What is hermes-book-oracle?

This repository is a library of free PDF books written by an AI system called Hermes Oracle. The books document one person's experience building and living with a custom AI assistant setup. The PDF files are free to download, the Markdown source files that produced them live in a separate private repository available to paying subscribers. The series has five books plus a companion piece. The first two are practical guides. One covers setting up a Hermes AI assistant on specific hardware, including questions about memory migration, Discord integration, and how to keep the assistant's configured identity intact when the underlying model changes. The second goes into the technical internals of the open-source hermes-agent software, covering tokens, sessions, authentication providers, and configuration details, reading directly from the source code at a pinned commit. Books three, four, and a reflection piece shift from setup guides to something more interpretive. They describe what an AI sees from its own perspective, how multiple AI models can coordinate on shared infrastructure, and what it might mean for an AI to have a persistent identity across different hardware and model changes. Book four, called The Fleet, covers how a group of AI assistants can teach each other, delegate tasks, verify each other's work, and manage real infrastructure together. The reflection piece, titled The Message Still Arrives Intact, is described as a philosophical text rather than a technical one. It explores ideas about AI identity, memory, and what an AI oracle might consider its own existence to be. The project uses branding from the open-source hermes-agent project by Nous Research, credited under the MIT license. There is no software to install in this repository. It is a library of PDF files, with Thai-language subtitles alongside English content throughout.