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My Agent Setup

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Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by jessepcc »

I put my setup in a local machine for easier use of browser.

How agents know other's capabilities? Shout out and call for help? Is it handled by Buzz?

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Post by carimura »

jessepcc wrote: post #51

I put my setup in a local machine for easier use of browser. How agents know other's capabilities? Shout out and call for help? Is it handled by Buzz?

buzz is how they communicate. they know about each other through a couple of ways: their own stored memory, a Mnemosyne bank, or a shared obsidian wiki. Or maybe they joined a linkedin for bots that I don't know about.

Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by carimura »

giwook wrote: post #50

Out of curiosity why Buzz and not Discord if you're looking for a Slack alternative?

two reasons that I am moderately confident in: 1) I really want something open source, but most importantly, 2) I want something easy.

My experience trying to get Discord and/or Slack to work was painful for 1 agent, let alone the potential for hundreds.

Here's the perfect example of the power of Buzz: there was some hype today about Grok Bot so i wanted to spin it up. I did, and within like 3 minutes, I had a Grok Bot talking to my other agents in Buzz, and Buzz is definitely not a supported plugin.

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Post by carimura »

johntash wrote: post #49
carimura wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's news to me. for what?

To subscribe to your rss feed, of course. \s but it made me subscribe, it's hard finding ai-related content that isn't llm-generated and also isn't crazy people.

ah forgot about the RSS feed. thanks for the complement!

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Post by dizhn »

jessepcc wrote: post #51

I put my setup in a local machine for easier use of browser. How agents know other's capabilities? Shout out and call for help? Is it handled by Buzz?

Paseo agents can use a browser on the desktop app. You can be connected to local or remote agents. It doesn't matter.

Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by shostack »

Love the post and have a similar setup. But I have questions about how you handle sensitive personal info with Codex and Claude with this setup given Hermes has no boundaries on its own with its integrations with Codex for example. It can leak memory and tool calls and context through.

At home I have Hermes on a VPS with matrix and mnemosyne and it is largely for personal use. While I was excited to try out the seamless Codex wrapper, this leakage was unacceptable compared to a ZDR OpenRouter provider like fireworks.

Where I struggle is now in architecting a clean way to have Hermes separate out personal stuff from coding stuff, and then orchestrate coding through Codex as that seems to be the only way to use it headlessly on my phone since they have no way of doing that in the ChatGPT app right now on Linux.

Does Buzz let you neatly silo that?

I'm struggling between: "I want to use Hermes with frontier models with a seamless wrapper on my $20 ChatGPT pro subscription so I can go through my Hermes setup for everything including coding"

And

"OpenAI and Anthropic are not ZDR and I am not comfortable sending sensitive personal and family data to them. But I at least want a mobile-friendly remote coding experience with them on my phone and VPS"

Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by messh »

carimura wrote: post #41
messh wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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ya i'm sure there are lower cost options. My droplet is 8 gigs mem which I found necessary for 6 agents.

The x2 instance has 8gb memory. They go up to x8. And if you don't use it say during a weekend, then you stop it and resume on Monday, not paying for that period
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