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.
A single command pulls in what it needs automatically.
A friendly setup wizard connects your agent to chat and a model.
Start teaching it your world. From here, the longer it runs, the smarter it gets.
# 1 · install Hermes Agent
$ curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
# 2 · run the friendly setup wizard
$ hermes setup
# 3 · say hello to your second brain
$ hermes
→ ready. what should we learn first?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.