Run Hermes Agent FREE Inside Claude Code! 🤯

So today we are going to be looking at the Claude and Hermes MCP right. Now Claude and Hermes basically Claude is obviously Claude itself and you can link Claude desktop view and the Claude mobile app to Hermes agent right and what this means essentially is you've got a free extension that links them both together and then what Claude can actually do is delegate tasks to Hermes agents so the two agents can communicate together and this is basically how it works right so you've got Claude desktop, you've got Claude android and through a connection here they link to Hermes right and Hermes MCP links to the Hermes gateway. So basically what this means is you can have Claude as a brain inside Claude desktop and then you can command Hermes agent and delegate tasks directly to Hermes agent using the MCP. So how does this work how do you set it up etc right so you can see an example I've got Hermes desktop set up over here and essentially what we've done is we said set up Hermes and Claude MCP and then we gave it all the details of what we do etc and then Claude desktop actually set it up directly right and then for example if we go to our settings and then we go to customize inside our connectors here you can see that we have set up Hermes MCP inside Claude desktop so what this essentially means is that Claude can now control Hermes directly so we can change the permissions on this we can always allow permissions which means Claude can use it without asking us for approval we can set up different approval levels so that it needs approval to use Hermes agent which I would recommend because you don't want anyone getting access if you accidentally share access with the wrong person on this MCP then they could control your Hermes agent which is not good so that's why I've set up needs approval here so the people you have to approve things before someone can access your Hermes agent and then you can actually block it as well right so if you want to switch yourself you can block it you can change them right here now essentially what this means is a Claude now has the power of Hermes agent built into it which is pretty amazing when you think about it so just as a little test here inside the MCP we said use Hermes to schedule a cron jar that says hello at 8am right just as a test just as an example test to show you what we can do here and it says done Hermes scheduled it here's the job id here's the name here's the schedule task id here's when the next run and here's the output right and so just as a test the whole bridge is officially working right so Claude has routed our request to Hermes Hermes uses schedule task tool and the job is persisting in our Hermes scheduler so you can manage it using this which is pretty cool we can also use this command inside terminal to seal the schedule tasks or we can actually just ask inside Claude here so I could say okay what skills does Hermes have access to and I can now control and manage Hermes agent with Claude now one of the other benefits of this is of course inside Claude they've now stopped you accessing with OAuth without API you can't use Hermes agent and you can't use something like OpenCLAW with the OAuth login so how do you get around that you can set up an MCP with Claude like I've done today and that can manage your Hermes agent so you still get the power of Hermes agent with your subscription that's powered by Claude right you get the best API in the world but you get it on your subscription with Claude instead of having to use the API which is super expensive so this is a really powerful free MCP it took about I would say 15 minutes to set up and literally all I did was just paste in all the information from the GitHub here send it into Claude, Claude sets it up and then you're good to go by the way if you have any questions feel free to put them in the chat and then I'll answer them at the end for you all right so let's talk about this so how to give Claude brain right and let it just automate stuff in the background the other cool thing about this as well is like you don't need Claude open to run right because now it can schedule tasks with Hermes agent so it can basically be controlled by your Claude mobile or Claude desktop and it can run 24 7 with Hermes agent and I've called this the Goldie delegation loop this is a new paradigm for AI powered business automation right so most people think AI is just like a chachibity star thing but that's basically like buying a formula on car and only using it to get the shopping right the Goldie delegation loop is a completely different paradigm so it's built on one idea which is your AI should do things not just say things so layer one is a brain and there's three layers to this so layer one is a brain which is Claude so Claude is the thinking planning decision making layer right you talk to Claude in plain English Claude understands your goals breaks it down decides what needs to happen so Claude is basically the CEO of this setup right and then you've got the bridge which is Hermes MCP so this is the connector that most people don't know exists yeah and so Hermes MCP is an invisible pipeline it sits between Claude and real world so when Claude says does this do this the bridge makes sure that Hermes actually hears it and without the bridge Claude can think but never really act it can use Claude desktop but it's not as powerful as something like Hermes agent there's a reason why Hermes agent is the biggest AI agent in the world right now and that's because it's way more autonomous way more powerful right and so the bridge is the missing piece that 99% of AI users don't have and you can set up with this Hermes MCP setup that we've done today and then you've got the hands which is Hermes agent so Hermes agent is the part that physically does the work Claude is a brain the MCP is a bridge and then the hands are Hermes agent so Hermes agent is the part that does the work it runs on your computer it can browse the web it can send emails create documents schedule tasks message people and remember things long term so it's the worker that works 24 7 never complains and never sleeps so basically how this works is that you speak Claude listens it thinks Hermes acts results come back and you delegate again right and you can see an example here so we said for example what is what skills do we have inside Hermes actually automates it by category gives us the examples to category how we can use it etc and that sort of thing right and that actually gives us some ideas of what we could do with an example right here right