Fork: I made an AI live out both sides of a hard decision, in parallel

Elizabeth Stein Posted on Jun 1 Fork: I made an AI live out both sides of a hard decision, in parallel # hermesagentchallenge # devchallenge # agents Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Build With Hermes Agent This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge. (Demo video below.) What I built Fork takes a hard decision and spins up a separate Hermes agent for each option. Every agent goes and lives out its path: it researches the real web, reasons through the concrete consequences, and reports back the future it lived. You watch the branches grow side by side in real time, then a final agent weighs them and returns a recommendation with a confidence score. Ask it "Learn Rust or Go next?" and you do not get one hedged answer. You get two agents, one per path, each running real searches ("Rust borrow checker problems", "Go adoption cloud infrastructure", real URLs pulled and read) and writing an honest verdict for the life it lived. Then the oracle picks: Rust, 78% confidence , with the reasoning that sold it. It is built as a calm, cartographic instrument on warm paper, not another dark dashboard. The point is to make a branching decision feel like something you can watch happen. Demo Type a decision (or pick a preset). Watch it split into 2 to 3 distinct options. Each option becomes its own column: live research steps, streaming reasoning, a verdict for that path. The synthesis card resolves last: the winning path, a confidence dial, and why. How it works Three steps, all driven by the Hermes Agent REST API running locally: Decompose. One Hermes call breaks the decision into 2 to 3 genuinely different options, returned as strict JSON. Branch (the interesting part). For each option, the app opens a separate Hermes session and streams a chat run. Each run is told: "you are living the future where this was the choice; research it with the web tool, reason through the consequences, give a verdict for this path only." The runs happen in parallel. The browser reads each