# Research & knowledge work

> Briefings, source-backed research and content pipelines that keep their evidence.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/topics/research

Research is where Hermes saves the most time and also where it can confidently mislead. These resources favor outputs that keep original sources, dates and visible gaps.

## Guides, tools and workflows

- [Wake up to a useful research briefing](https://hermeswatcher.com/workflows/daily-research-briefing.md): Turn a defined set of sources into a short, dated briefing with evidence and a clear delivery check.
- [Carry project knowledge into the next session](https://hermeswatcher.com/workflows/project-knowledge.md): Keep decisions, source material, and next actions in durable project records that an agent can actually recover.
- [Collect content ideas without losing the evidence](https://hermeswatcher.com/workflows/content-research-queue.md): Monitor a focused topic and create a ranked queue of source-backed ideas with distinct editorial angles.
- [Persistent memory: retain compact working knowledge](https://hermeswatcher.com/tools/memory.md): Retain stable preferences and environment facts across sessions while keeping detailed evidence in durable project records.
- [Browser tools: interact with pages when retrieval is insufficient](https://hermeswatcher.com/tools/browser-tools.md): Use a configured browser backend for navigation, visible page interaction, forms, and tasks requiring an authenticated session.
- [Web search and extraction: collect usable source evidence](https://hermeswatcher.com/tools/web-search.md): Discover pages and retrieve readable source content with a configured backend, keeping search results distinct from verified evidence.
- [Turn a Hermes Agent use case into a repeatable workflow](https://hermeswatcher.com/learn/from-story-to-workflow.md): Use community examples as discovery material, then expose the dependencies and evidence needed to reproduce the result.
- [Hermes Agent for research that keeps its sources](https://hermeswatcher.com/learn/research-that-keeps-its-sources.md): Separate discovery, factual extraction and editorial judgment so a useful summary remains traceable.
- [Running a Karpathy-style LLM wiki through a Telegram bot on a small VPS](https://hermeswatcher.com/case-studies/jsong-llm-wiki): The author replaced a hand-maintained Obsidian vault with a markdown wiki that Hermes Agent keeps up to date: sources get sent to a Telegram bot, and the agent files, cross-links, logs and lints them. What makes it interesting is that the agent does the bookkeeping. The author still picks what goes in.
- [Three separate Hermes profiles for coding, research and illustration, each with its own Telegram bot](https://hermeswatcher.com/case-studies/avichawla-masterclass-three-agents): A tutorial that explains Hermes Agent's memory, skills and self-improvement features, then builds three specialist agents as separate profiles. One is a programmer that hands work to Claude Code, one is a researcher that sends a daily digest on a schedule, and one is a designer with a learned drawing style. Each agent has its own Telegram bot.
- [Thirty skills in, three kept: a crypto investor's personal analyst setup](https://hermeswatcher.com/case-studies/defi0xjeff-30-skills): A DeFi investor reports spending roughly $150-200 in tokens over two weeks experimenting with about 30 Hermes skills, and narrowing down to three that earned their place: a morning X briefing, a bookmark digest, and a daily reflection built on an external memory provider.

## Questions

- [Can Hermes work with an Obsidian vault or my own markdown notes?](https://hermeswatcher.com/faq#obsidian-knowledge-base)
- [Can Hermes read ebooks, PDFs and scanned documents? Are big files loaded whole?](https://hermeswatcher.com/faq#ebooks-and-scanned-documents)
- [Can Hermes use Firefox or my own Chrome profile for browsing?](https://hermeswatcher.com/faq#browser-profile-firefox)

All answers: https://hermeswatcher.com/faq.md

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