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Shopping & ErrandsDone with Hermes Agent Sep 5, 2026
Plan weekly meals and order groceries automatically
A single dad had Hermes create meal plans and grocery orders, with a weekly cron job scraping the HEB ad for a meal-planning skill, needing only some steering.
- What They Did
- The poster first gave Hermes their height, weight, dietary restrictions, and weight-loss goal so it could draft a meal plan, then asked it to turn that plan into a grocery order. Hermes investigated ordering options, used Walmart in Chromium via Chrome DevTools/browser-control skills, inspected the page DOM and ran small scripts to add items and adjust quantities, while the user logged in manually and nudged it to use the right browser.
- How It Went
- It built the cart end to end and swapped meal-plan ingredients when local items were unavailable, which the poster said saved major time and mental effort. It was not fully hands-off: Walmart’s built-in browser path failed on quantity changes, and login/bot protection still needed human help.
- Worth Knowing
- The main catch was authentication: the poster logged in manually and said silent cron-style runs would likely fail because of bot protection.
Try it yourself with Hermes Agent
Every [day of week] at [time], check this week's [store name] ad at [URL], and build a dinner meal plan for [number] people that favors discounted items and fits [dietary needs and budget]. Then write a grocery list organized by store section and save both the plan and list to [location]. Stop there and message me the summary; do not place any order without showing me the list and total and getting my approval first.
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