One-Click Backups and Restores: Your Agent Data Is Safe
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Don't Lose Your Agent
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Your agent's configuration, skills, tools, and memory represent real work. Losing them would be painful. That's why every Derez.ai plan includes automatic daily backups with one-click restore.
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Every 24 hours, we snapshot your entire instance: the Hermes Agent config, all skills and tools, the agent's memory and conversation history, environment variables and API keys, and your custom scripts and data files.
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How Restore Works
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From the app.derez.ai dashboard, click "Restore" on any backup. The process takes under 2 minutes. Your agent comes back exactly as it was at the time of that backup — config, data, everything.
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Backups run automatically, but here's our advice: restore test your backups monthly (spin up a test instance, restore, verify it works), keep critical config files version-controlled (git push your SKILL.md files), and use the dashboard to label important backups before making big changes.
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If something goes wrong — a bad config push, a corrupted skill, an accidental deletion — you're never more than two minutes away from a known-good state.
2025 was about chatbots that could answer questions. 2026 is about agents that do things — send emails, update databases, deploy code, manage workflows. The shift from passive to active AI is the defining trend.
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Multi-Agent Orchestration
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Instead of one agent doing everything, we're seeing architectures where specialized agents collaborate: one researches, one drafts, one reviews, one sends. This mirrors how human teams work and produces better results than a single generalist agent.
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Agent-as-a-Service
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Hosted agents are becoming a category. Companies like Derez.ai let you deploy and manage agents without worrying about infrastructure. Expect this to accelerate as more businesses realize the operational overhead of self-hosting.
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Tool-Using Agents
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Modern agents don't just generate text — they use APIs, query databases, run code, and interact with web services. The ability to call tools reliably is what separates a useful agent from a novelty.
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If you're not already running agents for your workflow, 2026 is the year to start. The barrier is lower than ever: $9.50/month gets you a fully managed Hermes Agent with tools, backups, and a dashboard. The question isn't whether agents will be part of your stack — it's which tasks you'll delegate first.
Building a Cold Email Agent: From Setup to First Send
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+ June 5, 2026
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The Cold Email Use Case
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Cold email is repetitive — research prospects, write a personalized draft, send, follow up. It's the perfect job for an AI agent. Here's how to set one up on Derez.ai.
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Your cold email agent needs three things: a research tool (to find prospects and learn about their business), an email-sending integration (SMTP or API), and a clear prompt that defines your voice and process. We cover all three.
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In the app.derez.ai dashboard, give your agent a role: "You are a B2B outreach specialist for [Company]. Research each prospect, write a personalized first email, and send it." Attach your prospect list or connect a CRM via the tools section.
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Hermes Agent supports SMTP and email APIs out of the box. Add your email credentials in the agent's environment settings, and your agent can send emails directly from the conversation.
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Your agent can use web search to research each prospect's company, recent news, and LinkedIn profile before writing. This makes each email genuinely personalized — not a template with a name swapped in.
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Run a few test emails to yourself first. Tweak the tone in the prompt until it sounds right. Then add your prospect list and let the agent work through it. Follow-ups can be scheduled as separate tasks.
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The result? Each prospect gets a researched, personalized email written and sent — while you focus on the replies that matter.
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We built Derez.ai around a simple bet: deploying an AI agent should be faster than ordering coffee. Here's the exact flow, start to finish.
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Step 1: Choose Your Agent
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Head to the pricing section and pick a plan. Trainee ($4.99/mo) is great for testing, Junior ($9.50/mo, our most popular) runs a full Hermes Agent, and Senior ($17.50/mo) gives you the most powerful configuration. Each plan includes OpenRouter credits equal to your monthly subscription.
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Step 2: Configure and Pay
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Select your agent type (Hermes Agent recommended), choose your billing period, and optionally apply a coupon code. If you're an early adopter, use friends950 for $9.50 off your first month. Complete the Stripe checkout and your instance spins up within seconds.
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Once payment succeeds, you're redirected to your agent dashboard at app.derez.ai. The prompt builder walks you through configuring your agent's personality, tools, and knowledge. A cold email agent, a research assistant, a support bot — whatever you need, the builder makes it straightforward.
