Add an approval step before Hermes sends email
A Reddit user says they connected n8n’s Wait for Approval feature to Hermes. With this setup, they receive a Gmail notification showing the email before it is sent. The email does not actually send until the user approves it. The writer says they used this because Hermes could not create drafts without also getting permission to send emails.
Key points
- The post describes an approval gate before Hermes sends email.
- It uses n8n’s Wait for Approval feature.
- The user sees the prepared email in a Gmail notification.
- The email only sends after the user approves it.
- This is useful for people who are not comfortable letting Hermes send emails directly.
Quick term guide
- Wait for Approval
- A step that pauses an automated task until a person approves it.
- Hermes
- A service for letting an AI agent use web tools and complete tasks.
- setup
- The hardware and software arrangement used to make something run.
- Gmail
- Google’s email service.
- draft
- A first version of a piece of writing.
- persona
- A specific personality or role that an AI agent is set to play.
- permissions
- Settings that define what files or actions a system or user is allowed to access.
- config
- Settings that tell a program how to work.