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You need to try Hermes RIGHT NOW. OpenClaw was the breakthrough. Hermes feels like the evolution. Here’s why AI power users are quietly switching: • Hermes learns from you over time • It creates its own reusable skills • Memory stays curated instead of bloated • Agents improve every 10 turns automatically • It actually feels stable on day 30 The wildest part: Hermes agents build workflows from your behavior. One user asked their agent to configure Twingate once. The agent: → learned the process → created a reusable skill → stored it for future tasks → improved its own workflow automatically That’s not prompt engineering anymore. That’s agent evolution. Meanwhile most people are still babysitting broken OpenClaw setups and manually importing marketplace skills. Hermes took a different path: Less clutter. Less tweaking. More autonomy. And it’s working. It already flipped OpenClaw in OpenRouter token usage and became one of the fastest-growing AI repos on GitHub. The bigger shift: We’re entering the era where the model matters less than the harness around it. GPT-5.5, Grok, Qwen: They’re already powerful enough. The real edge now is: • memory systems • self-improvement loops • skill creation • agent orchestration Hermes understands that. Most people still think AI agents are glorified chatbots. The people using Hermes are building AI teammates.
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You need to try Hermes RIGHT NOW. OpenClaw was the breakthrough. Hermes feels like the evolution. Here’s why AI power users are quietly switching: • Hermes learns from you over time • It creates its own reusable skills • Memory stays curated instead of bloated • Agents improve every 10 turns automatically • It actually feels stable on day 30 The wildest part: Hermes agents build workflows from your behavior. One user asked their agent to configure Twingate once. The agent: → learned the process → created a reusable skill → stored it for future tasks → improved its own workflow automatically That’s not prompt engineering anymore. That’s agent evolution. Meanwhile most people are still babysitting broken OpenClaw setups and manually importing marketplace skills. Hermes took a different path: Less clutter. Less tweaking. More autonomy. And it’s working. It already flipped OpenClaw in OpenRouter token usage and became one of the fastest-growing AI repos on GitHub. The bigger shift: We’re entering the era where the model matters less than the harness around it. GPT-5.5, Grok, Qwen: They’re already powerful enough. The real edge now is: • memory systems • self-improvement loops • skill creation • agent orchestration Hermes understands that. Most people still think AI agents are glorified chatbots. The people using Hermes are building AI teammates.

Dami-Defi

17,062 views • 3 months ago

OpenClaw 2.0 is available on Atomic Bot! We ran a battle: OpenClaw 2.0 vs Hermes Agent on GLM 5.3. Four prompts: movie scenes with the OpenClaw mascot in the lead role. Outputs: OpenClaw 2.0: ~2.1M tokens, ~$4.5, 10 self-fixes Hermes Agent: ~2.9M tokens, ~$4, 20 self-fixes OpenClaw screenshotted its own frames at exact timestamps, counted pixels to check its work, and filed fixes like "coat tail whip direction was inverted". Hermes went further and built itself a render harness: it measured frame times, checked the loop seam was invisible, and audited every scene against the spec before we ever opened it. That double-checking is where its extra tokens went. Run OpenClaw 2.0 in the cloud via Atomic Bot in one click!
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OpenClaw 2.0 is available on Atomic Bot! We ran a battle: OpenClaw 2.0 vs Hermes Agent on GLM 5.3. Four prompts: movie scenes with the OpenClaw mascot in the lead role. Outputs: OpenClaw 2.0: ~2.1M tokens, ~$4.5, 10 self-fixes Hermes Agent: ~2.9M tokens, ~$4, 20 self-fixes OpenClaw screenshotted its own frames at exact timestamps, counted pixels to check its work, and filed fixes like "coat tail whip direction was inverted". Hermes went further and built itself a render harness: it measured frame times, checked the loop seam was invisible, and audited every scene against the spec before we ever opened it. That double-checking is where its extra tokens went. Run OpenClaw 2.0 in the cloud via Atomic Bot in one click!

