Hermes agent just might be the most

powerful AI agent out there right now.

It's your own personal AI employee and

if you don't have one right now, you're

missing out on so many productivity

gains. In this video, I'll cover what

Hermes agent is, the difference between

it and open claw, how to set it up, a

few use cases that will change your life

and if you should replace your open claw

with it. By the end of this video,

you'll have your own full-time AI

employee working for you 24 hours a day,

7 days a week powered by Hermes agent

and chat GPT 5.5. If you're looking to

get into AI agents, this is the video

you've been waiting for. Now, let's lock

in and get into it. This is Hermes agent

in a second. I'm going to show you how

to set it up and give it a whole bunch

of use cases and prompts that are going

to be really, really awesome. For the

record, this is like the most visually

aesthetic AI agent out of all of them.

The people at New Research really have

good taste. But before we do this, let's

just quickly go into what Hermes agent

is and what makes it different than open

claw, some of its advantages. For those

who are not familiar with Hermes agent

or open claw, it's a 24/7

AI agent employee that works on your

computer, does anything a human being

can do. Want to build apps? Want to send

emails? Want to check your calendar?

Want to send you files from one device

to another? He's basically alive on your

computer doing anything you want at any

given time. The biggest advantage to

Hermes agent, there's a bunch here, but

it is fully focused on self-improving.

Everything you do in Hermes agent, it

self-improves. It builds and edits new

skills as you go, which is really,

really cool. So, the more you use it,

the better it gets. But there's also a

lot of other advantages as well. It's

super lightweight, it's super

performant. I've been using Hermes for

months now. It hasn't slowed down at

all. It hasn't felt like it got heavier.

I love open claw, but it really has two

things that piss me off. Number one is

it gets less performant as you go. The

more things you do with it, the heavier

its memory gets, the heavier its context

gets, it just slows down. It just feels

like a very heavy AI agent. The other

disadvantage to Open Claw at the moment

is every time I update that thing, it

breaks. I do not do updates on Open Claw

anymore because every time I update it,

it just stops working. That is really

pissed me off to be quite honest with

you. With Hermes Agent, it feels like

they're a lot more selective and test a

lot more the updates they put into it.

It's never broken for me. It just works.

So, a lot more reliable updates. There's

a few other advantages as well. They

have a new portal. Basically, what that

is is its own AI plan. So, if you don't

use ChatGPT or Claude, you can use their

own very cheap $20 a month plan. It's

built to be multi-agent. I have like

five Hermes Agents going right now. It's

fantastic. Really, really easy just to

spin up new agents. And their social

media team, I dare you to go on Twitter

right now, tweet out Hermes Agent,

you'll have five of their account

members going in replying to all your

tweets. So, really active social media

team. And they appear just to be very

nice, very nice happy people, which I

like a lot too and I appreciate. So,

that's the high-level, but as you know,

this account's all about that action. We

don't just sit here and look at charts

all day. We get into actually using the

tool. So, here we go, Hermes Agent.

Let's talk about setting it up and let's

also talk about the model you're using.

As you can see here, a little spoiler

alert, we're using GPT 5.5. So, let's

talk about setting this up first. I'll

put the link down below for Hermes

Agent. Again, beautiful site. This color

is my favorite color. This kind of

forest green. Here's a little hint. You

wear any clothes with forest green and

then you're going to look better.

There's There's no one on planet Earth

that puts on forest green and doesn't

immediately look 10 times better. So, I

love the color. Here's all you got to

do, super simple. Copy. Click copy right

there. Boom, copy. You pop open your

terminal. You paste in that command. You

hit enter. You have it installed. Once

you do that, you're going to want to

select your model. This is the model

that's going to be the brain for your

agent. That's going to determine which

task to do, which tools you should be

using. I recommend chat GPT 5.5. Yes, I

am recommending it over Claude Opus.

Many different reasons. One is for agent

work, it is just as good as Claude Opus.

I don't think it's particularly better

than Claude Opus for specifically for AI

agents, but I don't think it's worse

either. Personality-wise, it's just

about the same as well. But here's the

big advantage, is their limits are

extremely high. You can get away with

the $20 a month plan to run Hermes. If

you use Claude Opus, you need the $200 a

month plan. Chat GPT $20 OAuth works

just fine for this. OpenAI very

pro-consumer. They encourage you to use

your OAuth. They encourage you to use

your existing subscription. So that's

great as well. And they don't make their

models stupider. That's very nice and I

like that as well. So Chat GPT 5.5 is my

official recommendation for Hermes.

Select that as your model. Use your

OAuth login for that and you are good to

go. I think the best messaging service

for these AI agents, whether it's Hermes

or Open Claw, is Telegram. So if you

have a Telegram, set that up as well.

That's super easy. All it's going to

have you do is go to the Bot Father,

which you can see right there, and do

/newbot.

That will give you a token. You take

that token, you paste it into Hermes,

and you're good to go. You have Telegram

all set up. I like using Telegram cuz

you can get it on any of your devices.

