Hermes Agent is the most powerful

software ever made. When used correctly,

you literally have your own full-time AI

employee. Here's the thing though, when

used incorrectly, it's basically just a

normal chatbot. In this video, I will go

over every lesson I've learned from

using Hermes Agent for hundreds of hours

the last 4 months. If you stick with me

until the end, I promise you you will be

100 times more productive. Now, let's

lock in and get into it. I have a ton of

lessons to go through in this video, but

let's start with one of the number one

asked questions I get, which is which

model should I be using for Hermes?

Well, I have an official recommendation

for you here. If you want the absolute

best-in-class performance, there is no

model better than Opus. It is the

absolute best agentic model ever made.

And now I know what you're going to say,

"Wait, Alex, isn't that API pricing?"

Yes, yes, it is. I have spent $1,400 the

last month on Opus credits for my Hermes

Agent alone. Yes, I'm spending a

tremendous amount. Yes, on average, I am

spending about $40 a day. Yes, I was in

Cabo this one day where I didn't spend

anything at all, but I am spending a

tremendous amount on Opus for Hermes

Agent, but for good reason. It is the

only model on planet Earth where when I

plug it into Hermes Agent, I know for a

stone-cold fact when I give my prompt to

it, it's going to finish the task no

matter what. The way I like to think

about it is this, when you give Opus a

task to do in Hermes Agent, even if it

loses a leg halfway through a marathon

race, it is going to crawl its way to

the end of the finish line. With every

other model, it stubs its toe halfway

through the race and then it rolls over

and gives up. Opus, when used in Hermes,

no matter what, it finds a way to

complete your task. And for me, that is

worth a tremendous amount of money. I am

willing to spend double what I'm

spending now in order to use Opus and

Hermes cuz it runs my business so much.

But I get it, not everyone can spend

thousands dollars a month on Opus. So,

you have other options. If you're

already paying for a ChatGPT

subscription, which most people are, you

can plug that in. ChatGPT 5.5 and later

has been very good with Hermes. It's not

Opus level. It still trips up. It's

still not as warm. It's still not as fun

to talk to. It's still not as great at

tasks. But it's usable. Everything

before 5.5 was not usable. It was quite

frankly horrible. Now, if you want to

save even more money, GLM 5.2 is also a

great model. You can plug it in. It's a

fraction the price of both of these, and

it'll still get the job done. It's a

little bit more robotic than ChatGPT and

Opus, probably cuz it's distilled from

these other two, but it's still very

good, and it is very, very cheap. So, if

you're in ultra money-saving mode, I'd

recommend GLM 5.2. So, it's really up to

you. You got a menu. Do you go with the

best in class, the filet mignon Opus,

where you can be sure every task will be

done? Do you go with ChatGPT? Do you

already have a subscription ChatGPT?

That's fine, plug it in. You won't have

to spend more money. Or if you want to

go in ultra saving mode, GLM. Listen, if

you're running a serious online business

and you're making revenue, I say spend

the money, go with Opus. Your job will

get done. The tasks you give it will get

done, and that kind of peace of mind is

super important. So, my official

recommendation's Opus. If you already

have an account, just go with ChatGPT.

Cost savings, go GLM 5.2. Second lesson

I learned, and this is a massive one

that literally 100% of people watching

this video should do, you need to have

at least two Hermes agents running at

all times. Only having one is not

enough. Let me walk through this for

you. So, Hermes, I named my first Hermes

agent Hermes. I just like that name.

Hermes is my main agent. It's running

off Opus just as we just talked about,

but I also have a second agent,

GPT-Me's. Why do I have a second one,

GPTme's? Obviously, it's running off

ChatGPT. The reason why you need at

least a second and sometimes third and

fourth Hermes agent is they all watch

over each other. Hermes isn't perfect.

It breaks at different times. I find

Open Claw breaks a little bit more.

Hermes breaks less, but it still does

break. And when it breaks, you need

failovers. You need ways to fix it. So,

just yesterday, my account, my ChatGPT

account connected to GPTme's, went down

for some reason. The token expired or

something went wrong. If it was my only

Hermes agent, I wouldn't know what the

hell to do. I wouldn't know how the hell

to fix it. I'd probably panic. I'd

probably be like, "Oh, my best friend's

gone. I don't know where he went." But

when you have multiple Hermes agents,

they can all monitor, watch over each

other, and fix each other automatically.

