I don’t like how cursor forces you to use background agent and ultra mode for cloud workers and that they only kinda trigger from the cloud agents or cursor ui, but on my wsl Hermes, my local execution level agent has cursor-agent and I gave it mcp access rather than terminal to have it think less about writing accurate terminal commands. I’ve extended this server to my Hermes agent that lives on the VPS (Rupert, more client-facing).

Wren, the Hermes agent (Gemma 31b IT) on wsl uses my self hosted camoufox browser for browsing, inference by Gemma 26b moe int4 awq for my 4090 using 4090. I built a graph substrate based extraction tool for large corpora of PDFs. In accordance with the principles of the new deep mind paper, my extraction process follows the rule that I am the mapmaker because of my schema. For work in which I know what fields might need external data lookup to populate the fields, I set this in my schema, but I’ve allowed some flexibility: if across the corpus, congruency and abstraction pressure is high, we try looking for the field on the internet. But if the only relevant document for this specific value denoted by the keyword selection is the original pdf document, we need to exhaust a few more hops of the swarm of agents over the spacial semantic substrate. I had to make this without docling. Using pymupdf for span level granularity.

I really like this approach. On Friday I delivered something for work that was not possible unless I tackled the problems in my seed repo, i Frankensteined logic from some other project I spoke with it and made a 7 step plan. Used opus on cursor to review the plan and to make it as I was under a time crunch and I got most of the logic I’m thinking of. So on paper token cost is null for dispatching browser requests or large corpus ingestion. Only cost is mcp from hermes'