Hermes Agent Desktop: What to Configure, What to Ignore
Which Hermes Desktop surfaces actually matter, why profiles are not security sandboxes, and what to get right before you schedule anything. Judgment, not docs.
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Case Study Archive.
Every case study, system breakdown, and field note, newest first and filterable by topic. No theory, no demos. Only systems that run in production and what it took to get them there.
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What is in the JQ AI SYSTEMS case study archive?
This is the complete archive: all 478 posts across 52 topics, newest first, filterable by category. It holds the case studies, the model and tool comparisons, and the field notes from systems I built and run. For the curated view, where the writing sits alongside the free Claude Code skills, start at the Library instead.
The archive leans in four directions: AI Search Visibility (95), AI Agent Architecture (58), AI Tools (38), and AI Coding Agents (26). Those four account for most of what I publish, because they are where most of the client questions land.
Three places to start. The AI search visibility guide is the hub for the largest cluster and links out to every spoke in it. Grok Imagine vs Midjourney is the image model comparison, rebuilt against live leaderboard data rather than left to go stale. OutreachIQ is the longest running system breakdown here, from first prototype through to a public repo.
Build Your Own Local AI Agent Control Center
A public-safe prompt for building a local-first AI agent control center with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or another coding LLM, without exposing private data.
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Codex Sites: Build Apps That Work for You 24/7
Codex Sites is not just a one-prompt app builder. The real pattern is memory, safe actions, skills, save-gates, and proof loops that let agents operate internal tools.
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Codex for Every Role: OpenAI's Workflow Platform Is Taking Shape
OpenAI's Codex role-specific plugins, Sites, and annotations show the next agent shift: packaged workflows for sales, data, creative, product, finance, and internal apps.
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Codex Is Becoming the Work App Inside ChatGPT
OpenAI is pushing Codex beyond coding with role-specific plugins, Sites, annotations, and a deeper ChatGPT path. Here is what builders and operators should understand.
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AI Browsers Are Not the Future. Agent Workspaces Are.
AI browsers promised to put an assistant beside your tabs. Codex, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork suggest a bigger shift: task-based agent workspaces where the browser, files, tools, and review surface live together.
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AI Plugins Are Becoming the New Workflow Layer
AI plugins, MCP tools, and work plugins are becoming the workflow layer around AI agents. Here is how businesses should think about permissions, tools, review, and rollout.
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Agent Memory Is Becoming the New Business Knowledge Base
AI agent memory is becoming the new business knowledge base. Learn how memory differs from chat history, why agents forget work, and how small teams can structure context for better automation.
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Context Is the Product: What Karpathy Joining Anthropic Really Signals
Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic is a signal that the next AI advantage is not just the model, but the context, memory, workflows, and research loops around it.
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The /goal Primitive: Why Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes Are Converging
Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes now share a /goal pattern: durable objectives, evaluators, stopping conditions, and safer long-running agent work.
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