Automate Twitch with Hermes Agent

Send chat messages, broadcast colored announcements, schedule stream notifications, and engage your community — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide GitHub

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

Post to Twitch 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 Twitch integration
postiz integrations:list

# Send a chat message
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Stream starting now!" \
  --settings '{"messageType":"announcement","announcementColor":"purple"}' \
  -i "your-twitch-integration-id"

Twitch-Specific Features

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Chat Messages

Send messages directly to your Twitch chat. Keep your community engaged with automated updates, links, and announcements.

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Announcements

Broadcast highlighted announcements that stand out in chat. Perfect for stream starts, events, and important updates.

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Colored Announcements

Choose from primary, blue, green, orange, or purple colors for your announcements. Match your brand or highlight different content types.

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Stream Notifications

Schedule pre-stream hype messages and go-live notifications. Let your audience know when you're about to start streaming.

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Scheduled Posting

Queue up chat messages and announcements for specific times. Perfect for timed promotions during streams or pre-stream countdowns.

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AI-Powered Chat

Let AI agents compose and send context-aware chat messages. Automate community engagement while maintaining your voice.

How It Works

Find Your Twitch Integration

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

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

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

# Get Twitch settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <twitch-id>

Choose Your Message Type

Decide whether to send a regular chat message or a highlighted announcement. Announcements support color customization for extra visibility.

Message Types

# Regular chat message (default)
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Thanks for watching!" \
  -i "twitch-id"

# Colored announcement
postiz posts:create \
  -c "GIVEAWAY starting now!" \
  --settings '{
    "messageType": "announcement",
    "announcementColor": "green"
  }' \
  -i "twitch-id"

Create Your Post

Send a chat message or announcement to your Twitch channel. Schedule it for a specific time or post immediately.

Post Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Stream starting now! Let's go!" \
  -s "2025-01-15T18:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "messageType": "announcement",
    "announcementColor": "purple"
  }' \
  -i "twitch-id"

Twitch Settings Reference

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

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "twitch"
`messageType`	string	No	"message" or "announcement" (default: message)
`announcementColor`	string	No	"primary", "blue", "green", "orange", or "purple" (only for announcements)

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Twitch posting scenarios.

Simple Chat Message

settings.json

{
  "messageType": "message"
}

Purple Announcement

settings.json

{
  "messageType": "announcement",
  "announcementColor": "purple"
}

Green Giveaway Announcement

settings.json

{
  "messageType": "announcement",
  "announcementColor": "green"
}

Blue Event Announcement

settings.json

{
  "messageType": "announcement",
  "announcementColor": "blue"
}

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 post your Twitch announcements on a schedule without you having to ask each time.

How Postiz Works with Hermes Agent

When you install Postiz Agent globally, Hermes Agent automatically discovers it by reading the bundled SKILL.md file. This file tells Hermes Agent what commands are available, what environment variables are needed, and how to compose Twitch messages with the right settings.

✓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

Twitch Posting with Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent reads Postiz commands through its tool system, discovers your integrations, and handles the entire posting workflow — from content creation to scheduling.

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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 Twitch channel via Postiz, and sends the announcement — all while you go about your day.

Hermes Agent

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

Hermes: I'll handle that! Let me:
  1. Find your Twitch 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 sends pre-stream announcements and chat messages 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 Twitch for today at noon.
      Move posted files to
      ~/content/published.

Why Hermes Agent + Postiz for Twitch

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

✓Open-source and fully customizable for your Twitch 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 Twitch + 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 Twitch
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>

# Twitch Settings
messageType, announcementColor

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 Twitch integration, picks the right message type and color, and sends the message.

Claude Code

> Send a purple announcement to Twitch:
  "Stream starting now! Let's build!"

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Stream starting now!" \
    --settings '{"messageType":
      "announcement",
      "announcementColor":
      "purple"}' \
    -i "twitch-id"

Twitch + Other Platforms

Announce your stream on Twitch and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Announce stream on Twitch and Twitter simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Going live now! Building a real-time dashboard" \
  -s "2025-01-15T18:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"messageType":"announcement","announcementColor":"purple"}' \
  -i "twitch-id,twitter-id"

# Schedule a week of stream announcements
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Stream day $day! Join us at 6pm" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T17:30:00Z" \
    --settings '{"messageType":"announcement","announcementColor":"green"}' \
    -i "twitch-id"
done