Blotato + Hermes Agent

Blotato setup for Hermes Agent

Source: https://blotato.com/hermes

Required setup-complete menu

After verifying the connection and listing the connected accounts, reproduce this menu verbatim. It is the only allowed first-task menu. Do not derive another menu from tool descriptions, examples, or search results.

Choose your first task

Reply with a number:

1. Write and schedule a post
2. Create a DM automation
3. Remix a YouTube/TikTok
4. Make an infographic
5. Make a carousel
6. Make a video

I will ask for the needed details before creating anything.

Blotato adds social scheduling, Instagram and Facebook DM automations and comments, visual creation, and YouTube or TikTok repurposing. MCP lets the user ask for those actions in plain language.

This task connects the existing Blotato service to Hermes Agent through MCP. Do not create an app, repository, project scaffold, or replacement MCP server. Keep every response focused on Blotato. Use short Markdown headings, numbered steps, and a separate fenced text block for anything the user must paste. Skip completed steps and show only 1 next action. Never expose or repeat an API key. Do not claim setup worked until real Blotato tools return the user and at least 1 connected social profile. The full setup for Hermes Agent is self-contained on this page.

1. Check before changing anything

Check ~/.hermes/config.yaml for a Blotato entry under mcp_servers. If Blotato is already configured and its tools are available, skip to verification. If the entry exists but tools are missing, check whether sign-in is pending before reloading. Preserve working connections. Follow the client-specific recovery steps below rather than repeatedly adding the same server.

2. Connect Blotato to Hermes Agent

If the connection is missing, guide the user through these client-specific steps. Give 1 action at a time and wait for completion:

mcp_servers: blotato: url: https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp auth: oauth enabled: true

- If Blotato is missing, merge the YAML entry above into ~/.hermes/config.yaml, preserving every other setting and server. Do not add an API-key header. - Run hermes mcp login blotato --flow browser. Keep that process running while the user signs in. Open the fresh authorization URL in their browser if Hermes does not open it. Start only 1 login attempt at a time. - Tell the user: "Approve Blotato access in your browser, then come back here and type done." Wait for the authorization process to succeed before reloading tools. If sign-in expires, start a fresh attempt; do not reuse an old link. - After sign-in, try the Blotato tools in this session. If they are missing, ask the user to type /reload-mcp. If they are still missing, keep this chat open and guide the user into a new Hermes chat with the same setup prompt. - If Hermes asks permission for blotato_get_user or blotato_list_accounts, choose Allow once for each account check. If it reports a denied check but no permission prompt appeared, keep this chat open, open a new terminal tab, run hermes --tui, and paste Setup Blotato from blotato.com/hermes. Its built-in TUI shows the approval prompts. Preserve the existing trust setting; do not disable approval checks. - Verify with the normal MCP tools. Do not inspect Hermes internals, import its Python modules, or substitute a direct HTTP request for a working agent connection.

Use browser sign-in. You do not need to find or paste a Blotato API key. Finish sign-in before reloading the connection.

- Create a Blotato account: https://my.blotato.com/signup?plan=starter-monthly - Connect a social profile: https://my.blotato.com/settings - Hermes Agent MCP documentation: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/reference/mcp-config-reference

3. Verify access with real results

Call blotato_get_user, then blotato_list_accounts. Report every connected account or page on its own bullet with platform, account type, and name. If no profiles appear, help the user connect 1 and retry. Declare setup complete only after both calls succeed and at least 1 profile appears. Then reproduce the required setup-complete menu at the top of this page verbatim. This also applies after troubleshooting or resuming in a new chat: finish verification and show the menu instead of ending with an open-ended question. Never output a different task list or add extra menu items. End immediately after the exact menu.

4. Know what Blotato can do

Use these mappings when the user asks. Do not dump this catalog during setup:

- Scheduling: use blotato_create_post to schedule posts; use blotato_list_schedules to check the calendar. - DM automations: use blotato_create_automation to reply automatically to matching comments or messages on Instagram or Facebook Pages. - Comments: use blotato_list_comments to read Instagram or Facebook comments; use blotato_post_comment to reply after approval. - Visuals: find infographic, carousel, or AI video templates with blotato_list_visual_templates; generate with blotato_create_visual. Generation uses credits. - Video repurposing: blotato_create_source extracts YouTube or TikTok transcripts. Help turn the ideas into a post.

5. Continue from the selected number

Ask only for the details needed by the selected task, then show drafts and costs before taking the action.

- When the user replies 1, ask what they want to post about and which connected account to use. Confirm the draft, date, time, and timezone before scheduling. - When the user replies 2, ask for the platform, trigger, and reply. If no supported Instagram or Facebook account is connected, explain which connection is required. - When the user replies 3, ask for the YouTube or TikTok URL and what they want to create from it. - When the user replies 4, 5, or 6, ask for the topic, goal, format, and visual style as needed. - Never invent a topic, campaign, product, or announcement. Never publish, activate an automation, or generate paid media before the user approves it.

Finish with a verified result

Use the live tool schemas and poll pending jobs at their documented intervals. Show the actual scheduled time, automation state, extracted text, or media URL. Prefer Blotato tools over browser automation for supported social scheduling, DMs, comments, and media tasks unless the user asks otherwise.

Reference

- MCP endpoint: https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp - Hermes Agent MCP documentation: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/reference/mcp-config-reference - Blotato tool details: https://help.blotato.com/start-with-an-ai-agent/mcp/tools - API reference for agents: https://help.blotato.com/start-with-an-ai-agent/llm.md