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66,450 views • 17 days ago

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Julian Goldie SEO

22,142 views • 4 months ago

MOST AI AGENTS RESET TO ZERO EVERY TIME YOU OPEN A NEW SESSION. Hermes Agent was built to do the opposite. Every task compounds. Every workflow becomes reusable. Every session teaches the next one. That is the core thesis behind Hermes, and it completely changes how AI agents work. Unlike most AI agents built by software tool companies, Hermes was created by the researchers training the Hermes model family itself. Meaning: The same system used internally to generate training data is now open source and available to everyone. One install gives you access to: Claude. GPT. Grok. Local models via Ollama. Telegram, Discord, Slack, iMessage integrations. Custom skills. Persistent memory. CLI control. But the real unlock is the compounding loop: You give Hermes a task. It records every tool call, decision, and result. Then it converts successful workflows into reusable skills automatically. A Hermes setup running for 3 months becomes fundamentally smarter than a fresh install. That’s the big idea. One of the coolest parts: You literally watch the agent evolve in real time from a blank install into a personalized AI operator. Instead of watching Netflix today, spend 28 mins with this. Follow Dami-Defi for more AI systems, agent workflows, and infrastructure alpha.
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Dami-Defi

11,685 views • 3 months ago

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YanXbt

19,573 views • 3 months ago

WTF, THIS CHINESE FOUNDER RUNS HIS $10,000+ STARTUP'S ENTIRE WORKFLOW THROUGH HERMES AGENT ON FOUR MACHINES SIMULTANEOUSLY A studio founder just broke down why Hermes is different from every other AI tool right now: → Long-term memory. Most LLMs forget everything after the chat ends. Hermes remembers your work habits and gets sharper the more you use it. → Real execution, not suggestions. This is the core difference from Claude. Claude tells you what to do – you still do it. Hermes takes the instruction and finishes the task itself. → Scheduled tasks that just work. No complicated setup. Set the plan once, it runs on its own. This is what actual "hands-off" looks like. He's not running this on one machine. He's got FOUR laptops running Hermes simultaneously – each one handling a different part of his workflow at the same time. This is what it looks like when one person operates like a full team. He's dropping a full workflow build tutorial next – built for founders and operators trying to lighten their workload. Bookmark this, you'll want to come back to it later.
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WTF, THIS CHINESE FOUNDER RUNS HIS $10,000+ STARTUP'S ENTIRE WORKFLOW THROUGH HERMES AGENT ON FOUR MACHINES SIMULTANEOUSLY A studio founder just broke down why Hermes is different from every other AI tool right now: → Long-term memory. Most LLMs forget everything after the chat ends. Hermes remembers your work habits and gets sharper the more you use it. → Real execution, not suggestions. This is the core difference from Claude. Claude tells you what to do – you still do it. Hermes takes the instruction and finishes the task itself. → Scheduled tasks that just work. No complicated setup. Set the plan once, it runs on its own. This is what actual "hands-off" looks like. He's not running this on one machine. He's got FOUR laptops running Hermes simultaneously – each one handling a different part of his workflow at the same time. This is what it looks like when one person operates like a full team. He's dropping a full workflow build tutorial next – built for founders and operators trying to lighten their workload. Bookmark this, you'll want to come back to it later.

SCOTTY BEAM

11,654 views • 2 months ago

Hermes Browser Extension v0.3.0 just landed. You already had a browser inside Hermes Desktop. Now flip it around. Bring Hermes into your browser. 💻 Open the side panel next to whatever you're doing and let Hermes work with the page you're already on. I used it inside Google Cloud while working through Gmail API setup. If you've spent any time in there, you know that is not exactly a friendly little website. Hermes handled it extremely well. Research a page. Work through complicated setup screens. Draft without leaving the site. Let Hermes help move through multi-step browser work without constantly bouncing back and forth. You can also switch between built-in themes, Light/Dark modes, or add your own custom theme. 🎨 Hermes, right where you're already working. Give Hermes the repo and ask it to help you set it up. komet💫 Killed it with this update 🔥 Repo link in the first reply⬇️
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Hermes Browser Extension v0.3.0 just landed. You already had a browser inside Hermes Desktop. Now flip it around. Bring Hermes into your browser. 💻 Open the side panel next to whatever you're doing and let Hermes work with the page you're already on. I used it inside Google Cloud while working through Gmail API setup. If you've spent any time in there, you know that is not exactly a friendly little website. Hermes handled it extremely well. Research a page. Work through complicated setup screens. Draft without leaving the site. Let Hermes help move through multi-step browser work without constantly bouncing back and forth. You can also switch between built-in themes, Light/Dark modes, or add your own custom theme. 🎨 Hermes, right where you're already working. Give Hermes the repo and ask it to help you set it up. komet💫 Killed it with this update 🔥 Repo link in the first reply⬇️

