A daily research brief in Telegram with Hermes Agent cron jobs
Connect Hermes Agent to a Telegram bot, then schedule a cron job that searches the web each morning and posts a short, linked brief to your chat.
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Hermes Agent
About Hermes Agent on ranx
A shared Hermes Agent research bot for your team's Telegram group
Put Hermes Agent in a Telegram group so teammates can @mention it for research, with access control, no shell tools, and a weekly digest posted to the group.
Hermes Agent alerts in Telegram only when a page changes
Three ways to watch a web page or feed with Hermes Agent cron and get a Telegram message only on change, from agent-only to a zero-token script check.
Hermes Agent on a budget: which model for chat, cron and side tasks
Where Hermes Agent spends tokens, how to put a cheap model on cron jobs, side tasks and subagents, and what OpenRouter, Anthropic or OpenAI cost per month.
Teach Hermes Agent a task once: memory, skills and /learn
How Hermes Agent's memory and self-written skills work, how to turn a task you corrected once into a reusable skill, and how to review what it learns.
OpenClaw
About OpenClaw on ranx
Add OpenClaw to Slack with Socket Mode, no public webhook
Connect OpenClaw to a Slack workspace over Socket Mode, limit it to the channels and people you choose, and route Slack to a separate work agent.
Lock down an OpenClaw bot before you add it to a group chat
Who can trigger your OpenClaw bot, what it reads and what it may do: allowlists, mention gating, context filters, tool limits and approvals.
Run OpenClaw as a WhatsApp assistant on its own number
Link a spare WhatsApp number to OpenClaw from the Control UI, decide who may message it, and keep group chats from triggering it by accident.
Stop OpenClaw's 30-minute heartbeat from running up your API bill
What OpenClaw's heartbeat does every 30 minutes, what it costs on a shared session, and the settings that cut it to a few dollars a month or turn it off.
Turn a private Discord server into an OpenClaw workspace
Give each Discord channel its own OpenClaw session: #research, #home, #writing. Bot setup, intents, guild allowlist and mention rules, all from the browser.
A daily competitor digest from RSS feeds, summarized into Slack
Build an n8n workflow that reads competitors' blog and changelog feeds each morning, keeps only new posts, and posts a short LLM-written digest to Slack.
Back up n8n workflows to GitHub and get alerts on failed runs
A nightly n8n workflow that commits every workflow's JSON to a private GitHub repo, plus an error workflow that posts failures to Slack with a link.
Pull invoice data from Gmail PDFs into Google Sheets with n8n
Read PDF invoices from a Gmail inbox, extract vendor, dates and totals with n8n's Information Extractor, and log them to Google Sheets with a sanity check.
Stripe payment and churn alerts in Slack with n8n
Post failed payments, cancellations and disputes from Stripe to a Slack channel with n8n's Stripe Trigger, with signature checks and duplicate filtering.
Triage support email with n8n's Text Classifier and Gmail labels
Label every support email in Gmail as billing, bug, how-to or feature request with an LLM in n8n, and ping Slack for bugs. Setup, prompts, and costs.