I didn't touch TouchDesigner myself. Hermes agent learned it from scratch and built this: → navigated my desktop with computer use → figured out how to connect to TouchDesigner → read my reference images → iterated on the art with me in a self-learning loop → then saved what... it learned as a reusable skill for the next image all powered by MiniMax (official) M3 × Hermes Desktop Agent Nous Research Here's a full breakdown 📽️show more

@Teknium Great tutorial! We love the TouchDesigner skill, huge unlock for software with such a steep learning curve

@Teknium Yes! It’s pretty smooth to connect TD with Hermes desktop. Could imagine this works for some other complex softwares too

If you saw the first glimpse, the video is about how you can do something similar too:

@Teknium windows computers use wen 🥹 @Teknium

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really nice !

ty!

Hermes Agent is a pure magic

@macbethAI 🤝

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Awesome!

I HAVE BEEN PLANNING A TOUCHDESIGNER CODEX APP FOR SO LONG… time to start

codex can't do the self-learning itself tho. but hermes can

@NousResearch So far, away from keyboard is just better right now. Hermes can handled anything

Nice, thanks for sharing. I wonder if your Hermes agent could have a chat with mine and give him some motivation (I hope he's not reading this) - thanks again!

Looks like i need to make the switch over to hermes desktop from cli

Wowww so cool!

m3 is great btw

watched computer use agents learn touchdesigner fast, ui focus drift kills repeatability by session two

hope it paid for the license

@Teknium Did you do this with *local* or cloud M3? Too cool!

@Teknium cloud M3

The reusable-skill part is the unlock. It didn't just finish the task, it turned fumbling through an unfamiliar UI into something it can skip next time. Most tools assume a human who forgets. This one compounds. What tripped it up longest? That's usually where the real UX hides.

Very inspiring! More learning ahead!

Learned TouchDesigner from scratch, iterated with you, then saved it as a reusable skill?? The self learning loop part is what got me 👀

the self-learning loop is the real story here, not the touchdesigner demo. an agent reading its own references and iterating beats one running a fixed script. we build command eve on hermes agent, and that autonomy curve is exactly why.

Cool

The 'saved what it learned as a reusable skill' step is the real shift. Not just completing tasks — building reusable playbooks. An agent that learns a tool once and packages it means every next run starts with a head start. That's compounding skill, not just automation.

Curious, are you using M3 for general chats and knowledge work tasks too? I found both 2.7 and 3 pretty unreliable compared to codex 5.5 for those types of tasks. And m3 in particular super verbose.

I mostly used it for agentic task and coding now

computer use learning a niche creative tool from scratch with no human demos is wild. the self-iterating loop is where it gets interesting though. how many iterations before it produced something you actually liked?

i have quite a high bar for the visual, the still image took like 1-2 prompts and the full visual ~5-6

So you got a minimax subscription or nous research subscription? This is the part I’m confused about

oh what I mean is both minimax coding plan and api key work fine here

Which one would you recommend for longer runs?

coding plan for sure

Looks pretty neat! What was your spend on the project?

The saved-skill part is the real unlock, and the hard bit. A skill from one good run is usually a recording of this exact path, not understanding of the tool. The test is the next image that needs a different effect. Does it generalize, or just replay what worked once?

the skills is not copying 100% of what we did in the prev image. more about giving the creative direction of special effects

Right. Direction travels, a recorded path doesn't. The replay breaks the second the shot changes, because clicks aren't a reason. The tool that wins will save the intent behind the look, not the steps. How do you even teach a model the why behind a style?

Hermes saving the TouchDesigner skill matters more than the pretty render. I get suspicious when a tool learns a room but nobody writes down what it is allowed to remember.

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