Okay, I have to be honest with you.

Hermes Agent is now better than Open

Claw. Open Claw has fumbled the bag over

the last couple months. Every update

they put out has broken the system. I

have spent more time fixing Open Claw

than using Open Claw. Now, this is fine

for me as a technical person. I don't

care. I can fix things pretty quickly.

But for most people out there, having to

fix your Open Claw every time you update

it has become a major pain in the wazoo.

If you were to learn just one AI agent

at the moment, it's got to be Hermes

Agent. In this video, I'm going to show

you how to set up your own 24/7

Hermes AI employee. An AI employee that

will literally do work for you at all

times of day and night, saving you tons

of time and creating tons of value. I'll

go over all the differences with Open

Claw, show you how to set it up, and

then show you three use cases that I

promise will change your life. By the

end of this video, you're going to walk

away with your own personal AI employee.

Now, let's lock in and get into it. All

right, so here's the story on Hermes

Agent, why it's taken the world by

storm, and why I'm now recommending it

for the time being over Open Claw.

Things change quick, but number one, and

this is the most important thing, it's

just plain reliable. Open Claw with

every single update, basically every

single update, breaks. I update Open

Claw, it breaks. I have to spend 20

minutes fixing it. It's a pain in the

butt. They release tons of updates. To

their credit, they are constantly

shipping, they're constantly updating,

but I don't know what's going on over

there. Are they not doing testing? Are

they not testing out their own tool?

Because the thing's constantly breaking.

Hermes Agent, while they do less updates

and ship a little bit less, they're more

reliable, and I would much, much, much

rather have less updates, but they don't

break and I don't spend tons of time

fixing the gosh darn agent. The updates

are better. It seems with every Open

Claw update, it's just shipping the

entire kitchen sink, right? It's a

hundred different things. They don't

really tie together. It's just a whole

bunch of things thrown together

hodgepodge style. With Hermes agent,

every update has a theme. Every update,

all the features tie together. As you

can see here, every release they do, it

has a theme, it has a name, the tenacity

release. And all the features in that

update will tie together, right? So,

this one had a Kanban board, goals, all

those things tie together. It seems like

every update is very well curated. It

doesn't seem like it's just throwing

things together. Everything kind of ties

together, which is really nice and also

just shout out the aesthetic of the

whole thing is very nice as well. So, it

it it it it feels much more well

curated, which leads to much more up

time and reliability, which I really

like. It's self-improving. This is a big

one. They've put huge emphasis on

self-improvement. How does the

self-improvement work? Check out this

chart here. Shout out Mr. Anon. I found

your newsletter. I saw this chart. It's

beautiful. You send a message to Hermes

agent. It does some sort of execution.

So, whatever you tell it to do, it

triggers a skill. So, everything you do

comes from your skills. And then, if

that skill doesn't exist or you ask it

to do something new that it's never done

before, it improves or creates that

skill. So, everything you're doing makes

the Hermes agent better, improves the

Hermes agent. So, the more you use it,

the better it gets. They put tons of

emphasis on this, which is really

amazing and you see it in real time. You

can see it here. I had to take a

transcript of one of my YouTube videos,

and you can see it goes, gets the skill,

then it takes the skill, improves it,

writes at top of it, adds whatever it

did, and it's just always improving.

Everything it does is a little bit

faster and a little bit better. It's

really, really cool. And I also just

like that they show you a lot of

transparency behind all the tool calls

it does and everything it's doing. So,

you can really track your AI agent

employee. And lastly, there's an

emphasis on experimentation. I really

like this. These people at new research,

it seems like they truly are like

hackers. I really love it. They give you

tons of tools around using local models

and things like that. It's training

models, Laura's, tons of tools around

machine learning and experimentation.

So, if you're a little bit of a tinkerer

like I am, it's really, really cool. If

you're buying tons of hardware and GPUs

like I've been telling you to do for the

last couple months, there's going to be

a lot of cool things for you to play

around with here. They are very pro

local model and tinkering. And one last

thing I'll add before we get into

installation and all the really cool use

cases I promise will blow your mind.

Swarms, they really built this to be out

of the box made from using multiple

agents, spinning up new agents quickly,

and like sending swarms of agents to do

things. All you have to say is build a

new Hermes profile and boom, it spins up

a new agent that you can now talk to and

use however you want. I do tons of

multi-agent stuff, and I'll show you all

that in a second as well. So, it's

really built for swarms, which I really

love as well. All this being said, this

is why Hermes has kind of taken the lead

is just this focus on reliability and

just working has really been amazing.

