31:01David Ondrej · Tutorial
I gave my Hermes Agent a phone number
A 31-minute live walkthrough of giving a Hermes AI agent autonomous phone capabilities via VAPI -- from booking a 5-cent spa call to 24/7 cold-outreach cron jobs.
May 20thThe argument in one line.
Hermes Agent running at all seven levels turns a basic chat assistant into a persistent, phone-accessible, multi-agent orchestration back end that self-hosts for under ten dollars a month.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- You already use Claude Code or another agentic tool and want a persistent agent that keeps running when your laptop is closed.
- You have a Linux VPS and want to run AI agents on it instead of relying on local compute.
- You want your AI agent accessible from Discord or Telegram so you can interact on mobile.
- You want multi-agent pipelines (researcher, analyst, writer in parallel) without managing multiple terminals.
SKIP IF…
- You need a Windows-native or no-terminal setup — all seven levels assume a Linux VPS.
- You are looking for a no-code GUI agent builder.
- You already have a mature self-hosted agent stack and are looking for architectural alternatives.
The full version, fast.
Hermes Agent is an open-source self-improving agent from Nous Research that runs on a five-dollar VPS and communicates through Discord or Telegram. This tutorial layers on seven capabilities: VPS install via one-liner, Discord bot gateway, Curator to prune dead skills, GitHub cron backup, Kanban board for parallel multi-agent tasks, holographic memory using a local SQLite fact store, and exposing Hermes as an MCP server so Claude Code can delegate tasks to it remotely. The practical payoff is an agent that runs 24/7, approves risky operations to your phone, pings you with progress while you are away, and maintains structured long-term memory without paying for cloud embeddings.
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00:00 – 08:00
01 · Level 1 — VPS install
SSH into Hostinger VPS, one-liner Hermes install, OpenRouter API key, first successful chat. Sponsor segment.
08:00 – 14:30
02 · Level 2 — Discord gateway
Create Discord bot app, enable three privileged gateway intents, generate bot invite URL, install Hermes gateway as systemd service, confirm bot is online.
14:30 – 16:30
03 · Level 3 — Curator
hermes update, check curator status, 30-day stale / 90-day delete thresholds that prevent skill bloat.
16:30 – 22:00
04 · Level 4 — Cron backup to GitHub
Create private GitHub repo, fine-grained PAT scoped to contents, store via hermes config set, daily 3 AM backup cron job, verify first push.
22:00 – 32:00
05 · Level 5 — Kanban multi-agent
Hermes v0.12.0 Kanban; prompt Hermes to self-configure; SSH tunnel to localhost:9119; four specialist profiles; four-task parallel content research pipeline.
32:00 – 37:30
06 · Level 6 — Holographic memory
Five reasons default memory fails; hermes memory setup to local SQLite holographic store; seed from previous sessions; use cases: sponsor history, VPS health, contradiction detection.
37:30 – 46:00
07 · Level 7 — Hermes as MCP server
Install Claude Code on VPS, claude mcp add hermes, verify 10 MCP tools available. Three use cases: remote approval gate, walk-away mode, phone triage. Demo succeeds.
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- An AI agent running on its own VPS stays on when your laptop closes, runs cron jobs at 3 AM, and holds credentials securely.
- The Hermes Curator deletes unused agent-generated skills after 90 days — without it, context bloat silently costs thousands of dollars over months.
- GitHub personal access tokens scoped to a single private repo is the safest way to give an AI agent write access to version control.
- Holographic memory stores structured facts as equations rather than vectors, enabling relational queries that RAG cannot answer.
- Running embeddings through cloud APIs leaks your private agent memory to third parties; local SQLite avoids this entirely.
- The Kanban dispatcher auto-promotes tasks: a writer task only starts when the analyst task it depends on reaches Done.
- Claude Code gains access to Telegram and Discord history only through a Hermes MCP bridge — it has no native messaging platform connections.
- Walk-away mode means you can start a long Claude Code refactor, close your laptop, and get progress pings on your phone.
- Remote approval gate is the only pattern that lets an AI agent pause on a destructive operation and wait for a human thumbs-up from anywhere.
- The fastest way to debug agent setup issues is to use the same agent to debug itself — paste the error into Discord.
- A cheap or small model will fail in a complex agentic harness; debugging costs almost always exceed the token savings from downgrading the model.
- One VPS can host Hermes Agent, Claude Code CLI, n8n automations, and a full-stack web app simultaneously.
- Specialist profiles in Kanban each have their own SOUL.md that shapes behavior — the dispatcher assigns tasks to matching profiles automatically.
- Seeding holographic memory from past sessions at setup time means the agent inherits all context from the chat history it has already seen.
Seven decisions that define how powerful your AI agent actually is.
WHAT TO LEARN
The gap between a basic Hermes setup and a seven-level one is not technical complexity — it is seven deliberate configuration choices that each multiply what the agent can do independently.
- An agent that lives on a VPS instead of your laptop runs 24/7, holds its own API keys securely, and is not blocked by your machine being asleep or closed.
- Connecting a messaging platform turns an agent from a terminal tool into something you can interact with from your phone without opening a laptop.
- Curator exists because self-improving agents generate skills continuously — without a stale-skill pruning threshold, token costs and context bloat compound silently over months.
- Storing agent tokens via a config command keeps secrets out of conversation context, preventing the AI from accidentally leaking them in tool outputs or logs.
- A Kanban board with specialist profiles lets four sub-agents work in parallel on dependent tasks without you managing the handoffs manually.
- Default memory dies at session end; holographic memory persists structured facts locally in SQLite, meaning the agent remembers your sponsor history, VPS config, and preferences across every future session.
- Exposing an agent as an MCP server is the only way to give Claude Code access to your Telegram and Discord history, approval flows, and messaging infrastructure.
- The practical value of a remote approval gate is the difference between an agent that stops and asks before doing something destructive and one that executes destructive operations unattended at 3 AM.
- Cheap models fail in complex agentic harnesses before they fail in simple chat; debugging costs almost always exceed the token savings from downgrading the model.
Terms worth knowing.
- Hermes Agent
- An open-source self-improving AI agent from Nous Research that runs on a VPS, learns from experience, builds its own skills, and communicates through messaging platforms like Discord or Telegram.
- Curator
- A Hermes subsystem that marks agent-created skills as stale after 30 days of non-use and deletes them after 90 days, preventing context bloat.
- Holographic memory
- A Hermes memory plugin that stores structured facts in a local SQLite database using HRR rather than cloud embeddings, enabling relational queries without leaking data.
