Turn Hermes Agent Into Your Chief of Staff In 18 Mins

Hermes is the most powerful agent on the planet and they just dropped quicks which unlocks new capabilities but only if you know how to use them correctly. And in this video I'm going to show you exactly how to turn Hermes agent into your chief of staff that will be way smarter, save you hours of time and even improve any design that you have. So if you haven't already, grab that beautiful coffee [music] and let's dive straight in. So, the Quicksilver update was the latest update out there. And it's not the Quicksilver from X-Men if that's what you're thinking about. It's actually way cooler than that. And it does unlock incredible capabilities. And essentially, when we think about the Quicksilver update, there's a couple of things that it does. And then I'm going to show you three incredible use cases that will level up your Hermes agent and a bonus fourth one that you have to leverage. It is ridiculous. And so, the backbone, the foundation of what enables these new capabilities is the quick silver update. It's smart approvals. We have durable background jobs, delivery ledgers, profile routting, and per task effort. I could talk about it for a while, but the best way to actually show you what these do is in an actual use case. So, we're going to go down and I'm going to show you in level one, which is all around knowledge. Now, this one is an incredible use case. And by the way, if you're new, my name is Jack. I built and saw my last tech startup with a gazillion customers, and now I cover AI stuff that actually works. If that's interesting to you, feel free to like and comment and join the channel. It supports the growth out quite a lot and I sincerely appreciate it. So let's talk about the whole knowledge set of thing with Hermes. So this is incredible. Let me give you a classic example. Let's say that I'm having a conversation with Hermes agent, right? I'm going to pick the model GBC 5.6 solve. That sounds fine. Going to come down and say, "Hey there. Could you just confirm which model I'm talking to right now?" By the way, I'm using this in the Agentic operating system for Hermes. It's the same thing that I bolt everything else out in. It's very, very cool. You can also do this in Telegram or Terminal. This just gives me loads of new optionality and functionality. So you're talking to GBT 5.6 Sonet. One very cool thing that you can do with Hermes agent. So let's say for example that you find something you think is interesting. It could be educational. It could be a restaurant you want to hit to. It could be anything you want to because your chief of staff crucially has to know all of your ideas and anything you want to. And you can use Hermes agent for Buzz. And I'm going to show you actually how you can level this up in a crazy way. So, let's say that we were thinking we're living in Budapest, which I'm right now, and I want to know good reference to go, but I don't have time to read that article to watch that video. I can literally grab any YouTube URL. I can come straight over to Hemy's agent. Let's say that I want to have a conversation with Grock 4.5, one of the latest models, Grock, they've got new ones coming out, and I can literally just say, "Hey, which model is this?" Okay. And the reason why I like using my operating system is because I get loads of additional contacts. I get information about the context window, what my limit usages are with Claude, uh what's taking up all of my free space, you know, all that kind of thing. So, I might say, "Hey, that I want you to go ahead and learn this video, uh summarize it back to me in five crisp, short, short bullets, and then just save it to your Obsidian memory such that I can ask you questions about it whenever. All right? And then literally come down and just simply drop in the URL." And just like that, it's come back, which is fantastic. And it's explained what the five bullets are and it's saved. Now, the cool thing about a chief of staff is obviously every piece of information that we give it is stored in our memory system, which is amazing. But the best part about it is the fact that it isn't just us that can give it that information. And this is the real unlock. It could be our team. It could be, let's say that someone on your team has said that, hey, I think we can double our conversion rates if we did X and they themselves can actually message Hermes agent and we could do that on text. We can connect that via Telegram or iMessage, any means that you want to. Now what's cool is this obviously if you want to if you want to actually create multiple profiles inside Hermes agent you can just ask it and tell it this new thing it will set itself up which is awesome and people can text it and they have their own profile. So for example you say give my brother his own profile so his messages don't land on my vault. That's fine. There's some technical details specifically on how to do it. The way that it works is each profile gets its own config and skills memory and session history and credentials. Um but you still share the same homie skill. that's still on send machine and the same bot uh when they send the message. Um so basically whichever the host OS can reach. So if you want to keep your own private Hermes