You can get it on your iPhone, your

iPad, any of your computers. This is

going to be the best way to communicate

with your agent. It just has so many

features built specifically for AI

agents. So set it up with Telegram as

well. Super simple. So there it is. You

have it set up. Now you can start using

your agent. In a second, I'm going to go

through how to personalize this to find

the best use cases for yourself.

Obviously, I'm the number one AI channel

on YouTube. I have tens of thousands,

hundred thousand people watching this. I

don't know each and every one of you. I

don't know each and every use case

that's good for you. So, I'm going to

show you what use cases are good for me,

and then I'll show you how to do some

self-discovery

so you can figure out what use cases in

Hermes agent are best for you. But, the

one thing you want to know here is every

time you use Hermes agent, it builds a

new skill for what you're doing. So, you

have a goal and build an app, create a

video for you, whatever it is, it will

constantly, based on how you instructed

to do things, build and update its own

skill. So, it is constantly

self-improving. So, the more you use it,

the better it gets. So, let's do this.

I'm going to show you a few of my

favorite use cases, then we'll go into

figuring out your own best use cases. My

number one use case, if you're anything

like me, is I'm constantly thinking of

things to build. I'm like I have a total

builder mindset. I'm at the gym, I think

of an app to build. I'm at the Whole

Foods, I think of an app to build. I

love using Hermes agents to build the

initial prototypes for apps because I

can be at the grocery store, I can go on

Telegram on my phone, and I can say,

"Hey, build this app for me." And I come

back to my computer, and the app's up

and running. So, let's do this. Say I

wanted to build out a 3D simulation for

me, maybe a 3D rocket ship launch,

right? I'm at the gym, I go, "Oh, I'd

love to come back and see like a 3D

rocket simulator." So, I go and I say,

"Please build me a 3D rocket ship

simulator using 3.js."

If you're a nerd like me, you like

building video games, simulations,

whatever it is, 3.js is the best library

for this. It's going to build its own

3.js skill based on this. It should show

a rocket ship taking off and show its

speed and altitude. Then, pop it open in

a browser and run it. Should be super

detailed. I'm going to hit enter on

that. It's going to get to work. It's

going to build that out for me. The

number one use case I'm showing you

here, building out prototypes on the go,

so that when you come back to your

computer, you can keep building it out.

And here's a quick one. Here's a quick

tip for you. If any point you give it a

task and you think it's something

halfway through, you're like, "Oh man, I

wish I would have said this." You can

also do {slash} steer and it injects a

message in there. We can say, "Make the

rocket blue." And I'm going to hit enter

on that and just going to give it a

steer. It's just going to put a message

in there as it's working that steers it

in a certain direction. So, if you ever

give it a task and you think while it's

working, "Damn, I wish I would have told

this that." Just do {slash} steer and

you can steer your agent as it goes. By

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right, so it popped open a browser on my

computer. Let me drag this in so you can

see this. Look at this.

How sick is that? So, it's blue like I

asked. Oh, wow. Look at this. So, you

can see the altitude, the speed, the

mission time, the acceleration, how much

fuel I have left. I wonder what will

happen. Will it explode when the fuel's

out? Drag to orbit camera. Mouse wheel

Oh, look at this. So, it built out the

full 3D simulation for me. And so, the

point here is is like, obviously this is

really cool, but the point is is that

you can be on the go wherever you are,

come up with an idea for an app, and

then you just go on your phone on

Telegram and you message your Hermes

agent and you build it out. And here's

another really cool thing you can do.

So, let's go in here, and let's just

say, "Send me a screenshot of the rocket

simulator running." So, say you're on

the go, you have it building out an app

for you. Now, you go and say, "Hey, just

send me a screenshot of the work you

did." Since it has full control over

your computer, it can go, pop open its

own browser, run the simulator, and send

you video, send you screenshots, and

confirm everything you're building is

working. I love to do this when I'm in

like full self-driving mode in my Tesla,

and I'm just vibe coding on the go. I'm

having it go, build things out, send me

screenshots, send me videos, and I'm

constantly able to be productive. And

there you go, look at that. Sent me a

screenshot of it running. That's really

amazing. So, anywhere you are in the

world, you don't have to download the

ChatGPT app or the Claude app. You just

have your Hermes agent go build things

out and send you screenshots and videos.

Now, here's another one I love to do.

I'm a big investor. I like investing in

AI stocks cuz I am a true believer the

AI build out hasn't even begun yet. So,

let's set it up. One big thing Hermes

does really well is cron jobs. So, it's

able to schedule its own task over and

over and over again. I have it doing

many, many cron jobs at once. I actually

have it looking over my open Claude

agent to make sure it's running well and

doesn't crash. So, that's one thing you

can do here if you're doing a

multi-agent approach to say, "Hey, every

2 hours check on open Claude to make

sure it's running still and not broken."

Another thing you can do, research. So,

let's do this. "Every 24 hours at 9:00

a.m. do stock research for me. Find AI

stocks I can invest in that have massive

moats." I'm going to hit enter on that,

and it is going to schedule itself for

every 24 hours to do stock research for

me. I think it has never been more

important to be investing at the moment.

