AI Agent Workshop
This year, PyCon Singapore participants can learn how to build your personal learning assistant — a second brain that remembers what you learn, gets smarter the longer it runs, and follows you everywhere. We are building it together with Hermes Agent, the open-source Python-based agent project from Nous Research.
Why Hermes Agent
A second brain is only useful if it remembers across sessions, turns solved work into reusable skills, and stays reachable in the tools you already use.
Hermes is built around a closed learning loop: it solves a task, writes the experience into a reusable skill, stores it in persistent memory, and improves next time.
In Nous Research benchmarks, an agent using its own self-created skills finished research tasks dramatically faster than a fresh instance — with no extra prompt tuning.
Start it on Telegram, pick it up on Discord, email it a task from your phone. Learn the concepts of agents — not one vendor's lock-in.
The Workshop
We start from the very first command. If you can open a terminal, you can build a second brain — and if you can't yet, we learn by doing together.
Bring the laptop you already use. Leave with a working agent you can immediately use.
Stuck? Volunteers and resources are available throughout the conference, 19-21 June. Drop by, ask anything, and build alongside fellow Pythonistas.
Pair up, swap ideas, and watch a room full of second brains come to life.
Come by our Hermes Agent Workshop Helpdesk booth at Training Room 1-1 during its operating hours and we will have volunteers around to assist you.
Leave With Proof
Earn an AI Ready ASEAN in-depth AI literacy digital certificate — endorsed by AI Singapore, ASREAN Foundation and Google.org — a recognised credential you can proudly add to your portfolio, LinkedIn, and CV.
More than a souvenir. This is real evidence that you can design, build, and run a real AI agent — a future-ready skill as part of your lifelong learning journey.
A Taste Of Day One
No setup nightmares. One command installs everything, a setup wizard does the configuring, and you're talking to your agent.
Start teaching it your world. From here, the longer it runs, the smarter it gets.
Not Signed Up Yet?
Three days. One agent that's truly yours. A certificate to prove it. Whether you've never touched an agent or you live in the terminal — the PyConSG community is here to learn and build with you.