Now, let's talk about installation. I

won't spend too much time here. If

you're already set up and installed,

feel free to skip between the chapters

down below, really easy to do. But, much

like every other AI agent out there like

OpenClaw, it's just copying a command

and then putting it into your terminal.

So, I do a new terminal here. I press

paste, you hit enter, and it installs.

It gives you some options on how to

install. So, it's going to give you

options around what messaging service to

use. Just as I recommend with every

other AI agent including OpenClaw,

Telegram is the absolute best. Telegram

is king for AI agents. They're

constantly adding new AI functionality

to Telegram. The formatting is really

nice. You can see every tool call they

give you here. They have built-in

approval, so they ask your approval and

you can just hit accept in the buttons.

Everything is built around Telegram

really, really nicely. As for models,

this is the big question I get all the

time. This is where the big debate is.

After many, many, many tests, I am still

saying Opus is the best model for AI

agents. It is still the best model for

open claw and Hermes agent. It just does

things best. It has the best taste. It

builds the best UI. It gets the work

done the most reliably and efficiently.

If you have money, if you have a little

bit money to dedicate to this, I say use

Opus. And listen, you might say, "Oh

man, I'm going to spend like 3 to $400 a

month on Opus API. That's a lot of

money." Do some reflection here. Using

Hermes agent is going to improve your

life. It will add more efficiently, it

will add more efficiency, it'll help you

get more done, it'll make you better at

your job, your career, everything you're

doing. This is an investment in

yourself. If you're spending money right

now on Netflix, if you're spending money

right now on Xbox Game Pass, that's not

an investment in yourself. That's an

investment in you getting distracted,

right? So, before you go, "Oh, $300 a

month, that's a lot to spend on Opus

API."

This isn't the same thing as buying

Netflix. You can't compare those two

services, right? This is an investment

in yourself, which I think has a decent

chance of having a return on investment.

So, just keep that in mind. ChatGPT,

I'll be honest, ChatGPT 5.4 was

completely useless for AI agents. It got

nothing done. It was just a pain in the

wazoo. But, the good news here is

ChatGPT 5.5 is actually quite good. Is

it Opus level? No, it's not. It's not

Opus level. The user interface it

creates stink. A lot of decisions it

makes is kind of questionable. But, as

opposed to ChatGPT 5.4, it's actually

usable. It gets the job done. So, if

you're tight on budget, you can use your

chat GPT subscription. You could be on

the $20 chat GPT plan and still get

pretty good usage. So, I'd say uh you

know, if you're really tight on budget,

chat GPT gets the work done and you'll

still be able to get really good results

out of your Hermes agent. I'm not taking

you step-by-step in the terminal setting

up. It's really easy. Just copy and

paste the line in, hit enter, and it'll

take you through step-by-step. Really,

the only two decisions you have to make

are models and how to talk to it. But,

Telegram, Opus, those are ways to go,

but you can get away with chat GPT here.

You also have the option for models uh

to do local models. It's built for local

models, too. I have a video coming out

in the next few days that shows you how

to set up local models and power your

Hermes agent with it. They get the job

done. They're really good and they're

completely free. This is my Hermes agent

powered by Qwen 3.6, which is running on

my DGX Spark, and it is great. It does

really good coding. It can answer my

questions quickly and I'm not spending a

single dollar on it uh other than the

power going into the computer. So, this

is another option as well if you have

really good hardware. My recommendation

is if you're going to go local, set up

two agents. So, have two agents, one

local, one cloud, so you can give the

right task to each agent. If it's a

super complex task you need done

quickly, probably want to go cloud. If

it is a simpler task, then you can go

local and save tons of money. So, let's

get into the first things you should be

doing after you set up your Hermes

agent. I'm going to show you how to make

it personalized and make it your own.

Once we do that, we'll get into the

actual execution and the use case.

Again, feel free to jump around down

below if you need to. Also, if you

learned anything at all so far, make

sure to leave a like down below. Tell me

in the comments what you want me to make

a video on next. Hermes use cases, vibe

coding stuff with Claude code. Super

curious, let me know down below. Also,

subscribe and turn on notifications cuz

all I do is make amazing videos about

AI. I have a second channel I just

started, Alex Finn Lab. Subscribe to

that down below. I'm going to do more

off-the-cuff, just talking about what's

on my minds when it comes to AI. And

then the last plug, I swear to God, Vibe

Coding Academy. If you want to join my

community, I do live bootcamps every

Friday. I do Hermes bootcamps in there.

