Hermes Agent is the number one AI tool

you should be learning right now. It is

a super powerful AI agent that is

basically your 24/7

AI employee. The problem is most people

have absolutely no idea how to use it or

get any sort of value out of it. In this

video, I will show you how to use this

incredible tool. I will cover literally

everything from installation to get it

up and running, to choosing the right

model, to choosing the right computer,

to use cases, everything. If you stick

with me until the end of this video, you

will be a master of the most powerful AI

agent on planet Earth. Now, let's lock

in and get into it. If you haven't used

or mastered Hermes Agent yet, this is

about to be the best 60-so minutes of

your entire life cuz it is going to

change everything for you. This is

Hermes Agent. What I'm going to show you

in a second first is what it's all

about, everything you need to know about

it. Then I'm going to show you how to

install it, use cases, all of that. This

video is built to be jumped around if

appropriate. So, if you don't need to

see installation, if you already know

what Hermes Agent is, you can look down

below and find different sections. So,

feel free to jump around however you'd

like. But let's get into it first. Let's

first talk about what Hermes Agent is

for those that are new or for those that

just need a refresher. After that, we'll

talk about Hermes versus OpenClaw, which

one you should be using. We'll talk

about which models you should be using.

We'll talk about should you use local

models, should you put this on a Mac

mini. We'll talk about where you should

install this, how to use their dashboard

that I promise you 99% of people are

using wrong, their built-in automation

and Kanban board, how to take advantage

of their self-improvement. We'll talk

about which skills you should be using,

use cases, security, all of that. So,

jump around for that. But first, let's

start off with what Hermes Agent is. It

is a 24/7 AI agent. That means it can

work for you around the clock,

completely autonomously, completely

proactively, figure out tasks and

activities you should do to advance you,

to make you more money, to get you

closer to your goals. It is a custom

employee for you. And I truly believe

it's the most powerful AI technology out

there right now. It learns everything

about you and the way you work. It

learns your goals, what activities you

do every day, what tasks you do every

day, how you make money, what you're

trying to achieve. It learns everything

about you and saves it into its

ultra-powerful memory, the most powerful

memory in AI agents. It's accessible

from everywhere, so you don't have to

install any sort of Hermes app. You can

just have this integrated into your

Telegram, your Discord, your iMessage,

whatever you want. So it lives where you

live. It can do work autonomously, so in

the middle of the night while you're

sleeping, go and build an entire SaaS

application and launch it for you. And

here's the part that separates Hermes

agent from everyone else. It is

self-improving.

Every time you send it a message, every

time you send it a prompt, it will do

that task and it will learn, "Okay, what

went well, what didn't go well. Next

time I do this, how do I do it better?"

And it actually learns and edits its own

skills. So the more you use it, the more

powerful it gets. The number one

question I get though is, "Hermes or

OpenClaw?" Well, I got some answers for

you. For those that have been watching

this channel for a while, you know I was

really, really big into OpenClaw. I

still am, but they have run into many

issues that I'm hoping and I'm sure they

will solve. I am good friends with the

team. I know they'll improve things. But

at the moment I am recommending Hermes

agent for several different reasons.

One, it's lighter weight. OpenClaw has

gotten and feels very, very bloated.

Because it feels bloated, it's not quite

as performant, it's not quite as quick.

Hermes just feels a lot snappier and a

lot quicker. But, here's the big reason.

Here's the big reason why I think you

need to go with a Hermes at the moment

and why I think you're watching the

right video is because Open Claw's

biggest issue the last couple months is

every update has broken it. Every time I

do Open Claw update, I can be like 90%

sure I'm about to rip my hair out. I

don't know if they're not testing it. I

don't know what the deal is, but every

time I upgrade Open Claw, it breaks. And

for me, someone who lives with AI, who's

always using AI agents, it's a little

bit quicker for me to fix it, right?

But, for those who don't use AI agents a

ton, it is a pain in the wazoo to have

to fix their agent every single time it

breaks. And so, that reason right there,

the more reliable updates, I think is

the biggest reason

to be using Hermes at the moment. They

also have a bunch of other really cool

things. They have the new portal, which

is they actually have their own AI model

service is built into Hermes. So, if you

want to save money, you can use their

built-in models. It's built to be

multi-agent, so it's really easy to spin

up multiple agents at once, have them do

a ton of work, have them work

autonomously, which is amazing. And

their social media team's just great.

So, if you go on X, you have

recommendations, you have feedback, you

tweet it, you can be about like 90%

positive that their official account's

going to reply to you within like 10

minutes. They have a really, really

great social media team. Now, before we

get into installation, I want to answer

another question I get quite often,

which is what should you be using Hermes

Agent, Claude Code, Code X. A lot of

videos on my channel are about vibe

coding, using Claude Code, using Code X.