- Kanban dispatcher
- Hermes v0.12.0 feature that lets multiple specialist sub-agents claim tasks from a visual board, work in parallel, and hand off automatically when dependencies complete.
- MCP server
- Model Context Protocol server — an interface that lets one AI agent call tools exposed by another agent as if it were a local plugin.
- Remote approval gate
- A pattern where an agent pauses on a destructive operation and pushes an approval prompt to the phone via Telegram or Discord before continuing.
- Walk-away mode
- Running a long agent task on a VPS while laptop-closed, receiving periodic progress pings on mobile and replying with natural-language guidance.
- Fine-grained PAT
- GitHub personal access token scoped to a specific repository and permission set, used to give an agent write access to version control without exposing the whole account.
- systemd service
- A Linux process manager entry that restarts the Hermes gateway automatically on reboot or crash, ensuring the agent runs 24/7 without manual intervention.
- OpenRouter
- A unified API layer that provides access to 300+ language models from multiple providers through a single key and billing account.
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“If you watch until the end, you're gonna have a more powerful Hermes agent setup than 99.9% of people.”
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“Don't be cheap. Don't use a small model. Use the most powerful model available.”
28:06
“I think the ultimate paradigm is each agent runs on its own computer so it can set it up in a way that it needs to be most effective.”
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“Claude Code couldn't do this. It doesn't have access to your Telegram or Discord.”
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00:00My name is David Andre, and here are the seven levels of Agent. While most people only have a very basic setup, in this video, I'm gonna show you how to set up Hermes Agent so it's actually useful and very, very powerful. In the first level, we will go over the fundamentals.
00:15I'll show you how to install Hermes Agent on a dedicated VPS. In the second level, we will integrate Discord. We will set up a custom Discord server and create a new Discord bot specifically for your Hermes Agent.
00:26In the third level, we will set up Hermes Curator. This is a new thing inside of Hermes agent that compacts the auto generated skills. I'm gonna show you how to set it up so you can save on tokens.
00:37In the fourth level, we will talk about automations and cron jobs, and how to set up Hermes agent so it automatically backs up itself to GitHub every single day. In the fifth level, we will take it further. We'll talk about the new Kanban board built into Hermes Agent so you can visually see how it's progressing on tasks, and you can give it different tasks in different stages just like you would if you had a full team of developers.
00:59In level six, we will talk about advanced memory system. We'll set up holographic memory for Hermes agent. We'll take it a step further on how to give Hermes agent what's basically infinite memory.
01:09And in level seven, we will turn Hermes agent into a full back end. We'll expose it as a MCP server so that your cloth code, your PIE agent, your codex can interact with Hermes agent, build on top of it, delegate tasks to it as if it was a full MCP back end. Now I've been following Hermes agent very closely since the first few days it came out in February, paying attention to every major update.
01:31I've also personally spent thousands of hours using different AI agents, from Clawd Code to Codex to PyAgent to OpenClaw to Hermes Agent. And I'm one of the few people who actually practice what they preach. I built a whole AI startup, Vektal, from zero to 155,000 ARR just by using AI agents like Cursor and Cloth.
01:51And currently, I'm spending between 6 and $10,000 per month on just API costs for AI agents. So in this video, you're not going to get some unproven theories or hypothetical scenarios.
02:02I'll show you how to actually set up Hermes Agent and how to make it powerful in seven different levels where each level makes it more and more powerful building on top of the previous ones. And don't worry, you don't have to be a DevOps expert or a developer to do this. As long as you have a computer, access to Internet, and you can speak in English, you can absolutely follow this tutorial.
02:23So if you watch until the end, you're gonna have a more powerful Hermes agent setup than 99.9% of people. Now the first thing we need is a VPS.
02:31That way, the AI agent can live on its own computer. I think the best option by far is Hostinger. This is what I use for all of my AI agents and automations, and it's also one of the most affordable options out there.
02:41So I'm gonna leave a link to this landing page below. And as you can see, they have a dedicated Hermes agent setup to make it as easy as possible. So go right here, click deploy, and again, the link to this page is below the video.
02:51And here, select the length of the plan. I would recommend going for twenty four months, but minimum twelve months. The reason is simple.
02:58You set it up once and the AI agents keep running forever. And with a single VPS, you can use Hermes agent, OpenClaw, agent zero.
03:05You you can put your n eight and automations in there. You can host your full full stack web app on a VPS. You can do all of that on a single k v m two plan.
03:12So that's why I recommend going for twenty four months. Plus, you get the biggest savings if you go for twenty four months. Now if you wanna save even more money, go to the right and click on have a coupon code and type in code david.
03:21Hostinger was kind enough to sponsor this video. So if you use the code david, you'll get an additional 10% off your Hostinger plan. Then scroll down, select the server location.
03:29I'm gonna go with Lithuania, and click on continue. This will take you to a Hostinger card where you need to put your credit card information and complete the checkout. Now it's gonna take a few minutes for your VPS to set up, usually two to three minutes from my experience.
03:41So in the meantime, can look at the official Hermes agent GitHub repo, which has 133,000 stars. Pretty crazy growth if you ask me.
03:48In fact, it's one of the fastest growing open source projects in history. Now what the team behind Hermes did is that they created everything into a single quick install command. Right?
03:58So with Hostinger, we get an option of deploying this inside of a Docker container, which is good for security. But, personally, I prefer running it in a root level, which luckily is very easy. You just copy this one line installer and run it in the terminal.
04:10Alright. Let's go back to Holstinger where the VPS has finished setting up, and we're gonna do that using SSH.
04:16And, again, you don't even have to understand what SSH means. You just need to know, hey.
04:21I copy this command, and this is gonna be used to access my virtual private server from my own computer. And then when you open the terminal, you simply copy this SSH command and you paste it in. Boom.
04:31It's asking, are you sure you want to connect? I'm gonna do yes. And then it's gonna ask for our root password.
04:37And again, if you manage to forget this, no worries. It's very easy to do a reset in Hostinger. Just click here, root password, click on change, and click this button to generate the password.
04:46It will generate a new secure password for your VPS. Alright. Seems like the password has changed.
04:50Let's open the terminal again and paste that in. Boom. And here we go.
04:54We're logged in into our VPS. You can type in clear to get rid of this mess. So now I can control what's happening on our virtual private server.
05:01And And this is important because it allows me to do things like installing Hermes agent on the root level. So when I go back to the GitHub repo, which again, I'm gonna link this below the video, you can just copy the quick install command, literally click right here to copy the full thing. Go back to the terminal and paste it in.
05:16Boom. And this is gonna install all of the dependencies that Hermes agent needs to run on your VPS. So if you don't have your own VPS in 2026, go below the video, click the first link.