So, as you can see here, when GPTme's

went down, I took a screenshot, gave it

to Hermes, my main agent, and said, "My

other agent, GPTme's, is down. Giving me

errors. Can you fix it?" And literally,

as you can see here, didn't have a

message again, came back to me, said

it's done, and it worked. GPTme's was

back up. You need to have that failover.

And so, if you have any extra accounts,

using Opus and you have a ChatGPT

account, if you're using ChatGPT and you

have a Gemini account or Google account,

you need to plug them in so that you

have those extra Hermes bots available.

If you want to take this a step further,

I'd even recommend using like an Open

Claw as your backup account, too, cuz

then you can have them not only watch

over each other to make sure they're up,

but then you can also take advantage of

any features that one or the other comes

out with that the other is not using.

Now, how do you set up a second or third

Hermes agent the best way? Well, you

basically have two options. The easiest

way is just go to one of your agents and

say, "Set me up a new Hermes profile.

Make it powered by ChatGPT." So, profile

here, Hermes profile, Profile is the

terminology in Hermes. Basically, for

other agents, they're called profiles.

So, if you set up a second Hermes

profile, you're basically setting up a

second Hermes agent. So, you just go and

say, "Hey, set me up a new Hermes

profile." Then, you let them know what

model you want to use. If you want to

get even more custom, you can say, "Name

it Harry." Or whatever you want. You put

it in there, you hit enter, it'll build

it for you. There's one other way, and

that is through the Hermes dashboard.

So, if you go into the Hermes dashboard,

and then you go over to profiles, you

can go in and click create in the top

right, and then you can go through this

nice user flow to choose a model, give

it a name, everything you want. You can

put it in there, and that'll build the

profile for you as well, and launch it.

Now, you have a second and third Hermes

agent good to go that will watch over

each other. That was my second lesson

learned. Before we get into the third

lesson, after 100 hours with Hermes

agent, one thing became clear. The more

agents you build, the better you get at

building them. You start seeing

different patterns. My friends over at

HubSpot, who have sponsored this video,

put together a free AI agent building

course just for my audience. You can

access with the link down below. It's 18

free videos on how to build your own AI

agents. They break AI agents down to

every component you need to know, from

memory to tools, to plugging in the

models. You can see memories and tools

here. How to test and publish your

different agents. This allows you to go

a lot more hands-on on building AI

agents. They also talk about a lot of

other really important, interesting

concepts when it comes to the

nitty-gritty of AI agents, like

automations versus agents, fixed step

versus dynamic reasoning, which would

have saved me a ton of headaches early

on building these AI agents out, and how

to plug your AI agents to the different

tools, like N8N, Notion, Make, Chatbase,

and a whole lot of other platforms. So,

you'll be able to plug your AI agent to

every single tool you use on your

computer. It's a free, complete course,

18 different videos. The link is down

below. Make sure to check it out, and

thank you to HubSpot for supporting the

channel. Lesson number three I've

learned over the last several months and

hundreds of hours using Hermes Agent.

The next tip I want to go over is a

massive mistake I see a lot of people

make, which is this. They buy their own

computer for their Hermes Agent. They

give it their own Gmail account. They

give it their own iMessage account. They

give it accounts for every single little

thing it does. They completely separate

it from everything they do. This is a

massive mistake. You do not need to buy

your own Mac mini for every agent you

have. You do not need to give your agent

its own Gmail account, its own Apple

account. You are adding needless

friction to your entire experience. And

I get why people do, right? They have

security concerns. Oh, Alex, if I give

my Hermes Agent access to my Gmail,

can't it leak all of my emails? Oh,

Alex, if I give it access to my iMessage

account, won't it text my ex-girlfriend?

No, that's not how any of this works.

Hermes Agent only does exactly what you

tell it to do. If you tell it to write

you a tweet, it isn't going to go into

your iPhotos and leak all your nudes. If

you tell it to get the latest AI news,

it isn't going to go then and email your

mom. That's not how any of this works.