Link for that is down below. Join, join,

join. It'll be the best decision you

ever made in your life. So, here's the

first things you need to do when you set

up your Hermes agent. These are the

first things you need to do, no matter

what AI agent you're setting up. Super

critical, sets the stage for what you do

next, makes every task your agent does

way more impactful. And that is two

things. Two things we're about to do

here. Brain dump and reverse prompt.

What are those two things? Brain dumping

is first telling your agent everything

about yourself. Your career, your

ambitions, your goals, your interests,

your hobbies, everything about yourself,

you brain dump it in here. Now, let me

show you. So, here's a quick one about

me. I am Alex Finn, an entrepreneur and

content creator. I have 200,000 subs on

YouTube, 450 on X. I'm working on a new

startup, Henry Intelligent Machines,

which will help people build their own

businesses. I am super into AI. All my

content's about AI updates. I love AI

agents and like Openclaw and Hermes. I

also enjoy Boston sports like the

Celtics and Patriots. I live stream

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:00 a.m.

Pacific. You brain dump everything about

yourself. This is the first message

you're sending, right? It allow the

agent to create a whole bunch of

important memories about you. Oh, Hermes

has an incredible memory system. So, you

brain dump it in, Hermes learns

everything about you, and you're good to

go. You should be more detailed than

this. I just did it kind of light for

demo purposes, but you should go in and

put in as much as humanly possible about

yourself, cuz it will create all of

those memories. Next, we are going to

reverse prompt. If you've ever watched

one of my videos before, you know what

reverse prompting is. I'm the biggest

reverse prompting proponent on planet

Earth. What does that mean? That means

instead of you prompting the agent, you

have the agent prompt you. You go, "What

are things we can do? Based on what you

know about me, what should we be doing

here?" Right? It's asking the agent

questions and seeing what they think.

Cuz remember, these agents are smarter

than us. This This is super

intelligence, right? So, here's what

we're going to do. Based on what you

know about me, what are the best

workflows we can implement? How could

you improve my life? Ask me any

questions you have for me. This is a

reverse prompt. The issue people have is

they go into these agents and they go,

"Uh I don't have any use cases. I quit."

Right? You should never be like that. If

you don't know what to do, if you don't

have any use cases, you go to your agent

and ask, "Hey, what can you do for me?"

Right? Based on what you know about me,

what can you do? The issue is a lot of

people, they just copy other people's

use cases, which are fine. I mean, I'm

going to give you a few of my own right

after this, and you should definitely

copy any you find interesting. But, the

most important thing here is you should

be using use cases that work for you,

that are custom for you, that your agent

does based on what knows about you. So,

you want to do this reverse prompt, and

it gets you custom use cases built

specifically for you that will improve

your life. I promise, if you do those

two things, brain dump and reverse

prompt, you're going to walk away with a

whole set of automations that will make

your life so much better. So, do that

exercise. Next, I want to go over three

use cases: a beginner use case, an

intermediate use case, and an advanced

use case. Let's go through those three

right now. Use case number one, and I

will put all these prompts down below so

you can copy and paste them and get set

up right away. This first use case is

for discovering and using and staying on

top of new AI tools. There are many,

many AI tools out there, most of which

you're not going to use, but you should

be experimenting and using new ones

every day. So, here's how this is going

to work. Every morning, tell me the

latest AI news with an emphasis on new

AI tools I've never used. Recommend a

new AI tool I need to use based on my

workflows. You're going to hit enter on

that. What's going to happen when you

hit enter on this, it's going to set up

a cron job for every single morning.

Then what's going to happen is when that

cron job triggers, your agent's going to

go, it's going to look at your

workflows, it's going to look at AI

tools you've used with it before, it's

going to look at different things you've

done with AI, and it's going to go and

find new and popular AI tools that it

will recommend based on your workflows.

Now, every morning you will discover new

AI tools to use that will improve your

life because they're custom based on

what you do. This is one of the

advantages of Hermes Agent, and this is

one of the things you should be doing is

taking advantage of its incredible

memory. It knows everything about you.