05:26It's gonna take you to this Hostinger page set up your own VPS. Alright. Let's check the terminal.
05:30Okay. So it's finished running. Let's go over the quick setup.
05:32Hit enter. Now we need to select the inference provider, aka, how do we use AI? How do we access AI?
05:38Now as you can see, there's a lot of options. Right? Uh, news portal, it's from the developers behind Hermes.
05:43We can also use OpenRouter, Anthropic, LM Studio if you wanna run the models locally and have it completely private. Or you can use, for example, OpenAI Codex, which allows you to use your ChiaGPT subscription to run Hermes agent for free.
05:56Right? So if you have if you're paying for ChiaGPT Plus or ChiaGBT pro, you can literally use that subscription to power Hermes Agent. But, personally, I'm gonna use OpenRouter because allows you to use any model possible.
06:07Next, we need to give it an OpenRouter API key. So I'm gonna go to openrouter.ai, go to top right, click on credits, or make sure to create an account.
06:14It's completely free. But you need to charge up couple of dollar of credits. 5 or $10 should be enough.
06:20You don't need 88. Go to top left, click on API keys, and then go to top right and click on new key. Let's name it seven levels of Hermes.
06:29And I'm gonna put some credit limit, like $30 should be enough. I'm gonna create. Now, again, do not share your API keys with anybody.
06:35Obviously, I'm gonna rotate this key before uploading this video. I'm gonna copy and go back to the terminal and paste it in. You need to click and paste it in.
06:42It will not be showing because it's a private key, so don't be surprised by that. It doesn't show the connectors. Here, you can select any type of model available on OpenRouter.
06:51This is why I like to use it. There are so many models. But I'm gonna go with OPUS 4.7, which is Anthropic's latest model they give us, you know, to us public, the plebs.
07:00Okay. So, actually, this is the next level, so I'm gonna skip that. I'm gonna show you Discord in a second.
07:05Launch Hermes chat now, and, yes, we can test chatting with it. Okay. There it is.
07:11Hermes agent loaded on our very own VPS. You can see the list of available skills here, but I'm just gonna send a message. Hey.
07:21And let's see if we can get a successful response. There it is. Hermes agent running Claude OPUS four one seven on our very own VPS.
07:28So this is level one completed. Real quick, anyone who joins the new society during the month of May will receive a personalized audit of their GitHub repository. And you can actually tell us what to focus on, whether it's security, architecture, front end design, code quality, or just leave this empty and let us look at it.
07:45A lot of the people who get into AI coding, they have no idea what they're doing, and they have no idea if their GitHub repository has any flaws, issues, or obvious things they're missing. That's why for the month of May, anyone who joins The New Society will receive this as a bonus, a personalized GitHub audit.
08:00Plus, we have a new course about Hermes agent. So if you like what you're seeing in this video and you wanna take it a step further, make sure to join the new society, go to the classroom, and go through the Hermes mastery course. The link to new society is gonna be below the video.
08:13Now level two is connecting Hermes to a chat messaging tool that you already used. Right? So you can use it from the conference of WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, Discord, iMessage, whatever you're already using, you can use Hermes from that.
08:25And for this video, I'm gonna use Discord. So let's switch back to our terminal. I'm gonna hit control c to kill this process.
08:31So you need to hit control c a few times. I'm gonna type in clear to get rid of everything and make it clear. And I'm gonna put Hermes gateway setup.
08:40Enter. This will allow us to set up further things about the gateway. You can see how many options there is.
08:44Even Microsoft Teams. Right? Like, some of you might be using Microsoft Teams.
08:48Kinda crazy. But if you are, you can use Hermes agent in your Microsoft Teams. Even email.
08:52Right? I'm gonna go with Discord. Number two, hit enter.
08:55And we need Discord bot token. Now Hermes agent gives us exactly where we need to go. So copy this URL to the Discord developer portal, open a new browser tab, and paste it in.
09:05So when you paste this, uh, it's gonna open the developer portal. In the top right click on new application. I'm gonna name it seven level Hermes.
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09:36Okay. So I'm gonna click on create to create the new Discord app. It's asking me if I'm human, and maybe maybe I'm not.
09:42But I'm gonna click that I am because we need it for our Hermes agent setup. And here we are. Okay.
09:48So we can obviously rename the bot, we can give it an icon. Yes. So I'm gonna use my own custom software to select a cool icon for Hermes agent.
09:57Let's go with this one. By way, if you want me to release this, comment below. We use this internally for anything YouTube related, thumbnails, titles, sporting outlier videos.
10:07But again, right now, it's only available to my team. So if there's enough interest, maybe I'll turn it into a commercial product. We'll see.
10:14Let's go back to the developer portal and let's select the icon. There we go. Apply and save changes.
10:21Alright. So if you look in this terminal, what Hermes needs, it needs the Discord bot token. So go to the left, click on bot, and scroll down and reset the token.
10:31Yes. Do it. It's gonna ask for 2F a if you have it.
10:34It's based in your 2 f a code. Boom. Submit.
10:37And, again, keep this token private. Do not share this with anybody. I'm gonna copy it.
10:42I'm gonna paste it directly into Hermes. Here on this page, if you scroll down, we have these privileged gateway intents.
10:49We need to enable all three of these. Right? So presence intent enable, server members intent enable, and message content intent enable, and then click save changes in the bottom right.
10:59Now on the same page, you also need to give the bot some permissions. Right? So whatever you wanted to do, such as send messages, pin messages, embed links, attach files, read messages to the send voice messages, whatever you want your hermes agent to do, just enable them here.
11:14Then go to the left, click on o auth two and scroll down here, and we need to give it two things. We need to give it the bot scope and then applications commands, these two. Make sure to enable these two underneath OAuth URL generators.
11:26And then scroll all the way down. As you can see, it gives you a generated URL. Copy that, then open a new browser and paste that in.
11:34This is gonna invite this, uh, bot to a Discord server. Right? So let's click on allow.
11:40But to complete this step, you need your own Discord server, which if you don't have it, let me quickly show you how to set it up because it's very, very easy. So inside of the Discord UI, go to the left and click on add server. Here, I'm gonna click create my own.
11:52For friends and me, I'm gonna name it recording server, something simple, and click on create.
11:59And just like that, in a matter of five seconds, I managed to create a new Discord server, which I would recommend you to do because then you can use the server for all of your different Discord bots for AI agents. So now if we rerun the same link, we should be able to invite Hermes agent into the recording server. There it is.
12:17And click on authorize. Okay. Nice.
