Hermes Agent V0.20 Just Changed AI Agents Forever!

Hermes Agent V, the Herald release, it just dropped today and we're going to walk you through exactly what it means, how it works, how to get it and how to use it. So the easiest way to update is you can go to the manage section inside the AgentOS and then click on update and then you can get the latest version so we can update to the latest version right there. If you're wondering what the highlights are or how it works etc. So the first thing that you can do is you can now talk to Hermes which means that the voice speaks whilst the response generates.

It basically responds instantly whilst you're talking. It's got sighted sources, agent to agent, it's also a lot faster. So first token in 0.9 seconds instead of 4.3 seconds and also a lot faster on Hermes desktop. Also a Hermes desktop platform so you can now get artifacts with sandbox live preview, smart approvals, CLI power etc.

Now we're going to run through the changelog and I'll show you this in more depth plus some examples how it works etc. But if you're wondering okay what is the Herald release, well here's a few headlines. Basically it's just shipped a big update and your AI can now finally hold a conversation. You can talk to it, it answers as it thinks and you can cut it off mid-sentence just by speaking kind of like a phone call and also you can say your own wake work from across the room and your computer starts listening.

So for example if we go over to the AgentOS over here and then we go to the chat section you can trigger this on and say hey Hermes how are you today? What time is it? And you can see that actually goes inside the chat so it can start responding to us directly from this. So it actually listens to us with the wake word and it's ready to go and then it can respond in real time.

So for example we said hey Hermes what time is it? And then it responded the other day. This update actually dropped the other day but basically this new update is a bundle of all of these updates together. Also backs research with sources so you can actually check ping your other systems the moment the work finishes and it even talks to other agents as well.

So what is the talk to Hermes update? Basically Hermes answers whilst it thinks and you can interrupt it just by talking so it can stop listen and adjust as you go along. So it's kind of like having a phone call with your AI agent. So the easiest way that I find to use this is I've got Hermes Apollo set up here and we can actually speak to Hermes agent in real time and then it can respond to us.

So you see how we can speak to it directly here and then it will listen and then if we ask it for a response it will talk back. This actually has a voice as well but I won't play the voice on the playback so it just won't sound that good but you can see how it's going back and forth with us in real time right here and we can interrupt it whenever we need to as well. With the wake word basically this is just hands-free control so you can have Hermes sitting in the background. You could have for example Hermes desktop on a different monitor or the Hermes agent OS and then what this means essentially is that it would listen and when you say for example hey Hermes it'll wake up and start responding.

There's also voice on every platform now so you can send a voice note to Hermes on WhatsApp, on FeiXu, DingTalk, LINE, QQ etc and it will automatically reply with TTS. So it's got auto TTS replies and it's platform aware. Additionally there's a new grounded citation skill. So the grounded citation skill allows Hermes to produce research where it has sources for everything that's using.

So this is kind of like deep research where you just avoid hallucinations you get better research back because it's citing the sources on every response. Kind of like perplexity does as well. Now inside Hermes desktop as well you've got the artifacts feature. So here you can view everything you've created and used with Hermes agent across all your platforms.

So for example we were using Higgs field the other day and with the MCP with Hermes and Higgs field linked it creates some nice images. Now all of those artifacts are actually displayed so we can view them over here as you can see which is pretty cool and it's sandboxed live. So if you're running like HTML apps and you want to test them out etc then you can preview them inside the artifacts feature here and it's just a lot safer because they're sandboxed. Now something else that's pretty interesting is Hermes speaks agent to agent now A2A and this is a new plugin that implements the agent to agent protocol which means that Hermes can discover you can talk to and it can be driven by other agent to agent compatible agents which is pretty useful.

So one way that I usually use this already is we have the agent OS and then we have the agent mastermind here. So if I just post a message like hey hey you can see that all of my agents including Hermes can reply to us and then we can drive our agents and they can talk to each other bounce ideas off each other and even add those ideas to our idea pipeline over here using this system. So it's super useful because if your agents can talk to each other well then all of your workflows across all of your agents and all the skills and APIs you plugged into each one can be driven so that Hermes can actually orchestrate them or you can get another agent to orchestrate Hermes. There's also some like technical fixes like CLI power user wave correct the agent mid-turn and redirect it and if Hermes is actually going the wrong way you don't have to use forward slash stop and re-explain you can just type a correction whilst it's working and the active turn is redirected so what that means essentially is like you can steer it in real time so whilst you're waiting for it to respond to you if you see it's moving in the right direction you can just say do this do that and you don't need to use any technical commands to steer it it will just automatically pick that up.

There's also some new improvements on compression which means the recent conversation always survives it's progress aware as well and when it compresses the conversation most of the context should show up in a better way and the smarter approvals now so if it's about to do something that it's not sure about it will use this smart approvals just to make sure it actually gets it right and approve it with you before it takes any action like for example deleting a file that sort of thing and additionally Hermes is now faster so on the telemetry gate is now 54 times faster and just way quicker to respond this is also super useful with Hermes agent because if you're using something like a tool use like for example earlier today we said forward slash learn and gave it access to a guide and then it learned the guide as skill md farmer replied with deep seek particularly it is really really fast to reply like something that would have taken a few minutes with other models can now be done in seconds with this system here so no one is faster to reply when you use it but number two if you're using newer models like deep cp4 flash it just came out a few days ago it's even faster so both of those combined make it even better then there's a bunch of voice updates text-to-speech improvements core agent and architecture improvements but that's basically it for the whole update the one thing that i'll say here is like the desktop is improving a lot so it's become a lot faster as well and it just performs better it's also a lot nicer when you open up now it didn't look that good the first time i used it but it's getting better and better which is great and i think one thing to pay attention to from this whole update is the agent agent protocol because if that keeps getting better it's going to be way easier to control all your ai agents there's also a bunch of security updates which i think is needed because it's getting more and more powerful and a bunch of bug fixes as well with 647 contributors on this release so that's basically it for the herald release you now know the key updates talk to hermes wake words voice in every platform research is cited now outbound webhooks desktop is better for artifacts it's faster to use it speaks agent to agent and there's a bunch of technical movements and also you can now correct it mid-turn and redirect it without having to use forward slash stop and re-explaining it so if you want to get a full agent operating system for hermes where you can plug in your hermes you get custom workflows like for example we've got the chat but we've got different profiles here so we can test out new models with hermes we have the voice agent that can build in real time it can control our browser and our computer and it responds live we also have hermes oracle which pulls in the latest news from our industry and then we can automate content for social media and seo directly we have an outreach tool with hermes agent that can generate leads on the spot then send email campaigns many manager inbox and give us the key stats of that whole campaign and also we have the studio where we can generate videos images and voice and preview them like so plus we have our whole memory system plugged in which means that we can give context to hermes and all our other agents and this is automatically updated with hermes directly so feel free to get that link in the comments description or just go to the aiprofitborm.com to get access to our hermes agent operating system if you go to the classroom here then go to the new daily update section you can find the agent os and this is my community to help you learn grow and scale with a automation we add new tutorials we've got loads of tutorials for example on hermes and buzz how to use the hermes learn feature how to use mixture of agents etc inside the community you can ask questions to get help and support in real time i personally answer these questions every single day of a video tutorial and then inside the calendar you can jump a weekly coaching course ask questions share your screen meet other members inside the map you can meet people locally using agents like hermes so feel free to get that link in the comments description or just go to the aiprofitborm.com thanks for watching