Hermes just released a massive new

update and it's the biggest facelift to

Hermes agent ever. It adds Hermes bot

mode which completely changes the way

you use Hermes. It's a direct copy of

Grockbot but with some Hermes

specialties and surprises mixed in. In

this video, I'll cover everything Hermes

new bot mode, show you how to use it,

and let you know if you should be

ripping out Grobbot for Hermes bot. Now,

let's lock in and get into it. So, this

is Hermes Bot. This is their brand new

mode they just released. This is a

direct ripoff, and I don't think they're

really hiding it, of Grockbot, the brand

new AI agent that's taken the entire AI

world by storm over the last week. So,

for those who don't know, Grockbot comes

out a week ago. Everyone's talking about

it. It's this brand new user experience

built around having multiple agents work

for you. Each agent has its own name,

its own title, its own description, and

you basically treat this experience like

an iMessage where you send messages to

all your different bots with their

different responsibilities to get them

work. Each agent has their own tools.

Each agent has their own skill sets.

Each agent even has their own computer

they use. And it's just a completely

different way of interact with AI

agents. Typically, every other AI agent

looked very much like Hermes, right?

where you have one agent you talk to but

many different sessions. This is how

OpenClaw worked. This is how Chai GPT.

This is how Claude works. But Grock

threw everything on its head. Said, "No,

we want you to actually have as many

agents as you want. All with different

roles and responsibilities." This felt

to me and many others a much more

polished, organized, kind of natural,

simple, and most importantly kind of fun

way to interact with AI agents. I love

opening up my phone and deciding, okay,

should I talk to Dusty, Barry, Cindy?

And I felt like I just had these like

team of agents inside my pocket, which

was just a ton of fun. Well, Hermes

agent was quick to notice all the people

loving Grockbot. And so today, they

released Hermes bot mode, which if you

look in the desktop app, this is for the

desktop app only, and you go to bots

there, you now have your bot mode. You

need to be in the latest version of

Hermes to get this bot mode. Now, that's

not the only thing Hermesbot directly

copied from Grockbot. One of the things

Grockbot implemented front and center

and really revolutionized in a way was

agent-to-ag communication. When you talk

to any of your agents in Grockbot,

you'll see this a lot. Messaged and then

the other agent. Grock put extra

emphasis in their bot here for the

agents to actually talk to each other

and reach out to each other without you

even having to ask. This allows

different agents to share context and

information to each other. And this is a

great update. This is makes the

experience using AI really, really

amazing. It allows your agents to

delegate, allows your agents to ask each

other questions. It makes it so you

don't have to share context in between

all the agents. They kind of just do it

automatically and it just feels very

lively. Well, Hermes copied that as

well. That's in here as well. And for

the record, when I say copy, I don't

mean that in like a derogatory way. This

is the age of AI. Software is no longer

a moat. If your competitor is doing

something better than you, you should

copy it. I'm not doing this to like crap

on Hermes. Hermes has been my favorite

AI tool for months and months and months

now. I do not blame them for just

straight up copy pasting all these

features. You should be doing that.

Software is no longer a mode. There's

nothing wrong with copying. So, let's

dive into Hermes bot mode first. I'll

take you through it. I'll give you a

tour. I'll show you how it works. Then

I'll compare it directly with Grockbot,

show you all the kind of little nuances

and differences. I'll then go through my

workflow. Did I rip out Hermes? Did I

rip out Grockbot? Which one I'm using

the most? And then I'll give my

recommendation to you on what I think

you should be doing and which tool you

should be using. So starting off with

this new bot mode inside of Hermes, what

you can see here is over on the left

hand side are your bots. What are Hermes

bots? Well, this isn't a new concept

inside Hermes. These are actually your

profiles inside Hermes. If you look at

your kind of classic session mode in

Hermes, this was your default experience

before. If you look in the bottom left,

you can see all your profiles already

there. Hermes profiles are basically

just separate Hermes agents. They have

their own descriptions, names, tools,

skill sets, cron jobs, much like the

bots in Grock. All Hermes did was now

reorganize that user experience so that

those profiles live on the lefthand side

and it's just one single chat with each.