12:19On the right, we can see that our seven level Hermes has been invited to the Discord server. Beautiful. Now if you remember correctly, in the terminal, it's asking for my username.
12:28Right? So inside of Discord, if you click on your profile in the bottom left, you can see copy user ID. If you don't see it, you need to open user settings and type in developer.
12:40K? Developer on the left or maybe like advanced settings or something. One of these two options, but basically you need to enable developer mode right here.
12:48And then if you click on your profile picture, you will see this button, copy user ID. Click that. Go back to the terminal and simply paste it in.
12:56Hit enter. It's asking for the home channel. Uh, you can leave it empty, so just hit hit enter.
13:02And that's it. Done. Install the gateway as a systemd service.
13:06You can do yes. Hit enter again. Start the service now.
13:10Yes. Enter. Okay.
13:12It is online now. Beautiful. Our board is online.
13:14So we say if we tag it, seven of Hermes, hey. We should hopefully get a response.
13:19Okay. We have have the eyes emoji. This means that Hermes has seen the message and we click here into the thread.
13:26There it is. It responded here. Amazing.
13:28So I can maybe say like, who are you? There it is. It has the eyes.
13:32I'm Hermes. Yeah. Assistant.
13:33I can help you with coding, research, writing, script, browsing the web, managing files, and a bunch of other stuff. Right? And when it completes, it gives you the check mark.
13:40So that's how you know Hermes agent is working and is responding. So we have level two completed. Now let's go to level three of your Hermes agent setup, and that is setting up the Hermes curator.
13:50This is a new thing released in the last couple of days that basically makes sure that your skills don't stack up. Right? If the self improving loop creates skills that never get used, they will mark them for deletion after thirty days.
14:01And if they're not used for more than ninety days, it will delete them so that you don't get context route so that your Hermes isn't bloated with skills that never get activated. First, let's go back to our terminal so we can access our VPS again. I'm gonna type in clear and type in Hermes update so that you update to the latest version of Hermes agent.
14:19Alright. There it is. It says update completed.
14:21There it is. It restarted the Hermes gateway. And now we can type in clear.
14:26And to check the status of your Hermes curator, if you already have it enabled, Hermes curator status. As you can see, it is enabled and the settings are as follows. So, obviously, we can change all of these if needed, but, realistically, the default settings are pretty good.
14:40If a skill isn't used for more than thirty days, it's marked as stale. And if it's not used as ninety days, it's deleted. So make sure you have Curator enabled because people who don't, they just pay for wasteful tokens.
14:51Right? That can be thousands of dollars. In fact, for me, it is thousands of dollars because I'm using so many different AI agents, and it's gonna make your Hermes agent more focused and less distracted.
15:00Okay. Let's talk about level four, which is scheduled tasks, also known as cron jobs, also known as automations. This lets Hermes agent automate things on a schedule.
15:09Right? So could be once a day, every other hour, once per month. But this is very, very powerful, and I'm gonna show you a use case that all of you should set up no matter what you're doing, and that is daily backup to GitHub.
15:20So by the end of this level, you'll know how to create any type of automation inside of Hermes agent, giving you the ability to save endless amounts of time in either your life or business. The first thing we need is, of course, the GitHub account, which is completely free. So go to github.com and top right, either sign into your existing account or sign up for a new one.
15:37I already have a GitHub, so I'm gonna log in. There we go. And then make sure to create a new repository, which you can either do here by clicking new or by clicking top right and going to repositories and then clicking the green button new right here.
15:51I'm gonna name it something like test Hermes backup. Very simple. Private repo for my Hermes agent backups.
16:01Boom. Here, just make sure to put it as private. Okay?
16:04Very important. You don't want your backups to be visible to the Internet. And then click the green button, create repository.
16:09And just like that, you just created your own GitHub repo in a matter of fifteen seconds. Nothing to be scared about. GitHub is absolutely essential in 2026.
16:17Now inside of GitHub, we also need to create a personal access token so that Hermes can somehow access this GitHub repo because remember, we made it private. Right? So go to top right, click on settings.
16:28There we go. Settings. Go to the left, scroll all the way down, and click on developer settings right here.
16:34Then on the left, click on personal access tokens, fine grained tokens, and generate a new one. We can name it something like seven levels Hermes backups.
16:46Owner expiration, you can, you know, set no expiration or seven days up to you. And then you can only select certain repositories.
16:54We're gonna select the Hermes backup. There it is.
16:59So it cannot mess with other repositories. Then we need to add some permissions. So click on add permissions, scroll down and find contents, and then put read and write because it needs to read the GitHub repo, but also writes to it daily.
17:11Okay. So now click on generate token. There it is.
17:15Generate token, and here it is. So now what we need to do is we need to open the terminal again, SSH into the VPS, and type in Hermes config set and then the name of the environment variable.
17:30Let's do something clear like GitHub token, you know, GitHub underscore token, and then space and copy this personal access token and paste it in.
17:39Boom. This will securely store it into the environment file dot e n v, allowing Hermes to use it, but it's not gonna be sent to the AI.
17:47I'm gonna open Hermes, and I'm gonna tell it, listen. I just set up a new token in our e n v file. I don't want you to read it.
17:54I just want to check it if it's there and try doing something with it to see if it works or not. File exists. The token variables are, and, yeah, it's the GitHub token.
18:05Okay. It's asking for permission. I'm gonna allow it.
18:08It works. Beautiful. So now let's create the cron job so that every single day at night, automatically backup itself into GitHub.
18:15Right? So if you remember, we had this repo, and this repo is empty now. Right?
18:19Nothing is on there so that if something goes wrong and if your VPS explodes or, you know, Hermes agent deletes everything, your data is still safe on GitHub. Now one thing you should check inside of Hermes agent is the status of the gateway if it is installed as a system d service.
18:36That way, can run twenty four seven. And that's very simple. You just type in Hermes gateway status, hit enter.
18:42And as you can see, system d linger is enabled. Beautiful service survives logout. That's amazing.
18:47So let's do clear. And I'm gonna give it this prompt to set up the daily backup. Right?
18:52So very simple prompt. I want a daily freem backups of the entire dot hermes folder to my private GitHub repo, and this is the name of the repo we just created.
19:02Right? Test hermes backup. The token is GitHub token.
19:06I wanna read the prompt, it's already doing it. Reset the Git identity, HMS bot, clone the repo, create daily cron job at 3AM, prog time.
19:16And, yeah, it's just telling it what to do. Right? And then run it once to see if the push works.
19:21So it's gonna run it once. Get up token is in environment. It's c.
19:25The token is in there actually. Look deeper.