It is an AI. It's not sentient. You give

it a prompt, it does the prompt you give

it. That's it. So, as long as you have

personal accountability and think deeply

about what you're telling your agent to

do, it's not going to do anything you

don't want it to do. My question to you

is this, how many people do you know

have had a security incident with

Hermes? Truly, tell me. How many people

do you personally know have had their

Hermes Agent go and then email everyone

on their contact list. The answer is

probably none. You probably don't know a

single person who's ever had a security

incident. That's because a lot of the

security concerns are largely overblown,

and I know what's going to happen now.

I'm going to get a thousand comments

that say, "Alex, you jerk, you're

telling people do this dangerous" Shut

up. I don't care. If you have some

personal accountability, you act like an

adult, you're not going to need to add

20 different accounts for everything

your Hermes agent does. You're just

slowing down everything you do, adding

tremendous amounts of friction. Put it

on your main computer, put it on your

main accounts, and then be a responsible

adult. The next lesson I learned is what

platforms to be using your Hermes agent

on. I use three main platforms for

Hermes agent. When I am at my computer,

I use Hermes desktop. Hermes desktop is

excellent. It's the best user experience

for an AI agent on planet Earth. You can

quickly switch between all your

profiles. So, if you're doing

multi-agent profiles like I told you to

towards the beginning of this video, you

can switch to them very easily. You can

see all your cron jobs very easily in

here. You can pin your different

sessions instead of having to having one

massive session. You can have separate

sessions, pin them, pop them out, talk

to multiple Hermes agents at once. It's

excellent. When I'm on the go and I'm

doing deep work, I use Telegram. So, I'm

still using the Telegram app on my

phone, but only for deep work, only if

I'm doing multi-threading things on my

phone. I hope they come out with a

mobile app soon. I know OpenClaw just

came out with one. But, if I'm on the go

and I'm doing deep work, I'm using

Telegram app on my phone. But, other

than that, this is a new addition. When

I am on the go and I have quick prompts

I need to do, I'm using iMessage.

iMessage is actually fantastic with

Hermes agent. This is a brand new

addition as well to Hermes in their

latest update. They had out of the box

iMessage. I highly recommend setting

iMessage up. I added a contact called

Hermes to my phone. I pinned it to the

top of my iMessages, and now I can

message my Hermes agent through iMessage

the fastest easiest app that I'm on at

all times to get things done quickly. So

quick tasks iMessage on the go deep

tasks telegram and when I'm at my

computer Hermes desktop. That's how you

need to be using Hermes agent. The next

tip is related to what we just talked

about and that is the deep work on the

go. There is some amazing new features

inside of telegram when you're doing

deep work on mobile on the go on your

phone and that is formatting inside the

messages. You now can have so many nice

pieces of formatting in your messages.

As you can see here you have tables, you

have bold, you have paragraphs, you have

different things you can do. You have

really nice in-depth formatting now

inside of telegram. I'd highly recommend

taking advantage of this. Set up cron

jobs, ask questions where you ask for

generated tables. So I have it do stock

research on the top AI related stocks

every day. I tell her to put it into a

table. I tell her to give it a bunch of

ratings and information there and now

every morning I wake up to this really

nice table with information on AI stocks

I should be investing in. Take advantage

of this new formatting in Hermes. Set up

different cron jobs where it gives you

tables of stock information or tables

with your top performing content or

tables with your most important emails.

It makes it a really nice way to use and

organize everything going on inside

Hermes. The next lesson learned is

around performance. One of the big

complaints I get is hey my agent slowing

down and it's getting stupid. It's

always busy. People have a lot of

performance issues with their Hermes

agent. What I find the number one

culprit to be is cron jobs. A lot of

your cron jobs run in the background and

much like laws and rules, it's very easy

to make new ones. It's very hard to take

them away. And so what I find is if you

need to improve the performance of your

agent, one of the best things you can do

is just eliminate and clean up old cron

jobs. If you're in the desktop app and

you click the cron button right there,

you actually see a really nice list of

all your cron jobs. And what I like to

do is every so often, I go in and I just

find which ones I don't really need

anymore and I click pause on them. So,

you can come in any that you're not

really using, pause it, and what happens

is is when these crons run, it slows

down your agent. So, if you have tons of

cron jobs going and I bet you forgot

about a lot of the ones you scheduled,

make sure to just go in every once in a

while, once a week, pause any ones

you're not really using. You'll

instantly get a performance boost on

your agent, also save usage and money. A

lot of these take up a lot more tokens

than you think. So, always clean up your

crons and the easiest way to do that is

through the desktop app experience. The

next massive tip I have for you, and

this is an important one for anyone who

has multiple devices. So, if you have a

computer and a phone, or if you have Mac

minis, or if you have DGX Sparks, any if

you have anything more than just one

device, you need to install Tailscale.