agent, which is what I would recommend, I wouldn't let anybody else message your own Hermes agent. But this is here for example, let's say you have a business and it's a business assistant using this and chatting to Hermes and basically connecting it to different accounts. You can do that in the exact same way that you created it. If not, you can actually get the ideas and this is what I do and I just forward them to Hermes agent and then Hermes saves them and then I can ask them any questions that I want to. Now level one is the dynamic use of your knowledge but level two takes it a complete step further which effectively is solving the admin problem with Hermes agent. The very first thing you need to do is send the prompt to Hermes as agent and say, "Hey, I want you to interview me about everything that I do on a daily basis. And I want you to tell me ways that you can help me save time and take admin off my shoulders." Once you've done that, you're going to want to go ahead and connect it to what I would call the core three. Your calendar, your email, and even your calls. So, for example, I use personally something called Granola. Any call that I'm on, Granola joins the chat. They're not a sponsor of the video or anything, but basically what that does is enables Hermes agent to go and listen to it and it has that full context. And once you've connected these to Hermes, it can go to a completely different level. For example, if I'm chatting with Hermes agent, I might come down and say, "Hey, what was the what is the title of the next appointment that I have inside my calendar?" But the coolest thing that it does is actually drop me a daily brief, a daily insight digest every single morning of all the calls I have coming up that day, all the emails that are unread. It even drafts emails for me to do that. Personally, I use a software called Zapia MCP. I can connect to platforms through Zapia that I don't really get access to anywhere else. School is a really good example of that as well. If you have a community, but the core one is also Microsoft Outlook, believe it or not. Like people find that really tough to connect to. So, it's great. I can kind of permission click all the permissions that I want in it. For example, if you here and you actually add an MCP server like Gmail for example, you can select line by line the thing that you want. I find this unbelievably helpful. And as you see, I come back to Hermes OS and the podcast placeholder is all done. One of the reasons why I like using Gro is because it can actually search X for me as well. A little side hack just really helpful. So if I'm debating ideas, I can say, "Hey, go and find me five posts with climbing levels of engagement in the last 5 days about Claude or Kimmy K3." And it can go ahead and do that because it has direct access to the corpus of information inside Croc. Now once you actually go ahead and you give it the connections to your um meeting noteaker to your email and your Gmail, you can do something very interesting. And honestly, this is one of the most fun uses I find in Hermes agent using this own specific style of doing it. And I'd highly encourage you to do this. Go over to your Hermes agent. And look, this one's come back and give me loads of details on X, which I think is handy. How did that get on? I'm just checking out in terms of its actual prompts and its tokens. So, if I come back over here to the conversation with Hermes agent, I might come down and I highly recommend you do this is give it a proactive prompt. Say to it something like every day I want to get a daily breakdown. look at my calendars, look at my emails, look at my calls, and also look at everything that's happened in the week and give me some specifics. Now, it's cool. I can now query one agent with anything. For example, I had an idea earlier that I wanted to reply to a a basically a potential partner with, and I said, "Hey, go draft me an email." And it just did it for me instantaneously. Now, that's interesting, but what makes this even more powerful now is the Quicksilver update, which I think is really sweet. So, for example, it has something called smart approvals, which means that if it's considering doing something safe, it would actually go ahead and just do it. And the way that it works that, and this is why it's important, is an assistant that needs your permission for every single step can't work while you're asleep. You imagine, you know, being the CEO of a company, and your chief of staff is always like, "Hey, is it okay if I um, you know, send this email? Is it okay if I cover lunch for everybody today?" You would never get anything done because you have to keep saying yes. Smart approvals is really interesting with this quick silver update. So, before you'd say, "Check my calendar at 7 a.m." and texts me the day. It hits it first and then stops and asks you whilst you're asleep. And if you're asleep, you can't do anything cuz it's just stuck on approvals. I've had that before. I've given it commands and I come back an hour later and it's like waiting on like you didn't say it was okay. Now, check my calendar at 7:00 a.m. texting the day. And what happens is a second model reads each command first, waves through the harmless stuff, and blocks anything dangerous, and