Ask your agent whether a new AI tool is worth adding before you install it
The poster, who isn't a programmer and runs one agent for office work, pastes the link of every new AI tool into Hermes Agent and asks if it's useful for them. The agent reads the site and checks the same three things each time: is it only useful if you run many agents, can it reach the apps they actually use (their work email only works in the desktop app), and does the agent already do this. The last tool they asked about got a "not now". They also had the agent list the changes they'd made to it, and found some of their fixes would have been wiped by the next update, so now they only change settings and skills.
Where this comes from
Original post by @thededale_ on X, Oct 20, 2026. We rewrote it in our own words. The result is what the poster reports.
Read the originalCopy-paste setup
Here is a link to a new tool: [LINK]. Read the site and tell me in a few lines whether it's useful for me. Check three things: does it only help if I run several agents (I run [NUMBER]), can it work with the apps I use every day ([LIST APPS]), and can you already do the same thing with what you have now. End with yes, not now, or no, and one sentence on why.
Our own prompt, written from what the source describes. We haven't run it ourselves. Text in [BRACKETS] is what you replace.