Argus: the intel agent sheds its cron plumbing

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When I built personal-intel-agent, it did one thing: watch a topic, fold duplicate coverage into a single sourced card, and ping only when something materially moved. I later added a second engine for typed metric and price monitoring.

It now has a better name—Argus—and a cleaner boundary with Hermes Agent 0.21.

The original version had to carry some of its own scheduler plumbing because cron jobs were effectively stateless. Hermes 0.21 changed that. Cron jobs can now use persistent agent memory, carry the previous run’s output forward, skip the LLM when a deterministic source has not changed, keep a bounded per-job notepad, select reasoning effort per job, and deliver directly into a bot’s canonical chat.

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Argus: the intel agent sheds its cron plumbing