Automate Hashnode with Hermes Agent

Publish blog posts to Hashnode, manage publications, add cover images and canonical URLs, and tag your content — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide GitHub

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Publish to Hashnode in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Find your Hashnode integration
postiz integrations:list

# Publish a blog post to Hashnode
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Article body..." \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"title":"My Post","publication":"pub-id","tags":[{"value":"tag-id","label":"JavaScript"}]}' \
  -i "hashnode-id"

Hashnode-Specific Features

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Blog Publishing

Publish long-form blog posts with full Markdown support. Code blocks, embeds, and rich formatting work out of the box.

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Publication Support

Publish posts under your Hashnode publication. Every post requires a publication ID to target the right blog.

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Cover Images

Upload and attach cover images to make your posts stand out. Eye-catching visuals drive more clicks from the Hashnode feed.

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Canonical URLs

Set canonical URLs for SEO when cross-posting from your original blog. Avoid duplicate content penalties across platforms.

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Required Tagging

Hashnode requires at least one tag per post. Tags use tag IDs for precise categorization and improved discoverability.

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Scheduled Publishing

Schedule blog posts for future publication with precise timestamps. Build a consistent publishing cadence effortlessly.

How It Works

Find Your Hashnode Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Hashnode integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Hashnode
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="hashnode")'

# Get Hashnode settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <hashnode-id>

Prepare Your Content

Write your blog post in Markdown. Hashnode supports rich formatting including headers, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, and embedded content. Optionally upload a cover image.

Upload

# Upload a cover image (optional)
RESULT=$(postiz upload cover.png)
IMAGE_PATH=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.path')
IMAGE_ID=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.id')

echo "Cover: $IMAGE_PATH"
# https://uploads.postiz.com/cover.png

Publish Your Post

Create a post with your content, title, publication, tags, and optional cover image and canonical URL. Remember: publication and at least one tag are required.

Publish

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Article body..." \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "title": "Getting Started with Bun",
    "subtitle": "A fast JavaScript runtime",
    "main_image": {
      "id": "img-id",
      "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/cover.png"
    },
    "canonical": "https://myblog.com/bun",
    "publication": "pub-id",
    "tags": [
      {"value": "js-tag-id", "label": "JavaScript"},
      {"value": "bun-tag-id", "label": "Bun"}
    ]
  }' \
  -i "hashnode-id"

Hashnode Settings Reference

Every Hashnode post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "hashnode"
`title`	string	Yes	Article title (min 6 characters)
`subtitle`	string	No	Article subtitle (min 2 characters)
`main_image`	object	No	Cover image: {id: string, path: string}
`canonical`	string	No	Original URL for SEO canonical link
`publication`	string	Yes	Publication ID (required)
`tags`	array	Yes	At least 1 tag: [{value: string (tag ID), label: string}]

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Hashnode publishing scenarios.

Basic Blog Post

settings.json

{
  "title": "Understanding React Server Components",
  "publication": "my-publication-id",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "react-tag-id", "label": "React"},
    {"value": "nextjs-tag-id", "label": "Next.js"}
  ]
}

Full-Featured Post with Cover Image

settings.json

{
  "title": "Complete Guide to Node.js Streams",
  "subtitle": "Master streams for high-performance I/O",
  "main_image": {
    "id": "img-abc123",
    "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/streams-cover.png"
  },
  "publication": "my-publication-id",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "nodejs-tag-id", "label": "Node.js"},
    {"value": "backend-tag-id", "label": "Backend"},
    {"value": "tutorial-tag-id", "label": "Tutorial"}
  ]
}

Cross-Posted Article with Canonical URL

settings.json

{
  "title": "Why We Migrated to Bun",
  "subtitle": "Our experience switching JavaScript runtimes",
  "canonical": "https://engineering.mycompany.com/migrating-to-bun",
  "publication": "company-blog-id",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "bun-tag-id", "label": "Bun"},
    {"value": "javascript-tag-id", "label": "JavaScript"},
    {"value": "devops-tag-id", "label": "DevOps"}
  ]
}

What is Hermes Agent?

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — “the agent that grows with you.” It's a flexible platform for building and running AI agents that can execute real-world tasks.

