I Gave an AI Agent My Vacation. It Planned Better Than I Did.

Saniya Naaz Posted on May 31 I Gave an AI Agent My Vacation. It Planned Better Than I Did. # hermesagentchallenge # devchallenge # agents Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Write About Hermes Agent This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge : Write About Hermes Agent I'll be honest — I didn't expect this to work. I've used AI tools before. ChatGPT for writing, GitHub Copilot for code, the usual suspects. But when I heard about Hermes Agent — an open source agentic system you run entirely on your own machine — my first reaction was skepticism. Another AI wrapper. Another overhyped demo. I'd seen it before. I was wrong. setting up Hermes 1.Installing Hermes(Powershell) 2.selecting Provider 3.Selecting Terminal Backend 4.Selecting Messaging Platforms 5.Tool Availability The experiment I'm a developer from India with an idea: a travel planning system where multiple specialist AI agents collaborate on your trip — instead of one generic AI giving one generic answer. A Destination Expert. A Budget Planner. A Weather Analyst. A Local Guide. A Safety Advisor. An Itinerary Builder. A Voice Script Writer. I called it TravelMind AI. And I wanted to see if Hermes Agent could power the entire thing from a single prompt. So I set up Hermes Agent locally, gave it a system prompt defining all 7 agents, and typed this: * My prompt: * [goa 5-06-2026 to 10-06-2026 for 5 days budget is 35000 travel-adventure interests: history, nature, food ] What Hermes Agent produced Here is the actual output — unedited: Budget breakdown (all 7 categories, balanced automatically): "budgetBreakdown" : { "flights" : "₹15,000" , "accommodation" : "₹8,000" , "food" : "₹5,000" , "activities" : "₹4,000" , "transport" : "₹2,500" , "buffer" : "₹5,500" , "total" : "₹35,000" } Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Weather — with a monsoon backup plan: "weather" : { "season" : "Monsoon" , "tempHigh" : "29°C" , "tempLow" : "24°C" , "humidity" : "85%" , "bestOutdoorHours" : "Morning 8-11 AM" , "rainB