and some ways that we could actually use it which is pretty powerful so this is a delegation machine this is what separates people who use AI as a toy from people who use AI as a weapon right it's a powerful way to to grow with AI automation now let's see what we got in the questions here what's your review on perplexity currently I just don't use it honestly I think like Hermes agent Claude etc I'm miles above it I thought you're using OpenClaude 2 honestly OpenClaude is super buggy I will be doing a video later on OpenClaude AI SEO but in general I don't tend to use it as much just because Hermes is so good right Hermes is so smooth it's like why would I use two agents when I can just use one I do switch between them week to week but if you look at okay what am I using the most day to day it's Hermes and it's Claude everyone good to see you here Michael thanks for joining all right so some people want to say I'm not technical enough for doing this honestly if you can type a sentence you can use this system right you don't need to code you don't need to understand surface you don't need to know what OAuth means you just need to know what you want done and Claude and Hermes can figure out the rest so you literally just paste in the details from the github here into Claude, Claude does the rest that's it that's it other people say this might take months to set up actually it literally took me like 15 minutes this morning right the full setup install connect authenticate running your first automated task that can take less than 60 minutes right for most people so this is you don't need months you just need one focus morning essentially to get this done now if people are going to say AI tools keep changing why would I bother learning Claude and Hermes I think honestly the right belief here is like the skill of AI delegation is permanent right tools change but the principle never does so learning to delegate your tasks to AI is like learning to manage people the specific apps and platforms and people you manage will evolve right but the skill of telling an AI agent what to do how to do and when to do it that skill you're probably going to need forever right and so every hour you invest in learning this stuff now pays off over the years right and the people who learn this first will be the ones who move the fastest and get ahead the most whilst everyone else catches up so that's the way that I would look at it now you might be wondering as well like what is MCP what actually is an MCP so MCP stands for model context protocol so in simple terms it's a language that lets different AI tools talk to each other so you want to think of it like a phone call between Claude and Hermes without MCP Claude and Hermes are both in the same building but they literally cannot hear each other right so they're working on the same Mac studio or Mac mini or laptop or whatever but without the MCP they can't communicate and so with MCP they're basically on the same phone line working together in real time right now you might also ask what is Hermes MCP it's a bridge tool that connects Claude to your local Hermes agent so it's created as an open source project it lets Claude desktop and the Claude mobile apps and tasks directly to the Hermes agent running on your machine and this means you can talk to Claude as normal and Claude can now actually do things through Hermes right as an example of that we can go back into here and does Claude still charge extra usage if you go beyond your current plan then yeah if you're using tokens outside of your plan then yeah every single plan will do that right there's no unlimited plan with Claude as far as I'm aware so let's run a task now we can say okay schedule with Hermes agent researching the latest AI automation news daily right so we can use this to communicate with Hermes agent the other cool thing about this is like if you close Hermes desktop the scheduled tasks aren't going to run right there's going to be things that Hermes can do that Claude can't do and also you might be on a limited number of tokens on the Claude subscription but if you're running something like our alpha which is a free API with Hermes agent then Hermes agent can do unlimited tasks and so you don't rinse the credits on your Claude plan which is way better right way better so what tasks could you actually automate right now for example it could be like email automation you could have Hermes send a daily summary of your inbox every morning you could also reply to certain types of messages you could schedule tasks you can set up recurring tasks that run daily weekly or monthly you could schedule social media reminders automate report generation at regular intervals or build a morning brief that lands in your inbox every day at 8am right you can have it do web research and browsing so you can have Hermes browse competitor websites you could have it monitor pages and alert you when something changes you could have it research topics and compile a full briefing document automatically anything that you can do Hermes you can do with this right and also something that's important to note here is persistent memory so Hermes remembers context across conversations it builds skills that Hermes can reuse every time you can create a personal knowledge base that grows automatically and you can store those preferences and project notes and then Claude can actually reference them right anything in your Hermes memory you could pull from Hermes using the MCP and then use that to generate this right you see how it's working right here so it's using the Hermes ask tool to get the details here so schedule that task it's giving it a name which is daily automation news the next one is tomorrow here's a skill use so it's actually created a new skill here's a delivery and then format it right now we could also cancel all Hermes scheduled tasks here and also the other thing I would say here is if you're using Hermes directly so if we go into the terminal here like and if you're using the terminals Hermes terminal UI you can see that it's not that nice to use whereas for example you can basically control Hermes from a beautiful UI that you get inside called desktop so that's another benefit right hi Jules great job have you tried Open Mono Agent I haven't tried Open Mono Agent my hardware setup is I've just got a Mac Studio that's what I use by the way we've just cancelled those scheduled tasks we can delete stuff from Hermes as well using the cloud MCP Tony says he's not using any of the big five how does this really help a full stack marketing agency and that's a good question