Still amazing tools. Still tools I use

every single day, but there are times

where you should be using Hermes Agent

and when you should be using Claude Code

and Code X. Hermes Agent you want to

think as like your general chief of

staff, your general employee that can do

any kind of work or task for you.

Day-to-day tasks, doing research,

building documents, building

spreadsheets, being your administrator

for your computer, moving around files,

cleaning up files, bouncing ideas, being

your business advisor, right? That's

where your Hermes agent is going to be.

Think of it as your general purpose

business advisor employee. It's also

great at building prototypes, don't get

me wrong. Hermes, Open Claude, they're

great at vibe coding. You can use them

for vibe coding. I primarily use them

though to build prototypes. So, if I'm

out on the go, I'm at the gym, I get a

great idea, I pull out Telegram, I hit

Hermes up, I say, "Hey, build this for

me." I come back, I have a full

prototype. It's also great at building

its own tooling, right? So, if I'm

building like, you know, extensions to

the Kanban board, if I'm building a

mission control, I'm using Hermes agent

to build the tooling for itself because

it's most familiar with how it works. If

I'm doing things where I want the

process to continuously improve, be

better every time I do it, I like to use

Hermes agent cuz again, the real

strength of this agent overall is the

self-improvement. If I just want quick

changes in an app, if I want to change a

button color real quick, this or that,

I'll say, "Hermes, go quickly do it."

cuz I can just spin it up real quick.

You just want to think of it as like

your own general purpose employee. When

you use Claude Code and Codex, this is

when you're building large-scale complex

applications. Right now, I'm building

Henry Intelligence Machines, about to

change the world, link down below. I'm

using combo of Codex and Claude Code for

that just because they have so many

different features purpose-built for

vibe coding, for getting complex

applications built. So, if you're going

deep into a vibe coding session, you

have a trillion-dollar idea for a

business, I still recommend using Claude

Code or Codex for that. That's your

focus, locked in work. You're going to

have open your two windows side by side,

Codex, Claude Code. You're going to have

20 different agents going. You're

sitting down, you're locked in, you have

Codex Claude code going. And end-to-end

testing, there's tons of really good

testing features with Claude code and

Codex. So, I still prefer, again, for

that more complex coding session, you go

with Claude code or Codex. Now that we

covered some of the basics of what

Hermes agent is, let's get into actually

installing it. So, we're going to cover

installing it, which models you should

choose, first things you should be

doing, use cases, and a whole lot more.

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it'll be the best decision you ever

make. Okay, so if you go over to Hermes

agent website, I'll put the link for it

down below. There is a command here, a

curl command. You simply click copy on.

From there, you open up your terminal,

and what you're going to do is you're

going to paste that in. Because I

already have Hermes installed, I'm going

to do a slightly different command. So,

bear with me here. Once you hit enter on

the commands, you're going to go into

setup mode. Couple options here. First

thing off the rip, if you already have

Open Claude installed, it's going to

give you the option to actually import

all your Open Claude stuff, all the

memories, everything involved with that.

Feel free to do that if you want. That's

one option. If you're doing this clean,

if you want to set up a clean agent, I

actually recommend this for most people.

I think using Open Claude and Hermes

side by side is a great idea. I don't

think there's any need to have them all

have exactly the same memories and

skills. So, even if you have Open Claude

installed, it might be a good idea just

to say no there. What we're going to do

is we're going to do quick setup. We're

just going to configure the things we

want to configure. So, the first option

we're going to get is the model. Let's

discuss the different model options for

Hermes. You have basically three tiers

of options, right? Expensive, moderate,

and cheap. Obviously, the more money you

spend, the better results you're going

to get. So, on the expensive side is

going to be Anthropic. Claude is just

the best model for these types of AI

agents. Unfortunately, Anthropic cut off

use of OAuth for this, meaning you can't

use your existing Anthropic

subscription. So, you're going to have

to do API key. With an API key, you're

basically paying for every single thing

you do. This is going to be more

expensive than your $200 a month for the

subscription or your $200 a month for

the ChatGPT subscription. So, you

probably if you have good use, probably

spend a few hundred dollars a month.

It's going to be the most expensive, but

you're going to get the best use out of

it. The good news is on the moderate

tier is OpenAI Codex. You get a good

amount of usage with your OpenAI

subscription inside Hermes. So, even if

you're on the $20 a month subscription,

you get decent usage. Couple pieces of

good news there. ChatGPT inside these

agents, Open Claude and Hermes,

absolutely sucked up until recently.

ChatGPT 5.4 and earlier literally

completely useless in Open Claude and

Hermes. ChatGPT 5.5 though, it's very

good. Right? Is it as good as Anthropic?