only wakes you for anything that's genuinely risky. That is the difference between a chatbot that you babysit and an assistant that just cracks on and makes magic happen. And then that takes us on to level three, because our chief of staff needs the ability to think. It needs the ability to actually orchestrate and organize our admin. But the third level here, and when I show the bonus level, it's I'm so stoked for that one. The thing about the taste though is that anything we ask Hermes agent to do sometimes it needs to build things like beautiful PDFs. It needs to build documents. It's so important that it has the ability to build something beautiful. Now the incredible thing is we just had what is ranked number one in the world on essentially a it's an entire if you like ranking system and I've even pulled up here for you that shows that Kim K3 is number one even surpassing Claude Fable 5. And that's great news for you and I because it's roughly 30% of the cost. It is a little bit less token efficient, but the fact we've got this openweight Chinese model which is so awesome for us in building anything that we want to inside Hermes agent. So here's the key detail. And by the way, if this sounds like Spanish or you really want to get ahead, I'm going to put a link down below for the full Hermes masterass. This includes stuff I have never covered on YouTube. It's the most comprehensive system that gets you from zero to hero with Hermes and also includes the full agentic operating system that I use in my content that I've spent so many hours and hours building out. So you get all that with one click down below. Now here's the key thing is that we can actually tag in this Kimmy K3 model and saltable anything we want to. But we can really take it a step further. So we understand that with our actual agentic operating system we can have a few things connected by oorthth. What does oorthth mean? It means open authentication. It means that we can use our $20 a month chat GBT subscription to talk to it. Awesome. And the exact same thing with Grock. But if we want to bring in models like Kimmy K3 GLM 5.2 and then the latest flavor of the week, we can do that with open router. So you want to go ahead and create an open router account. And then the other thing that I like to give cuz we need to give Hermes agent some tools. I like to give it the ability to create beautiful images and videos like even this for example that you see right here. these graphics I build with these image generators. So, you can use something like Higsfield. Just to show what that looks like, um you can use another website as well called Kia AI. They let you basically access all of the different models, the videos, the very best image generation, video generation. As you can see, I spend hundreds of dollars on this stuff. It's very, very cool. But you can see you can access the latest and greatest models and connect those to Hermes agent. So when I say build me a presentation for LinkedIn or build me something that's beautiful, it can go ahead and do that for us. So let's take a look at two quick examples. One is this which is a presentation that we delivered uh for Glideo, our speech tech startup talking about loads of cool stuff, right? Let's say I have something I think is cool. What I can literally do is give her agent a link. I can come over to a new chat and I can say something like, "Hey, I want you to go ahead and in fact let's go ahead and use Kimmy K3, shall we?" Let's go down and find Kim K3. Where are we at with Kimmy K3? There we go. Beautiful. I'm going to say, quote me two pages in this exact style. Um, and do it for, I don't know, cola. Page one should be why it's the best cola company in the world, and page two should be the flavors that it has. And then just give me a simple link for me to go ahead and use. All right. And then I'm going to give it the example reference images, a reference link, and do that. And Kim K3 is profoundly capable, and its performance per cost to use it is insanity. And whilst Kim K3 is doing that, another thing that we can do if we want to, if I open up a new window, again, I can use any model I like. I've got Hermes here. It's really handy. And if I want to chat with Claude code, by the way, I click on Claude Code. I can come down, either pick the ones I've got. Again, I can do Claude code Kimmy K3. Effectively, anything I want, but I want to be using the Hermes agent harness here. And let's go ahead and we can use check GPT 5.6 salt. Again, if you don't want to spend any additional tokens, 5.6 soul is actually quite powerful. As you can see here, GPT 5.6 soul extra high was probably about 70 less tokens. So, it's better than 4.8, but it's only slightly it's only defeated by Fable 5 and Kimmy K3. So, it is awesome. And so, since I've got GBT 5.6 Soul, I'm going to come down, make sure it's on the high mode. In fact, let's go extra high and then just give this a prompt. Hey there, I have a meeting with my team later today. do me just one really crisp HTML overview talking about the numbers for this quart quarter and strategies of how to improve. This is just an example. So, make up something fictitious, make it look beautiful and give me some nice HTML graphics as well, please. All right, go ahead and then