Autonovel — House of Bells
The public Autonovel repo runs a Hermes-driven pipeline that generated, reviewed, illustrated, type-set in LaTeX, and voiced a complete 19-chapter novel, House of Bells, as an audiobook.
Requirements
- An Anthropic API key, used for Opus-driven review rounds.
- Optionally, a FAL key for art generation and an ElevenLabs key for voice synthesis.
uvfor environment management.
How to use
The repo is public and runnable, and a full run requires substantial wall-clock time and non-trivial API spend; it is a production repo with real API costs, best treated as a case study you can run end-to-end if you want to.
It is the clearest evidence to date that a Hermes-driven pipeline can ship a polished creative artifact, not just a demo.
Setup follows the repo's Setup section.
It is not a lightweight demo.
git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/autonovel
cd autonovel
cp .env.example .env
# fill in ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, and optionally FAL_KEY and ELEVENLABS_API_KEY
uv sync
# follow the repo's run instructions
Source: aliaihub/awesome-hermes-usecases and its contributors. License: CC-BY-4.0. Source license notice.
Translation and editorial adaptation by ClawCases.
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