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hermes is now officially faster than codex. here's how they did it

pulse Illustrated man in suit probing glowing API and NAV circuits under a car hood with purple lightning in a garage

built by @mvanhorn and published through @ppressdev

tesla model y is the top-selling ev in california, florida, and texas. roughly 103k vehicles were sold in the us in q1 2026. a large installed base of networked cars with programmable apis

what the skill covers:
- ready check: battery, doors, sentry, cabin temp returned as a single yes/no
- charging cost ledger with home vs supercharger breakdown
- supercharger stall availability, watchable from an agent
- vehicle control: climate, locks, dog mode, camp mode, seat heaters, navigation, software updates
- enrolled key audit with stale-key flagging

private signing key stays on the user's machine

ai agents have mostly operated in software – text, files, code. tools like this extend that into physical objects. it's early and the use cases are narrow, but the infrastructure for agents managing real-world devices is being built out

Screenshot of pp-tesla agent skill install instructions showing NPX, Hermes, OpenClaw, and Claude Desktop setup commands

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