Hermes Agent WEB UI is INSANE 🤯 (FREE!)

Hermes agent. So today we're going to be looking at some of the best ways to use Hermes agent to get the most out of it. The first thing that I want to test out some new like UI tools that you can use because I know one of the biggest problems that I think I personally have and probably a lot of other people have is that using Hermes inside the terminal is like it's okay but it just doesn't feel like you're using it feels like you're coding it doesn't feel like you're using an IC agent right and so I want to test out some cool stuff like Hermes web UI which is an open source project where you can basically use Hermes agent from the web or from your phone it's a free open source project you can just get Hermes agent to install it for you and then you can go from there Jabba says is Hermes free so yes it's a free open source project right you can use it for free and you can start working with it for free now bear in mind this is the harness right so Hermes agent is what holds the AI that you're using and makes it better it forms it and speaks to it in a way that that gets useful stuff out of it and then you want to get like a free API or a free local model if you want to use it like completely free right bear in mind like noose research you have new APIs all the time the free and same with open router as well there's often like new free APIs like I think our alpha just came out recently that's a free API gem before as well they just have a new update yesterday and so you can use like local models for free as well with agents and either way you can use this stuff for free which is pretty awesome so let's get into this one right here Hermes web UI I want to install this right so let's have a look and see if it's got some ideas on the quick install yeah we're gonna plug that in there we go we have Hermes web UI so this look at the difference between these two right this is Hermes agent and they've just released a new update that I want to test right now so let's update right now and then we'll get this new version and that is struggling to update so what I want to do in a sec look at that all right cool so what I'm going to do over here is I'm going to take this is something for you to be aware of something breaks just go into Hermes and be like mate what are we doing here get this working so if we paste in the information from the github here and just say get this working with Hermes plus sync etc and then we can get those two working together there's some other cool stuff that's come out for Hermes recently you can use it with hyper frames for creating videos and that sort of thing you can see here the API has failed that is why okay it makes sense let's just check what are we doing here all right so I'm going to go to my you can see here we're getting the API failed from open router problem over here this is quick and easy way to fix this which is get a new API key like this create that copy that go into cloud and then we'll say can you fix my local installation of Hermes I'm just going to say I want to use chat chibi to what but you know what in fact I could probably just go into Hermes setup and change the API let's see if we can just switch it over to opening our codex there we go we're logged in yes so if you ever want to change things around you can run Hermes setup inside your terminal and that just changes things around right so I'm going to switch over to gpt 5.5 everything else the same pick up the new changes here actually if you've already got a chat chibi t subscription that's another good way to use Hermes let's see what we got on the questions here right on Goldie there we go to says do you think it's possible to give Hermes access to my details so it can fill in forms online yeah sure only give it what you're comfortable with that's the thing that I would say right you don't want to give it any information that you're not comfortable with sharing with it so just be careful that let's just check this works so it's changed to gpt 5.5 I want to make sure it actually works here if it doesn't I'm getting clawed on the case super slow look at that the damavicious asks if I'm on a VPS no I use uh just I run it locally prefer to run this stuff locally I think it's far better that way there we go all right so Hermes is working now it's a little bit slow which I don't like but that'll do all right perfect so now if we go back to Hermes UI just go to settings check we're on the latest version we'll check now model switching yeah I don't like it I always get nervous switching AR models to be honest do you know what I'm not it doesn't bother me that much with Hermes I'm like I think Hermes has got it we're gonna be okay here but if you know if I switch over models for something like open claw I'm holding my breath I don't every time I click update on anything on open core I'm like I don't know if this is gonna work it could totally break all right there we go so that's that switched over nicely we've got two different options here so we've got two different Hermes profiles two different Hermes agents as you can see right here and that actually works pretty nicely so what's free here so just to be clear here for the people so Hermes agent is free open source free project anyone can get access to it right and then for the actual brain of the operation I'm using chat gpt and my subscription with chat gpt if you don't have that then you could use a free api for example like on open router I think our alpha is one that came out recently if I'm not mistaken let's have a look here yeah so you can use this for free and it's got a million token context window so you can find ways around it where is AonUI why use Hermes web UI instead I like to use them all I like to test new things I also think it's important to show like my audience new things too so like we can we can open up AonUI as well if you want but I just wanted to test out the new version of Hermes workspace and actually see what it's like because what they've just launched recently is this new section is called Kanban right now this was an update literally straight from Hermes this week but also what they've done here is they've set up something called Kanban right and what that means essentially is that you can assign on your Kanban board tasks for your agent to do and then it'll