Hermes Release Watch

70,506 views • 25 days ago

how to set up hermes agent step by step. built-in memory, 40+ tools, works on your phone, and what to think of hermes vs openclaw: 1. hermes is a personal AI agent that runs in your terminal. think of it like open claw but with built-in memory, 40+ tools out of the box, and 90% cheaper token costs. you install it with one command. 2. the 3 problems with open claw that hermes solves: no memory (you keep repeating yourself), constant gateway restarts, and zero visibility into what you're spending on tokens. 3. hermes remembers everything. every completed task gets saved to memory. it searches through past logs to find solutions. over time it literally gets smarter at your specific workflows. 4. connect it to open router. you see exact costs per model per task. free models rotate weekly. one founder went from $130 every five days on open claw to $10 on hermes. same output. 5. it comes preloaded with skills. apple notes, imessage, find my, browser, web search, image generation, cron jobs. no hunting for plugins. 6. connect it to obsidian so it reads your entire vault. connect it to gstack for your dev environment. create custom skills for your specific workflows. 7. the biggest money saver: have it write code once for recurring tasks. then it runs without burning tokens every time. stop paying an LLM to do the same scrape or report daily. 8. run it on android via telegram. name your agents. talk to them like coworkers. in this episode imran shows you how to set this up. 9. you can run it bare metal, in docker, or serverless on modal. pick your risk level. i begged imran to come on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 and walk through the full installation live. he made it impossibly clear. if you've heard of Hermes Agent and want the clearest explanation of how to get set up like a pro let me know what you want me to cover on the next ep this is the best personal agent setup video on the internet right now. watch
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how to set up hermes agent step by step. built-in memory, 40+ tools, works on your phone, and what to think of hermes vs openclaw: 1. hermes is a personal AI agent that runs in your terminal. think of it like open claw but with built-in memory, 40+ tools out of the box, and 90% cheaper token costs. you install it with one command. 2. the 3 problems with open claw that hermes solves: no memory (you keep repeating yourself), constant gateway restarts, and zero visibility into what you're spending on tokens. 3. hermes remembers everything. every completed task gets saved to memory. it searches through past logs to find solutions. over time it literally gets smarter at your specific workflows. 4. connect it to open router. you see exact costs per model per task. free models rotate weekly. one founder went from $130 every five days on open claw to $10 on hermes. same output. 5. it comes preloaded with skills. apple notes, imessage, find my, browser, web search, image generation, cron jobs. no hunting for plugins. 6. connect it to obsidian so it reads your entire vault. connect it to gstack for your dev environment. create custom skills for your specific workflows. 7. the biggest money saver: have it write code once for recurring tasks. then it runs without burning tokens every time. stop paying an LLM to do the same scrape or report daily. 8. run it on android via telegram. name your agents. talk to them like coworkers. in this episode imran shows you how to set this up. 9. you can run it bare metal, in docker, or serverless on modal. pick your risk level. i begged imran to come on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 and walk through the full installation live. he made it impossibly clear. if you've heard of Hermes Agent and want the clearest explanation of how to get set up like a pro let me know what you want me to cover on the next ep this is the best personal agent setup video on the internet right now. watch

GREG ISENBERG

623,943 views • 5 months ago

I gave an agent one goal: "look at what's trending in dev conversations and send me three post ideas with an angle for each, every other day." I didn't build a scraper or a cron job. I wrote a sentence, and it handles the rest. ✓ I used MyClaw, which already ran OpenClaw, and now Hermes is live too. ✓ Claude Code and Codex are next. ✓ No local install, no Docker, no server to keep alive. 🎁 Launch offer: subscribe to OpenClaw or Hermes and you get the other one's Max plan free for 30 days. 🎟️ Annual on Pro or above also gets you $100 to $200 in AI credits toward model usage. Would you try it? #ad
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I gave an agent one goal: "look at what's trending in dev conversations and send me three post ideas with an angle for each, every other day." I didn't build a scraper or a cron job. I wrote a sentence, and it handles the rest. ✓ I used MyClaw, which already ran OpenClaw, and now Hermes is live too. ✓ Claude Code and Codex are next. ✓ No local install, no Docker, no server to keep alive. 🎁 Launch offer: subscribe to OpenClaw or Hermes and you get the other one's Max plan free for 30 days. 🎟️ Annual on Pro or above also gets you $100 to $200 in AI credits toward model usage. Would you try it? #ad