19:30I don't know why it's having trouble looking into the token. Yeah. Found it in Hermesla and verified loads.
19:36Okay. Update your memory so that you remember where the ENV file actually is located.
19:42Your backup ran committed, pushed successfully. Let's reload. And here we go.
19:47Here we have our first backup from today of the entire folder, which is 60 megabytes.
19:55It's above the GitHub limit. So to optimize it, we could only back up certain things, but I'm gonna also send this message so it remembers the location of these tokens.
20:07And now the Cronjob is created here. This is the ID scheduled at 3AM Central Eastern European time, and the next run is tomorrow at 3AM.
20:16So now Hermes agent is gonna back itself up. It's probably not needed to back up the full thing every day. If you wanna just back up your skills only, you can say, hey.
20:24Just make sure to back up my skills only or only my Markdown files. Right? So you're probably gonna have faster backups and not, like, spamming your GitHub repo with the full thing.
20:34But if you want the full thing, you can also back up the the entire thing. Right? Again, just talk to it in plain English.
20:39That's enough. So now you know how to create scheduled tasks aka Kron automations with Hermes Agent. This is level four.
20:46Now let's go to level five. Now, level five is really cool. This is one of the biggest releases to Hermes agent recently, which says a lot because there are releases nearly every day.
20:55Like, literally every other day, the team behind Hermes agent pushes a major update, which is crazy. But this one is especially insane because, first of all, it went very viral.
21:06But second of all, it allows you to run multiple agents through Kanban board. So the way it works is that the agents claim tasks from this Kanban board and they work in parallel. Right?
21:14So let me show you this graphic. And you as the human, you simply watch in a simple user interface instead of having to have 20 terminals open. You just look at the Kanban and you manage.
21:23Okay? This task in progress. This task getting started.
21:26Alright. This agent is working on that task. Like, if we're in the future, all of us are gonna have hundreds of AI agents working for us much sooner than you realize.
21:34So what's gonna matter is how do you manage these agents? How do you actually have clear observability and clarity of what they are doing? That is gonna be a billion dollar question because whoever figures this out is gonna help build a multibillion dollar company.
21:47Right? And, obviously, Hermes is trying to do that right now, and they're actually adding it into Hermes agent. So this is level five.
21:54Let's set it up. Now one of the best things about working with AI agents like Hermes is that you can literally ask it to set these things up for itself. Right?
22:02So boom. A link to that release and literally telling it, help me set this up.
22:07Recontext Hermes agent now has a multi agent via the Kanban in the UI. At first, it activates the skill Hermes agent, then it checks the skill Kanban orchestrator, and it goes to this URL with browser navigate, and it's gonna read it and learn everything about the release, and it's gonna tell me what it needs from me and the remaining steps, it's gonna do it itself.
22:27Right? So here, it's learned everything. You already have Hermes latest update, beautiful gateway running, can have been initialized.
22:34You're missing specialist profiles. So it's asking for the specialist profiles. I'm gonna say, just set it all up.
22:40You have my permission. Okay? It's asking too many informations.
22:44Obviously, you wanna customize it, feel free to tell it like, want a researcher or I want this to be for software development or social media research or something else. In this case, I just wanted to set it up and stop overthinking. Also, gonna say update your memory to always response in a super concise and clear way.
23:01Now one important thing I wanna stress is that do not use cheap models. Okay? These agentic harnesses, like Hermes Agent or Open Claw, they are complex.
23:10They're very complex. And if you cheap out and you try to use a very small, very cheap model, you're gonna have a hard time. Okay?
23:16So to get the most out of Hermes Agent, use something like OPUS 4.7, GPT 5.5. Don't be cheap.
23:22Okay? Don't use small model. Use the most powerful model available.
23:27As you can see, Hermes agent is doing a lot, like dozens and dozens of terminal commands to set this up himself. Right? Like, I just said, okay.
23:36I want this release. I want this multi agent Kanban orchestration dashboard, and that's it.
23:42You know, Hermes is setting it up. I was asking for a command task. These are the boards.
23:46I was ready. K. What is this command?
23:48Secure disk scan. Okay. And let's allow it.
23:50And it's the beauty of it being on a VPS. You don't have to worry that it's gonna do something sketchy on the computer. , which I think it's the ultimate paradigm where each agent runs on its own computer so it can set it up in a way that it needs to be most effective.
24:05The dashboard loads, and I was testing the dashboard itself. That's crazy. Look at this.
24:09Wow. It navigates to the local host on the VPS. It clicks around, takes a screenshot of it, and it's it's debugging it itself.
24:18Okay, man. This is impressive. Browser vision.
24:21This is the difference between Hermes agent and something like CherryGPT. Right? CherryGPT absolutely cannot do these things.
24:28Launch a local host server inside of itself and then click around and take screenshots of it and debug it. Man, this is wild. The dispatcher is working.
24:36Let me grab a screenshot for David. So it saved the memory, and then it said the Kanban setup is done. Four profiles, default researcher, writer, reviewer, and the dashboard is there.
24:45And it even gives me the SSH to view it from my laptop. That's insane. I haven't even asked for this.
24:51How was gonna be my next prompt? I actually have it prepared. I have the prompt prepared for it to give me the the link for the SSH tunnel, but it predicted that itself and even included a screenshot of what this looks like on the VPS.
25:06Guys, this is crazy. This is this insane. We really do live in the future.
25:11Alright. Well, let's do this. Right?
25:13So actually, I'm gonna give it the let's go back to hosting the panel, and then I'm just gonna take a screenshot of this whole thing. And I'm gonna say update the SSH tunnel command to actually include my VPS address.
25:29K. I don't even wanna bother figuring this out. I can just screenshot my full screen, send it to her mess agent, and tell it, y'all, figure it out.
25:35Tell me what to do. You know, what what is the server IP? I figured it out.
25:40Okay. Copy that. And let's open the terminal again.
25:43We need to actually open a new terminal, command n, paste that in. Root password again. So, hopefully, you saved it.
25:49Boom. Let's paste that in. And here we go.
25:53We're in. And then we can just open this, and we are in the Hermes Asian Kanban.
25:59So on the left, it's a bit small, but on the left, you can see Kanban right here, below plug ins. Click that. And this is the Kanban.
26:06Okay? So you can drag stuff around, change it up however you want, just like in any Kanban board, right, whether you use Trello, monday.com, ClickUp, whatever.
26:14You can manage how your Hermes is working and dispatch multiple Hermes agents on different tasks. Now, again, I really have to stress this. Hermes set this up by itself for most part.
26:25Like, it ran for, like, three minutes, four minutes, then done all these commands and set it up by itself. I just gave it the link to the release. Say, like, this is a cool release.