So you have your agents over on the

lefth hand side. You have your chat in

the middle. You have your one chat. You

can open up new chats with each agent up

here in the different tabs. And over on

the right hand side you have your crown

jobs which in Rockbots the routines.

These are just your scheduled tasks. It

looks pretty much the same because it is

pretty much the same. The main

difference though being you get all your

Hermes features that made it great in

this new bot mode. So if you go in and

you actually set up a new agent or new

profile, you can go in, you can name it,

give a tile description just like Grock,

I mean this is as big of a ripoff in

copy as it possibly gets. It's literally

the same exact logos, but that's fine.

Whatever. But because it's Hermes, you

can choose your provider. You can choose

whatever model you want. You can change

the personality. That's not really

something you can do in Grockbot. Way

more customization in here. Now, if that

is a positive thing or a negative thing,

that's totally up to you. I think for

power users like myself, like probably

most of the people that watch this

channel, that's probably a positive

thing. It's a positive thing. You can go

in and choose whatever model you want.

If you're anything like me, you have

subscriptions with Chad GBT, with

Claude, with other providers. Now, you

can make agents for each one of those

different providers. For the average

person, probably for like 80% of people

out there, this is probably a negative.

They probably want the Grockbot

experience, which is you don't choose

models, you don't choose providers, you

don't sign in with OOTH for a 100

different companies. You just install it

and it works. We kind of forget here in

this kind of AI bubble that the way we

work is not really how the normies out

there work. Most people don't want to

think about the differences between Chad

GBT 56 soul and Claude Opus and Claude

Fable and Quentyn and this and that.

They just want to turn on a product and

have it work. So I think for 80% of

people this is probably a better

experience. But if you're a power user,

you have a bunch of subscriptions, you

can now do that. Hermes, this is not

something you can do in Grockbot. You

can't use chat GBT or other providers.

Grockbot, it's only the Grock model. So

you set that up, you choose your model

and your agent will show up on the lefth

hand side. And because Hermes is so

customizable, you can do things like I

did like have this Herald agent here.

What is Herold? Herold is Quen 3827B

running on my 5090, my RTX 5090 gaming

computer. So this is an agent running on

a local model, right? Unlimited usage,

very fast, very smart. Can't do that in

Gro Gro. Again, only Grock models. From

there, you get all the different Hermes

bells and whistles. They have the voice

mode, which is kind of the copy of the

Chad GBT voice. Not quite as good as

Chad GBT voice, but usable. Then you

have built-in Git, which is really nice.

Although, I'm sure Grockbot will build

in Cursor Origin, which is the new

cursor Git product very soon, but no Git

integrations at the moment there. And

then all your other bells and whistles.

I you get a hundred different ways to

customize this in Hermes. I think

probably like 95% of people watching

this video, 95% of people who just use

Hermes overall didn't have multiple

profiles before. They probably just

treated it like one single agent. And

that's totally fine. You probably want

to go through the same setup with Hermes

new bot mode that I did with Grockbot

mode, which is the brain dump to reverse

prompt. For those who don't know what

that is, I described in my last Grockbot

video. That's going in explaining

everything about yourself to this new

bot mode inside Hermes. And then you do

a reverse prompt based on what you know

about me. Which Hermes bot would you set

up? And then you hit enter. And now your

Hermes bot will give you recommendations

for which bots you set up. Should you

set up a developer bot, a marketing bot,

a copyright bot? and it'll just set it

up for you, which is what I think is the

best way to work with this new bot mode.