Eleftheria Batsou

33,549 views • 2 months ago

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 📽️
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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 📽️

amber shen

121,097 views • 3 months ago

The most comprehensive Hermes Desktop tutorial on the internet NOW is LIVE. You'll learn sessions, profiles, artifacts, cost savings, and real use cases for making money and building startups with Hermes agents. Whether you're already running Hermes or haven't started yet, this is the episode for you. Alex Finn says this is the moment Hermes overtakes OpenClaw. S/o to Alex for walking me through it. "It's now the best way to use AI agents on your computer" I do think the desktop app of Hermes looks almost like an Apple product. Everything you need to know about Hermes Desktop App/agents in 43 minutes This episode is 100% free. No ads. The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 I just want to see you win on the internet. And I think Hermes can help. Plus, It's fun thing to play with this weekend. Share this with a friend. Link below. YT: Watch
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The most comprehensive Hermes Desktop tutorial on the internet NOW is LIVE. You'll learn sessions, profiles, artifacts, cost savings, and real use cases for making money and building startups with Hermes agents. Whether you're already running Hermes or haven't started yet, this is the episode for you. Alex Finn says this is the moment Hermes overtakes OpenClaw. S/o to Alex for walking me through it. "It's now the best way to use AI agents on your computer" I do think the desktop app of Hermes looks almost like an Apple product. Everything you need to know about Hermes Desktop App/agents in 43 minutes This episode is 100% free. No ads. The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 I just want to see you win on the internet. And I think Hermes can help. Plus, It's fun thing to play with this weekend. Share this with a friend. Link below. YT: Watch

GREG ISENBERG

225,586 views • 3 months ago

OpenClaw's memory out of the box sucks With this simple Obsidian system, it's actually awesome In this video I go over using Obsidian as a memory layer for your AI agent, making it SO much more smarter than it is now If you use OpenClaw or Hermes, you need to watch this:
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OpenClaw's memory out of the box sucks With this simple Obsidian system, it's actually awesome In this video I go over using Obsidian as a memory layer for your AI agent, making it SO much more smarter than it is now If you use OpenClaw or Hermes, you need to watch this:

Alex Finn

89,886 views • 5 months ago

HERMES AGENT VS OPENCLAW. a local ai onboarding flow test. a 3.9gb bonsai served on localhost, both agents upstream and latest, i point each one at the endpoint and watch which one even finds it. > hermes opens a provider menu, thirty plus options, local servers sitting right there next to the cloud ones, i hand it 127.0.0.1:8899, it verifies the endpoint, one model visible, auto-detects the model by name, bonsai-27b-q1_0, reads the context length straight off the server, saves it, and starts reasoning and firing real tool calls on my local model. no key. no friction. > openclaw has no menu. it goes hunting for a codex login, an openai key, finds none because there are none, prints no models available three times, defaults to openai/gpt-5.5, a cloud model it cannot reach, and dead ends on run auth login --provider openai. read that back. it asked me for an openai key. to run a model already running on my own machine. it never once looked at localhost. to be fair, openclaw can run local if you hand wire endpoint yourself. what it will not do is find the model already sitting on your box. hermes agent found it in one line. now the part i owe you. the auto-detect that just won, the model name read, the .gguf strip, the context length probe off the server, that is my code, it is in hermes agent main right now, authorship preserved, #2051 and #4218. the wizard fix that stops an agent from silently routing you to someone else's creds, the exact trap openclaw still falls into, mine too, #4210. i contribute to hermes agent, i told you that going in. one agent is built to talk to whatever you are running, the other is built to talk to a cloud api, so one found my model and ran it and the other asked me to log into openai. onboarding flow of both, mapped, below.
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HERMES AGENT VS OPENCLAW. a local ai onboarding flow test. a 3.9gb bonsai served on localhost, both agents upstream and latest, i point each one at the endpoint and watch which one even finds it. > hermes opens a provider menu, thirty plus options, local servers sitting right there next to the cloud ones, i hand it 127.0.0.1:8899, it verifies the endpoint, one model visible, auto-detects the model by name, bonsai-27b-q1_0, reads the context length straight off the server, saves it, and starts reasoning and firing real tool calls on my local model. no key. no friction. > openclaw has no menu. it goes hunting for a codex login, an openai key, finds none because there are none, prints no models available three times, defaults to openai/gpt-5.5, a cloud model it cannot reach, and dead ends on run auth login --provider openai. read that back. it asked me for an openai key. to run a model already running on my own machine. it never once looked at localhost. to be fair, openclaw can run local if you hand wire endpoint yourself. what it will not do is find the model already sitting on your box. hermes agent found it in one line. now the part i owe you. the auto-detect that just won, the model name read, the .gguf strip, the context length probe off the server, that is my code, it is in hermes agent main right now, authorship preserved, #2051 and #4218. the wizard fix that stops an agent from silently routing you to someone else's creds, the exact trap openclaw still falls into, mine too, #4210. i contribute to hermes agent, i told you that going in. one agent is built to talk to whatever you are running, the other is built to talk to a cloud api, so one found my model and ran it and the other asked me to log into openai. onboarding flow of both, mapped, below.

