Hermes Agent V0.17 Just Changed AI Agents Forever!

So Hermes have just dropped version 0.17, the Reach release, I'm going to guide you through exactly what it means, what's changed, what it means for you, how to use it, etc. And we're going to get straight into this. So you can see the GitHub right here and the new updates. This literally just dropped four hours ago.

And this is the new update from Hermes. Now, if you don't know how to get this update, all you do is you update inside your dashboard. So to do that, you can go to your Hermes, go to manage, scroll down, click on update Hermes, and it'll begin updating as you can see right there inside your dashboard. You can also go inside the terminal and then once you've finished updating, it will say 0.17, not 0.16.

Or you can go inside your terminal and you can say Hermes update to get the latest version. So let's talk about the highlights, what's changed, what it means, what it means for you, etc. So some of the highlights here, number one, Hermes reaches iMessage. So this means essentially that you can use iMessage with Hermes.

You can run Hermes font on login, authenticate, and then Hermes can send and receive iMessages. Which means that you can use your Hermes agent basically on your phone, you can use it with iMessage, it's pretty good. So if you've ever tried to put an AI inside iMessage, it's not that smooth. Now it is using this new setup.

On top of that, they've got something called Raft. So Raft Hermes joins the Raft network as a gateway channel. So a new bundled Raft platform adapter lets Hermes connect to Raft as an external agent for a wake channel bridge. So you can see an example of what Raft looks like and you basically add Hermes to it now as well.

And this way humans and AI agents can build together according their platform. Again, this is pretty new to me, I've never come across Raft before, but that looks pretty cool as well. And then we have an improved Hermes desktop app. So if you've ever used Hermes on the desktop, it's got a lot better this week.

By the way, some of these releases, they bring out before the announcement of the big release. So they'll just release them part by part as you can see. And then once you go into Hermes desktop, you can click update now and it'll begin updating and then you can get the latest version of Hermes desktop. You might be wondering, okay, what happened, what's changed, et cetera.

So you've got native OS notifications, live sub-agent watch windows, and all sorts of stuff here. Now there's also asynchronous sub-agents. So you can delegate work and keep going with Hermes. That's another big part of the update.

Now, if you're wondering, okay, what are asynchronous agents? So you can see an example right here. Basically what this means is that you can fan out and delegate all your tasks at once. So you can spawn a team of sub-agents all at one time that work together.

Now, if you want to see an example of how that looks in practice, basically you can give each, you can give Hermes a task and it will delegate it to multiple sub-agents when it's a sub-agent related task, right? So basically you have a lead agent, like your main Hermes agent profile, then you give it a task and it will spawn like four to five sub-agents. And then it will actually gather those sub-agents tasks together and you get the results back in your chat. So let's say for example, you were building out a website as a use case.

You could say to Hermes, okay, go off, research this topic for this keyword, optimize the page, post it to my website, and also make sure you create a video at the same time, right? And so when it does that, essentially you would have like multiple sub-agents working on different parts of the task that are automatically delegated by your lead Hermes agent. So for example, it could be like one starts working on the keyword research, one starts creating a video, etc. If you want to see an example of that in action, here's an example of how it can play out, right?

So you can say, okay, go off and create this video. And then you've got like an editor, you might have a judge, you might have a video writer, and you might have, for example, a script writer too, and they all work at the same time building out stuff together. There's also an option for editing images. So you can now edit images, not just generate them with image to image generate.

This is a new skill, but it means you can now edit and transform a source image, not only create one from scratch. This can work with Fowl, OpenAI, Grok, Craya, OpenAI CodexOrg as well. And basically, this means you've got image to image editing. So it's one image tool, but it can do all sorts of things like, for example, text to image, or image to image, and change the images as well.

It's pretty nice. On top of that, we have automation blueprints. Now you might be wondering, okay, what are automation blueprints? So basically, these are things where you can schedule stuff without relying on actually coding the syntax of the task.

So you can get these blueprints from News Research in their official portal, and then one blueprint can essentially just create a scheduled task for you. So you can see an example of that in action over here, and how it works. But essentially, what it means is that you can trigger scheduled tasks, and that could be as simple as something like, okay, go off and research the latest news, and then from there, it will go off and start implementing it. So these are automation blueprints from Hermes, and this is exactly how it works.

