Behind the Craft · Sunday, August 2, 2026
Karan Malhotra showcased a calendar management agent built using Hermes, which understands natural language requests to schedule, reschedule, or decline meetings. The agent leverages the Hermes harness to interact with calendar APIs and take action, demonstrating advanced reasoning, contextual understanding, and seamless integration.
“Yeah, so, uh, this is an example of me interacting with an agent that I've built using Hermes. Uh, this agent is designed to help me, uh, manage my calendar and schedule meetings.”
“So, uh, I can ask it to, uh, find a time for a meeting, uh, with a specific person, uh, or, uh, I can ask it to, uh, reschedule a meeting, or, uh, decline a meeting. And it's able to do all of that using, uh, the underlying LLM, but also, uh, leveraging the harness to, uh, interact with my calendar and, uh, other tools.”
“Exactly. And the key here is that it's not just about understanding natural language. It's about understanding the context, the intent, and then taking action. So, uh, in this case, it's interacting with my Google Calendar API to find available slots, send out invitations, and manage all the complexities of scheduling.”