Is it as good as Claude? No, but now

it's actually usable. Now it's actually

solid and good. So, if you're on a

tighter budget or even if you just want

to save a couple dollars a month, you

can go ahead with your ChatGPT

subscription here. Still get pretty good

usage. Still get good functionality out

of it. Get a ton of usage. You're going

to get a way more usage than Anthropic

out of this, and you'll be good to go.

So, there's nothing wrong, in my

opinion, with using your ChatGPT

subscription here. With Claude, it's

just going to do tasks a little bit

better, and it's going to have a little

bit warmer of a personality, more fun to

interact with. On the cheaper side, you

have many different options. If you're

already paying for XAI, you can use your

XAI OAuth here. You can also go with the

new portal. This is actually the

creators of Hermes Agents

uh AI subscription. They kind of curate

different models. It's only like $20 a

month. You're getting cheaper Chinese

models uh powering your agent, which

honestly is not going to be quite as

good, but it's usable, right? MiniMax,

Kimmy, very usable models, very cheap

models. The personality is just going to

feel very robotic, and it might not be

that great when it comes to actually

executing on tasks. I would at the very

least recommend the moderate option,

which is ChatGPT. You're going to get,

you know, good functionality out of it.

It's going to have a decent personality.

So, choose your model from there,

whether it's OAuth or API. It'll

instruct you on what to do from there.

You got to get your API key, if you need

to log in, if you're doing ChatGPT.

Proceed with that now. Next is going to

be what messaging platform to use. And

you're going to have a few options

there. You're going to be able to choose

between Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord,

iMessage. Let me tell you this, the best

way to communicate with your agent is

without a doubt going to be Telegram.

Telegram's the best way to do it.

Telegram is actively working to make

their platform like a platform you

communicate with agents with. They're

adding tons of functionality. They're

allowing you to do a bunch of different

things like topics, allowing your agents

to actually talk to each other. There's

so many cool things in Telegram they're

adding. They're really the only plat-

messaging platform on planet Earth where

they're they're trying to make it like

AI agent friendly. You could do Discord.

There's some cool things with Discord

there. I have a video on using Discord

with your agents, but as a main

communication channel, think anything

comes close to Telegram. You need to be

doing Telegram. It's also free, so

that's pretty cool. Telegram's the way

to go here. You go through those couple

things, you'll be all set. You'll be

good to go, you'll have it all set up.

When you set up Telegram, it's going to

give you a couple steps on actually

connecting it to Telegram. It's really

simple. You don't need me to put in the

video. Really easy to do. You're just

copying a token from Telegram into your

Hermes and you'll be good to go. Then

you're all set up. You can start

chatting with your agent. So let's talk

about first things to do. This is your

own AI employee, right? This is your own

personal assistant. If you were to right

now go and hire a personal assistant,

they come over and it's day one and

they're ready to do work for you. What's

the first thing you would do with that

person you just hired? Well, you'd

probably first tell them about yourself

and your business so they're familiar

with you, right? That is what we're

going to first do with Hermes. Hermes

has the best memory in the game. Hermes

remembers everything about you. It's

constantly self-improving. So, let's do

this. Let's tell Hermes all about us. So

here's what I did and you should do this

too alongside with me. I am Alex Finn.

I'm an entrepreneur content creator. I

have a YouTube with 200k subs and

Twitter 450k. So I told all about

myself, what I have achieved up to this

point. I built a social media tool

called Creator Buddy and I'm building a

new tool called Henry Intelligent

Machines, which will allow anyone to

build their own business. So talking

about what I'm working on and then I

talk about my goals and ambitions. My

goal is to make Henry launch super

successful and increase my subscribers.

So talk about your goals and ambitions

as well and what you want to achieve.

That's super important because when we

get Hermes to start doing things

proactively for you in a second, it will

be able to look at your goals and

ambitions and figure out tasks to do

proactively for you. So make sure you

cover those three things, who you are,

what you're working on and your goals

and ambitions. Hit enter on that. That

will be saved into your Hermes memories

and it will know you so much better. And

let's do this. Before I start going

through the user interface, so the

amazing dashboard they built out, the

Kanban board, all that, let's set up a

task. Let's set up a scheduled

repeatable task Hermes can do for you

every single night. So, there's this

thing in Hermes called cron jobs.

Basically, what they are just scheduled

tasks that run autonomously. We're going

to set up a scheduled task. Everything

we do, everything we set up, is just

plain English into Hermes. It's just

plain English into the text box. You

talk to it like a normal human being.

It's the best part about AI. So, what

we're going to do is we're going to talk

to it like a normal human being and

we're going to tell it to do something

super specific and helpful for us every

single night that brings us closer to

our goals. So, let me put this prompt in

here. Feel free again to pause, follow

alongside with me. I want you to

schedule a task for yourself to do every

single night at 2:00 a.m. It should be a

micro app UI or system that helps us get

closer to my personal goals and

ambitions. It should save us time, make

us more productive, or just be generally

useful. Make sure this is scheduled for

every single night at 2:00 a.m. Make

sure it surprises me and makes me happy.

