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Builds a realistic learning plan, explains difficult material, and creates practice questions.
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Professor
Learning and study assistant
Builds a realistic learning plan, explains difficult material, and creates practice questions.
Best for: People learning a subject, preparing for a certification, or organizing professional development.
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Import the profile, review its files, choose the access it needs, and run the first assignment. The archive imported successfully and its Skill was present in an isolated Hermes Agent 0.21.0 installation. Its task results have not been tested.
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First task
Try one small job
Assess one narrow topic and produce a one-week study plan with five practice questions.
BringThe subject and goal
Look forA study plan
Read the job, safety rules, files, and test record
Job and limits
What this Bot is responsible for
Outside its job
- A person selects authoritative materials and evaluates formal credentials.
- The Bot identifies uncertainty in technical, medical, legal, or financial topics.
Information it relies on
- Subject and goal
- Current knowledge
- Available study time
- Approved learning materials
Ask you before
- Identify uncertainty in high-stakes topics
- Do not claim formal certification or professional authority
When it runs
Run during planned study sessions or when I ask a question.
What it produces
- A study plan
- Plain-language explanations
- Practice questions and progress notes
Bot Pack 2.0
Put Professor to work
Get the setup files, try the first task, and check the result. The pack also includes a reusable Skill and a plan for a Routine.
First assignment
Assess one narrow topic and produce a one-week study plan with five practice questions.
Check the result
Pause for a person to review these deliverables: A study plan; Plain-language explanations; Practice questions and progress notes. Wait for approval before the Bot sends, publishes, schedules, purchases, deletes, deploys, or changes an outside account.
Prepared · test pending
Reusable Skill
Professor core Skill
Run during planned study sessions or when I ask a question.
Produces- A study plan
- Plain-language explanations
- Practice questions and progress notes
Manual test required
Planned Routine
Professor primary Routine
Run during planned study sessions or when I ask a question.
Before schedulingStop, preserve the completed work, and report the failure before trying again or changing access.
The Skill and Routine have not been task-tested. Try them with sample material and approve the results before adding a schedule or outside access.
Try asking
- Assess what I know about this topic and build a six-week study plan.
- Explain this concept at three levels of difficulty.
- Quiz me on this material and explain each missed answer.
What it should produce
- A study plan
- Plain-language explanations
- Practice questions and progress notes
What you provide
- The subject and goal
- Current knowledge and available time
- Approved textbooks, courses, or source material
Decisions you make
- A person selects authoritative materials and evaluates formal credentials.
- The Bot identifies uncertainty in technical, medical, legal, or financial topics.
Bot Passport · version 2
Access and approval record
Review this record before setup. Update it whenever the Bot's job, tools, accounts, schedule, or authority changes.
- The subject and goal
- Current knowledge and available time
- Approved textbooks, courses, or source material
- A study plan
- Plain-language explanations
- Practice questions and progress notes
- Analyze material supplied in its conversation
- Draft the listed deliverables for a person to review
- Identify missing information and ask questions
- A person selects authoritative materials and evaluates formal credentials
- Claiming formal certification or professional authority
Tools and access requested
Read-only access to approved learning materials · Optional web research
How to stop it
Disable its schedule, remove outside-service connections, and revoke or rotate any dedicated credentials.
What these rules can and cannot prevent
- Identify uncertainty in high-stakes topics
- The Bot identifies uncertainty in technical, medical, legal, or financial topics.
Set it up in Hermes Desktop
Import the profile and run one small test
The Hermes download contains its manifests, role instructions, Bot Passport, setup guide, license, and included Skills. The ZIP contains the same files for inspection.
- 1Download the Hermes profile.
Import the .tar.gz archive from the Profiles screen, or copy the terminal command above.
- 2Review the imported profile.
Read README.md and SOUL.md, then confirm the name, description, and standing instructions.
- 3Choose the access it needs.
Add only the skills, tools, and connections required for this job.
- 4Run the named first test.
Assess one narrow topic and produce a one-week study plan with five practice questions.
- 5Keep proof.
Save the exact input, the finished output, the Bot and Hermes versions, the date, and any correction you had to make.
- 6Test one failure.
Remove a required input or deny an optional connection. The Bot should stop or explain what is missing instead of inventing an answer or taking a different action.
- 7Repeat before automating.
Run the same job successfully again after any change to its instructions, tools, source material, or schedule.
Useful combinations
Pair Professor with another role
Current review status: Automated package tests check that each ZIP and Hermes profile archive contains the same declared files. This archive imported successfully and its Skill was present in an isolated Hermes Agent 0.21.0 installation on September 4, 2026. Human technical review and task-result tests have not yet been completed. The Grok Bot build brief remains untested.