From there, you can work with the bots

however you want. If you want to work

with your developer bot, you go to your

developer bot. If you want to work with

your main bot, you can work with your

main bot. Now, there are some downsides

here. The agentto agent communication

inside Hermes is not nearly as good as

Grockbot. For instance, when I went in

here and I told my main orchestrator,

Hermes agent, to assign some work to

Harold, I said, "Hey, can you assign to

Harold this research task of researching

MU and tell me what kind of modes the

company has?" It asked Harold to do the

work, but then it delivered the results

to me, right? It I went into Harold.

Harold wasn't even really aware it got

that work assigned to it. So it doesn't

even really make it that obvious that

it's actually assigning the work to

different people. When you're in

Grockbot and you assign work, it

actually like gives the work to the

other bots and you can watch the other

bots receive the work and actually do

the work. So the agentto agent

communication, the orchestration is

clearly was just kind of tacked on and

vibe coded over the last week. I'm sure

it will improve. I'd say the Grockbot

approach is almost like the Apple

approach to things though where yes, it

came in a little bit later, but it was

done extremely well, extremely thought

out and just works. It just works

really, really well. Nothing seems

tacked on. Nothing seems like an

experiment. Everything seems very

intentional. With Hermes in their new

bot mode, it seems very much like they

saw, oh, Rockbot's doing this. Let's add

it in. And it seems a little bit tacked

on. Although again, I'm sure things will

improve. Another big difference, and

this might be a positive for you, this

might be a negative for you, but there

is no built-in cloud computers to any of

these agents, right? A really nice and

great part of Grockbot, which I I'm

going to be honest, I'm surprised by. I

didn't think I'd like this is that every

agent has their own virtual computer,

right? Hermes, by default, the default

way they work is they do the work on

your computer. So you say do this, do

that. It'll open up the browser on your

computer. It'll click here. It'll do

everything locally on your computer.

With Grockbot, it's the opposite. Each

agent has their own built-in virtual

computer they do work on with their own

browser, their own terminal, their own

everything. So when you say do task A,

task B, task C, whatever, it does it in

its virtual computer by default. I

honestly didn't expect to like this

experience. I kind of went in thinking,

"Oh, I just want it all done locally

like I've been doing with Hermes for

months now." I actually like this

experience more and there's a good

reason behind that. It naturally puts

very good separation between your agents

and your personal private accounts. So

for instance, when I tell my Hermes bots

to do things, it'll open it up and if my

accounts are logged in, it'll do things

in my personal private accounts, which

is sometimes pretty risky. But with

Grobbot, when you tell it to do things,

it doesn't do anything unless you give

it its own account in its virtual

computer. And so you can either log into

your own personal accounts if that's

something you want, or you can use agent

mail, which is what I've been doing,

which is just a free email service for

these bots, and it creates its own

accounts for everything, which gives

really good separation. You never have

to worry about your bots going in and

doing anything in your personal

accounts, which has been great. So for

me personally, I'd actually think that's

a negative. Uh, you know, they they do

have plugins. You can use third-party

tools to give bots virtual computers.

But again, that's kind of the strength

of Grockbot, which is kind of the Apple

way of doing things, which is it just

works out of the box. It's all made

around this very opinionated single

workflow. Yes, you can put in virtual

machines to your Hermes agents, but

they're just kind of tacked on, not as

natural, and require a ton of setup. I

will say this though, I do like this

Hermy bot mode a lot more. This is now

my default way to use Hermes agent. I

think this setup of having your

different bots, your different profiles,

your different names, your different

titles, responsibilities all in a list

and just messaging them separately is a

superior way to use AI agents. And

there's one big reason for that. When

you talk to an AI agent, Hermes,

OpenClaw, Chat, GBT, Claude Code,

whatever, every prompt you send includes

many different things in the background.

System prompts, skills, tools, MCPS,

plugins, chat history, the name of the

bot, and a whole lot of other things.

The more of this context that's included

with every prompt, the stupider the bot

gets, the slower the bot gets, the more

expensive the bot gets. Because the LLM

has to process each and every one of

these things. When you lighten up the

context and you talk to a bot that

doesn't have many tools, MCPs, all that,

it acts much faster and much smarter.