Boom, putting that down below. What this

is going to do is make your Hermes agent

proactive. It's going to have it

schedule a task for every single night

where it's going to look at its

memories, systems, goals, ambitions, and

put something together, build something

out, vibe code something for you that

will get you closer to your goals and

ambitions. Something that will just be

generally helpful and delightful. You

hit enter on that, it's going to

schedule the task. Let's hit enter. Here

we go. And GPT me, this is my Hermes

agent powered by GPT. I have a lot of

different Hermes agents, a lot of

different open claws. If you want like a

video on multi-agent approach, feel free

to let me know down below as well. And

as you can see here, this is one of the

cool parts about Hermes. You can see all

its tool calls. So, it scheduled a cron

job called create. It's scheduled, it's

going to happen every night at 2:00 a.m.

The next run is tonight at 2:00 a.m. And

it's going to deliver it here inside of

Telegram. I set it up to create a small

tangible thing every night, a micro app.

It's instructed bias towards things that

save time, support your goals. Boom,

just like that Hermes is getting to work

for us. Our employee is getting to work.

This is how you talk to your employees,

right? You talk in deliverables. This is

what I want. This is when I want it.

That's how it goes. It's talking to us

just like an employee. So, that's

amazing. Now, I have a whole bunch of

other tips, tricks, use cases. We're

going to go through that in a second. I

first want to take you through the

Hermes dashboard. I want to take you

through all the really cool UI stuff

they built out. This is something open

claw no one else is really doing. So,

let me show you that now. And again, if

you need to, you're familiar with

different things, feel free to skip down

different chapters down below. So, if

you go into your terminal and you say

Hermes dashboard and hit enter, it is

going to open up a browser with your

Hermes dashboard inside of it. This is

what it looks like here. Tons of things

going on. I want to kind of walk you

through this real quick. If you go to

models, you can very easily swap out

your different models, try new models,

very very easy to do. You don't need to

go through terminal for all of this. As

you can see, my model for some of my

agents is Claude Opus, others is GPT-5.

If you go into your cron section, you

can see some of your scheduled crons, so

you should be able to see the one you

just scheduled where it's going to do

something proactively for you. If you

want, you can create one manually here.

This is a good way to create cron jobs.

If I you want to make sure, maybe it's a

little bit more complex and you want to

make sure it builds it the correct way,

going into the UI is a good way to do

it. You also have skills. So, this is

really cool. We're going to dive more

into this in a second when we go back

into Telegram, but again, the strength

of Hermes is the self-improving skills.

Every single thing you have it do, it

reviews what skills it used and how to

improve the skills based on what you

asked it to do. So, it's constantly

self-improving. So, you can come in here

and see a lot of these skills it has.

You can go in, browse, turn it on. Like,

it can even play Pokémon and Minecraft,

which is unbelievable. And so, it learns

things as it goes. You can see all those

skills here and make sure the right

skills are turned on. We have plugins

here. These are like extra powerful

abilities your Hermes agent can have.

Make sure you come on here and you can

turn on any ones you need. It has some

things you like browser use, browser

base, fire crawl, which allow it to

crawl the internet really well. It

already has uh built-in tools around

using Chrome and using uh your computer

computer use. But, you can add on if you

already have API keys around any of

these, add them on here. I highly

recommend enabling the image gen from

Open AI. Allows it to generate images.

The Open AI image generation model is

the best in the game by far. So, I would

turn that on so it can generate its own

images as well. That makes it super good

if like you're building games with your

agent. Uh I use the Open AI image gen

model to build assets for games. So, if

you go to your Hermes, "Hey, build this

game for me." It'll be able to go in and

actually generate all the assets for the

game it's building, too, if you're a

nerd like me. Profiles, this is a good

one if you want to set up a multi-agent

approach. A profile is basically just a

different Hermes agent. As you can see

here, I am using something like seven or

eight different Hermes agents at once.

So, you can go in here if you want to do

multi-agent approach, just click create,

set up a second Hermes agent. It'll be

booted up and ready to go. This is cool.

You can see the skills for each. So, you

can see which ones I'm using more. My

default, which is just Hermes, has 150

skills, which means I've been using it

more than the others. So, this is a good

way to set up your multi-agents. Config,

there's a whole bunch of options here.

You can go through this if you want.

Text to speech, I'm not a big text to

speech guy. But, where I want to take

you next is Kanban. This is a really

cool screen in here. This is probably

where you're going to spend most of your

time in the dashboard is the Kanban

board. This is super powerful and they

just shipped it recently. This is

basically an automated way to multitask,

right? So, coming in your Kanban board,

it has the different statuses of tasks,

triage, to do, ready, in progress,

blocked, done. What's really cool here

is if you put tasks into triage, what

will happen automatically is your Hermes

agent will take that task, split it into

subtasks, move it to to do, and then

automatically assign it to different

subagents to do. So, if I, for instance,

go in here and I say, "Script me a

Masterclass

video for Hermes."