26:33I just want this. Help me set this up. And it literally did everything itself, and now we have the Canva here installed.
26:38We can click new tasks, you know, set a rough idea, research the new latest update of Hermes agent. Boom.
26:46We can create that. Maybe let's do something in To do. Help me set up a multi agent workflow with Codec so I can build and deploy apps on Vercel by itself.
26:56Let's put something in blocked. Help me set up a new office in Katowice, Poland. I already did that, but, you know, just example as a as a thing.
27:04And these tasks are getting automatically moved to ready, and Hermes is ready to work on them. Okay.
27:09But this is cool and all, but how do you actually make it useful? Well, let me show you a use case that I myself actually need, and that is research for content. And in fact, all of you can do this.
27:20Just apply it to your own business or to your niche. Right? So let's go back to Discord, and let's paste in this prompt.
27:27So pretty long because I described exactly what I mean want. I want to make a YouTube video about uncensored AI models. Right?
27:33And, again, let's say you wanna make a LinkedIn post about how to hire people in Germany. Whatever you do, whatever your business is about, whatever you want to research, just give it a task.
27:45Okay? Describe the task. You don't have to copy my own example, but I'm doing something that's truly useful for me because a lot of people, they're just incompetent in terms of giving these agents use cases.
27:54There's, like, literally such a large percentage of population that have OpenClose set up, but they don't use it because they don't know how. They have Hermes agent, and they know how to set it up, but they don't know what to give it.
28:04So here's a clear example. Queue this as a four task Kanban pipeline on a default board. You must use Kanban create.
28:11Basically, I'm telling it, you know, that it should use the Kanban because, you know, sometimes it just completes itself, but this is all about the Kanban board. Right? The new update, so I wanted to be using it.
28:21So I send this detailed prompt, and now Hermes agent is doing that. If we reload, we could see some changes happening.
28:28Okay. We already have the changes. We could see draft three research.
28:32There is in progress research state of ancestral AI models. You can click on it to get more info. Priority is zero.
28:37So has priority assignee researcher status running. So the it created four different profiles of four different AI agents, and now the researcher one is working on it. You can see where it lives on the workspace created by the user.
28:49You can see these all different options, trash, ready, block, unblock. Archive, the description of this task, what's the state of uncensored, obliterated jailbroker AI models right now, cover the topics, dependencies, parents, comments, events, worker log, very detailed, and you can even send comments on this task as it's running.
29:06So, basically, here is how that works. Right? You have the first researcher, what's new in topic this week, what's new in fitness, in real estate, in AI.
29:14Then the second researcher was already on YouTube about topic in last thirty days, and these run-in parallel. Right?
29:19Then the analyst waits for the first two to find a gap. Right? Some angle, something that people are missing.
29:26And then the fourth agent, the writer, drafts three video concepts after the third one finishes. Right?
29:32So this is a very simple workflow of multiplayer agents working at the same time, and we have the Kanban to actually monitor their progress. Right?
29:39So, obviously, Hermes agent can do this even without the Kanban, but the way the Kanban is useful is allows you, the human, it allows you to see what's happening. Right?
29:49Not just looking into terminal with endless commands and lots of text. This is a very visual way to monitor the progress of your Hermes agent and all the different sub agents. Alright.
29:58So let's check what the status is. We can see that everything has moved to complete and we can even see these tasks and we can either click on them and inspect here or you can go to Discord and chat with it.
30:12Chat with Hermes here. What is the status on these tasks? Give me a concise report.
30:20So we can check it itself. And by the way, here we can see a lot more things than just the Kanban. We can see the different sessions we have as well as whether they're in Discord, CLI, or somewhere else.
30:29We can see our current automations, scheduled jobs. This is the GitHub one. You can see boom.
30:34We can also see the documentation if something is, you know, lagging or something isn't set up correctly. You can check the logs.
30:42You can check the models that are available and the usage on them, how many tokens, total total spent, different analytics about Hermes, so this is very useful.
30:52But let's check-in Discord. All tasks done. Yes.
30:55Show me the full output and show it here. Again, Hermes gives you this nice gateway dashboard, and you can even restart gateway from here or update Hermes.
31:05Or you can just chat with it through Discord for maximum convenience because, you know, you have Discord in the phone or WhatsApp or Telegram, whatever you prefer. And that's the power of DCA agents. They're so configurable, so extensible that anybody can adapt them to their own use case or their own preference.
31:21The issue is that most people don't know what their preference is or don't know how to how to configure them. Luckily, if you're watching this video, so you hopefully at least know how to configure them. And if you are smart, you can figure out a few use cases for Hermes agent.
31:34Alright. Here's the answer. As you can see, it's a quite long answer.
31:39Console number one, uncensored coding agent Use a twenty four twenty seven b model into cloth curve o lama. Okay.
31:47Fair enough. I've literally explained Europe's finding that one direction and LLMs conferred refusal, the bench off.
31:57Okay. So specific ideas with clear preproduction for all of them. Not bad.
32:01Not bad. So this is level five using the Hermes Kanban to manage your AI agents and what tasks they're working on.
32:08Okay. So level six is adding memory because a lot of people struggle with, yeah, agents not having good long term memory and losing context and stuff like that. So here is why memory plugins like Holographic actually exist.
32:20Beginners never save anything. Right? They just chat and they hope that the default memory is good enough.
32:26And obviously, in Hermes, it's probably better than in any other agent, but beginners don't even trigger that with words like remember this or save this into memory. So everything stays in the chat and dies at the end of the session.
32:38I think most of you probably do that mistake as well. I certainly did it when I was newer to AI. Also, bigger context doesn't mean more memory.
32:45People who are like one step, two steps ahead of beginners, they just paste in a bunch of slop.
32:51Right? And a lot of it, it's not even relevant to what needs to be done. So more context doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be better memory.
32:58But more context always results in more cost and worse attention to the things that matter the most. Right? A lot of people then go to RAC, retrieval augmented generation, but that's by vibes.
33:07You know? Vectors, similarly, cannot answer what does that have its own. Like, what what's my own task?
33:13What's my own responsibility? That needs structure. You know?
33:16You don't see what task assigned to each person just from similarity, just from semantics. Now, embeddings also cost money and they leak data.
33:24You know, if you use Gemini embeddings, are sending it to Google. And summaries, they blur over time.
33:30You know, they compress essential facts away. So most people have no idea how to solve this and this is why things like holographic exist. So in level six, we give our Hermes agent near infinite memory.
33:42Okay. So to set up this near infinite memory, let's jump back into our SSH and type in Hermes memory setup. Hit enter.