It is completely free. I am not

sponsored by Tailscale whatsoever. I

just absolutely love this application.

Basically, what it does is it creates a

private network for all your devices,

which allows your Hermes agent to then

be able to move across all your devices.

This is great if you're running local AI

models. This is great if you do vibe

coding. This is great if you have a job

and you do work and you like to move

documents around between all your

computers. You can easily go in and just

say, "Hey Hermes, go over to this other

device and do something." So, if I want

to say, "Let me know which local models

I have running on the DGX Spark." I can

hit enter on that and now my Hermes

agent will go from the Mac Studio it's

on right now, go over to my DGX Spark,

which is also on Tailscale, and be able

to tell me what's running on there. So,

as you can see, it's SSH-ing over to my

other device. It's checking on the

models running. And if I wanted to go

then go and like run a new local model,

download something new on there, run it

for me, it can go and do that for me. It

saves me so much time cuz I don't need

to plug all my devices into monitors. I

just have my Mac Studio plugged into the

monitor. My other computers, my five

other computers I have, they're not

connected to monitors. I just have my

Hermes agent go over to those computers

and run them for me. This is where your

Hermes agent really turns into like your

own AI employee cuz it's basically just

on your other computers for you doing

whatever work you need to do. If I'm

ever on the go and I have a presentation

on my other computer and it's not on my

laptop, I say, "Hey Hermes, go on my

other computer, click and drag it over

here and send it to me." It'll bring the

documents in between computers. You need

to have Tailscale. It basically allows

your Hermes to run your entire fleet of

devices. Has some other benefits, too.

If you're vibe coding and you have your

app running on localhost on like your

main computer, you can have it if

everyone's on the same Tailscale

network, you can access your localhost

from your phone. So, you can test your

apps out on the go if you want. So many

benefits of Tailscale. It's completely

free. There's I think there is a paid

version, but I don't even know what's on

it. I've just been using paid I've just

been using free forever. So, make sure

to check that out. My eighth lesson

learned is around reverse prompting.

Hermes agent is so powerful that we

can't even really comprehend everything

it can do. But this prompt I'm going to

give you down below that reverse prompts

Hermes agent helps you figure out how it

can help your life the most. Every

morning I do a morning interview with my

Hermes agent where I basically tell it

to ask me a bunch of questions. What my

priorities are for that day, what tasks

I'm working on, what stresses me out at

the moment, what's on my plate. It then

takes all those things and then figures

out what it can take off my plate for

me, what tasks it can do for me, what it

can automate, what it needs my

permission to do, and starts doing those

things for me. Every day I learn more

and more about what Hermes agent can do

for me, and and what it can take off my

plate. You need to be doing this morning

interview every single morning. It takes

about 5 minutes, but it saves you tons

of time after because it helps your

Hermes agent figure out what it can do

for you. I promise you're not getting

the most out of Hermes agent. I promise

you're going to be automating so much

more of your life. You just need to be

able to figure out what those things

are, and reverse prompting is the way

you figure it out. And this prompt that

has your agent interview you is the best

way to reverse prompt. So, take this

prompt, run it every single morning. I

promise you'll find two to three new

jobs for your Hermes agent to do that

will be super helpful for you. And the

ninth tip I got for you, this is an

important one. After you do your morning

brief, and it gives you a bunch of tasks

it can do, put those tasks in your

Kanban board for the agent to take over

and actually do for you. This is the

best way to stay organized on your

tasks. All you need to do to see this

Hermes Kanban board is go in, type

Hermes-dashboard

into your terminal, whether using Ghosty

or just your built-in terminal on your

computer, type Hermes-dashboard. It will

pop open this website. You click on

Kanban board on the bottom left, and you

have this nice Kanban board where you

can add in tasks, move them over, assign

them to your agent. And so, all the

tasks your agent comes up with from your

morning interview, you can put it in

here, and it'll start taking care of it

for you. This is an amazing way to stay

organized with the tasks your agent has,

with the tasks you have. You put them in

here, you're good to go. You can

organize your day really, really nicely.

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