And I hit create, it's going to go in

there and what's going to happen in a

second is the Hermes agent will actually

take that, split it into steps, and

assign it to agents to automatically do

things for me. This is really cool and

this is what I highly recommend doing. I

write down all my to-do's on this piece

of paper every single morning. What I do

is after I write down my to-do's, I go

in here to this Kanban board, and I take

any tasks that an AI agent can do for

me, and I just put it into triage,

right? I'll just dump in like five or

six tasks into triage, they go in there,

I walk away, I do something else, I make

breakfast, I make a Pop-Tart, whatever.

By the time I come back, and you saw it

happen live, the tasks moved to to do,

agents start grabbing it, and they start

getting things done for me. By the time

my breakfast is over, I already got half

my to-do list done. My AI agent has

already tackled half my day for me.

That's how you should be operating as

well. Start every morning, kind of

triage yourself with a list of tasks,

you get them into your Hermes Kanban

board, and by the time you're done your

breakfast, you already got, you know,

half the things you need to get done

today done already. So, that's a really

cool way to use this Kanban board. This

Kanban board is super powerful. You

probably can find 20 other different

things uh to do and how to use this, but

that's the way I like to use it, just

using it in the morning, getting my

tasks in. By the time the day's halfway

over, I'm almost done everything I

needed to do, which is really amazing.

Now that we went through the dashboard,

let's go through a couple different use

cases here. I'll show you how it works,

how it self-improves, how it uses

different skills, things like that. I'm

putting out over the next few days a

Hermes like seven use case video. If you

want to catch that when I drop that,

feel free to turn on notifications down

below, too. It's going to cover in-depth

beginner, medium, advanced use case. But

let's go over a few of those here. So

I'm going to show you three simple use

cases any of you guys could take

advantage of and get some value out of.

The first one is a daily tutor. If

you're anything like me, you watch a ton

of educational videos on YouTube. I'm

watching them all the time. I mean,

you're watching one right now. And one

thing I love to do is give those videos

to my Hermes agent, have them get the

transcripts, learn everything that's in

the video, and then be my tutor every

morning. So it'll give me some fun facts

from the videos I watched recently,

maybe even quiz me and ask questions.

Watch how we do this. So I got this

video I put out on my second channel,

link down below, on how to make $2

million AI in 2026.

Say I'm a viewer, I watch the video, I

find it super helpful. Let's take this

link. What I'm going to do is I'm going

to give it to my Hermes agent. And I do

this with basically any video that has a

kind of content that I find helpful. I

say, "Hey, check this video out. Read

the transcript. Then every morning

remind me of a concept or two from the

video. Then quiz me."

And then I give the link to the video, I

hit enter, and then as you can see here,

it's using its built-in YouTube content

skills. It's going in, it's pulling down

the video. It's reading the transcript.

It's pulling out all the important facts

and information from it. And now it's

going to schedule a cron job, which

again, as we talked about earlier, just

a scheduled task that happens at

specific times. And it's going to send

me a message every morning saying, "Hey,

here's a couple things to remind you

from that video." You should be doing

this with any video or educational video

you watch that has important,

interesting information in it. That's

how you reinforce these facts in your

brain. Got it? There's a Share Journey

Playbook. It's extracted 10 important

concepts from it, and it scheduled the

cron for every morning at 8:00 a.m. And

I'm going to get my first lesson at 8:00

a.m. tomorrow. This is how I'm learning

more and more with Hermes and improving

my life. Let's get into the next use

case. So, you should be setting this up.

Everyone watching should be setting this

one up. The next one is actually maybe

the most powerful one I use, which is my

computer administrator. If you put every

device you got, your iPhone, your

computers, your Mac minis, whatever you

got, your iPad, all on the same kind of

private network, your Hermes agent can

move around any of them and get any

content you need. Here's what I mean by

that. A lot of the times, I'll be out

and about, and I'll be like, "Oh man, I

wish I had that document from my

computer. Oh man, I wish I had that

presentation from my iPad. I can't

access it cuz I didn't put it on Google

Drive or anything." Now, with Hermes

agent, Hermes can act as the computer

administrator, basically like my device

administrator, and get me any file I

need from any of my computers at a

moment's notice. This is how you do it.

You go on tailscale.com.

For those who don't know, Tailscale's an

amazing tool. It's completely free. It

basically gives you your own private

network on all your devices. Not

sponsored in any way, by the way, here.

