# Hermes Projects at AI Tinkerers > Canonical HTML: https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/hermes > Markdown URL: https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/hermes.md > Technology record last updated: 2026-05-09T00:39:53Z > Generated: 2026-09-23T02:26:51Z Hermes is an open-source JavaScript engine optimized for fast-start React Native applications on mobile platforms. Engineered by Meta, Hermes tackles the performance bottlenecks of mobile JavaScript execution by shifting work from runtime to build time. It utilizes ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation to transform source code into compact bytecode, significantly reducing Time to Interactive (TTI) and memory overhead compared to traditional JIT engines. By prioritizing a smaller binary footprint and efficient garbage collection, Hermes ensures that complex React Native apps remain responsive even on resource-constrained hardware (mass-market Android devices and iOS). It is the default engine for React Native, offering seamless integration with Chrome DevTools for native-level debugging. - Official technology site: https://hermesengine.dev - Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 4 - Result page: 1 of 1 ## Recent Public Talks and Demos ### [Building a UI that builds itself](https://copenhagen.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_CD2l5EihkZY) it's a UI layer for agent harnesses where agents (Claude/Codex/Hermes/OpenClaw) can work and build personal software by extending their own UI. I'll cover why we decided work on this idea, some existing approaches, how we organized the CLI/Skill and what design guidelines we have written. - Event context: September Demo Night — 2026-09-16 — Copenhagen - Public talk page: https://copenhagen.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_CD2l5EihkZY ### [Turn your Homelab into a Dark Factory](https://cologne.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_iWZxTrC9hQ8) I turned my Homelab into a dark factory where I run an orchestrating agent that schedules and delegates work to other agents. There are two parts to this system: the control plane, which handles where agents run and how they run, and the data plane, which handles the actual work you commit (or not). We're going to see how I interact with a personal agent (Hermes, if I have time, I'll show my own agent) and how Hermes decides what to do next depending on our conversation. Instead of making Hermes write the code, it will delegate the tasks to different coding agents running in our own sandbox (built with Firecracker on top of a Proxmox VM). I'll walk you through the different components, how it works and why it matters (in particular the sandbox part). - Event context: AI Tinkerers Cologne: World Cup Edition — 2026-07-15 — Cologne - Public talk page: https://cologne.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_iWZxTrC9hQ8 ### [Building Agentic OS for Marketing](https://denver-boulder.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_BZZDcloDPXM) I have been solo for 3 years after selling my Denver marketing agency. I was doing everything low code until early March when I discovered Claude Code and working at the terminal. I know have moved my system to a full dev stack using Neon, Claude Managed Agents, 5 repos (website, clients, agent os, reporting admin app) to run my entire AI native consultancy with 12+ clients. - Event context: AI Tinkerers Denver - June Meetup — 2026-06-30 — Denver - Public talk page: https://denver-boulder.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_BZZDcloDPXM ### [An AI Roomba to Keep Your Homelab Tidy \[Hermes Agent\]](https://nashville.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_NSOiaP0nR4E) Used Hermes Agent to make an AI ops layer that handles the digital chores I'd otherwise forget: 24 cron jobs covering backups, CVE monitoring, NAS consolidation, secret and code scanning (TruffleHog plus opengrep) routed through agent triage, blog auto-deploy, issue auto-fixing, kanban dispatch across 16 kanban projects, and a nightly self-introspection loop that audits its own degradation. **Live demo:** walk the architecture, show the dispatcher routing a real ticket to the to something (maybe auto post on my blog), demo a script-only cron exiting in milliseconds vs. an agent-driven one (maybe fixing an offline systemd service), and pull up the morning CVE report (hope there is something juicy for the demo). - Event context: AI Tinkerers Nashville: OpenClaw, Hermes, and Personal Assistants — 2026-05-21 — Nashville - Public talk page: https://nashville.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_NSOiaP0nR4E ## Related Technologies - [Claude Code](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/claude-code) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/claude-code.md)) — 216 public demos - [Agent](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/agent) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/agent.md)) — 12 public demos - [AGENTS](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/agents) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/agents.md)) — 20 public demos - [Claude Agents SDK](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/claude-agents-sdk) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/claude-agents-sdk.md)) — 4 public demos - [Claude Managed Agents](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/claude-managed-agents) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/claude-managed-agents.md)) — 2 public demos - [Coding agents](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/coding-agents) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/coding-agents.md)) — 1 public demo - [DeepSeek API](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/deepseek-api) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/deepseek-api.md)) — 5 public demos - [Docker](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/docker) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/docker.md)) — 147 public demos - [Firecracker](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/firecracker) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/firecracker.md)) — 1 public demo - [Hostinger](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/hostinger) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/hostinger.md)) — 1 public demo - [IDE](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ide) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ide.md)) — 4 public demos - [Linear](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/linear) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/linear.md)) — 10 public demos - [Neon](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/neon) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/neon.md)) — 5 public demos - [OpenClaw](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/openclaw) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/openclaw.md)) — 50 public demos - [opengrep](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/opengrep) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/opengrep.md)) — 1 public demo - [OpenRouter](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/openrouter) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/openrouter.md)) — 34 public demos - [Proxmox](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/proxmox) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/proxmox.md)) — 1 public demo - [React](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/react) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/react.md)) — 220 public demos