I think tons of money is going to be

going into AI companies. I think there's

a lot of money printing going on, so you

probably want your money and assets. You

need to be investing, not financial

advice, but uh honestly financial

advice. And so it is scheduled every day

9:00 a.m. next run. It is going to be

building me a stock report out. Super

simple to do. There it is. Now it's

scheduled to deliver me that stock

report every morning. I highly recommend

you do the same thing. Now let's show

off some of the self-improvement. So

everything I've had it do so far, it's

been building and updating new skills

for itself. But let's do a command here

that will actually have it do something

it doesn't know how to do, so it can

figure it out and build its own skills.

Watch this. So if you're not familiar

with Remotion, Remotion is a really cool

plugin for AI agents that allow AI

agents to build out full motion videos.

I want to start making more shorts on

YouTube Shorts, so I want to start

building out short motion videos that I

can use as YouTube Shorts. Let's do

this. Build me a 60-second YouTube Short

clip on why you should be using Hermes

agent. Do this with Remotion. Figure out

how to use I'm going to hit enter on

that. And so there is no built-in

Remotion skill. It is going to have to

do research, figure it out on its own,

build its own skill set, self-improve.

And at the end of this, if everything

works out here, we should have a

one-shot 60-second YouTube Short using

Remotion that's going to be beautiful

and have all these graphics and look

really cool. Just as a side note here as

this is going, we are 7 and a half

minutes into this. It hasn't stopped

once. It hasn't asked me for one thing.

It is just going and going and going.

And boom, as I was talking to you, it

finished. So it went for over 7 minutes.

It got tripped up multiple times. And

every time it got tripped up, it just

figured out how to do it every step of

the way, which is really amazing. And

then as you can see here, it just said,

"Also, this is enough of workflow that I

will I will save a reusable remotion

short skill for future clips." And so it

is going and it is saving that skill.

Look at that. Skill remotion YouTube

short created. I didn't even have to ask

for it. New skill created. It is

self-improving as we go. Let's open up

this video. Let's see how this goes.

Look at this. It even made the

thumbnail. I didn't even ask for a

thumbnail. It just made a thumbnail.

Let's check that out real quick. Ooh,

that's nice. Good-looking thumbnail

there. Action is better than answers. I

like that.

Let's pop open the video. Let's see what

we got. This is one shot, one sentence,

one prompt. Here we go. Let's hit enter.

Let's see what we got here.

>> Your AI should do the work, not just

describe it. Hermes agent turns chat

into action. It can use real tools

>> This is beautiful. terminal commands,

file editing, image generation, web

research, and messaging from one agent.

It can drive the browser,

>> Look at this. inspect UI,

>> graphics. Let's get that in. It says the

side and I'll pause here. I don't know

if the audio is coming through or not.

There's like an AI voice talking. I'm

just going to rip that out. I'm going to

put my own voice in it. But I put in one

sentence. I now have a piece of content

for YouTube for a YouTube short.

>> Catch console errors, and visually

verify the result. Look at the

transition of the colors.

>> packages, run tests, build apps, start

servers, inspect logs, and fix what

breaks. That is amazing. I now I'm

building like my automated content

pipeline. That is really, really sick.

Now, let's talk about Those are three

use cases I love. Let's talk about how

you can find your own use cases. I talk

about this on a ton of my videos. If

you've listened to my videos before,

you've heard this. Reverse prompting.

Reverse prompting. If I'm you, I'm going

in. First thing I'd do when I set up

Hermes, I'm saying, "Here's everything

you need to know about me, my career, my

interests, my job, everything you need

to know. What are three use cases we can

implement right now that will save me

time?" That will allow Hermes to

understand who you are and come up with

use cases that will be helpful for you.

I promise you, if you do that right now,

that exercise, your life will get much,

much easier. The other thing you can do

is, I do this all the time, get a piece

of paper, write down on that piece of

paper throughout your day every manual

task you do. Every manual task you write

it down here, then go into your Hermes

agent, list out every task you did that

you wrote down on your piece of paper,

and say, "Which of these can you

automate for me?" And Hermes will come

and give you a whole bunch of use cases

it can automate for you. Now, a question

I get all the time is this, "Should I

rip out Open Claw? Should I use Hermes

instead?" The answer is truly, the

future is multi-agent. You want to be

multi-agent. Each team Hermes and Open

Claw has a completely separate road map.

There is no point in being tribalistic

about this and going one or the other.

I've had amazing experiences with both.

Both have their own distinct advantages.

Install both, hook them both into your

ChatGPT subscription. ChatGPT 5.5 is

great. You'll get ton of usage even on

both. They'll be able to communicate

with each other. There's something

called ACP, which allows them to talk to

each other. So, you can go to your Open

Claw and say, "Hey, tell Hermes to do

this." You can go to Hermes and it'll

say, "Hey, tell Open Claw to do that."

It'll work perfectly fine. Set up your

own multi-agent workflow and find which

agent works best for you. I use them

both. They're both amazing. If you

follow every step I went through in this

video, you will have your own AI

employee set up, your own Hermes agent,

which will constantly be doing

self-improvement, building its own

skills, and getting better and better

and better. If you learned anything at

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