I just really like their product. You

put it on all your devices, and what's

going to happen is now your Hermes can

move across all of your devices and get

any documents, files, anything at all

you need and move them around your

devices when you need them. So, for

instance, I'm on my laptop, I need an

agent.md file from my Mac Studio, I just

go on my Telegram and say, "Hey Hermes,

get me the agent.md rules file from my

Mac Studio and drop it off on my MacBook

Pro." It goes, it does that. It can move

around any of my devices no matter where

I am in the world and get me the files I

need. This is also great if you're doing

development, too. So, if you're a Vibe

coder using CodeX or Claude code, this

allows you to actually test and load up

localhost from any of your devices. You

don't need to be on the device the

localhost is running. So, that's really

helpful, as well. Now, Hermes is my

device/administrator

across all of my devices, which is

really awesome. The next use case I'll

go over is an amazing one and that is a

session recall use case. What does that

mean? Hermes has a feature that Open

Claude doesn't have, no other AI tool

really has, which is really incredible

session recall. Every session you have

with your Hermes agent, every

conversation you have, everything you've

ever said to your Hermes agent is stored

in a log, a session log, and that means

at any point you can go and ask your

Hermes recall anything you've ever

talked about. So, if you want to say,

"Hey, tell me what we talked about last

Thursday at 8:00 a.m.," it can do that.

If you want to say, "Hey, tell me what

we talked about 3 months ago at 2:00

a.m.," it will be able to do that. No

other AI agent has this type of memory.

So, what's the use case of this? What's

What's a good use case here? Well, we

can take advantage of this incredible

memory and we can say, "Remind me of

every Hermes use case we've talked about

a month ago." This is incredible memory.

Now, at any point, you can go, "Hey,

remind me that thing we talked about a

month ago. Remind me that thing we

talked about a week ago. What's every

YouTube video I dropped in here last

week? What's every YouTube video I

dropped in here 3 months ago? What's

every link I gave you 2 months ago?" You

can quickly recall anything you've ever

talked about, any idea you've ideated.

What's every business use case we've

discussed last month? You know, I am

constantly dropping in business use

cases to my Hermes agent going, "Oh, is

this real? Can we turn this into a

product?" And now I can quickly get it

to recall all of those things. You can

see here. Look at all these use cases

we've talked about. Uh really amazing

stuff here that I can just I'll ne- I

never forget anything now. Everything it

remembers. It's the ultimate second

brain for your life. As long as you're

running everything through your Hermes

agent, you'll literally never forget

anything. So, this is a really amazing

use case of Hermes agent as well, being

able to remember everything you've ever

talked about. So, let's go into the next

section, which is very particular to

Hermes agent, which is the memory and

skills functionality inside Hermes. And

what makes it so special? What makes it

better than every other AI agent out

there? First of all, just a basics on

how those things work. All your memories

and all your skills live in markdown

files on your computer. And this is

really important. When you have memories

on ChatGPT or Claude, they live in the

cloud. You don't know what they are. You

don't know what's saved. You don't know

what those AIs know about you. With

Hermes, it's different. They all live in

markdown files on your computer. So,

everything it remembers about you, every

skill it learns, you can audit and look

at and change because it's just on like

a text file on your computer. But here's

the big one. Here's what makes Hermes

agent so unique is the self-improvement.

Hermes built into it every step of the

way self-improving. So, whenever it does

anything, every task you give it, it

figures out along the way what was the

best way to do that thing, and updates

its skills and memories for that best

path. What do I mean by that? Say you

tell it to go and read the transcript

from a YouTube video and take out all

the best practices from it. It'll go,

it'll search for how to find transcripts

in YouTube videos, and then it'll grab

the transcript and it'll find all the

important points from that video. Once

that task is done, it'll figure out and

review how it did that task, and then

save it to memory how it did it. So,

next time you give it that task to do,

it can just go, "Oh, I did this before,

and this is exactly how I did it." And

it'll do it that way again. Now, if you

have him do it, and then maybe it does

something wrong, you say, "Hey actually,

can you do it this way?" It'll remember

that, save it to memory, and again,

self-improve. So, basically, every time

you have your Hermes agent do something,

do a task, learn something, go and do

something, it reviews what it did, saves

it as a skill and memory, and it use

that every time it does that task again.

So, it is constantly self-improving. The

more you use Hermes agent, the better it

gets, the more custom it gets to you,

which is what makes it so powerful. And

third, this is a big one, their memory

and skills are constantly evolving.

