# All Agents Considered

> Practical AI agent workflows, honest build notes, and lessons from putting Hermes, Codex, and other agents to work.

A blog about open source AI agents, local models, cheaper provider stacks, agent memory, automation, and practical setups that keep AI under your control. Written by Dan, who builds and tests these systems for real work.

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[Archive](archive)
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## Topics

- [Codex](categories/codex) — Practical Codex workflows, setup guides, and field-tested lessons for using coding agents on real software projects.
- [Guides](categories/guides) — Step-by-step AI agent guides covering setup, configuration, automation, tools, and repeatable workflows for real work.
- [Hermes](categories/hermes) — Hands-on Hermes Agent guides, configurations, workflows, and lessons from using the open-source agent for practical tasks.
- [MCP Server](categories/mcp-server) — Practical Model Context Protocol server guides for connecting AI agents to tools, data sources, APIs, and useful workflows.
- [My Journey](categories/my-journey) — Firsthand lessons, experiments, mistakes, and progress reports from building real systems and workflows with AI agents.
- [My Stack](categories/my-stack) — A practical look at the models, agent tools, infrastructure, and services in the AI stack I use for everyday work.
- [Product Thinking](categories/product-thinking) — Analysis of AI product design, agent user experience, feature decisions, and the tradeoffs behind tools people can rely on.
- [Prompting](categories/prompting) — Tested prompting techniques for giving AI agents better context, clearer instructions, and more reliable multi-step work.

## Latest posts

- [I Built an Open Source MCP To Analyze Your Substack Data With Hermes And Codex](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/i-built-an-open-source-mcp-to-analyze)
- [What Hermes Thinks I Do When I'm Not Talking To It](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/what-hermes-thinks-i-do-when-im-not)
- [The One File That Made Hermes Finally Learn From Its Mistakes](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/the-one-file-that-made-hermes-finally)
- [How Pangram Decides What Looks Like AI](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/how-pangram-decides-what-looks-like)
- [How I Built A Substack API With Hermes And Codex](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/how-i-built-a-substack-api-with-hermes)
- [OpenAI Is Coming for Hermes One Codex Update at a Time](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/openai-is-coming-for-hermes-one-codex)
- [The Twenty Minute Audit That Found Where Hermes Was Getting Lost](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/the-twenty-minute-audit-that-found)
- [Tear Down Your AI Workflow and Rebuild It Like This](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/tear-down-your-ai-workflow-and-rebuild)
- [Why My Best Hermes Workflow Consists Of Plain MD Files](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/why-my-best-hermes-workflow-consists)
- [I Built My Hermes Stack to Survive Vendor Lock-in and Google Just Proved Me Right](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/i-built-my-ai-stack-to-survive-vendor)
- [How to Build AI Workflows When You're Tired of Optimizing Prompts](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/how-to-build-ai-workflows)
- [Why AI Benchmarks Fail Real Hermes Agent Workflows](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/why-ai-benchmarks-fail-real-hermes)
- [My Hermes AI Agent Maintenance Routine For Maximum Reliability](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/my-hermes-ai-agent-maintenance-routine)
- [I Tested 6 AI Plans to Find What $5, $10 and $20 Get You](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/i-tested-6-ai-plans-to-find-what)
- [When to Use MCPs, CLIs, or Your Own Tool](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/when-to-use-mcps-clis-or-your-own)
- [How to Use Claude Code For Free With OpenCode Models](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/how-to-use-claude-code-for-free-with)
- [How to Add Approval Gates to Your Hermes Agent](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/how-to-add-approval-gates-to-your)
- [How My Hermes Agent Plans My Morning Before I Have My Coffee](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/how-to-automate-your-morning-with)
- [The Agentic Engineering Shift](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/the-agentic-engineering-shift)
- [The $30 Hermes Stack That Makes Claude Max Look Like a Ripoff](https://allagentsconsidered.com/blog/the-30-hermes-stack-that-makes-claude)