So it's kind of like a piece of code that you can copy and paste from the automation blueprint section on Hermes Agent News Research, but the difference is you don't need to understand it. You can just plug it into Hermes, and Hermes will guide you through step by step exactly how to implement that. Now you might say, okay, what are the use cases? So there's all sorts of stuff, for example, like fixing PRs, coding tasks, etc.

But if you're not really into coding, or you're not super technical, then essentially you can just do something like an AI News Digest. It breaks down the steps, so you can read the three steps here, and what it does every seven days, and how it structures it. So it works in a few simple steps. Number one, the task.

Number two, the steps. Number three, the actual structure of the output, so what it looks like once you get the report back. And then number four is how to actually word it. So for example, keep it under 600 words, keep each item to one to two sentences, and then you're good to go on that.

And so you can copy and paste stuff like that into Hermes Agent, and then you've got a full automation blueprint ready to go whenever you need it, and it saves a lot of time. And also it means you get better outputs without having to be a better coder, which is nice. So it's a good feature. There's also Curse's composer model that has been added through your X subscription, which is pretty cool.

So you know, if you're already subscribed to Twitter, for example, you can now use Curse's composer model, Grok Composer 2.5 Fast, as a model inside Hermes. So if you want to set this up, for example, we can go to our terminal here, we can type in Hermes model, then we can scroll down to XAI Grok, Grok OAuth, we just log in from here, go back to the terminal, and then you can see Curse's model, which is Grok Composer 2.5 Fast, that you can select inside the list right there. And so it's really easy to switch models and change this now. There's also a full profile builder inside the dashboard.

Now if you've never seen this before, basically you can have multiple different agent profiles, and this is really powerful. I'll show you an example in a second, but basically you see here we've got 23 profiles that we can manage inside our agent operating system for Hermes. And by the way, if you don't have an agent operating system for managing Hermes, definitely recommend it. I'll show you a couple of features in a second, but essentially what this means is like you can assign different profiles, different tasks, or even different APIs.

So for example, we have GLM 5.2 that just dropped, and we've got that assigned as a profile to our agents, so we can switch to that anytime we want, just with a click of a button. We also have, for example, Javis, we have KimiK 2.7, and we can switch between these models super easily. Now to do that, with the new update, you just go to manage, and then from there you would go to profiles, and from there you can start building with this stuff. So if we go inside the chat here, we can switch between these different profiles that we have, which is a big update.

Number two, each profile can have an individual skill, custom instructions, and it's super easy to manage them. And number three is like inside your Kanban board, you can assign tasks to your AI agent profiles. Let me show you an example of that in action. So if we have a look over here, we've created a video and a blog post using Hermes agent, right.

So that's a full blog post deployed on a website, and also a full video, as you can see right here. Pretty amazing. Now we did that because we have this new agent profiles update that allows us to create separate profiles. So we have one that's a content judge, and basically what that does is look at the content my team of Hermes agents creates, and then tells us if it's good enough or not.

If it's not good enough, then the team have to keep going around until it is good enough. Here's an example. So this is a video director. So basically what the video director can do is go off and start coming up with ideas for the video that's going to produce, which is how we got this end result right here.

And so you can have a team of AI agents working together. You can see the judges result here, so it scored them 4 out of 10, and then they had to keep going around and iterating. You can see we have a content editor, and basically this is how you can create a lot of great content because you've got that quality control in place, because you've got multiple agent profiles that are creating the content, and also quality control on it. And you could do this for any workflow.

It's just a case of like creating a loop between your agents so that they can go round and round and improve and improve. And so it's a pretty powerful feature. Now the skill browser got a complete overhaul as well. So all that means essentially is if you go to the skills inside your AI agents, so you can run the terminal command Hermes dashboard, or you can use our agent operating system, link in the comments description, or go to the airpuffer1.com to get access to that.

And then once you've done that, you can scroll down to the skills section here, and you can actually browse all of the skills that are available. And you can search by keyword, you can see everything that you've installed, you can toggle them on and off, you can see them by category. It's much easier to manage all your skills. Now by the way, with that Hermes agent profile, what we also have here is like we can chat between our different agents, we can talk.