Sudo su

23,816 views • 2 months ago

OpenClaw 2.0 released today, and Alex Finn is already having some fun with the upgrade experience. 😂 And if there's anyone who knows his way around the latest agent tools and what they can actually do, it's Alex. He gets his hands on just about everything in this space. Perfect time for a Hermes reminder. Hermes is free and open source. You can download it and try it with free models without even needing an API key. It's deeply customizable, from the models you use to the tools, Skills, memory, routing, agents, workflows and everything around them. And the project moves fast. Users report bugs, ask for features, share what they're building, and Teknium 🪽, Brooklyn!, witcheer and the rest of the team are constantly turning that feedback into fixes and improvements. Hermes isn't some finished product sitting still. It gets better basically every day. Already using Hermes? Give it more of your real work. Haven't tried it yet? Download it for free and start breaking things. 😂 Then tell the team what worked, what didn't, and what you want next. You might just become the next change log. Video: Nous Research
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OpenClaw 2.0 released today, and Alex Finn is already having some fun with the upgrade experience. 😂 And if there's anyone who knows his way around the latest agent tools and what they can actually do, it's Alex. He gets his hands on just about everything in this space. Perfect time for a Hermes reminder. Hermes is free and open source. You can download it and try it with free models without even needing an API key. It's deeply customizable, from the models you use to the tools, Skills, memory, routing, agents, workflows and everything around them. And the project moves fast. Users report bugs, ask for features, share what they're building, and Teknium 🪽, Brooklyn!, witcheer and the rest of the team are constantly turning that feedback into fixes and improvements. Hermes isn't some finished product sitting still. It gets better basically every day. Already using Hermes? Give it more of your real work. Haven't tried it yet? Download it for free and start breaking things. 😂 Then tell the team what worked, what didn't, and what you want next. You might just become the next change log. Video: Nous Research

Hermes Release Watch

17,125 views • 18 days ago

Buzz from jack is the future of AI It allows you to command an entire army of AI agents My Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and OpenClaw agents all work together in one place to do mind blowing work In this video I cover how it works and how you can get 100x productivity from it:
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Buzz from jack is the future of AI It allows you to command an entire army of AI agents My Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and OpenClaw agents all work together in one place to do mind blowing work In this video I cover how it works and how you can get 100x productivity from it:

