Throwing Hermes into the Swamp
Hermes and Swamp finally worked once I stopped chasing install ownership and fixed the session snapshot that every tool subprocess sources.
Writing
Agents Make Homelab Alerts Boring
A Frigate storage alert became a small example of why agents and Swamp are working so well in my homelab: bounded context, reviewable changes, and asynchronous fixes that preserve headspace.
An Offline Meeting Transcriber Built on Swamp
I built an offline meeting transcriber using local Whisper, pyannote, and Ollama, then migrated it to swamp — the same typed models now power my terminal, my agent, and a future watch-folder, without copy-pasting a script.