Hermes AI's New Browser Agents are Here

Hermes agent just changed browser agents forever a brand new free update just dropped and it makes your AI browser agent way more powerful your agent can now browse websites click buttons and fill out forms twice as fast and it can run way longer before hitting limits that means bigger jobs more work done all whilst you do something else in this video i'll show you exactly how to turn on it's basically one line and i'll show you the one setup where this doesn't work at all and that part catches most people out so stick with me to the end let's get into it so until today Hermes had 12 different browser tools one tool to navigate to a page one tool to click one tool to type one tool to scroll one tool to press key one to go back and one to take a screenshot and so on so you had 12 different tools and here's why that was a problem every single one of those tools have to be described to the AI in every single request so even if your agent just wanted to click a button it was carrying the instruction manual for all 12 tools alongside it every time that's a lot of wasted tokens before the agent even does anything but it gets even worse so every action was its own round trip if the agent clicks then it stops then it reports back to the model then the model thinks then it sends the next click then it stops again so click report think type report think scroll report think think about how you'd feel if you had to phone a friend for permission before every single step you took in a supermarket so can I walk to aisle three yes can I pick up the milk yes can I put it in the trolley yes you'd lose your mind and you'd spend all your day on phone calls that's how AI browser agents have worked not just Hermes but most of them now here's a new way it's called browser use mode and it runs on something called browser use CLI 3.0 so instead of 12 tools the agent gets one it's called browser use mode and it runs on something called browser use CLI 3.0 so instead of 12 tools the agent gets one and instead of asking permission for every click the agent writes one script that handles the whole job so navigate click type done one plan written run once run to start from finish I call this the one script engine and once you understand the one script engine you understand where all AI agents are heading when it comes to browser use instead of the AI doing one tiny action at a time and checking in constantly the AI writes a full set of instructions up front and hands them over it's like your friend just writing you the full shopping list with directions and you just go and do the shop it's one trip with no phone calls the numbers actually back this up as well so news research posted the results this morning token use dropped 48 to 66 percent across their tests with opus 4.8 driving the browser tasks that used to burn 50 to 64 thousand tokens dropped into the low 20,000 range that's the same job but it's done for roughly a third of what it used to cost and they measured no drop in accuracy so where does this come from well first you got the tool schema the instruction manual the model carries around that shrank from a whole stack of tools down to one and second the agent now drives the browser with code instead of individual actions so the total conversation between the model and the browser gets way way shorter now why should you even care about token counts because tokens are the meter running in the background of everything your ai does when the meter runs 60 slower two things happen your agent gets cheaper to run and your agents can run for longer before hitting limits longer tasks be good jobs more runs per day the token cost was the ceiling on what browser agents could actually do for you news research just raised that ceiling so quick example of what that means day to day let's say for example your agent can now check five different competitor websites every morning tell you what changed and now that daily habit would cost about half of what it did last week now if you want to actually put hermes to work in your business this is exactly what we do inside the airprofit boardroom so hermes is wired directly into our agent operating system the same system where you can plug in your cloud or open claw any other agent or sharing one memory we've got tutorials showing you how to set up hermes browser automation step by step so your agent can do research fill out forms and watch competitor sites whilst you go and do something else you get the agent operating system zip file a 30-day roadmap for setting it all up and daily updates as we improve it plus four weekly coaching calls every week where you can ask questions about your own homie setup live and a community of over 3 700 business owners plenty of them running hermes right now link in the comments description or go to the airprofitboardroom.com okay let's talk about how to actually turn this on because it's pretty simple and then i'll show you what most people get wrong so if you have hermes installed and the browser ucli is available on your machine this mode is now the default you don't have to do anything hermes checks if the cli can run and if it can your agent gets the single browser tool automatically if the cli can't run hermes quietly falls back to the old 12 tools so nothing breaks if you want to force it you add one line to your hermes config browser dot backend set to browser use and that's it one line and if you'd rather turn it off and keep the old tools you can type slash browser use off one command either way now here's the first belief i want to knock down because i can already hear it some people want to say this sounds like coding i'm not a coder this isn't for me if you listen carefully to what's actually happening here the agent writes the code not you so you just type a plain sentence like go to this website fill out this form with these details and the ai writes the python itself runs itself