33:50As you can see, comes with a few premade options and holographic is one of them. Or you can try other ones like honcho, web zero, open viking, super memory.
34:00Some of them require API keys. You can see holographic is fully local and that's a important thing because then you're not leaking your data. You're not sending your data to any cloud, and, obviously, you don't have to pay for stuff.
34:09SQL database path, I think that's good. Hit enter. Auto extract facts at the session end.
34:15You can either enable it or disable it. I would enable it if you want maximum memory. Default trust score for new facts output, like, 0.4.
34:25Dimensions, leave that as it is. Enter, and that's it.
34:29Next type in her mess gateway restart just to make sure that the gateway picks up everything.
34:37And then we can type in her mess. And then in the chat, can say something like check this to see if we have the fact store.
34:45Yes. Holographic memory is set up and working. Alright.
34:48Amazing. So we can do something like read all previous sessions as well as user dot m d and memory dot m d and seed the holographic back store.
35:03So it can add some of these things that we discussed in previous sessions or some of these things that it already knows about me into holographic because, you know, we just set it up, it's obviously empty for now. Okay.
35:14So it analyzed all previous sessions, and I was preparing so they did these tool calls to learn everything about me and what we talked about, and now it's doing writes into holographic fact store.
35:28And we can actually maybe even prepare a prompt like, from now on, remember to store anything important into holographic fact store.
35:39K. See this 15 facts, by name and by preference, discord CLI, concise style responses.
35:45This is good. I mean, yeah, this is basically all we discussed, but it it removed the useless stuff and only saved the important things. Alright?
35:53So I'm not gonna say, remember to store anything important in whole graphic fact store from now on, and it's gonna save it into the main memory so that it's actually gonna be using it.
36:05Now let's talk about a few use cases of why having solid memory actually matters in case it's not obvious. Number one, you can say something like, remember everything about each video you're making. Right?
36:16So for me, if I use Hermes dedicated to YouTube, I would be running something like that. Remember the key facts about each video we're making.
36:23If it's a sponsor, if there's a deadline, what angle we're taking, what went wrong, so it can be more useful with each video going forward. You could also track your sponsor history to know which age which of the sponsor paid what.
36:36Right? So the agent would be in track of this. You don't have to remember it in your head or track in your spreadsheet.
36:40The agent will be tracking that. It can also recall your VPS setup, you know, how much disk space you have, how much RAM you're using, all that stuff. It can proactively check it manually.
36:50That's another great cron job you should create. It's like a weekly check of your VPS to see the health.
36:56You know, maybe you're running out of space, maybe your your RAM is getting out of control. Who knows? It can also catch itself when it's holding two facts that contradict each other.
37:04Right? Because it will be in the memory and say, okay, we upload videos every five days, and there's a different one that says every three days. Well, guess what?
37:11It's contradicting and it can ask you which of these is correct. And you can find the connections between topics you've worked on that you don't even realize. Right?
37:18So maybe shorter videos perform better or sponsored videos get less views, whatever. Right? Things that like actually can have meaningful impact on your life or business.
37:27So while most people just rely on the basic memory inside of Hermes, which isn't bad, Holographic takes it to the next level and makes the long term memory a lot better. Alright. Level seven, the most advanced level, obviously, turning Hermes agent into an MCP.
37:43Okay? So, basically, you expose it as a MCP server so that other agents like Clothecore or Codex can interact with it as if . And this has three main use cases.
37:53Number one, serving as a remote approval gate. So let's say Clothecore wants to run something destructive. Right?
37:58A risky operation, deleting files, you know, removing database backups, whatever. You have, like, a hook that makes it pause.
38:05Hermes pushes the approval prompt to your phone so that, you know, let's say you're on a date with a girl, and now suddenly you do something important like, oh, shit. You know? By Hermes agent is messaging me, it wants to push a risky update to delete a database.
38:17So maybe like, okay. This is a database backup. It's obsolete.
38:19It's from six months ago. You approve it, or if it's something it shouldn't do, you reject it. Right?
38:24And then it continues. So this is the use case that Clothecode cannot do. Like, Clothecode couldn't do this.
38:30It it doesn't have access to your Telegram or Discord. It doesn't have these connections, these authentications. So that's one use case.
38:36The second one is walk away mode. So you start a long refactor in Clothecode and you close the laptop and you get progress pings on your phone. Right?
38:42And you can reply, like, keep going, you know, make it simpler, fewer lines of code, or push to GitHub, whatever. And you can trash from your phone as well. You know?
38:49So bug report lines in Discord. You can tell Cloth through Hermes agent to look at the relevant file and reply with a free line diagnosis before opening your laptop. So this is pretty many use cases of turning Hermes agent into MCP.
39:00And it's the most advanced level because most people don't even understand MCPs, and they definitely do not even know that it's possible to turn Hermes agent into an MCP server. But But I'm gonna show you how to do that just now.
39:12So just like before, we're gonna set it up by just talking to Hermes and telling it to set it up. So I'm gonna do slash new to start a new conversation. I'm gonna paste in a very long prompt I have, and that starts with expose your Hermes to Cloth code via MCP.
39:24Cloth can read and send messages across connected messaging platforms. Telegram, Discord, Slack, Volley code, editor, and there's 22 more lines. Let me just show you the full prompt.
39:32Here's the full thing. Feel free to screenshot it. We have the full prompt.
39:37Boom. There it is. So Hermes exposes the gateway so that Clothecode, which obviously can use MCP servers because Anthropic invented the model context protocol, can interact with Hermes, which otherwise it couldn't interact and obviously access all the things that Hermes has configured already.
39:53So let's go to the terminal. Let's see how Hermes is doing on this task. Uh-uh.
39:56Loop is closed. Okay. So make your answer simpler and shorter.
40:00I'm not reading all that. I don't know why opens 4.7 is Silverboss. Okay.
40:05Hermes SCP works. Okay. So tell me how to now test it on ClothCode.
40:14I will set up ClothCode on this VPS, which obviously we still need to do yet because we haven't set up ClothCode CLI on the VPS. Hermes is giving up the steps.
40:24So, yeah, let's do that. I'm gonna actually open in fact, I'm gonna I'm just gonna copy this and follow in the in the Discord because why not?
40:34You know? So I'm gonna copy this over the Discord. I'm gonna start a new chat.
40:40Say, MCP, a new thread, so it's clearly separate. Boom.
40:46Let's go to this thread. I'm gonna give it to everything here as a context.
40:53Context. Help me set this up on my BPS. One step at a time.
41:01Be very concise. Boom. Let's send this.