just go off and implement them right so if we put in the new task here okay create an SEO calculator and I'll say you figure out the details something like that right we add that as a new task then we just need to assign it all right so we've got that set up right here and you can see some examples of this so like previously we had our agent go off and create a new AI SEO blog that was pretty cool basically it's got this new feature called Kanban here right and so you can actually assign that to a person as well so if we look at that should be going and then also we've got like skills and that sort of thing which is pretty cool here too well the memory spaces etc spaces looks interesting ah so that's like your local files and that sort of thing nice all right cool so we set that up that was interesting I wouldn't say it was like as good as I was expecting to be honest with Hermes Kanban I think using Hermes Kanban directly off the source way more interesting there is an app for Hermes right it's called Hermes with Mac so I want to try this out now let's download this there we go basically what this allows us to do is run Hermes web UI as a desktop application as well all right so if we said okay go off and create a beautiful website for the AI profit boredom community paste that in there we can actually use this in the desktop and again that's way nicer than using the terminal all right compare them side by side crazy difference right crazy difference by the way like if you're watching this and you have questions feel free to ask that's really what I'm here for I just want to help people so it's beginning to build it out locally as you can see and for anyone watching if you're wondering okay what is Aion UI Aion UI is similar but it's not just for Hermes right it's for everything you don't like the MS-DOS look not at all mate not at all it's so bad does anyone actually like the terminal user interface I'm going to show you an interesting plugin in a second that's pretty cool for for terminal interfaces as well I'll come on to that in a second but again who likes a terminal UI right so yeah you've got this as well which is the which is a desktop app but it's it's not just for Hermes it's for all your AI agents right so you can for example add whatever you want I installed Hermes as my first agent a few days ago and I'm impressed so far what sort of stuff have you automated with it I'd be interested to know but that's nice awesome work do you know what's actually interesting I've never heard anyone say I installed Hermes and hated it I've literally never heard that everyone I know who's checked out loves it so if we go back into Hermes agent here there we go look at that beautiful startup screen why is that not working let's try that oh my goodness that is struggling massively on the Hermes yeah this is not so good let's try and plug in our own API key here and remove that open router key remove that we'll switch that to open router and I'll plug in API over here copy there and then we'll go back to Hermes desktop plug this in so what we're doing here is adding a new API key into Hermes agent and that should be good and then if we switch this over to open router all right I'm gonna close that and then we've got this one as well this is Hermes workspace so let's come back to here and this is a new terminal UI plugin let's see what we got here I used Hermes for about five days after the hallucination rate started increasing the performance kept declining every day I quit using it I spun my agents well the goal of Hermes specifically is that it gets better every time right the more you use it the better it gets I've honestly not had those issues with it but if you do have those issues with it maybe it's a model that you're plugging into it well I'd be curious to know like what model you put into it directly studio says I'm giving Hermes details about the new sass he's building preparing for the launch I have no idea about marketing I hope my new personal assistant definitely can help with that definitely so he says it actually has a beautiful agent startup I wouldn't as far as terminals go I guess it's probably the nicest but it's still I don't know it's still not what I expect all right let's try and install this one then so this is a new terminal UI dashboard for Hermes as well I'm just going to be testing out some new stuff today whatever you want to automate by the way with Hermes like just go into just go into Hermes and ask it to do that that's the way that would do it look so this looks pretty interesting so this is a new style of terminal user interface so you can actually edit it with this free dashboard right and so you can actually change the command palette as well if you press command k like that you can switch between Hermes profiles and there's also tabs here so you can tab between the different styles so like this is tab sessions context agents analytics etc and then you can also chat with it here so let's try it this is strange though why is it struggling with API it's one of the biggest issues you'll find with Hermes is just managing the APIs I think for me particularly because sometimes it changes if you switch model provider it changes something in the config and then sometimes I can break other stuff right even if it Hermes directly inside the terminal is working perfectly but then if you have a problem sometimes it'll be with other extensions like this right where it says there's no API plugged in and so what you do is you would copy the error from terminal here plug it into Hermes here and just get it fixed from there is agent swarms the next big thing I think it is definitely something that's useful if you need a big team of agents right that's the main thing here is what's your team looking like what are you using it for it's just another tool that you can use that's the way that I would look at it it was pretty hard to configure to be fair like when I was using when I was using Hermes workspace and configuring the swarms I had to spend about 20 minutes with Claude just trying to get it working the sync top eventually it worked but it took a lot of manual configuring with Claude directly Julian if you have to pick one web-based interface for Hermes what would it be a on Hermes workspace Hermes regular Hermes I would probably use I think Hermes workspace