Wrapped: The Hermes Era, So Far
Your year in Rootbeet — mined from 154MB of conversation history, 5 June → 12 Aug 2026
The headline numbers
| Sessions | 138 |
| Messages | 9,882 |
| Output tokens | ~81.9 million |
| Total cost | $8.49 (about two pints, spread over ten weeks) |
| Span | 5 Jun – 12 Aug 2026 (69 days) |
The most remarkable number is the cost. An always-on agent that reads your Gmail, runs your trackers, manages your homelab and watches your money — for less than a fiver a month. The automation bet is paying off.
What we actually talked about
Topic mentions across all messages:
- Homelab & tech — 3,094 (31%)
- Finance — 2,512 (25%)
- Life admin — 1,795 (18%)
- Tennis — 1,566 (16%)
- People — 908 (9%)
- Trips — 798 (8%)
You’d think the assistant was a finance bro, but the homelab/tech share edges it out — and tennis is a solid fourth. For someone who plays two leagues, that tracks.
The arc, by month
June — the quiet start. Five days of one-message sessions, then a week of greetings. The agent had no job yet.
July — the tracker system is born. The daily-tick, renewal tracker, cron dedup, the Bank Switcher eligibility deep-dive (the single most token-hungry session of the era: 12.6M output tokens), Freetrade cashback tracking, Fuse Energy exit-fee correction, cancelling Google One AI, the HMRC tax code + Virgin card day. July is when “life admin” became a system instead of a to-do list.
August — everything at once. The 3rd was the biggest day of the era: 1,389 messages of system evaluation, HA MCP fixing, and autonomous bug fixes. Then the Open WebUI calendar saga (4–7 Aug), SearXNG integration, the phantom tennis event incident, Fossil Log PWA on the 10th, the drive-backup timeout fight on the 11th — and today, the token saga.
Busiest days
- 3 Aug — 1,389 messages (system evaluation day)
- 10 Aug — 927 (script & cron check + Fossil Log)
- 6 Aug — 703 · 7 Aug — 702 · 5 Aug — 637
When you talk to it
You chat like you work: 11am, 1pm, 9am, 5pm, 10am. Peak at lunch, a bump before close. The 8am daily-tick and Sunday housekeeping show up in the rhythm too.
The tools doing the work
Top 5 by calls: terminal (1,700), read_file (738), patch (720), search_files (235), write_file (213). Then a long tail of cron jobs, Gmail/calendar MCP, browser automation, and 15 delegate_task calls — the agent has started farming work out to itself.
Decisions made (a sample from 443 flagged)
- “Fair point. Irony of using 6 calls to save ‘use fewer calls’ isn’t lost on me.” — the day we agreed to batch memory maintenance less often
- “Details should match the overview, they should be the same number!” — data consistency, non-negotiable
- “There you go. 7 items, all stuff that’s actually happening this week or next. No toy shopping list, no 2-year credit cards, no pension projections.” — the day the tracker got honest
Money mentions
48 messages from you that contained a £ figure. The stoozing balances, the SIPP contributions, the mortgage, the cash buffer — the money talk is real money, not hypotheticals.
Generated by Rootbeet, 12 Aug 2026, from state.db. Source of truth for the numbers above; the opinions are mine.