Alex Finn

500,968 views • 1 month ago

HERMES AGENT LEARNS FROM ITS OWN MISTAKES. UPDATES ITS MEMORY. CREATES ITS OWN SKILLS. NO CLOUD. EVERYTHING STORED LOCALLY. THIS IS HOW THE SELF-IMPROVING LOOP WORKS. most agents start from zero every session. Hermes carries forward what it learned. THREE MEMORY SYSTEMS: 1. PROCEDURAL MEMORY (how to act) stored in ~/.hermes/skills/ as SKILL.md files. when the agent repeats a complex workflow, it saves the procedure as a reusable skill. next time the same task comes up, it follows the skill instead of figuring it out again. you can also create skills explicitly: "create a skill called video-prep that captures how I format my video scripts. spoken english, define jargon inline, no em-dashes, close with a catchphrase." the agent writes the SKILL.md. available as a slash command from that moment. Hermes ships with 90+ skills. the number grows the longer you use it. 2. SEMANTIC MEMORY (durable facts about you) stored in ~/.hermes/memory/memory.md the agent scans conversations for facts worth remembering. preferences, habits, corrections, project details. real example from the video: agent tried to scrape a YouTube channel. URL was wrong. it failed. it updated memory.md with the correct URL pattern so it never makes the same mistake again. you can also save explicitly: "save to memory that my favorite testing framework is pytest" the agent updates memory.md immediately. this file loads into context on every session. the agent knows you better every week. 3. EPISODIC MEMORY (chat history) stored in ~/.hermes/state.db (local SQLite). every conversation. every tool call. every result. searchable with FTS5 full-text search. "search our past sessions. what was the first thing I ever said to you?" the agent queries state.db and finds it. over time, auxiliary models consolidate episodic memory into semantic memory. distilling recurring patterns into durable facts. THE SELF-IMPROVING LOOP: every agent run follows this cycle: → you send a prompt → working memory loads: SOUL.md + memory.md + relevant skills + chat history → agent calls tools (terminal, browser, delegate_task) → agent completes the task, replies to you → AFTER the reply: agent checks "did I learn something worth saving?" → if yes: updates memory.md or creates a new skill → next session starts smarter than the last this happens automatically. you don't ask the agent to learn. it decides what to remember on its own. WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT FROM CLAUDE CODE: Claude Code has memory too. but Hermes stores everything locally. no cloud. your data never leaves your machine. Claude Code doesn't auto-create skills from experience. Hermes turns repeated workflows into reusable procedures. Claude Code memory is instruction-based. Hermes memory is conversational and self-updating. over months of usage, Hermes builds a knowledge base of your preferences, your projects, your mistakes, and the procedures that work for your specific workflow. the agent that remembers your birthday also remembers why your last deploy failed. NO EMBEDDINGS. PLAIN TEXT. Hermes does not use embeddings or RAG for memory. skill and memory search runs on plain text keyword matching. simpler. faster. no vector database to maintain. works entirely offline on your local machine. DELEGATE TO CLAUDE CODE: Hermes can spawn a sub-agent that runs Claude Code in headless mode: "spawn a sub-agent using Claude CLI to build a Python script that fetches the top 5 Hacker News stories to markdown." Hermes delegates. Claude Code writes the code. result returns to Hermes. Hermes runs the script and delivers the output. use Hermes for orchestration. use Claude Code for heavy coding. both tools. not competitors. WHAT HERMES DOES NOT HAVE: no built-in eval or LMOps system. no LangSmith, no LangFuse integration out of the box. trajectory export and logs exist but there is no automated quality tracking. if you need eval, build it yourself or connect external tools. the loop is self-improving. measuring how well it improves is on you. comment LOOP and I'll send you the configs that control how fast Hermes learns and what it remembers. memory limits, skill auto-creation triggers, and the auxiliary model that runs the learning. Replace your entire team with 8 hermes agents👇
