Hermes Personal Automation

A private, single-user office & research automation agent. Personal use only.

Purpose of the application

The application automates the owner’s personal and professional routines:

• Producing a daily schedule briefing from the owner’s own Google Calendar, so upcoming meetings and preparation time are summarised in one message each morning.
• Tracking a personal research paper list (semiconductor device literature) in Google Sheets and Drive, keeping an inventory spreadsheet up to date for the owner’s own reading.
• Searching and summarising the owner’s own Gmail threads to prepare draft replies, which the owner reviews and sends themselves.
• Reading the owner’s Google Contacts to resolve names when scheduling.

Who uses it

One person: the owner of the Google account that authorises it. There are no other users, no sign-up, no accounts, and no third-party access. Every Google API call is triggered by the owner’s own request on their own machine.

Google API scopes requested, and why

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar — read the owner’s own calendar to build the daily schedule briefing and detect conflicts. (read plus event creation when the owner explicitly asks)
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly and .../auth/drive.file — read documents the owner shares with the app, and upload generated reports the owner requests.
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets — read and update the owner’s own tracking spreadsheets (e.g. the research paper inventory).
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly, .../auth/presentations.readonly — read the owner’s docs and slide decks to summarise them for the owner.
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly, .../auth/gmail.modify, .../auth/gmail.send — search the owner’s own mailbox, label messages, and send drafts only after the owner explicitly approves the text.
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly — resolve contact names and addresses for the owner’s own scheduling.

Data handling

• Storage. Google data returned by the API is processed on the owner’s own computer and is not uploaded to any server controlled by this application.
• Sharing. No Google user data is sold, rented, or shared with third parties, and none is used for advertising, profiling, or training machine-learning models.
• AI processing. When the owner asks for a summary or draft, the relevant text may be sent to the large-language-model provider the owner has configured, solely to generate that response for the owner. It is not retained by this application for any other purpose.
• Retention and deletion. Credentials and cached data live only on the owner’s machine and can be deleted at any time by revoking access; see the Privacy Policy.

Links

• Privacy Policy