41:05And then here in the terminal, we can hit control c to stop this and clear and follow these instructions to set up Cloth code. Right?
41:12So first, need to install Cloth. So let's copy this command.
41:16Boom. Installing Cloth code. It's similar to the Hermes agent command we ran at the start, know, a one liner installer that's gonna install everything.
41:26But there is if we do Clot, it should ask us to log in. We need to reload the reload the thing.
41:32Right? The shell. I'm gonna copy everything.
41:35I'm gonna say, what now? Super plain English.
41:39Like, I'm literally showing you how to debug, right, using one AI agent, which is Remest agent to set up Cloud Code so that we can then expose Remest as MCP. It needs to add to path, so I'm just gonna copy this, literally super simple debugging.
41:52And there it is. It works. Right?
41:53So I'm gonna do Cloud. I need to authenticate. Dark mode is fine.
41:56Let's do Anthropic console account. Gonna give us a link. Boom.
42:03Space that into a browser.
42:08Authorize. We need to copy this code, switch back to a terminal, and paste in this code. And that should be it.
42:16Login successful. Enter. Enter.
42:17Enter. Just press enter three times, and let's type in message to see if Cloud Code is working, and it is working. That was very easy, and Frohpik has made this authentication super easy.
42:26So I'm I'm here. So I can just say SSH.
42:32Boom.
42:35I've managed to install Cloud Code and log in. What now?
42:40Right. So we need to register the MCP, so let's copy these two commands. Switch back to our terminal.
42:45Hit control c to kill the Hermes t y. Let's run these.
42:51Okay. So that's that. Okay.
42:55I did these two commands. What now?
42:59Literally plain English debugging. Right? Just make sure to use the best model you can.
43:03Don't use a cheap small model. So I'm using OpenScore point seven here. And now we start Clothecore again.
43:09So I can do Cloth dash dash dangerously skip permissions.
43:16Okay. It's gonna be running root, whatever. Just let's do normal clot.
43:19Hit enter, and let's see what tools it has for the Hermes MCP.
43:26Alright. So it gives all of these different tools.
43:29MCP Hermes attachment fetch, Hermes channel list, conversations get. Okay. So test this actually.
43:36Get the previous conversations and, you know, read some messages and see if it actually works, these MCP servers. So, again, plain English telling it to test the Hermes MCP.
43:47Let me load the tool schema first then test them. K. Let's this is why I wanted to to add to run-in dangerous escape permission so we don't have to approve these.
43:57Yes.
44:01Both tools work perfectly. Here's the summary. Conversationary returns free Discord threads.
44:05Messages read successfully read 10 messages. Channels list. Okay.
44:09Everything works works. Nice. Okay.
44:12So now use these tools to analyze things about me as a user. What am I likely missing?
44:18What are my attributes? What are likely my goals? Based on these conversations, based on these messages, what can you tell about me?
44:24Make sure to use the Hermes MCP for this and be very concise. K. Let me read all three conversations for a fuller picture, and it's calling the Hermes MCP.
44:33Here's what the conversation reveal. You are a content creator. Okay.
44:38Vactel, it even knows the company name, power user, self host AI infra. K.
44:43So listen. I'm not claiming to be power user. It's cloth code calling me power user.
44:48Your behavior patterns delegates fully, low tolerance for verbosity. That's true. Checks in hours later rather than monitoring.
44:55Okay? Your goals, build the agent, produce YouTube content, automate everything. Yeah.
45:01I mean, it's true. It's basically, use the Hermes MCP to analyze myself. And, obviously, the power of this is that as you're building something, Clothcode doesn't need to have all the context of a Hermes agent.
45:12You can keep it private on a VPS. Maybe Clothcode is on a different VPS or Clothcode is running locally, and it can still fetch the data when needed through Hermes. Because Hermes agent can be served as a MCP server, which again, most people have no idea because they don't go through the seven levels of Hermes agent.
45:28Now, if you watch all of this, the next step is to actually go through the video again and set it up. So go below the video, click the first link, and get your very own virtual private server. Hostinger has the one of the most affordable options for a VPS, and it's super easy setup for Hermes agent.
45:43This is what I was using in the entire video. So, again, click the first link, below the video, and get your own Hostinger VPS. Make sure to use code david for additional 10% off.
45:52And if you are serious about AI, then make sure to join the new society. Everyone who joins in the month of May will get a personalized audit of their GitHub repository. So you submit your GitHub repo and we look at it.
46:02We can go through the security, through the front end, suggest new features, whatever you want us to focus on, or if you just want us to go through the whole thing without any focus, you don't need to include anything. But this is only available for people who join in May because it's not scalable to do this forever. It takes a lot of time to audit these GitHub repositories.
46:20So if you join New Society in May, you get a specialized GitHub audit. Plus in the classroom, we're releasing a new course on HerMS agent. So if you like this video, it's just a taste of what's coming in the classroom.
46:32Right? So inside of New Society, you get more granular step by step modules with premade resources, configs, skill system prompts that you can just copy paste into your life and business. So if you want more access and more content about Hermes agent and also calls with me, which, by the way, there's literally a call happening in seven minutes, That's why I'm speaking fast.
46:50Make sure to join the new society. The link to the new society Lightning page will be below the video. With that being said, thank you guys for watching, and have a wonderful, productive week.
46:59See you.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The title promises 100 hours compressed into 46 minutes, and the cold open delivers immediately: a Figma-style whiteboard shows seven numbered levels with escalating icons, and the host walks each one before the first minute is up. No fluff, no preamble.
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:00list
Seven Levels of Hermes Agent
- VPS install
- Discord gateway
- Curator
- Cron automations
- Kanban multi-agent
- Holographic memory
- MCP server
Progressive depth model — each level is additive and depends on the previous.
Steal forAny tutorial that teaches a tool at increasing depth levels
32:36list
Five reasons holographic memory beats default RAG
- Beginners never save anything
- Bigger context is not memory
- RAG searches by vibes not structure
- Embeddings cost money and leak data
- Summaries blur over time
Five-point argument for why default memory patterns fail and local structured fact stores win.
Steal forAI memory architecture comparisons, agent product pitches
37:30list
Three MCP server use cases
- Remote approval gate
- Walk-away mode
- Phone triage
Three canonical reasons to expose Hermes as an MCP server to other agents.
Steal forMCP integration pitches, agent architecture planning docs
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
45:40product
“Make sure to join the new society. The link to the new society landing page will be below the video.”
Two placements: mid-video after Level 1, and end-of-video. Tied to a time-limited offer (GitHub repo audit for May joiners) plus a new Hermes mastery course.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
