Hermes Agent skill for Nextcloud – worth trying

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Hermes Agent skill for Nextcloud – worth trying

Just a small tip for anyone experimenting with AI agents together with Nextcloud.

I recently installed and started using this Nextcloud skill for Hermes Agent:

It connects Hermes directly to a self-hosted Nextcloud instance and currently supports quite a useful set of functions:

  • files via WebDAV
  • Notes
  • calendars and events via CalDAV
  • Tasks
  • contacts via CardDAV

What I like about it is that it doesn’t require another cloud service in between. Hermes communicates directly with your own Nextcloud instance, using a dedicated Nextcloud App Password.

I already have it installed and use it with my own Nextcloud setup. Being able to work with Nextcloud data directly from a conversation is quite useful — for example asking the agent to look up a contact, work with calendar events or tasks, or access files without manually going through the web interface.

For me, this is also an interesting example of how Nextcloud can become much more than just storage when it is combined with a local/self-hosted AI agent.

The project is still relatively small, but it looks promising and is easy enough to test if you are already running Hermes.

Maybe it will be useful to someone else here as well.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to include some existing python client api (something like GitHub - cloud-py-api/nc_py_api: Nextcloud Python Framework · GitHub), and let the AI agent handle this instead of writing your own Nextcloud-API-Wrapper?

I just kept things locally for the moment, but hooking it up to a Nextcloud account is a pretty good idea :+1: