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Software & DevOpsDone with Hermes Agent 2026-10-22
Set up nightly GitHub backups with one sentence
Hermes took a single plain-English instruction, found its GitHub skills, created and verified a nightly push cron job, and added an hourly self-check to handle UTC versus central time.
- What They Did
- Through Telegram, the user sent one sentence asking for a nightly push to a GitHub repo at midnight central time. Hermes searched its built-in GitHub skills, ran terminal checks, created the cron job and a nightly-github-sync skill, then listed jobs to confirm it registered. It also noted the automation in memory.md. The user first stored the GitHub token through the server terminal, not in chat.
- How It Went
- The job registered and was verified. Hermes saw the Docker container runs in UTC and chose an hourly run that checks central time, which avoids daylight-saving breakage. The source gives no run results or numbers.
- Worth Knowing
- Set the GitHub token with hermes config set over SSH, not in chat, and use a fine-grained token scoped to one repo with contents read/write.
Try it yourself with Hermes Agent
Back up [folder path] to my GitHub repo [repo URL] every night at [time] in [my timezone]. Create the scheduled job, handle any UTC versus local time differences, and add an hourly self-check that confirms the last push succeeded and alerts me on [Telegram / other channel] if it did not. Before the first push, show me what files will be included and wait for my OK, then run a test and verify the commit appears on GitHub.
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