The more bloated your context is, the

stupider and slower your bot will be.

So, when you have one single massive

agent you talk to, like most people do

with Hermes or Open Claw, you're

including your entire agent's history,

all the skills you use, all the tools

you use, all the MCPs you use with every

single prompt. Which is why a lot of

these agents feel much stupider after

like a month of use. But when you use

bot mode, whether it's Grockbot or

Hermes bot, you are splitting up

responsibilities from one bot to many,

many bots. Each bot with their own

system prompt, their own tools, their

own context, their own chat history. So

if you have one bot that does a hundred

things rather than a 100 bots that do

one thing, those hundred bots that do

one thing will do that one thing way

better because it's going to have way

less context with every single prompt

you send. So, this is just inherently a

better way to do work with AI agents

because the prompts you're sending have

way less bloat and way less context with

each one. So, this is just a better way

to work overall. So, that's why the

Hermes bot will be my new default way of

using Hermes. And I still think there's

a lot of use to Hermes. I still use

Hermes for a lot of different things,

right? I have my own AI lab. If you

watch my past videos, you know I have

like 20 different computers in my room

right now, right? I run a whole bunch of

local models. I have two Hermes agents

right now powered by local models.

Harold, which is Quen 38 on my 5090.

Quen, which is another Quen running on

my DGX Spark. I can't do that in

Grockbot, right? I can't do that.

Grockbot only uses Grock models, which

has prices and limitations on it. I have

no price. I have no limitations on these

two Hermes agents. That's great. That's

amazing. I use the local models for a

lot of things. Hermes Agent is also just

way better overall for doing local work

on your computer. If I have to tinker

with things on my computer, I have to

move files around, if I edit things on

my computer, Hermes Agent is just better

at that. So that's why I'm still using

Hermes Agent in this new bot mode. But

is it replacing Grockbot for me? Well,

the answer is no. Grockbot is what I

think the smoothest, simplest, most

straightforward, best way to do

knowledge work with an AI agent right

now. It does several things just better

and easier than Hermes agent. Even in

the new bot mode, the agentto agent

communication's excellent. You can click

it, you can see their chats with each

other. It just works. It delegates tasks

very, very well. The builtin virtual

machine just makes the work the agents

do so much simpler and easier. They do

it in their own computer. I don't have

to worry about them clicking around my

computer, opening up my accounts, doing

anything strange. They do everything in

their own computer which is really

really nice. And it's just a simpler,

easier experience. There's no bloat.

There's no hundred things to configure.

There's no drop downs. You just open up

an agent. You give it tasks and it does

it. It's as simple and easy as an

experience as humanly possible. On top

of that, and this might be the biggest

reason of them all, it has a spectacular

mobile app. The Grockbot mobile app is

absolutely spectacular. It's simple. It

feels like iMessage. It works really,

really well. It's really well ironed

out. The cursor team did an amazing job

on building the mobile app. There is no

Hermes mobile app. There's none. So,

this bot mode, it just doesn't work on

mobile. It there's no Hermes mobile app

at all. So, this bot mode is only for

desktop, which is a massive massive

negative. I do tons of work on the go uh

in Grobbot. You know, being able to

message my bots on the go, individual

bots when I need work done. I found out

Quen 38 released while I was on the go,

while I was at the gym. I opened up

Grockpot on my phone. I I messaged

build, which is my kind of network

administrator. I said, "Build, go on my

5090, install Quen." I get back to my

apartment. Quen's all loaded to go on my

computer. Amazing. Wouldn't wouldn't

have been able to do that with Hermes.

So, Grockbot is still my daily driver.

So, what does that mean for you? What's

my recommendation for you? Well, there

is a big negative uh of Grockbot we

haven't talked about too much here,

which is pricing. Grockbot is only

available on the $300 a month Grock

plan, which is the most expensive AI

subscription right now of any company,

or the $200 cursor plan. That is really

expensive, right? For a lot of people,

that's actually out of budget. Now, I

will say this, I personally believe I've

gotten way more than $300 of value out

of Grockbot. It has saved me a

tremendous amount of time. I've

definitely gotten ROI from that money.

