Engineering 24/7 Autonomous Agent Daemons: LangGraph Cyclic StateGraphs, NVIDIA NIM, DeepSeek-R1 & Hermes-3

The definitive 2026 engineering whitepaper on building 24/7 autonomous agent daemons: DeepSeek-R1 cognitive planning, Hermes-3 tool execution on NVIDIA NIM, Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateways, 4-D trajectory evaluation, and GRPO fine-tuning distillation.