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Hit deploy and your agent is live with full SSH access, automatic daily backups, and a real-time dashboard. You can tweak the prompt, add skills, or connect external tools any time. That's it — under 5 minutes, no exaggeration.
Derez.ai Launches Managed Agent Hosting — Hermes Agents for Everyone
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Today We Go Live
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After months of building, testing, and refining, Derez.ai is officially open for business. Our mission: make AI agent deployment as simple as spinning up a cloud VM — but with all the hard parts handled for you.
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What We Offer
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Every Derez.ai plan includes a dedicated Linux instance running Hermes Agent by Nous Research. You get full SSH access, automatic daily backups, a management dashboard for prompt and API key management, and support via in-page chat. No shared infrastructure, no hidden limits.
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The dashboard lets you monitor agent activity, adjust prompts on the fly, manage API keys, and restore from backup with one click. It's the control panel that makes agent hosting feel like a product, not a project.
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Why Managed Matters
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Running an AI agent yourself means dealing with server setup, dependency management, backup scripts, monitoring, and security patches. We handle all of that so you can focus on what your agent does, not how it stays online.
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Special Launch Pricing
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Use coupon code creator950 or friends950 at checkout for $9.50 off your first month — bringing the Junior plan to $0.00 on month one. It's our way of saying thanks to the early community.
Extending Hermes Agent with Custom Tools and Skills
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+ May 28, 2026
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Beyond the Built-Ins
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Hermes Agent ships with a powerful set of tools — web search, file manipulation, terminal access, browser automation. But the real power is in extending it with your own custom skills.
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What Are Skills?
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Skills are markdown files that teach your agent how to handle specific tasks. They live in ~/.hermes/skills/ and are loaded by name when needed. A skill might define a workflow for "code review" or "deploying a static site" with exact commands and pitfalls.
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Writing Your First Skill
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Create a file at ~/.hermes/skills/my-skill/SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter (name, description, tags) and a markdown body. The body is the instruction your agent follows when the skill is loaded. Use numbered steps, include exact commands, and add a pitfalls section.
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For external API access (your CRM, Slack, GitHub), write a Python script and register it in the agent's config. The agent can then call it like any other tool. This is how you connect your agent to your actual business systems.
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Sharing Skills
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Skills are portable — share them between agents or with the community. A well-written skill saves hours of repeated setup and makes every agent you deploy smarter from day one.
If you have an existing AI agent setup — whether self-hosted on a VPS or with another provider — moving to Derez.ai is straightforward. Here's the migration playbook.
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Step 1: Spin Up Your Derez Instance
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Sign up and deploy a new agent via the dashboard. You'll get SSH credentials within seconds. This becomes your new home.
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Use SCP or rsync to copy your agent config, skills, and any custom scripts from your old server to the new one. Your Derez instance is a standard Linux system — anything that ran on your old VPS will run here.
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If your agent has a database or state files, copy them over the same way. The one-click backup system on Derez.ai will then take over — your first automatic backup happens within 24 hours.
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Step 4: Update DNS and Integrations
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Point any webhooks, API endpoints, or DNS records to your new agent's IP. Flush old configs. Test the pipeline: if your agent sent emails, send a test. If it posted to Slack, trigger a test post.
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Once everything is verified working on Derez.ai, shut down your old server. You're now on managed infrastructure with automatic backups, a dashboard, and support. No more 3 AM server alerts.
AI Agent Script: Automating YouTube Content Research
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Content Research at Scale
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If you create YouTube content, you know research takes as long as recording. An AI agent can automate the prep work: find trending topics, analyze competitor videos, outline episodes, and draft scripts.
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Prompt your Hermes Agent with: "Research the topic [X]. Find 3 popular videos on YouTube about this topic, summarize their angle, identify what's missing, and outline a 10-minute video that fills the gap."
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Hermes Agent can pull YouTube transcripts via its tools. Have it analyze the top-performing videos' transcripts, extract the hooks, pacing, and key points. Use that analysis to structure your own script.
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From Outline to Draft
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Once the outline is ready, tell the agent to write the full script in your voice. Include style notes in the prompt: "Write in a conversational tone, use short sentences, include 3 callbacks to earlier points, and end with a CTA."
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What used to take 2 hours of research + 1 hour of writing takes 20 minutes of prompting + editing. The agent handles the first pass; you handle the polish. Repeatable for every episode.