Descriptions:
Fahd Mirza demonstrates the newly released `/loop` command in Hermes Agent, an open-source agentic framework that gives language models access to a terminal, file system, web tools, and memory for multi-step autonomous tasks. The feature enables recurring, timer-based agent wakeups without manual re-prompting — a significant quality-of-life addition for monitoring and polling workflows.
The tutorial walks through the full setup: creating a named profile, configuring the loop parameters (minimum interval of 30 seconds, maximum 100 wakeups, adaptive backoff between 30 seconds and 2 minutes), and pointing it at a locally served Qwen3.8-27B quantized model via llama.cpp. To demonstrate the loop in a realistic scenario, Mirza writes a shell script simulating a four-stage deployment pipeline (queued → building → deploying → live) and tasks the agent to monitor a status file and stop itself upon seeing “live” — without any manual intervention.
The demo runs cleanly over five wakeups, and a notable emergent behavior appears: on the fifth cycle, the agent independently switches from reading the file directly to checking its modification timestamp via `stat`, recognizing that the read tool was deduplicating unchanged content. Mirza covers stop conditions including fixed counts, natural-language criteria, and judge-model evaluation, making this a practical reference for anyone building CI/CD monitoring, scheduled data pipelines, or any time-dependent agentic workflow.
📺 Source: Fahd Mirza · Published August 18, 2026
🏷️ Format: Hands On Build
