# Hermes Micro-Agent

> Hermes Micro-Agent is a paid API for AI agents from hermesmicroservice.theworkpc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Runs one of 20 AI and data micro-tasks (text, code, image, data) via HTTP 402 micropayment on Base USDC at $0.10 per call

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://hermesmicroservice.theworkpc.com/task?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hermes-micro-agent-908fa897
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kFwWp7_oAkNUe7JgypOns

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability hermes-micro-agent-908fa897 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Summarize the following article into 3 bullet points using the summarize task: 'Artificial intelligence is transforming industries ranging from healthcare to finance, with large language models now capable of drafting legal documents, diagnosing diseases, and generating software code at scale.'

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, pay-per-use AI or data micro-task without provisioning a full LLM API key or managing subscriptions — especially useful for agents that only occasionally need summarization, code review, translation, or data transformation and want to pay fractions of a cent per call settled on-chain via Base USDC. Ideal for cost-controlled agentic pipelines where unpredictable volume makes flat subscriptions wasteful.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not verified on-chain — request rejected before task executes
- Unknown task name passed — service may return error or unexpected result
- Prompt too long or malformed — may result in truncated or error response
- Image URL unreachable for describe_image task — description fails
- Invalid JSON/CSV input for data tasks — parsing error returned
- Network timeout on theworkpc.com host — no response

## How this service works

20 paid AI and data micro-tasks over HTTP 402 on Base (USDC): summarize, extract, keywords, sentiment, translate, rewrite, proofread, python_debug, code_lint, code_explain, code_refactor, code_review, json_minify, json_query, csv_to_json, hash, base64, convert, describe_image, probe_media. Each call is priced per-task and verified on-chain before execution.

## Output

A plain string response containing the output of the requested micro-task — e.g. a summary paragraph, extracted keywords list, translated text, debugged code snippet, minified JSON, hash value, base64-encoded string, or image description depending on which task was invoked.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "prompt"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "task": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Which micro-task to run"
  },
  "input": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Alias for prompt"
  },
  "prompt": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Text to process"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "string"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/hermes-micro-agent-908fa897/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from hermesmicroservice.theworkpc.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/hermesmicroservice.theworkpc.com/llms.txt)