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HERMES AGENT LEARNS FROM ITS OWN MISTAKES. UPDATES ITS MEMORY. CREATES ITS OWN SKILLS. NO CLOUD. EVERYTHING STORED LOCALLY. THIS IS HOW THE SELF-IMPROVING LOOP WORKS. most agents start from zero every session. Hermes carries forward what it learned. THREE MEMORY SYSTEMS: 1. PROCEDURAL MEMORY (how to act) stored in ~/.hermes/skills/ as SKILL.md files. when the agent repeats a complex workflow, it saves the procedure as a reusable skill. next time the same task comes up, it follows the skill instead of figuring it out again. you can also create skills explicitly: "create a skill called video-prep that captures how I format my video scripts. spoken english, define jargon inline, no em-dashes, close with a catchphrase." the agent writes the SKILL.md. available as a slash command from that moment. Hermes ships with 90+ skills. the number grows the longer you use it. 2. SEMANTIC MEMORY (durable facts about you) stored in ~/.hermes/memory/memory.md the agent scans conversations for facts worth remembering. preferences, habits, corrections, project details. real example from the video: agent tried to scrape a YouTube channel. URL was wrong. it failed. it updated memory.md with the correct URL pattern so it never makes the same mistake again. you can also save explicitly: "save to memory that my favorite testing framework is pytest" the agent updates memory.md immediately. this file loads into context on every session. the agent knows you better every week. 3. EPISODIC MEMORY (chat history) stored in ~/.hermes/state.db (local SQLite). every conversation. every tool call. every result. searchable with FTS5 full-text search. "search our past sessions. what was the first thing I ever said to you?" the agent queries state.db and finds it. over time, auxiliary models consolidate episodic memory into semantic memory. distilling recurring patterns into durable facts. THE SELF-IMPROVING LOOP: every agent run follows this cycle: → you send a prompt → working memory loads: SOUL.md + memory.md + relevant skills + chat history → agent calls tools (terminal, browser, delegate_task) → agent completes the task, replies to you → AFTER the reply: agent checks "did I learn something worth saving?" → if yes: updates memory.md or creates a new skill → next session starts smarter than the last this happens automatically. you don't ask the agent to learn. it decides what to remember on its own. WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT FROM CLAUDE CODE: Claude Code has memory too. but Hermes stores everything locally. no cloud. your data never leaves your machine. Claude Code doesn't auto-create skills from experience. Hermes turns repeated workflows into reusable procedures. Claude Code memory is instruction-based. Hermes memory is conversational and self-updating. over months of usage, Hermes builds a knowledge base of your preferences, your projects, your mistakes, and the procedures that work for your specific workflow. the agent that remembers your birthday also remembers why your last deploy failed. NO EMBEDDINGS. PLAIN TEXT. Hermes does not use embeddings or RAG for memory. skill and memory search runs on plain text keyword matching. simpler. faster. no vector database to maintain. works entirely offline on your local machine. DELEGATE TO CLAUDE CODE: Hermes can spawn a sub-agent that runs Claude Code in headless mode: "spawn a sub-agent using Claude CLI to build a Python script that fetches the top 5 Hacker News stories to markdown." Hermes delegates. Claude Code writes the code. result returns to Hermes. Hermes runs the script and delivers the output. use Hermes for orchestration. use Claude Code for heavy coding. both tools. not competitors. WHAT HERMES DOES NOT HAVE: no built-in eval or LMOps system. no LangSmith, no LangFuse integration out of the box. trajectory export and logs exist but there is no automated quality tracking. if you need eval, build it yourself or connect external tools. the loop is self-improving. measuring how well it improves is on you. comment LOOP and I'll send you the configs that control how fast Hermes learns and what it remembers. memory limits, skill auto-creation triggers, and the auxiliary model that runs the learning. Replace your entire team with 8 hermes agents👇