and reports back to you so you never see the code unless you want to the whole point of this update is that the machine handles the machine stuff your job is just to describe what you want in normal words so if you can write a text message you can run this here's what makes this update even better than it sounds it's not actually locked to one type of browser this actually works for everyone so it could be your local browser on your own computer browser base cloud browsers browsers cloud browsers whatever you're already using the new mode sits on top and drives whichever browser you've already picked there's exactly one exception and this is the catch i mentioned at the start so if you're using camofox that's the local privacy focus browser option some hermes users run the new mode doesn't work with it camofox setups automatically keep the old browser tools instead so if you flip the setting and nothing changes it might be because you're on camofox and there's a clever detail buried in the documents that solves something really annoying so hermes now does hybrid routing if your agent needs to visit a normal public website it uses your cloud browser but if it needs to look at something private something running your own machine or your home network it automatically spins up a local browser for that instead so the cloud provider never even sees your private stuff so both can happen in the same conversation without you touching a single setting so what does this all actually let you do let's keep this real because the point of browser automation was never the technology the point is like the boring jobs it takes those off your plate here's an example let's say you run a small shop and you want to know when a supplier changes their prices your agent checks the page every morning and messages you only when something moves that kind of job used to be exactly the type of task where the old system fell over lots of pages lots of clicks lots of tokens it would work but slowly and the costs added up if you ran out daily under the one script engine system the agent writes one script for the whole check and then runs it clean some people as well are going to say like browser agents aren't that great they look good in the video but they're not reliable enough for real work and there's some truth in the history here i'm not going to pretend otherwise so web automation has been flaky right pages change butters move agents get lost but two things are different now so first news actually tested this new mode against her old system and measured no accuracy drop so the savings didn't come at the cost of the results and second the whole approach got simpler so there's fewer moving parts one tool instead of 12 fewer round trips means fewer chances for the agent to lose a thread halfway through a task should you still check your agents work yes should you start with small tasks before trusting it with big ones absolutely but this stuff never works is an outdated belief and it's getting more outdated every day now let's zoom out for a second because there's a bigger lesson in the whole update it tells you where everything's going the interesting part this announcement isn't just a hermes got more efficient is how they did it they stopped making the ai do one tiny action at a time started letting it write a plan and execute the plan so one reply on the announcement actually some did pretty well which is a dozen schemas per click was never a capability the agents were always capable they were just being run in the most expensive way possible and you're going to see this same shift everywhere agents that write their own scripts agents that plan a whole job up front instead of asking permission every step and every major agent tool is moving this direction because the savings are too big to ignore so hermes just got the first time browsing in public with numbers attached which brings me to what you should actually do about this three simple steps so step number one if you already run hermes update it and check whether browser use mode is active if the cli is available it probably already is it's the default now run one small browser task and watch how much faster it feels step number two if you don't run hermes yet this is a genuinely good week to start it's free it's open source from news research and browser automation just became one of its strongest features you can set up connected to your browser and give it one boring job you do every week and step number three this is one that really matters is you can pick a real task from your business not a test not a toy just a real repeating annoying task that involves a website checking something filing something handed to the agent because the moment you're watching ar complete a task that's pretty nice this update handed everyone a browser agent that costs roughly half as much to run as it did before inside the airproft warning we've actually built the setup path for exactly this hermes plugs into the agent operating system alongside claude open call all your other agents and we've added workflows for browser tasks research agents seo agents even video and avatar tools inside one system with shared memory so you get the agent os zip file the 30-day roadmap to get it running your business video tutorials and daily updates as new versions ship including updates built around this new browser use mode for weekly coaching calls where you can bring your hermes browser setup and get it fixed live and daily step-by-step tutorials on putting agents to work for leads and customers we've got over 3700 business owners inside many of them already running hermes daily and a member map so you can find people near you who are doing the same thing there's always someone online too so link in the comments description or go to the aiprofitborm.com to summarize 12 tools became one token costs dropped by half for browsing accuracy stayed the same and browser use is getting better