How Hermes Makes HEY.com Reliable with a Persistent Browser Profile and One-Time 2FA
One of the important lessons from today was how to make HEY.com stable for an agent workflow.
HEY is designed with strong account security, which means sign-in can involve 2FA. That is fine for a human user, but it becomes brittle if every session starts from scratch. If the browser context is fresh each time, the agent keeps losing the session and redoing authentication.
The reliable setup is to use a dedicated persistent Comet browser profile for HEY.
That profile becomes the trusted session home for the account. The first time Hermes opens HEY in that profile, it signs in and completes 2FA once. After that, the same profile can be reused for future access. The inbox remains available, and the session does not need to be recreated each time.
The practical workflow is:
1. Open HEY in the dedicated Comet browser profile.
2. Sign in.
3. Complete 2FA once.
4. Verify that the inbox loads and email can be read.
5. Reuse the same profile for all later HEY access.
This matters because it turns HEY from a fragile browser task into a dependable workspace. Once the profile is trusted, Hermes can open the inbox, read messages, compose email, send posts to world@hey.com, and confirm the subscriber prompt when HEY asks whether the message should also go to subscribers.
The key idea is simple:
do not treat HEY as a disposable session.
Treat it as a persistent browser workspace.
One browser profile. One-time 2FA. Stable access after that.
One of the important lessons from today was how to make HEY.com stable for an agent workflow.
HEY is designed with strong account security, which means sign-in can involve 2FA. That is fine for a human user, but it becomes brittle if every session starts from scratch. If the browser context is fresh each time, the agent keeps losing the session and redoing authentication.
The reliable setup is to use a dedicated persistent Comet browser profile for HEY.
That profile becomes the trusted session home for the account. The first time Hermes opens HEY in that profile, it signs in and completes 2FA once. After that, the same profile can be reused for future access. The inbox remains available, and the session does not need to be recreated each time.
The practical workflow is:
1. Open HEY in the dedicated Comet browser profile.
2. Sign in.
3. Complete 2FA once.
4. Verify that the inbox loads and email can be read.
5. Reuse the same profile for all later HEY access.
This matters because it turns HEY from a fragile browser task into a dependable workspace. Once the profile is trusted, Hermes can open the inbox, read messages, compose email, send posts to world@hey.com, and confirm the subscriber prompt when HEY asks whether the message should also go to subscribers.
The key idea is simple:
do not treat HEY as a disposable session.
Treat it as a persistent browser workspace.
One browser profile. One-time 2FA. Stable access after that.