It knows everything you do, and now it

can make you custom recommendations

based on what it knows about you, and it

can help you stay on top of those latest

AI tools. So, this is huge. You want to

use this. I'm going to send this to you

down below in the description. Copy,

paste that, hit enter, you're good to

go. That's the beginner one. Here's an

intermediate one. Here's one I think

will be helpful for absolutely everyone

watching this video, and that's the

proactivity check-in. I think one of the

number one questions I get is, "How do I

make my agent more proactive, Alex? How

do I make it do things without me having

to ask?" Well, this is one of the ways

to do it, and this is a super powerful

method. Again, prompt down below, the

proactive check-in. Here's the prompt

down below. I want a proactive check-in.

Every morning, ask what my one big

priority is that day. Based on that,

update your memories about me and make a

recommendation to me on how you can help

my life or insights on things I can do

better. Again, we're taking advantage of

the memories. We're taking advantage of

the self-improvement and the skills.

Every morning, it's going to check in on

me. I'm going to give it my one big

priority that day and then it's going to

do recommendations for me. It's going to

recommend workflows so it can automate

those tasks for me or it's just going to

give me insights on my life that will

improve what I'm doing. This is huge and

this will make your agent way more

proactive. Again, this will set a cron

job for every morning. For those who

don't know what cron jobs are, they're

just scheduled triggers for your agent

that wakes them up. It'll schedule it

for every morning and help your agent be

way more proactive. So let's do a more

advanced one. This is really cool. So

this is using the new hype frames skill.

For those who don't know, there's tons

of new AI video creation skills coming

out for these agents that make it really

powerful for your agent to make videos.

There are many different reasons you'd

want to make AI generated motion videos.

For me, I'm doing it so I can make more

content so I can put out more helpful

educational graphics on my social media.

But for you, there could be many

different reasons you do this whether

you're getting into content, whether you

just want to help people out. You want

to use hype frames. The other big one is

Remotion. I think hype frames is pretty

cool. And what this will do is it will

have your agent build you out motion

graphic videos that you can use for any

reason. So use the hype frames skill to

build me a 60-second short on why people

should be using the Hermes agent. Make

the screen changes quick, visually

beautiful and eye-catching. Actually,

I'm going to make this one 30 seconds.

Make it a little bit quicker. I'm going

to hit enter. We're going to see what

this video looks like. I promise you

it's going to look cool. But there's so

many things you can be doing here with

these new skills. You want to stay on

top of the new skills. That could be

another kind of proactive thing you have

it do every morning is have it search

for other skills other Hermes agents

have and recommend it to you for how to

learn. See, this is amazing. It didn't

have the hype frames skill installed so

it went search for the hype frames

skill, found it. Now it's installing it.

It's hyperframes. Apologies,

hyperframes. I had a typo in there. Now,

it's going to install it and get it set

up and working and now we're going to

see a really cool video it's going to

generate for us. All right, boom, here

we go. That was actually pretty quick.

That took like 5 minutes.

Uh let's see what we got here. So, this

is a fully generated short. I can put

this on YouTube if I want. Here we go.

This is the future. This is your AI. It

runs itself. Look at this. So, it gives

you nice motion graphics, really nice

colors. I like the way things go in and

out. Now, would I just post this raw?

No, but maybe now I put a voiceover on

it. Maybe I put my face in the bottom

corner. And now, instead of having to

spend thousands of dollars on an editor

or hire a team, my Hermes agent just did

it for me and saved me thousands of

dollars. You now have unlimited control

to build any sort of videos or motion

graphics you want. You don't need to be

a professional anymore. The gatekeeping

has been taken away, which is really

amazing. That was the more advanced use

case. What I'm thinking about doing in

the next few days is doing like a video

where it's like 10 use cases on Hermes.

Just give you a whole gamut use case

focused video. I think that would go

hard. Let me know if you want that down

below as well. Again, if you learn

anything, leave a like, subscribe, turn

on notifications, super super critical.

Vibe Coding Academy doing another live

boot camp on Friday on Hermes agent.

Feel free to join, ask me questions,

chat with me, whatever you want. Link

for that is down below as well. Hope

this was helpful. I absolutely love

making these videos for you guys. It is

an honor you would even spend 30 seconds

watching my videos of me. I do this out

of love, so thank you so much for

watching these. Hope it was helpful and

I will see you in the next video.