Aug 19, 2026 · product · ThumbGate · 5 min read
Give hosted Hermes a job
ThumbGate.app is hosted Hermes on a fenced VPS. $10/month. Approvals stay in this browser.
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Notes from the always-on lane.
How we keep one agent alive on a fenced VPS — and gated. Engineering mechanisms, product decisions, honest numbers only.
Aug 19, 2026 · ideas · ThumbGate · 4 min read
Chatbots answer. Laptop agents sleep. Hosted Hermes keeps working.
Why every laptop agent pilot dies the same death, and what an always-on fenced VPS with human approval gates changes about the work you can hand off.
Aug 19, 2026 · engineering · ThumbGate · 5 min read
Leases, receipts, and a judge: running unattended agents safely
The three mechanisms hosted Hermes uses to let an agent run for hours or months without a human babysitter: renewable leases, receipt audit trails, and LLM-as-a-Judge pre-action gates.
Aug 19, 2026 · ideas · ThumbGate · 4 min read
Your agent's telemetry should be content-free
This week's backlash over an AI assistant logging users' keystrokes is a preview of the agent era's trust problem. What an always-on agent's control plane should record — and what it must never see.
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