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Hooks vs. Skills in Codex Plugins: Why Deterministic Checks Should Never Be Left to the Model
Hooks run formatters and validators deterministically. Skills let the model reason. Mixing them up is the most common agentic workflow mistake in Codex plugins.
How to Audit Your Enterprise AI Vendor for Agentic Security: 2 Questions to Ask Before You Sign
Before signing any enterprise AI contract, ask two questions about agent vs. human access and pressure-tested behavior. The Lily hack shows why it matters.
How to Deploy Hermes Agent on a VPS in Under an Hour: Step-by-Step Docker Setup Guide
Deploy Hermes Agent on Hostinger VPS with one-click Docker, connect Telegram via BotFather, and run GPT-5.5 as your inference backend — all in under an hour.
McKinsey's Lily AI Platform Was Hacked for $20: 6 Enterprise AI Security Failures the Incident Exposed
A $20 SQL injection gave full read/write access to McKinsey's Lily platform. Here are 6 systemic failures the Codewall disclosure exposed for enterprise AI.
N8N vs. Claude Code vs. Hermes: Which Level of Agentic AI Do You Actually Need?
There are 4 levels of agentic AI — from Zapier chatbots to full agentic OS. Here's how to know which level fits your workflow before you build the wrong thing.
Stop Re-Prompting the Same Thing: How to Pick Between Prompts, Skills, Plugins, and MCP in 5 Minutes
Conflating prompts, skills, plugins, and MCP connectors wastes 40%+ of your AI time. Use this decision tree to pick the right scaffolding primitive every time.
What Is a Harness? The Infrastructure That Turns AI Models into Agents
A harness wraps an AI model so it can read files, run commands, and call tools. Learn how Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor use harnesses to enable agentic work.
What Is Proactive AI? How Agents Are Shifting from Reactive to Anticipatory
The next wave of AI agents won't wait for prompts. Learn how Claude Dreaming, Hermes crons, and proactive agent design are changing what AI can do for you.
What Is the ReAct Loop? How AI Agents Reason, Act, and Iterate Toward a Goal
ReAct is the core loop behind agentic AI: the model reasons about what to do, acts, observes the result, and iterates. Here's how it works in practice.
How to Use AI Agents for YouTube Comment Monitoring and Response
Learn how to build an AI agent that monitors YouTube comments, accesses video transcripts, and responds with context using Hermes Agent or Claude Code.
AI Workflows vs Agentic Workflows: What's the Difference and Which Do You Need?
AI workflows follow fixed steps. Agentic workflows let the model decide the path. Learn the key differences and when to use each for business automation.
Claude Code Hooks Explained: How Pre-Session and Post-Compaction Hooks Keep Your Agent on Track
Claude Code's 18+ hook types include pre-session injection and post-compaction hooks that reinsert agent identity after context compression.
Claude Code Hourly Limits Just Doubled — Here's the Compute Deal That Made It Possible
Claude Code's hourly limits just doubled. The reason is Anthropic's takeover of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center. Here's what changed and what's still limited.
How to Write a Codex /goal Prompt That Actually Works: The Meta-Prompting Technique in 5 Minutes
Writing a good /goal prompt for Codex is harder than it looks. This meta-prompting technique uses another AI to generate your /goal prompt — and it works.
Codex /goal: OpenAI's 'Ralph Loop' Feature That Ran a Device Driver Project for 14 Hours Without Stopping
Codex's /goal feature keeps a task alive across turns until complete — one user ran it on a device driver project for 14 hours overnight. Here's how it works.
Build a Custom CLI That Compresses 132,000 Tokens to 2,000 in Your Claude Context — In 10 Minutes
A School.com CLI built in 10 minutes compressed 132,000 tokens of API data to ~2,000 tokens in Claude's context — a 66x reduction. Here's how to replicate it.
Hermes Agent's 5-Pillar Architecture: How It Learns, Schedules, and Improves Itself Over Time
Hermes Agent is built on five pillars: memory, skills, soul, crons, and a self-improving loop. Here's how each one works and why the combination matters.
Hermes Agent Cron Jobs in Plain English: Set Up Automated GitHub Backups with a Single Sentence
Hermes Agent lets you schedule cron jobs in plain English. Type 'every night at 12am, push changes to GitHub' and it creates the skill and cron automatically.
Hermes Agent Five Pillars: Memory, Skills, Soul, Crons, and Self-Improvement
Hermes Agent is built on five core pillars that make it a self-improving personal AI. Learn how memory, skills, crons, and the soul file work together.
How to Set Up Hermes Agent on a VPS with Telegram in Under 30 Minutes: Complete Setup Guide
Hermes Agent runs on your own VPS, connects via Telegram, and uses your ChatGPT subscription — no API key billing. Here's the complete setup walkthrough.