But for a lot of people who are newer to

AI, maybe they won't get that ROI right

away. With Hermes, you can use like free

models. The New Research, the company

behind Hermes, has like their own like

model router and they have like free

models they give away. So you can

technically use Hermes for free. So for

most people are on tight budgets, Hermes

is going to be a better option. But I

will say this, I highly recommend people

spend more money in AI because I think

there's a very distinct ROI case to be

made with AI, especially super powerful

AI agents like this. And I'd recommend

you do check out Grockbot, even if it's

for a month, because I do think you will

get your money's worth from it. I also

think if you're not a super power user,

Grockbot's probably the way to go as

well. Much simpler interface. You don't

have to switch between models for every

single thing. You have to switch between

reasoning levels. It just works out of

the box, which might be the first AI

tool in history to just work out of the

box. I do think it's like the best user

experience of any AI tool ever. If you

are a power user, you definitely still

want a Hermes agent to complement your

Grockbot, right? I still even if you are

a power user, I still think Grockbot is

the best way to just get knowledge work

done because of the mobile app, because

of the virtual computers. If you need

tasks to get done quickly, I think

Grockbot's the best way to do it. But

Hermes agent for those kind of edge

power use cases, I think you still need

a backup Hermes agent, especially if you

have local AI. If that's something

important to you, you do still need a

Hermes agent. Hardcore vibe coding, I'm

not going with either of these to be

honest with you. If you're a hardcore

vibe coder, uh the Chad GBT desktop app

is great for hardcore vibe coding. When

I get deep into a vibe coding session

and I'm building out the app I raise

money for, Henry intelligent machine,

I'm in the Chad GBT desktop app, right?

There's still no great Git integration

with Grockbot. You know, there is a Git

integration with Hermes, but from a UI

perspective, I think it's built more for

general knowledge work rather than

hardcore vibe coding. So, I'm still

using like the codeex app to do hardcore

vibe coding. But for general knowledge

work, day-to-day things, uh, I'm liking

Grockbot the most right now. But, I do

think they serve different purposes.

Hermes Agent and Grockbot. I don't think

it's binary one or the other. It's only

one or the other. If you don't want to

spend $200 a month on Grockbot, then it

is one or the other. But if you have the

money to spend, which I think people

should be investing in AI because I

think the ROI is there, then I do like

Rockbot the most for general work. But I

will be using Hermes bot mode as my kind

of default Hermes experience moving

forward. I have my kind of general

Hermes agent, my local Hermes agent. I

have my developer Hermes agent and a

couple other research agents I built.

That's the main work I'm doing right now

inside Hermes Agent. But I highly

recommend you go in, you get the new

update, you get the bot mode, you do the

brain dump to the reverse prompt I

talked about to get the setup nice and

dialed in and you use it out and see how

this fits in your own workflows and use

cases. Just from a concern perspective

when it comes to Hermes agent, I mean

clearly this was just something they

added on because they saw Grobbot

succeeding. They are a smaller team. I

am concerned if they're just going to

add on every single feature and user

experience that every other AI agent

makes, they will kind of dilute their

experience a little bit. I'd kind of

prefer them kind of have a singular

vision and stick to that vision rather

than just adding on every single thing

other companies do. But we'll see how it

plays out. The team is great. I've

talked to them before. They're a

spectacular team. I'm sure they know

what they're doing. It is just kind of

funny just a few days after comes out,

they just tack this on. But it is what

it is. It's a better experience. It's

such an exciting time to be in AI. I'm

sure one month from now, neither of

these apps will look anything like they

look now. The space moves so freaking

fast. It's amazing to watch. I'm going

to do live boot camp this week on both

Grockbot and Hermesbot in the Vibe

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