Every update in Hermes agent adds new

built-in skills. A big one from the last

update was computer use. I now can have

Hermes agent go and control things on my

computer. If you want to see all the

tools it's adding, all you need to do is

go and say Hermes tools, hit enter. It's

going to go in, you'll be able to say

configure, and you can see a lot of the

tools it's adding here. They're

constantly adding. If you haven't done

Hermes tools yet, make sure you do that,

and you can turn these on. You want to

make sure you have on browser automation

as well as computer use, which you see

at the bottom. That way, if you're ever

away from your computer, you can go in

and say, "Hey Hermes, do this on my

computer. Build this report. Build this

slideshow." Whatever it is, and it'll go

into it. And I know what an objection

I'll get there is, "Hey, ChatGPT can

already build presentations. Claude can

already build presentations." The reason

why you want to be doing those things

with Hermes agent is because Hermes

knows everything about you. It has the

best memory of any AI there. So, if you

say something like, "Hey, build me this

presentation." It'll be able to do it

better than Claude and ChatGPT. One, cuz

it's self-improving, and it learns every

step of the way the way you need to do

things and the way you want it to be

done. And two, it knows all the context

around you, so it knows what your

preferences are. So, these tools are

super, super valuable. Another new one

they added is this video generation one.

I love this one. Image generation, video

generation.

If you plug your Hermes into uh Grok's

OAuth or ChatGPT's OAuth, you can now

use those tools to generate assets. Let

me show you. Using xAI Grok imagine,

generate me an AI video of a basketball

player in a blue jersey wearing the

number two flopping to the ground. I'm

going to hit enter on that, and because

it just learned this new skill of being

able to generate AI videos, it's going

to be able to go in and create that

video for me. constantly learning these

new skills and improving and getting

better. There's no other AI out there

that can go from moving files around on

your computer to getting transcripts to

YouTube to generating videos. Hermes can

do it all and is constantly improving

expanding its functionality. All right,

[clears throat] looks like the video's

done. Let's see what we got here. Oh

man, yep, that number two guy in the

blue jersey is certainly taking a dive

there. Wow, that's a big flopper. This

is not based on any sort of a realistic

person. Any resemblance to anyone in the

NBA purely coincidental. So, pretty

good. The next part about Hermes agent,

which is really awesome, is mission

control. Mission control is a custom

interface for your AI agent. This allows

you to build out any tool you need for

your AI agent to get good work done.

Everyone should have a mission control

for their AI agent. One, because it's

just super helpful cuz you can build out

custom tooling for your AI agents. Two,

because it's just fun. This is a fun

thing to do. You're allowed to have fun

with AI. You're allowed to have fun with

AI agents. Not every single thing you do

needs to be some sort of min-max

hyper-optimization to ship more code.

You're allowed to just have fun with

your AI agent. And the mission control

is a really good way to do that. There's

a lot of custom tooling I built out

here. One thing is this content

pipeline, where I can put in content

ideas, and then Hermes will go in and

actually add scripts, create thumbnails,

things like that. All I need to do is

put a new idea in here, and then Hermes

takes it and moves it along the content

pipeline. I have a memory page. This is

basically like a memory wiki, where I

can go in and see all the memories my

agent has. So, I can go in, read

everything we've talked about from the

last month, day by day, see our

long-term memory. Because Hermes' memory

is so freaking powerful. Basically,

everything we say and do is recorded.

So, sometimes I just like to almost like

a journal or a diary, go back and see

things we worked on in the past. I had

now have this really nice user interface

where I can see those things. I have a

docs page. This allows me to see every

single artifact and document we've ever

created. Makes it really easy to see

things. Usually, when you have your

agent build out different documents, it

goes into like a random folder on your

computer. Now, I can just say, "Hey, put

it in our docs in our mission control."

And I can quickly, easily read it like

this. I have a kind of an animated 2D

office view, where I can see all all

agents walking around doing things, all

my open claws, all my Hermes, always

working. I can come in here and see

exactly what they're doing at any given

time. And many more things here. All you

need to do to build your mission control

is literally go to your Hermes agent and

say, "Hey, I want a mission control.

Build out a custom mission control where

we can later add tools in that we can

use to improve our workflows." You don't

need to know how to code. There's

nothing super crazy or complex here.

Every time I say, "Hey, build a mission

control." Someone in the audience goes,

"Oh, well, why don't you go into more

detail?" There's no more detail you need

to know. Literally, anything you need,

anything you want from your agent, just

say, "Hey, do this for me." That's how

smart the agent is. You want a new tool,

go to your agent and say, "Hey, build a

new tool." Whatever you want. So, to

build a mission control, literally go to

your Hermes agent and say, "Hey, build

out a mission control for me." Then,

once you have that built, say, "Hey,

okay, I want this tool now. I want this

tool now. I want that tool now." And

it'll go and build it out for you. You

should have your own custom

dashboard/interface

just like this, where you can play

around, build any tools you need, and

have some fun. Mission control, super

critical concept you need to have in

your Hermes agent. Next part we'll talk

about is fixing issues with Hermes

agent. This hasn't been as much of an

issue with Hermes agent as it was with

open claw. Open claw would crash every

time I'd update it. Doesn't happen quite

as much with Hermes agent, but you still

should be prepared with how to fix

things inside Hermes agent. And the way

to do this is very simple. You're

basically just going to open up Hermes

agent in Claude code or Codex. So, you

go into Claude code, you go into Codex.