YanXbt

22,720 views • 2 months ago

HERMES AGENT SHIPS WITH A BUNDLED SKILL FOR ANDREJ KARPATHY'S LLM WIKI PATTERN. A SELF-IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE BASE THAT GROWS EVERY TIME YOU FEED IT. mentioned this briefly in the overnight workflow article. here is the full breakdown. what it is: a self-improving knowledge base built as interlinked markdown files. unlike RAG (which rediscovers knowledge from scratch every query), the wiki compiles knowledge once and keeps it current. cross-references stay linked. contradictions get flagged automatically. synthesis reflects everything ingested so far. why this matters for Hermes memory: Hermes built-in memory knows YOU. it remembers your conversations, your preferences, your business context across sessions. but it doesn't know your inbox. or your meeting transcripts. or that article you saved last week. or the expert framework you want it to learn. the LLM Wiki solves that. THE DIVISION OF LABOR human curates sources and directs analysis. agent summarizes, cross-references, files, and maintains consistency. you drop in articles, transcripts, notes. Hermes indexes them, links related concepts, flags contradictions, updates affected pages. your knowledge base grows itself. SETUP IS ONE COMMAND the skill ships with Hermes. enable it. set WIKI_PATH in ~/.hermes/.env: WIKI_PATH=/Users/you/wiki defaults to ~/wiki if unset. then drop anything into it: "index this article into my wiki: [paste URL or text]" Hermes reads it, builds a source page, updates related entries, flags contradictions. THE OBSIDIAN ANGLE set OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH to the same directory. now your wiki is visible in Obsidian's graph view. nodes, links, backlinks. all built by Hermes. for headless servers: install obsidian-headless. syncs vaults without a GUI. agent writes from the server, you read on your laptop. THE COMPOUND EFFECT Hermes knows you. the wiki knows your world. combine them and the agent answers questions using BOTH contexts at once. month 1: you explain things twice. month 3: the agent references the wiki on its own. answers get sharper because the knowledge base got sharper. AUTOMATIONS THAT FEED THE WIKI set cron jobs to ingest automatically: "every day at 9am, check Granola for new meetings. add any new transcripts to my wiki under meeting notes." "every morning, scan my Gmail starred items. add anything worth keeping to the wiki." "every week, check arXiv for new papers in [your niche]. summarize and file." your wiki grows while you sleep. Hermes never forgets what gets indexed. THE LIMITATION TO KNOW unlike Hermes memory (which is conversational and lives across sessions), the wiki is a separate knowledge layer. Hermes won't pull from the wiki automatically unless you reference it or save it as a skill. best setup: build an LLM Wiki personality that tells Hermes to consult the wiki when answering strategy questions or domain-specific queries. full HERMES AGENT OVERNIGHT WORKFLOW👇
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HERMES AGENT SHIPS WITH A BUNDLED SKILL FOR ANDREJ KARPATHY'S LLM WIKI PATTERN. A SELF-IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE BASE THAT GROWS EVERY TIME YOU FEED IT. mentioned this briefly in the overnight workflow article. here is the full breakdown. what it is: a self-improving knowledge base built as interlinked markdown files. unlike RAG (which rediscovers knowledge from scratch every query), the wiki compiles knowledge once and keeps it current. cross-references stay linked. contradictions get flagged automatically. synthesis reflects everything ingested so far. why this matters for Hermes memory: Hermes built-in memory knows YOU. it remembers your conversations, your preferences, your business context across sessions. but it doesn't know your inbox. or your meeting transcripts. or that article you saved last week. or the expert framework you want it to learn. the LLM Wiki solves that. THE DIVISION OF LABOR human curates sources and directs analysis. agent summarizes, cross-references, files, and maintains consistency. you drop in articles, transcripts, notes. Hermes indexes them, links related concepts, flags contradictions, updates affected pages. your knowledge base grows itself. SETUP IS ONE COMMAND the skill ships with Hermes. enable it. set WIKI_PATH in ~/.hermes/.env: WIKI_PATH=/Users/you/wiki defaults to ~/wiki if unset. then drop anything into it: "index this article into my wiki: [paste URL or text]" Hermes reads it, builds a source page, updates related entries, flags contradictions. THE OBSIDIAN ANGLE set OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH to the same directory. now your wiki is visible in Obsidian's graph view. nodes, links, backlinks. all built by Hermes. for headless servers: install obsidian-headless. syncs vaults without a GUI. agent writes from the server, you read on your laptop. THE COMPOUND EFFECT Hermes knows you. the wiki knows your world. combine them and the agent answers questions using BOTH contexts at once. month 1: you explain things twice. month 3: the agent references the wiki on its own. answers get sharper because the knowledge base got sharper. AUTOMATIONS THAT FEED THE WIKI set cron jobs to ingest automatically: "every day at 9am, check Granola for new meetings. add any new transcripts to my wiki under meeting notes." "every morning, scan my Gmail starred items. add anything worth keeping to the wiki." "every week, check arXiv for new papers in [your niche]. summarize and file." your wiki grows while you sleep. Hermes never forgets what gets indexed. THE LIMITATION TO KNOW unlike Hermes memory (which is conversational and lives across sessions), the wiki is a separate knowledge layer. Hermes won't pull from the wiki automatically unless you reference it or save it as a skill. best setup: build an LLM Wiki personality that tells Hermes to consult the wiki when answering strategy questions or domain-specific queries. full HERMES AGENT OVERNIGHT WORKFLOW👇

YanXbt

30,804 views • 3 months ago

My Hermes agent builds AI employees for me. Just closed another $5K‑a‑month customer today for an AI employee for a design agency. I'm not even building any of it. I have Dewey, my Hermes agent, building out the entire Hermes agent for this design agency and onboarding the agent into Slack for me. All I do is ask the questions, make sure it gets recorded in Granola (my ai notetaker), and then Dewey takes it over from there. Crazy world we live in.
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My Hermes agent builds AI employees for me. Just closed another $5K‑a‑month customer today for an AI employee for a design agency. I'm not even building any of it. I have Dewey, my Hermes agent, building out the entire Hermes agent for this design agency and onboarding the agent into Slack for me. All I do is ask the questions, make sure it gets recorded in Granola (my ai notetaker), and then Dewey takes it over from there. Crazy world we live in.

Nick Vasilescu

148,748 views • 1 month ago

OpenClaw 2.0 just dropped and it's the biggest OC update of all time It has great new features and a slick new interface It's also the most frustrating, disappointing release of the year In this video I cover all the updates and if you should switch from Hermes and Grok Bot:
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OpenClaw 2.0 just dropped and it's the biggest OC update of all time It has great new features and a slick new interface It's also the most frustrating, disappointing release of the year In this video I cover all the updates and if you should switch from Hermes and Grok Bot:

Alex Finn

116,146 views • 18 days ago