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Grows With You

Hermes Agent learns and adapts to your workflows over time. The more you use it, the better it understands your social media strategy and content style.

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Open-Source Framework

Built by Nous Research, Hermes Agent is fully open-source. Customize and extend it to fit your exact social media automation needs.

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Tool Execution

Schedule recurring tasks with cron jobs. Hermes Agent can publish your Hashnode posts on a schedule without you having to ask each time.

How Postiz Works with Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent discovers Postiz through its tool execution framework. Once Postiz Agent is installed, Hermes reads the available commands and can autonomously manage your social media workflow.

✓Install Postiz Agent globally with npx skills add
✓Hermes Agent discovers Postiz through tool execution framework
✓POSTIZ_API_KEY must be set in environment
✓All Postiz commands become available as agent tools
✓Works with any compatible LLM backend

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Hermes Agent discovers Postiz
# through its tool execution framework
hermes tools list

Hashnode Publishing with Hermes Agent

Message Hermes Agent from any platform — it reads the Postiz skill, discovers your Hashnode integration, and handles the entire publishing workflow autonomously.

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From Any Chat App

Hermes Agent reads Postiz commands throu...

Send a message to Hermes Agent from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your Hashnode blog via Postiz, formats the post, and publishes it — all while you go about your day.

Hermes Agent

You: Post to Hashnode about our new
  feature launch, schedule for tomorrow
  at 9am

Hermes: I'll handle that! Let me:
  1. Find your Hashnode integration
  2. Compose your post content
  3. Schedule for tomorrow 9:00 AM

  Done! Post scheduled successfully.
  Post ID: abc-123

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Scheduled & Proactive

Hermes Agent supports scheduled tas...

Hermes Agent supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that checks a folder for new Markdown drafts and publishes them to Hashnode automatically — no manual trigger needed.

hermes-config.yaml

scheduled_tasks:
  - name: daily_social_posts
    schedule: "0 9 * * 1-5"
    prompt: |
      Check ~/content/posts for new
      .txt files. For each one, read
      the content and schedule a post
      to Hashnode for today at noon.
      Move posted files to
      ~/content/published.

Why Hermes Agent + Postiz for Hashnode

Hermes Agent makes Postiz a natural fit for your Hashnode workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Open-source and fully customizable for your Hashnode workflow
✓Grows and adapts to your content strategy over time
✓Tool execution framework discovers Postiz commands automatically
✓Scheduled tasks for hands-free daily posting
✓Cross-post to Hashnode + other platforms in a single conversation
✓Works with any LLM backend — not locked to a single provider

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Hashnode
metadata:
  hermes-agent:
    requirements:
      env:
        - POSTIZ_API_KEY
      binaries:
        - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# Hashnode Settings
title, subtitle, main_image,
canonical, publication, tags

Also Works with Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including Anthropic's Claude Code.

Claude Code

by Anthropic

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your Hashnode integration, uploads your cover image, resolves publication and tag IDs, and publishes the post.

Claude Code

> Publish my Node.js streams guide to
  Hashnode with a cover image and tags

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz upload ./streams-cover.png
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "$(cat streams-guide.md)" \
    -s "2025-03-02T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"title":
      "Complete Guide to Node.js Streams",
      "publication":"pub-id",
      "main_image":{"id":"...",
        "path":"uploaded-url"},
      "tags":[{"value":"nodejs-id",
        "label":"Node.js"},...]}' \
    -i "hashnode-id"

Hashnode + Other Platforms

Publish the same article to Hashnode and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Cross-post an article to Hashnode and Dev.to
postiz posts:create \
  -c "$(cat article.md)" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "title": "Understanding WebSockets",
    "publication": "my-pub-id",
    "canonical": "https://myblog.dev/websockets",
    "tags": [
      {"value": "websocket-tag-id", "label": "WebSockets"},
      {"value": "backend-tag-id", "label": "Backend"}
    ]
  }' \
  -i "hashnode-id,devto-id"

# Batch schedule a week of Hashnode posts
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "$(cat posts/day${day}.md)" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T10:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"title":"Day '"$day"' Deep Dive","publication":"my-pub-id","tags":[{"value":"series-tag-id","label":"Series"}]}' \
    -i "hashnode-id"
done

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