Hermes Agent Setup and Operations
Deploy and configure Hermes with providers, profiles, skills, memory, tools, messaging gateways, permissions, logs, backups, and operator handoff.
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About Czarina
AI SYSTEMS BUILT FOR REAL OPERATIONS.
Czar Studios is the technical portfolio of Czarina Castillo. The work starts with an operating problem and ends with a system people can inspect, test, control, maintain, and recover.
System ownership
Architecture, review, QA, and operations stay connected.
Most teams do not need another disconnected tool. They need a clear data flow, permission boundary, review path, and recovery plan around the tools they already use.
AI is used heavily during implementation. Czar Studios owns the requirements, architecture, integrations, review, testing, debugging, deployment, monitoring, recovery, and final reliability.
Recent work includes governed Slack and Hermes environments, source-backed retrieval, meeting-to-task pipelines, review dashboards, Vapi voice operations, Gmail search, and self-hosted reporting systems.
Technical capabilities
Systems that remain understandable after handoff.
Slack AI Workspace and Workflow Setup
Design workspace structure, bot scopes, channel allowlists, knowledge access, approval gates, and documented team workflows.
Knowledge Retrieval Systems
Make approved company knowledge searchable with source links, hybrid retrieval, reindexing, and private-source exclusions.
Review Dashboards and Decision Support
Prepare evidence, scores, flags, explanations, and audit trails for a person to review without automating the final decision.
Voice Operations and Workflow Integrations
Connect Vapi, n8n, calendars, email, messaging, and APIs with deduplication, cooldown, fallback, and operator controls.
Production QA, Monitoring, and Recovery
Exercise the real interface, API, persistence, and delivery path, then document monitoring, rollback, and recovery.
Working stack
Tools selected around the operating need.
- Agents and automation
- Hermes Agent, Slack, n8n, Vapi, MCP, Composio, APIs, webhooks
- Knowledge and data
- Obsidian, Qdrant, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Google Drive, Gmail
- Application development
- Next.js, React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Node.js
- Infrastructure and QA
- Docker, Linux VPS, Tailscale, Vercel, GitHub Actions, regression testing