Hermes Desktop + Ollama is Insane (FREE!)

So today we have a brand new update for Hermes desktop which allows you to use and you can basically integrate your AI agents with using this one-click setup here. So what you do is you make sure you have Olama downloaded then you go to Olama launch Hermes desktop and from there you can plug it into your Hermes desktop app and so from here what you can do is you can run it for multi-agent workflows so you can spawn parallel sub-agents with isolated contexts from the desktop. You can research several topics at once run batches and stuff here's an example and then this is also designed for using directly with Hermes which makes it super easy it can use all the same stuff so what is also cool about this is you can also plug in Hermes agent to multiple channels as well so if we go to the messaging section here powered by we can then connect this to telegram or to discord or to slack or whatever we want using this system which is pretty cool and so Hermes agent is number one easier to manage using Hermes desktop but number two you can easily set this up so how do you get this set up basically the first thing you need to do is go to olama.com and make sure you download this as you can see right here so you can download it with one terminal command or you can click download olama this is free to use once you've done that you're then going to make sure you have it open like you can see here and if you've already used it before make sure you've got it updated then once you've done that you can just run this terminal command which is olama launch Hermes desktop and this will launch your AI agents with olama so it's pretty simple and easy to set up right there now the benefit of using you might be wondering is that basically you can plug in number one local models and number two free cloud models to it so with olama they have many different models for example like Nemetron 3 ultra you've got for example minimax m3 and you can plug each of these models directly into Hermes desktop now you might also wonder okay why would you use Hermes desktop it basically is better than using the terminal it's not as good as an agent operating system like i'll compare these side by side so you can see the difference Hermes agent is decent inside Hermes desktop it's much better than terminal right and the reason for that is because you can manage everything in one place if you look at the terminal the old way of doing this all right if we go to the terminal here and we type in Hermes this is the old way of using Hermes but look at that it's just in the terminal you can't manage anything you can't see what you've built previously it's pretty hard to see context and you can't preview anything that you build inside the terminal either right and so what we want to do instead is have some place to manage now Hermes desktop is pretty easy to manage one version of Hermes and it's a lot nicer than terminal so you can manage your skills the messaging the artifacts you can see everything you build your images your files links etc you can also go over to your settings here and manage it here so you can change the model you can set up the chat you can change the appearance and you can run this on local models because olama is now available for this right personally for me i don't like local models that well but what i do think is good for this is if i want to switch model quickly with Hermes desktop i can just switch over to minimax or i can switch over Gemma 4 i could use Gemma 4 as a backup model etc right and that's the way that i would get the most out of it so that's basically it now if we look at this as well i'm just going to change this over i don't really like the setup there change that there we go there we go also i'd recommend using dark mode inside Hermes desktop and that's basically how it works so that's how to set up with olama how to use free local models with it if you're wondering okay which free local models we recommend for using with olama so if i was looking through the list here i'd be like okay quen 3.6 pretty good glm 5.1 that's a pretty good model minimax m3 obviously frontier level agentic model it obviously depends on your setup as well if you're just running on a super lightweight setup then you can use something like Gemma 4 and you can plug this into Hermes agent as well if you need something quick and light then you can use Gemma 4 now this is depends which version of the model we use as well so for example if you use like the smaller model 7.2 it's not going to be as intelligent or as powerful it's something like 20 gigabyte so depending on what your setup is you can run bigger models and they'll be better but if you've got a worse local setup then you use a smaller model but you're going to get less quality out of that so that's the sort of balance that you have to make between them and so it's one command and then you can run i'ma launch Hermes desktop so it's pretty easy to just plug a new model into this system as well and some people say i'm not technical enough for local ai really it's just one command inside a terminal so it's easier than it's ever been essentially and also what you can do is we've got this set up inside the operating system as you can see so what we can do is you can go to manage inside your agent go to models and then you can change the model over pretty quickly that way as well so we could always switch to olama inside the set model section here we could change between all these different providers as you can see we could use m3 or m2.7 whatever we want whenever we want and also something to note here is like if you like free models you'll probably like news portal because they've got step 3.7 flash and also nvidia nemetron 3 ultra for free so two free models you can use right now also you can run parallel sub-agents with this as well so your context stays clean so Hermes desktop can create parallel sub-agents with isolated contexts what that means essentially is like you can switch between different agents and use them like you can see here so at the bottom of the page we can switch between all these different agents and see our sessions and see what we've created and see what we've built etc right and then we can have them with different contexts with different skills with different use cases different expertise and also one of the best things about Hermes was like it just gets better the more you use it now also you might wonder okay why would you use local models number one they're free number two they're private number three they work offline so if you have a flight or something like that you can still use ai and number four it's fun to use and also even if you have a paid api that you prefer to use you can always have a local model from olama set up as a sub-agent as well so just to recap in terms of what you gained right you learned how to install this in one click using Hermes desktop and olama you learned how to create parallels by just clicking between these different profiles and then you can have agents with different sessions here so for example if you look at this one we can create a new session but then if we click on this one we've already got loads of other sessions up here right so we can switch between all these different agents and bear in mind this is synced across different platforms so for example here where i've typed cancel the outreach that is actually from a chat that i had yesterday with Hermes inside the agent operating system so all the conversations you have with your Hermes profile across all the different platforms and channels get synced inside desktop as well which is pretty cool you also learned how to stop app switching with the agent os system and you learned how to get free models and basically how to have one agent with one memory on every surface now if you want my system for the agent operating system and you want to make Hermes part of your operating system then you can get that inside the ai profile board and basically what this is is a powerful system to manage Hermes in one place so we've got all the best features plugged into different tools as you can see so for example we can chat with it we can talk with it we can use Hermes Jarvis and use it with voice activation we can generate images and videos and voice we can create new sessions manage everything that we've created in one place we're mcps we've got the manage section the control room and the goal mode along with all of our other agents like we just plugged claude 5 fable into this we're an agent group chat with our agents we've got teams so we have organizations with four teams of different agent profiles and then we also have a pipeline where you can generate ideas and then plug those ideas into a system you implement so feel free to get that link in the comments description or go to the m.com this is my community for helping you save time and scale with a automation you can ask questions inside the community you can see inside the classroom all of our new lessons you can see the agent os system and when it was last updated with the zip file to install as well inside the calendar you can jump on weekly coaching calls we have four weekly coaching calls in the map you can meet people in your local area and that's all available inside the ai profile boarding link in the comments description or go to the air profitable thanks for watching cheers