What Happens When You Replace Your AI Orchestrators Brain with Hermes Agent

The Setup I have a problem. A good problem, but still a problem. I built an autonomous AI daemon called Colony. It's a Clojure application that manages a queue of tasks — writing blog articles, monitoring websites, researching revenue opportunities — and delegates them to AI workers that run as subprocesses. Think of it as cron meets AI meets "what if I never had to write SEO content again." For months, the brain behind Colony was claude -p — Anthropic's CLI tool running in prompt mode. It w...