# What can Hermes Agent do on LinkedIn with Finchreach?

Source: https://finchreach.com/integrations/hermes
Third-party facts checked on 2026-10-28.

Hermes Agent can read your LinkedIn feed, messages and notifications, search LinkedIn, and draft posts, comments, messages and connection invitations through Finchreach’s remote MCP server. Add the server to Hermes Agent and sign in to Finchreach (OAuth) or use your Finchreach API key; every write waits in your approval queue until you approve it.

## What can Hermes Agent do on your LinkedIn?

Hermes Agent works through multi-step jobs on its own. LinkedIn becomes one step of them: research a list, read a profile, draft the note. The approval queue is the checkpoint where a person decides what goes out in your name.

> Ask your assistant: “Check my LinkedIn messages and draft a reply to each recruiter.”

> Ask your assistant: “Draft a LinkedIn post summarizing the paper in this PDF.”

> Ask your assistant: “Find LinkedIn posts about open-weight models this week and summarize them.”

| Reads (run right away) | Writes (wait for your approval) |
| --- | --- |
| `linkedin_list_accounts`: The LinkedIn accounts connected to your workspace | `linkedin_create_post`: A text post |
| `linkedin_get_profile`: A LinkedIn profile | `linkedin_send_dm`: A direct message |
| `linkedin_get_feed`: Your home feed | `linkedin_send_invitation`: A connection invitation, with an optional note |
| `linkedin_get_notifications`: Your notifications | `linkedin_react_to_post`: A reaction on a post (like by default) |
| `linkedin_get_conversations`: Your message threads | `linkedin_unreact`: Removes your reaction from a post |
| `linkedin_get_messages`: The messages in a thread | `linkedin_comment_on_post`: A comment on a post |
| `linkedin_search`: Search everything, posts, people or companies | `linkedin_delete_comment`: Deletes one of your comments |
| `linkedin_get_received_invitations`: Coming soon: the connection invitations waiting for your answer | `linkedin_accept_invitation`: Coming soon: accepts a received invitation |
| `linkedin_get_action`: The status of a write: waiting for approval, approved, rejected or done |  |

## What happens when Hermes Agent drafts something?

1. Hermes Agent calls a write tool, for example `linkedin_create_post` with the text it wrote.
2. Finchreach doesn’t post it. It stores a pending action and tells the assistant it is waiting for approval.
3. You open [Approvals](https://finchreach.com/approvals), read the exact text and the account it would go out from, and approve or reject it.
4. Approved actions run on LinkedIn; rejected ones never do. Hermes Agent can check the outcome with `linkedin_get_action`.

> Approval mode is on by default for every workspace. It is what makes it reasonable to let an assistant draft in your name.

## Does Hermes Agent work with Finchreach today?

|  | Hermes Agent |
| --- | --- |
| Remote MCP servers | Built in |
| Finchreach (OAuth or API key) | Connects directly |
| How sure we are | High: from the official docs |
| Checked on | 2026-10-28 |

Headers are supported. OAuth (`auth: oauth` and `hermes mcp login`) isn’t needed for Finchreach.

Requirements: Open source; no plan needed.

Finchreach’s server, `https://mcp.finchreach.com/mcp`, uses Streamable HTTP (pasting the bare `https://mcp.finchreach.com` works too). It signs in with OAuth 2.1, where you log in to Finchreach and approve a LinkedIn account and scopes, or with an API key sent as `Authorization: Bearer lk_…` or `X-API-Key`.

## How do I connect Hermes Agent?

1. Create an API key under [API keys](https://finchreach.com/api-keys) and connect your LinkedIn account under [Accounts](https://finchreach.com/accounts).
2. Add the entry below under `mcp_servers` in `~/.hermes/config.yaml`.
3. Run `/reload-mcp`, or restart Hermes.
4. Ask Hermes Agent to list your LinkedIn accounts to check the connection.

~/.hermes/config.yaml:
```yaml
mcp_servers:
  finchreach:
    url: "https://mcp.finchreach.com/mcp"
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer lk_YOUR_KEY"
```

Replace `lk_YOUR_KEY` with your key. The [step-by-step Hermes Agent guide](https://finchreach.com/guides/hermes) has every step, a test prompt and troubleshooting.

## Questions

### Can Hermes Agent post on LinkedIn without me?

No. With approval mode on, the default, every write Hermes Agent makes through Finchreach (posts, comments, reactions, messages, invitations) becomes a pending action. You approve or reject it under [Approvals](https://finchreach.com/approvals) before anything happens on LinkedIn.

### Can Hermes Agent post images, schedule posts or manage a company page?

Not through Finchreach today: posts are text only, there is no scheduling, and company pages and analytics aren’t supported. Writes happen when you approve them.

### Is it safe for my LinkedIn account?

Any automation of a personal LinkedIn account carries some risk under LinkedIn’s User Agreement, and no tool can promise otherwise. Finchreach lowers it by keeping a person in the loop: nothing goes out until you approve it, and actions happen at your pace, not in bulk.

## Sources

- [Hermes Agent docs](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/mcp)

## Related

- [Step-by-step: connect Hermes Agent](https://finchreach.com/guides/hermes)
- [Clear your LinkedIn invitation backlog with Hermes Agent](https://finchreach.com/blog/hermes-linkedin-invitation-triage)
- [Read-only LinkedIn market research with Nous models and Hermes Agent](https://finchreach.com/blog/nous-linkedin-market-research)
- [All integrations](https://finchreach.com/integrations)