let's come up with some ideas so here's some examples right like for example you could use Hermes agent to monitor your competitors to do content gap analysis depends if you're like an SEO agency these are some examples if you wanted to do outreach you could do that with Hermes as well now Hermes could actually track which prospects haven't replied in five days and then also queue follow-up emails too so you could use it as a kind of outreach agent you could use it for content production right so brief to draft automation like Claude could write the brief Hermes saves it to the right folder flags it in slack all of our project manager you could publish ready research packs so one prompt could kick up full research and that could be like trending angles competitor articles stats questions from reddit cure all compiled into one document between Claude and Hermes it could be for example client reporting right if you're an agency so it could be like automating monthly report generation like Hermes can pull the data Claude formats it into a readable narrative and the report is saved and emailed to the client on the first every month right with zero human hours you could also do like a weekly performance digest so every Friday at 5 p.m Hermes compiles the week's key metrics per client and sends an internal summary to the account team right it could also generate for example ad copy so like Claude could generate 10 variations per ad set Hermes saves them to a structured folder locally by a campaign which is ready for upload you could have competitor ad tracking so Hermes could check competitor Facebook ads library pages on a schedule and log new ads to a swipe file you can have social scheduling briefs for this every week Hermes could deliver a structured scheduled content brief to the team based on trending topics so there's so many things here that you could actually do I actually add this to the guide here so inside the AI Profit Boarding Guide we've got 100 prompts on this stuff we've got a 30-day roadmap on how to implement it we also have a step-by-step operating procedure but if you want the marketing agency examples too I'll put those down there as you can see with all the examples here when does Obsidian fit into this conversation we've got an Obsidian fan here all right cool so here's how I would look at it let's say for example you've got something like Claude Hermes MCP setup right so Claude can talk to Hermes now both of them have a lot of context on you if you are using the Obsidian and OMI setup now this is what I use now basically what happens here is that essentially OMI records my screen it tracks my conversations everything that I do it screen records and has access to my microphone right and then it's just taking notes on me all day it creates tasks it create goals it creates notes right then it stores it in a memory tracker like this as you can see so it's even tracked for example that I was using Hermes and Claude MCP this morning and then what it does is it exports that to Obsidian right so we can export that to Obsidian here now if we go over to Obsidian you can see we have 1187 memories here inside Obsidian right and so what this essentially means is that when we're using Claude or when we're using Hermes we can get custom automation ideas and we get everything personalized to us because Claude has so much information on us through the context inside OMI and Obsidian so that's how they work together and if you want training on that you can check out we have a guide on OMI and Obsidian it's called the infinite context engine and you can plug that into any AI agent that you have so that's what I recommend let's see what else we got here and by the way if you want to get access to all my trainings on this stuff check it out inside the AI Profit Boarding link in the comments description or go to the AIProfitBoarding.com this is my AI automation community focused on helping you learn grow and scale with AI automation and AI agents like Hermes and Claude inside the community I answer your questions with videos daily so for example you can see this question right here I actually created a customized video for them breaking it down as you can see and they've said wow thanks Julian that was so helpful I really appreciate it and I love this community that you've built everyone is very supportive and willing to help which is amazing so inside the classroom you can get all my best trainings like you can see right here and we have new daily updates all the time right we also have a map where you can connect with people in your local city we have a calendar where you can jump a weekly coaching course and that's all inside here plus you can connect with me personally so Tony says I'm not subscribed to any of the big five if I want to use something like Hermes agent fully local and offline with my Mac M4 Mac mini can I get use out of it yes so you would connect Gemma 4 with Hermes right Gemma 4 with Hermes now bear in mind if you run lightweight models like Gemma 4 it's not going to be as powerful something like Claude of course but you can run it locally you can run it offline and you can run it free and that means that you can get the most out of Hermes without having to worry about for example the using one of the big five now if you want to get a full setup guide on how to run OpenCore and also Hermes with Gemma 4 you can check that out right here we also have a guide on LM studio with Hermes which is another way to run local models with Hermes agent and we have a full step-by-step guide as you can see right here so this is in the new daily update section student building new way of decoding nice I'm not sure what that means well where it says thank you happy to help how do we feel about search atlas personally I don't use it I've tested out but I don't use it so that's it for me and thanks so much for watching I've answered all the questions and hope to see you inside the AR Profitable Boarding Joe says I'm in the community shout out to Jeff and the coaching calls really is a great community and I've gained so much from it thank you so much wetwear says I'll be there thanks so much yeah we actually have over 156 pages of like testimonials of wins and everything else so I really appreciate that thank you so much but yeah so many wins so many great people in there it's just an awesome community and I think it's a really tight community as well I can connect with the audience every single day I create videos for the community create custom automations for the community every day and just do my best to raise it up and help everyone