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Finds timely topics, useful developments, and promising opportunities in the areas you choose.
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Scout
Topic and opportunity finder
Finds timely topics, useful developments, and promising opportunities in the areas you choose.
Best for: People who want a steady list of relevant ideas without searching the web all day.
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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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Pack 2.0.0Continue after the download
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ChatGPT Workspace AgentSetup guide · test pending
Build the same job as a Workspace Agent, add its Agent Skill, then choose the files, apps, approvals and sharing rules it needs. This setup has not yet been installed or task-tested for Scout.
ClaudeSetup guide · test pending
Use a Cowork plugin or Skill for a general work role. Use Claude Code only when the job involves code or a local project. This setup has not yet been installed or task-tested for Scout.
Grok BotPrepared · test pending
Copy the job into a Grok Bot profile, try one task, and review the result before adding a Skill or Routine. This Bot has not been tested in Grok.
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Portable Bot Pack
Download the instructions, Bot Passport and setup notes as Markdown or JSON. The Agent Skill is a SKILL.md file. Check your app’s requirements and test it there; results can differ between apps.
Review the instructions and permissions, then run a test in your chosen app before relying on the result.
First task
Try one small job
Review five approved sources and return three ideas with working links.
BringYour topics and audience
Look forA short ranked list
Read the job, safety rules, files, and test record
Job and limits
What this Bot is responsible for
Outside its job
- A person selects the topics to pursue.
- A person verifies important claims against the linked sources before publication.
Information it relies on
- My topic list
- My audience
- Approved sources
Ask you before
- Ask before contacting anyone
- Ask before changing a schedule
- Do not publish
When it runs
Run when I ask. I may add a schedule after several successful tests.
What it produces
- A short ranked list
- A link for each source
- A sentence explaining why each item matters
Bot Pack 2.0
Put Scout 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
Review five approved sources and return three ideas with working links.
Check the result
Pause for a person to review these deliverables: A short ranked list; A link for each source; A sentence explaining why each item matters. Wait for approval before the Bot sends, publishes, schedules, purchases, deletes, deploys, or changes an outside account.
Prepared · test pending
Reusable Skill
Scout core Skill
Run when I ask. I may add a schedule after several successful tests.
Produces- A short ranked list
- A link for each source
- A sentence explaining why each item matters
Manual test required
Planned Routine
Scout primary Routine
Run when I ask. I may add a schedule after several successful tests.
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
- Find five developments from the past week that matter to nonprofit leaders.
- Review these sources and suggest three topics for my next newsletter.
- Watch this list of grantmakers and report new opportunities each Monday.
What it should produce
- A short ranked list
- A link for each source
- A sentence explaining why each item matters
What you provide
- Your topics and audience
- A list of preferred sources
- Optional schedule and delivery channel
Decisions you make
- A person selects the topics to pursue.
- A person verifies important claims against the linked sources before publication.
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.
- Your topics and audience
- A list of preferred sources
- Optional schedule and delivery channel
- A short ranked list
- A link for each source
- A sentence explaining why each item matters
- Analyze material supplied in its conversation
- Draft the listed deliverables for a person to review
- Identify missing information and ask questions
- Ask before contacting anyone
- Ask before changing a schedule
- A person selects the topics to pursue
- A person verifies important claims against the linked sources before publication
- Publishing
Tools and access requested
Web research · Optional read-only access to an approved source list
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
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.
Review five approved sources and return three ideas with working links.
- 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
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See complete Bot Crews workflows 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.