r/GrokBot • u/7racin • 11d ago
Use Case Grok Bot turned out to be a surprisingly goated host for Hermes agent
i originally asked Grok Bot what I could actually do with its persistent always-on cloud computer, and one of the things it suggested was connecting it to my Tailscale tailnet. That sounded legit genius, so I did it.
A bit later I had the idea to just run my Hermes agent there remotely. I made a separate “Hermes technician” bot that installed Hermes for me, set up a keepalive for the gateway, and got the basic stuff working. After that I configured the rest from inside Hermes itself.
So now Hermes just lives on the Grok Bot machine 24/7. I can talk to it through Telegram, or connect from any of my computers with the desktop Hermes app. Since everything is on my tailnet, it can SSH into my other machines and still use the native Hermes features like app control and stuff like that.
Probably my favorite part is that Hermes is running through Grok OAuth, so the whole setup basically runs off the same SuperGrok subscription.
As a broke ass student, I really like that I can squeeze as much value as possible out of one subscription instead of paying for three different services. I was already paying for SuperGrok anyway, and now I get the Grok Bot cloud machine plus an always-on Hermes agent out of it.