Inside either one of those tools, you

open up the folder that your Hermes

agent is in. This is typically in the

root of your computer. You'll see like a

Hermes folder. You open that up in

Claude code or Codex. Then, you say,

"Hey, I have this problem with Hermes.

Please fix it." And your Claude Coder

Codex will go and fix that issue. That

literally solves 100% of the issues I've

ever had with Hermes, to be quite honest

with you. Claude Code and Codex are

great at debugging these agents. So, any

issue you have, just make sure you open

up in Claude Code and Codex, and it will

go and fix those issues for you. Next

thing I want to talk about is security.

This is a really big request for me,

security. Here's the thing when it comes

to security with these agents, with Open

Claw and Hermes. And this is going to be

a really controversial thing I'm about

to say. This is going to get 100 replies

in the comment section going, "Oh,

you're such an idiot. You're so

dangerous. You're going to hurt people."

Shut up. Here's the thing when it comes

to security with Hermes and Open Claw.

The security concerns are vastly

overrated. Yeah, I said it. There I go.

The security concerns with Open Claw and

Hermes are vastly overrated. My question

to you is this.

If you go on the internet, if you watch

YouTube, if you're on Twitter, you

probably know a lot of people that are

using Hermes and Open Claw. How many of

those people have had a major

catastrophic security event? Truly, do

you know anybody who has had a major

catastrophic security event with Open

Claw or Hermes agent? My guess is the

answer you're going to give me is no.

Now, does that mean security events are

it's impossible to have with Hermes or

it's absolutely perfect when it comes to

security? No, it it doesn't mean that at

all. I'm not saying it's completely

invincible. But, what I'm going to tell

you is this. Hermes agent and Open Claw

only do what you tell it to do. So, if

you say, "Hey, Hermes, go and create me

a presentation on LLMs." It's not going

to go and then go into your private

photos folder and then leak all your

nudes to the internet. That's not how it

works. It's not like you're going to go

say, "Hey, Hermes, check the score of

the NBA game last night and then it's

going to go and leak all your text

messages on Twitter. That's not how any

of this works. These agents only do

exactly what you tell it to do. So the

only way it's going to have a major

catastrophic security event is if you go

and you tell it to do something

extremely stupid. If you go and tell it

to delete all your text message and all

your emails, it's going to delete all

your text message and all your emails.

But nothing else. If you tell it to go

and drop you a document in your folder,

it's going to drop you a document in the

folder. It's not going to do anything

else other than that one thing. So what

that means is you need to have some

accountability, right? You need to think

before you give it a prompt, is this

going to cause it to do something really

stupid? Am I asking it to do something

really stupid? It's not like you can say

hey, code me an app and then it's going

to text your ex-girlfriend. That's not

how this works. So just think before you

go, is this thing I'm asking it to do

bad in nature? If not, then you're good

to go. You have nothing to worry about.

But for some reason these naysayers and

doomers on the internet say, "Oh, Hermes

is the most dangerous thing ever. Don't

put it on your computer. Don't put it on

your main computer." No, put it on your

main computer. I have it on my main

computer. I have it on every computer I

own. I didn't isolate it. I don't think

you need to isolate it. I think going

and creating a new iCloud account just

for your Hermes agent is actually a

quite stupid and time wasteful thing to

do. I don't think there's any point in

doing it. As long as you just have some

personal accountability and think about

what you're telling your agent to do, I

don't think there's any risk at all. And

I know that's going to piss people off.

I know the purists online who've been

going around telling everyone, "Oh, this

is a major security threat." That's

going to make them go to the replies and

cry like little babies, but I don't

care. Until someone on planet Earth can

tell me, someone who's had a bad

security event with one of these agents,

I don't really care. Just use good

judgment, be an adult, think about what

you're doing, and security won't be a

concern. I don't think you need to make

an iCloud account. I don't think you

need to make a separate Google account.

I think you're adding radical amounts of

complexity for no reason. I think you

should install it on your main computer.

I don't think you need to have a VPS,

which for the record, the VPSs are

scams. Don't put it on VPSs. Every AI

YouTuber on planet Earth is getting paid

by Hostinger to shill you a VPS. I

promise you all those AI YouTubers are

shilling Hostinger. Literally zero of

them are actually using Hostinger

themselves. So, don't listen to them.

Just install Hermes on your main

computer. I don't care. You're not going

to have security issues if you practice

some accountability and good judgment.

That's security. You don't need a Mac

mini for this. You don't even need to

buy like a super expensive Mac Studio

like I did. All you need is whatever

computer you own. Could be an old dusty

laptop in your closet. Can be whatever

you're using right now. You can install

it on there. There's no concern. There's

no issues. All of a sudden it's going to

expose all your text messages. Relax.

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