Hermes Portable Rescue

An autonomous AI-driven Windows PC diagnostic & repair toolkit that lives on a USB drive. Boot any Windows PC from this USB and Hermes Agent takes over — diagnosing BSODs, testing hardware, updating drivers, and handling backup/restore — all with LLM-powered reasoning.

What it does

Capability	How
🔍 BSOD Analysis	Parses minidumps, interprets stop codes with LLM, correlates with known fixes
💾 RAM Test	Auto-runs MemTest86+/stress tests and interprets results
🔥 CPU/GPU Diagnostics	Stress testing, thermal monitoring, benchmark comparison
🖴 Disk Health	SMART analysis (smartmontools), bad sector scan, S.M.A.R.T. attribute interpretation
⬆️ Driver Updates	Hardware inventory → vendor API lookup → guided download/install
📦 Backup/Restore	Disk imaging, file-level backup, guided restore with AI oversight
💬 Natural Language	Describes what it found and what it's doing — no manual tool hunting

Why this is different from existing tools

Existing USB rescue tools (Hiren's BootCD PE, Medicat, SystemRescue, 2k10 Live WinPE, S.A.K. Utility) are static tool collections. You boot in, know which tool to run, interpret results yourself.

Hermes Portable Rescue is an agent — it thinks through problems the way a senior tech would:

1. Boot → launch Hermes agent
2. Agent detects the problem space (BSOD? Won't boot? Hardware failure?)
3. Chains diagnostics: RAM first, then disk, then CPU/GPU
4. Interprets all results together
5. Suggests or executes fixes
6. Documents everything

Architecture

USB Drive
├── boot/           — Bootable ISO or Ventoy config
├── hermes/         — Portable Hermes Agent runtime
│   ├── agent/      — Hermes core
│   ├── tools/      — Portable diagnostic executables
│   │   ├── smartmontools/
│   │   ├── memtest86+/
│   │   ├── prime95/ (or equivalent)
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── models/     — LLM model (if local) or API config
│   └── scripts/    — Diagnostic scripts & automation
├── rescue.iso      — Bootable rescue environment
└── autorun.inf     — Auto-launch on supported systems

Project Structure

~/nas-projects/hermes-portable-rescue/
├── README.md              ← This file
├── docs/                  — Architecture docs, design decisions
├── research/              — Research findings from Phase 1
├── src/                   — Build scripts and source
└── build/                 — Build output (ISOs, packages)

Storage

NAS (pve at 192.168.0.144, 3.6TB HDD), mounted via SSHFS at ~/nas-projects/.

Gitea Repo

hermes-portable-rescue at gitea.ourpad.casa

License

AGPL-3.0