Hermes Agent Goals is INSANE (FREE Setup)

Hermes agent's new goals update just dropped and it turns Hermes into a true 24-7 AI employee for free. Imagine telling your AI agent exactly what you want done, walking away and coming back to find it completely finished. That's exactly what Hermes agent's new goals update just made possible and is free, which means that you don't need to manage it. You don't need to type keep going over and over.

There's no being stuck as the bottleneck yourself. Just give Hermes a goal and it runs on its own until the work is done. This is one of the biggest free upgrades Hermes has ever shipped and in this video I'm going to show you how to use it to get more done in a day than most people get done in a week. Plus there's one thing I want to show you later that makes this whole system even more powerful.

Stay with me for that one, let's go. Today I'm going to be walking you through the new system inside Hermes for goals right. Basically what this means is you can set a goal or Hermes AI agent. So for example we can go inside here and we can say okay go off create a blog about OpenClaw and make sure it's hosted so I can preview it, add a few blog posts, plus make it look beautiful.

So we can plug that into our system then we can hit launch goal like and you can see that's now running right and so what this is going to do is move into goals mode and basically what happens with Hermes agent goals mode is you set the target and then you can just walk away right. So Hermes forward slash goal gives the agent a standard objective that survives every turn right. So a judge model actually decides if it's done or continued after each response and if the goal isn't met Hermes feeds itself the next prompt and keeps working until the target is hit or the turn budget actually runs out. So you can close your laptop and then you just come back to finish work right.

So this is Hermes agent and that's the goal over here. Pretty amazing stuff and the default for this is 20 turns which means that you'll just keep going off and making sure it's done 20 times before it's finally completed. This is the power of this stuff right. So you can set the target, walk away, hand Hermes a long horizon goal, then it will run that, you can close your laptop, go to sleep, come back to finish work right.

That's how powerful this stuff is and so you might be wondering okay what is Hermes goal mode. For example if we look at this system you see how it's running this autonomous loop right here to get the goal done. That's exactly what it's about right. So forward slash goal gives Hermes a standing objective that doesn't stop after one term.

After every turn a lightweight judge model reads the agent's last response and decides is it done or should we keep continuing. If continue Hermes actually auto creates a continuation prompt back into the same session and keeps working without you typing keep going three more times right. So for example if you go into chat gpt you say go off and do this it will just stop on one turn. If you go into Hermes agent using the goals feature you can see how it's still running autonomously until eventually gets done.

That's the difference right and it's noose researchers take on Ralph loop. Now if you're not familiar with noose researcher basically the creator of Hermes agent one of the most respected AI labs in the world and this is their take on something called the Ralph loop right. So you keep a goal live and it doesn't stop until it's achieved. This is something similar to what codex just released which is forward slash goals well but adapted to Hermes architecture right and so it works identically on the CLI and every gateway as well.

So you can do this inside telegram or discord or inside your agent operating system like I am and Hermes will basically go off and do this right. So the old way in the new way let's talk about this. So let's say for example we had the same long horizon task right same agent so you're using for example Hermes but two completely different workflows right. So you've got the goals workflow and then you have the old way which is like after 30 minutes of keep going get it done right.

With the old way you'd have to re-prompt it every single turn right and it'd be like 30 minutes of just keep going. So you type the goal the agent does one turn and it stops right then you type keep going the agent does one more turn it stops you type again right and you repeat that 10 or 20 different times and each prompt loses more context because the agent forgets the original goal halfway through and if you walk away for an hour the agent is sitting idle waiting for your next keep going. So you have these long refactors that take hours of human in the loop attention and the goals get abandoned eventually because nobody wants to sit and just babysit a Hermes agent right they just want to let it go off and do things and so agents with the old way basically do small tasks and you're basically the bottleneck right on anything larger because you have to sit there and click continue keep going. The new way is Hermes forward slash goal which means zero minutes of just attending and making sure it gets stuff done right so one forward slash goal with the goal inserted and the agent starts immediately then the judge model decides if it's done or continues after every turn so there's no human needed.

It's a 20 turn budget by default which is configurable so you can actually change it anytime you want and it can auto pause at the limit so you can resume in chunks. The original goal text stays in context every turn so that the agent never forgets what your original goal was and it persists across forward slash resume so if you close the laptop come back tomorrow the goals is still standing right and you can also set up a sub goal with the text as well and this actually tightens the success criteria mid-loop without breaking everything. So you set the target you walk away you come back to finish work right and so with the old way the result is like the agents do small tasks but you don't create anything bigger with the new way you can have long horizon work that finishes on its own and you stop being the bottom you don't manage the agent turn by turn you actually just hand it the target that's the difference here and you can see it's still running right here right it's very autonomous. Let's see what questions we've got here.

