Hermes + local stack — Stack selection

Stack selection · Unit 4 of 5

Activation

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⚡ Activation

💭 in your head · nothing to type

Picture a theatre director: they hold the whole production, while actors receive only their scenes.

Which scene would you refuse to hand to one actor whole?

Guess before the explanation

Getting it wrong is fine: it is part of learning. Guessing first helps the answer stick later, and the answer itself comes after the explanation.

An agent is refactoring a module; by the fifth file it forgets the original plan and spends a lot of tokens getting back to it. How does the Hermes scheme answer this problem?It gives the agent a model with a bigger window so everything fitsThe boss holds only the plan and state, and hands the implementation to workers — narrow subtasks with their own contextIt forbids refactoring across several filesIt runs all the workers with a shared context so each one sees everything

Learn with AI

Copy your personal prompt and paste it into your agent's learn mode — it picks up your context and takes you forward.

Honestly: with AI it feels like you can do more than you can without it. After practice, check yourself without AI. (Bastani et al., PNAS 2025)

Explains the material using the course method.

ChatGPT →Claude →Gemini →Copilot →