We've got Hermes Jarvis, which is actually a profile where we can voice activated our Hermes, and we can see the full conversation as a wake word, so it can just sit in the background, ready for you to scroll through. We have a briefing button here where basically it can look through all my recent Obsidian notes, and then give me a weekly briefing. We can change the voice on this, and then also we have everything that we've built in preview right here as well. So things like the agent profiles, it might seem like a small thing, but actually if you can create a separate profile that does all this amazing stuff, well how powerful is that?

The memory tool got a major upgrade as well, so basically you can change the memory better. It has some other small stuff as well, like a better dashboard login, official whatsapp, rich text for telegram, some token optimization options, new UI options, but basically the main things that I've talked through today are the things that are the most important from this. One final thing is the agent loop section here. So basically what this means, you can do loop engineering with Hermes.

Now if you're not sure what that is, basically this allows you to have a loop where you have one agent building stuff, and one judge who checks stuff. So if you look at this feature we've built inside the agent operating system here, you can basically have a goal, so you can give your Hermes agent a goal, and this could be on a free or a cheap API, we've got three ones plugged in here. Then we can give it a starting point, then we have a builder, and we can set how many rounds that loop goes around for, where we have a judge who looks at the content and says is it good or not. Now if it's not good enough, it goes around in a loop, and that is Hermes loop engineering, because you can basically automate the quality control of whatever you're building until it's actually good, so you don't have to manually check it, you don't have to sit in the middle.

So this is how it works as a system, you set the bar, the builder acts, a judge grades it, it goes round and round until it's fixed, and then finally it's done and you get the output, and you don't need to sit in as the quality controller, your team does that for you. And when I say team, I mean your team of AI agents. And here's an example of what we got, so this was a real loop where each round the judge scores harder, work higher, and you can see eventually on the pass line it hit 92, and then we got the work done. So the judge scored the Hermes agent 54, then 71, then 83, and then finally 92, so it just got better and better.

And this just saves a lot of time because now you don't need to give the feedback manually, it just goes round and round as an iterative positive feedback loop until finally you get the good stuff back. So that's basically it for the Hermes v0.17, lots of cool stuff right there, a lot of stuff that people won't realize you can do, but if you're watching this and you saw everything that we did today, then you're probably in the top 99% to be honest with you. So this is all the cool stuff, we've got an agent operating system here where we can actually orchestrate our teams of agents, we can have a group chat with Hermes directly, we've got a pipeline where we go from idea to build, and then we can check everything that we've built over here which is pretty awesome. And then we have a local agent Kanban with local versions of Hermes running 24 7.

On top of that we have a chat here where you can talk to your agents, you've got Hermes Jarvis, the studio where you can generate images, videos, and voice, and you can even connect Hermes directly to Notebook LM, and basically everything you want to automate is all inside this system here. So if you want to get that it's inside the AI Profit Boardroom community, link in the comments description or go to the aiprofitboardroom.com. Inside the classroom you can ask questions, get help and support in real time, lots of people using the AI agent operating system as we built before. If you want to get that it's inside the classroom, and then just go to the AgentOS and you can find the video tutorial on how to install it, you can see the last update date, so we update it daily with new cool stuff like I've shown you, the new resources with a zip file, and then also if you like stuff like for example loop engineering, we've got video tutorials and step-by-step guides on how to use it, like even a Hermes shopping assistant, like all sorts of cool stuff as you can see right here that you can get access to and learn from every day.

And if you're a complete beginner you can go from beginner to expert over here. If you want to jump on coaching calls, live, share your screen, meet call members, ask questions in real time, you can do that inside the calendar. Inside the map you can actually meet people in your local area who are building AI agents like you, and this is all inside the AI Profit Boarding, link in the comments description or go to the AIprofitboard.com and you might say well this stuff might be technical, I don't know how to use AI agents, we've got over a hundred pages of testimonials from people winning, learning, and growing with AI automation, many of them have never used AI automation before, so if you want to get the most out of this stuff check out the AI Profit Boarding. Thanks for watching, bye bye.