill reads and writes Docs, Sheets and Drive, so swap it in for Notion in Prompt 5 if your calendar lives there.

Troubleshooting The First Run

• The song hasn't arrived: ElevenLabs Music finishes long tracks in the background and delivers them to the chat when ready.
• Video tool missing: video_gen isn't in the default toolset, so enable it and pick a backend: xAI, FAL.ai, OpenRouter or DeepInfra.
• The skill changed by itself: the agent can edit or delete skills, so keep house-style in git and restore it if a run rewrites it.
• A cron run stopped halfway: with the default cron_mode: deny, any risky shell command in a scheduled run is blocked; run the job by hand with hermes cron run to see why.
• Drafts feel flat on one job only: pin a stronger model to that job with hermes cron edit <job_id> --provider <provider> --model <model> and leave the rest alone.
• Canva tools not loading: finish the OAuth login, then restart the session so the tools appear.

Three Businesses, One Content Line

• A dog groomer: films a weekly grooming tip; Prompt 2 turns it into a blog post and captions, and Prompt 4 adds a header image.
• A physiotherapy clinic: records a short exercise explainer; Prompt 3 produces an audio version with a calm intro for patients.
• A ceramics shop: photographs a new mug; Prompt 4 makes the graphic and Meshy builds a 3D preview after you approve the spend.

A language tutor fits too: each recorded lesson becomes a blog recap, a vocabulary thread and an audio review clip with a short music sting.

The prompts stay identical across all four; only the house-style skill and the review chat change.

That's the point of building it as a line rather than a pile of one-off requests.

Where To Go Next

For campaign planning around these pieces, read Hermes Agent for marketing in your Agent OS.

For more add-ons, see the best Hermes Agent plugins.

🔥 Build the content line with people already running it

The AI Profit Boardroom gives you the Agent OS, step-by-step trainings, four live coaching calls each week and 3,400+ members to swap prompts with.

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FAQ

Which prompt should I run first?

Prompt 1, the house-style skill. Every other prompt calls it, so weak style rules show up in every draft.

Do I need ElevenLabs for audio?

No. text_to_speech defaults to Edge TTS, which needs no key. ElevenLabs Music and Sound Effects are optional official plugins that use your ElevenLabs API key.

Can the weekly job publish for me?

It can be wired to, but Hermes has no built-in hold before a post goes out. Keep every job draft only and mark publishing servers trust: untrusted.

Where do the drafts end up?

In the dated folder named in the prompt, with a summary sent to your review chat through the messaging gateway.

Final word on Hermes Agent For Content Creation

Paste Prompt 1 today, run the rest this week, and book a free SEO strategy session when you want the topics chosen for search, because that is where Hermes Agent for content creation proves itself in your Agent OS.

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