Sporter says side question do you think the new google updates are impressive which LLMs you prefer? So one of the coolest ones that I've discovered recently for LLMs is grok 4.3 particularly if you're using Hermes agent very powerful stuff with the new google updates I really the one that I love and I think people are missing out on this is anti-gravity right because you can use anti-gravity CLI inside the system like this and then you can have it working across all of your AI agents in a beautiful dashboard that's what you want right you can see anti-gravity over here that's what I like and I think you got upgrades and stuff so for example you've got like OMI you've got the video generation stuff like that that's really cool as well and also just in general if you're using google it's way faster now on their AI side so I like that too. So let's talk about the three moving parts here as well so some people say what is the judge about? So after every turn Hermes basically calls the judge with standing goal text the most recent response and it's deliberately conservative right so it only marks a goal done when the response explicitly confirms completion when the deliverable is clearly produced or when the goal is genuinely blocked right and so it helps you achieve progress then you've got the turn budget so you can say the default is 20 turns 20 chances to hit this right but it will auto pause and you can always extend the number of turns that actually gets to keep going at the goal and then you have the loop right the continuation prompt which is a plan user role message appended to history right so basically what this means is like every time it keeps running the loop it's still got the context that's what we want you've got all these different commands that you can use with it so you got like goal you got forward slash goal status goal pause goal resume goal clear these are all different ways that you can command the agent to for example see the status what you're doing or see how many turns it's used and that sort of thing or what agents and what sub goals it has as well right so you have one goal in many turns out that's the play right here right so if we go back you can see it's still running right it's still building out this system right here for us and then we can see what it's created and everything else pretty nice and then if you want to see like a previous example you can see that it created out this whole website like you can see right here we've actually completed like different goals this was just a very simple one i actually did like a nice little haiku about a lobster but yeah you see how it works so it's really cool and then you could use this for creating new websites for example automating big goals that you have and everything else and also something to note here is persistence right so the goal state leaves locally if you come back tomorrow if you close your laptop and want to come back tomorrow then you can run forward slash resume and the goal stands where you left it which is pretty cool as well so really cool system some people are not going to use it but the setup is free right because hermes agent is free it's open source the api that you can use of it for example like our alpha which is free on open router is free and the goal skill as well is free right it's created by hermes and baked into hermes directly as well and i've seen so many people get great results with stuff like this like hermes agent particularly there's nothing stopping you from doing it as well now let's talk about some limiting beliefs that might be holding you back here so some people want to say i need to watch every single step but every goal runs in its own directory so nothing actually collides with your work so it's all siloed off which is awesome other people say always the judge isn't good enough and that sort of thing it might get it wrong sometimes but 90 percent of the time you're all good you're not gonna have problem and then other people say i'll just keep typing keep going to get the same result right but if you do that if you just use ai agents normally then you are the bottleneck because as soon as you walk away the agent stops working whereas if you use forward slash goal you set the target you walk away and you come back to finish work i've actually got a 30-day roadmap inside the air profitable and for using this so hermes gold map mode just to recap the three moving parts the judge model the term budget and the continuation loop and the result is long horizon work that finishes on its own so you stop being the bottleneck and tasks bigger than one turn you set the target you walk away you come back to finish work now inside the ar profit boardroom if you want to get my agent operating system the goal mode configured inside there if you want weekly coaching calls and the rest of the agent operating system plus a 30-day roadmap for implementing this alongside claude open claw codex anti-gravity gemini free code all wired together inside this beautiful system as you can see then you can get that inside the ai profit boardroom link in the comments description or go to the air profitable.com you get all my best trainings inside here we've got a zip file for installing this agent operating system we have all the prompts and also show you when i've last updated it as well so you know you get the current version and then also inside here it's just an awesome community of good vibes people helping each other people asking questions people sharing cool stuff which is great lots of people getting awesome wins with ai you can connect with me personally inside there you get all of my new trainings you can jump on weekly coaching calls we have four weekly coaching calls and then also you can connect with people in your local city who are using ai agents just like you right so it's a great way to connect with people and connect with me personally as well inside there so feel free to get that link in the comments description or just go to the ai profitable.com to get access