Brain-and-arm: VPS agent reaches a locked-down work laptop over outbound WSS
My Hermes agent lives on a VPS. I wanted it to run commands on my work-laptop, read files, deploy code — but my company laptop blocks installs and some URLs. No SSH tunnels, no VPN, no inbound ports. So I built a brain-and-arm architecture
— u/rektsd, 2026-06-28, via Reddit.