Close the gaps between Hermes and Dots or Grok Bot

Goal: Make a self-hosted agent behave more like a proactive personal assistant.
Setup: agents used in source: Hermes Agent; tools/MCPs stated: cron, webhooks, pre_tool_call hooks, Kanban.
Steps:
1. Add a small “responsibility” layer (objective, owner, triggers, skill, autonomy level, reporting policy) and let cron/events create durable tasks under it.
2. Build a read-only Scout routine that checks authorised sources (email, calendar, GitHub, notes, feeds) and the web, then ignores, saves, attaches or notifies.
3. Write an autonomy policy file enforced by pre_tool_call hooks, e.g. email.read auto, email.send ask, purchase ask, credentials human only.
4. Use persistent specialist profiles plus temporary subagents under a coordinator.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Note: The analysis was produced with ChatGPT and depersonalised by the author.
Based on: /u/MJ_Ali45 — https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1wumxde/closing_most_gaps_between_hermes_vs_dots_and_grok/

Steps are from the source. Includes a “Based on” credit line.