my favorite just because you can go in there let me find it now you can go into Hermes agent workspace and it feels and looks like something I'm familiar with right it feels and looks like Chachibity or something like that so that's my favorite right here I'd recommend that to be honest I think that's one of the best ones it just looks nicest and it's pretty easy to use as well you can just go inside the chat here start using it it's super chill and you can go from there and I really like that have Claude code or codex to write to config yeah 100% I would just use Hermes to write to config but yeah for sure so let's just check this out now it's going to stop that don't try this again by the way I'm using anti-gravity as the main development environment would it be good idea to create a sort of MCP server for Hermes yeah you can actually do that or you can just go inside anti-gravity and you can use Hermes directly if you go into I don't know if I've still got yeah I haven't got Hermes I haven't got anti-gravity set up anymore but basically you can go into anti-gravity I used to do the same thing with Claude and use Hermes inside anti-gravity and then you can have it inside the development workspace which is pretty cool this is still fixing things I installed OpenCLAW two weeks ago and I've been spending the last two weeks fixing OpenCLAW that's classic that's a classic sometimes with agents right like you let's be honest you can spend more time fixing it than you can being productive that's a big problem that's why picking the right model matters so much and also picking the right agent OpenCLAW when it first came out was far better than it actually is right now right OpenCLAW right now I don't I'd rarely use it right I prefer the older versions like going right back to the start it seems to be way more powerful way more useful back then than it does now what does Hermes and Claude Code can do together I'm into Hermes but haven't tried Claude Code yet what's the difference and what's the use case that's quite a good question let's pull this up we'll get the whiteboard out here so you got Hermes and you got Claude right Claude Code so one of the first things I would say here is if you're again if you're using Claude Code it's going to be way nicer and easier and smoother to use as an agent right because you've got Claude Desktop you can just manage it inside a chat it feels nice it's got all these different sections it's way easier to manage right so nicer UI for sure number two more reliable because it's like Claude is a big company right it's not just like an open source project it's like this has to be reliable for everyone using it and so it's way more reliable right open source projects are usually like they're great for building stuff but they're quite bad for being reliable and being stable right so less stable but at the same time Hermes agent is way more customizable because it's open source Claude Code you basically get what you get now also Claude's API within Claude Code is the most powerful API that I've ever used and then also with Hermes agent is limited to the API you configure so if you don't have a good model you don't get a good output right so those are some of the biggest differences here as well also you can run Hermes locally and Claude is expensive but mostly unless you're if you're a business like yeah no not a big deal but yeah yeah all right this should be fixed now let's test it out now so we're going to try this now you never know we'll try it now create fresh user on your pc before it's a good tip that's a good tip there we go that is working now so you see how Hermes actually fixed the issues with this extension that's what we want that's what we want i want to know how we change the colors and stuff on this just use open resource handle stuff about api key config speaking of models i'm currently using deepseek v4 flash for Hermes with an exception for vision tasks what do you think about that yeah deepseek is a good model i quite like it it's super fast and obviously it's more affordable the most too all right let's try these so if we type in forward slash keys let's see what we got here i think we can change oh look at that we can switch the color theme here so you get all these different colors and there you go it's like a little party so that's just something that i wanted to see i wanted to test out today that was fun all right which is better Hermes or Haiku or these are different things you're comparing apples and oranges here right so Haiku is the api that you could plug into something like Hermes and Hermes is like the harness right so really what you want to compare is which is better Claude code or something like Hermes for me personally i use both right if i need if i need to fix something and i need something good stable and reliable i always use Claude code but if i want to create some fun in automation that's super interesting then i'm going to go with something like Hermes instead OpenCore seems easier to train than Hermes i actually found that Hermes is way easier to train than OpenCore honestly it's Hermes and OpenCore basically the same thing so they're the same idea but they're implemented in different ways right and i would say that so far Hermes is a lot smoother a lot more reliable a lot more stable than using something like OpenCore yeah for sure for sure so we've tested a new ui we've tested out desktop apps we've tested out tui and we've also tested out the workspace and Kanban boards with Hermes agent that's basically everything i wanted to cover today i've covered every single question as well so i appreciate everyone being on and if you want to get more trainings on how to use Hermes agent feel free to get that inside the AI Profit Boardroom link in the comments description or just go to the AIProfitBoardroom.com we have an amazing community where you can ask questions get help and support etc you can jump on the weekly coaching calls share your screen ask questions about your setup inside the classroom you get access to all my best training for example we actually have new daily tutorials and stuff like Hermes how to use it step-by-step guides for roadmaps etc and then we have a beginner to expert course here in case you're a complete beginner and also a map where 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