Production-Grade AI Agent Architecture: The Hermes Runtime That Keeps Agents Alive

Production-Grade AI Agent Architecture: A Deep Dive into the Hermes Runtime Treating an AI Agent as nothing more than a ReAct loop wrapped around an LLM works fine in a demo. Ship it to production, and it’ll collapse within three days. It’s not the model’s fault—it’s the missing runtime. The Real Question: What Is an Agent Framework Actually Solving? Over the past two years, I’ve built my fair share of Agent applications. I started with quick LangChain prototypes—basic chatbots that barely held context. But eventually, I needed something that could run inside Feishu (Lark), read local files, call internal APIs, …