just send that one off and GPT 5.6 salt will go ahead and make magic happen. And then we have the result. So, this is from GPT 5.6 salt. This is good, guys. This is really impressive. This is something that does not look like AI slop. I gave it no direction and just look at this. We've got year-over-year and it's really understood the whole slide divide which is cool. I think it's freaking amazing. Growth is diversifying $3.2 million productled outbound partners community. Fantastic. We can show our growth. Then at the bottom we've got demand is healthy activation mix value. All random stuff doesn't mean anything but we asked it as an example and we can give these commands to the model and it can make something fantastic. But what's really interesting is Kimmy K3. All I gave it was a website. Think about that. Just a website. And let's see what it's gone ahead and done. I'm going to expect this together. I click on it. And here we go. The best cola company in the world. Obsessive recipe, real ingredients. Eyes cold everywhere. Love by billions. Now guys, this has taken exactly the design that I gave it. The same font, the same color scheme. It is crazy. One recipe, four ways to drink it. It is absolutely nailed that. And all it gave with Kim K3 was an actual link. Now we can use this, we can create images, we can create videos, everything we want to with our Hermes agent. Meaning, and this is the really cool thing that essentially Hermes gets the best taste skills possible cuz it's got this fantastic design system. And this helps from a cost perspective because Fable 5, Kim K, they're more expensive than the cheaper models. What's cool here is we have this model once which is borrowing a model for one turn and then we go straight back. So for example, instead of saying hey switch to a good model for this one, you can say model use this once. Basically it uses that good model for the next turn only then drops back on its own and effort now goes up to max and ultra when a job actually earns it. Meaning you're getting the ultimate firepower only when you need it and you're not going to have increased bills as a result of it. In other words, the cheap models, the volume and expensive models basically do the one term that actually needs the taste and design. But if you're using GPT 5.6 salt as your daily driver, you're going to get incredible designs anyway. But we may want to tag in the Kimmy K3s for that extra finesse and pizzazz. Then the bonus level here is the ability of Hermes Agent to actually improve when it sleeps. Now, one of the developers behind Hermes Agent actually did some work on this which is really interesting. disconnected from the main Hermes repo and effectively the idea is that Hermes agent whilst it's sleeping basically assesses all of its own stuff and the way that that effectively works is it audits all its own recent failure so anytime it couldn't do something or it struggled or it's like hey Jack I really can't make that thing happen right now it looks at that for real sessions therefore it can actually evolve better skill files to not make that mistake a second time meaning that you won't have the same error again and again and that therefore means that it can score each variant so the best one survives and then it can even open a pull pull request. It can start basically changing its own system, changing its own skills, which is incredible. And I'll put a link for this down below. It's called a self agent evolution repo and it effectively explains exactly how this works. Now the cool thing about the quicks all update is that you can have this cron audit history. Now what you can do and I highly recommend you always do this is grab any repo and let's say that we're chatting with iOS. I can drop it in and I could say something along the lines of, "Hey, I want to create a system in which you actually order everything on a daily basis. I want you to look at all of the times that you failed, all your failed cron jobs." Cron job, by the way, just basically means when you set up a task, like, "Hey, drop me a brief at 8:00 a.m. every morning or remind me of this in x amount of times." So, I want you to go ahead, homies, and basically a stuff. Then, I want you to go ahead and look at your skills. What are the skills that you haven't used in a long time? What are the skills that aren't that great that could potentially be improved? And effectively, what I want you to do is come back and set up a system where you are improving yourself on a daily basis using one of our oorthth models and essentially come back and give me those recommendations and tell me in my morning brief exactly what you did as a result of that and effectively paste that into Hermes and watch it work its magic. Obviously, it's awesome that this cron audit history was unlocked by Quicksilver, which is awesome. But with an agentic operating system, we can take the stream feature a step further. For example, we can also grab everything from claude. We can grab our usage and bring the everything of things together into one system, getting actions and updates that you can use on a daily basis. Which is why the next thing that we need to do is learn how to use one of these agentic operating systems, which we're going to do together in this video right