summary: “An always-on agent inside a hardened Ubuntu VM and Docker: Telegram voice, scheduled automation, persistent memory, rollback checkpoints.”

title: “Running Hermes like an isolated personal VPS” description: “Ideas, builds, and decisions”

An always-on personal agent running inside a hardened Ubuntu VM and Docker, with Telegram voice, scheduled automation, persistent memory, rollback checkpoints, and a dashboard designed to stay behind an SSH tunnel.

The core idea is isolation: the agent can build, run, and automate freely inside its own boundary, while everything sensitive stays out of reach. The homelab becomes the trust boundary, not the agent.

(Full write-up coming soon.)