Hermes Agent

I keep forgetting all the names.

They not only launched Hermes Index this week, which is a benchmark that says, hey, Cloud Opus 5.5 is the best model for Hermes right now.

They also announced a fundraise evaluating news research at more than $1 billion.

So shout out for our friends to making the unicorn status.

with a deep integration into new hardware.

This is incredible.

Since we told you about Hermes agent, the length and the depth of penetration of Hermes agent from news research is just incredible.

So we will definitely cover the Hermes index, but we'll definitely also celebrate the success of our friends of news research.

So today we're gonna be looking at new free Hermes Agent Operating System, an agent native operating system with Hermes Agent as the interface.

And I've already set it up.

It looks absolutely awesome.

And this is free and open source.

Shout out to Luke, the developer.

He posts loads of stuff on Hermes on X, but you can see, for example, he's just dropped the Herald Operating System, and it's pretty cool.

There's so much you can actually do with this.

You can also, for example, make it your own.

Um, yeah, I think they're seeing Grok Bot as its own real business, and I think- To be honest with you, I think if your objective is to get GrokBot in the hands of everybody, this is the play to make, for sure.

Because this was the main reason why you would use Hermes Agent, to be honest with you, or, you know, OpenCl- I mean, there are other reasons why you use Hermes Agent, instantly more configurable, only memory systems, blah, blah, blah.

But the fact now that we're, we can optimistically, Nick, say you can plug in any model you want is fine.

I think, I don't know if they're letting the user decide though, Nick.

But I was then introduced to a few concepts, one of which was this idea that I had, which is that code authoring almost needs to become a part of CI in the sense that we all need to be kind of funneling up our plans and our intentions through the same machine and not individually working in this bespoke manner on our own machines.

And I was introduced to Hermes Agent by somebody at a meetup, and what I love about Hermes Agent is it keeps a memory and builds its own skills from the work being done on a client's projects, which may span many repositories.

I also want that container, that box, to be something that you buy from Cause of a Kind.

That as an agency, we don't now just provide you with a product.

Stays in there.

I can have an agent from above help me push tasks in to these, or they are all hooked up to our project management solution.

So like I can start a work command, select which tickets I want worked on, and they also have, as Hermes does, have their own kind of cron ticker, so they can check the boards for bug reports.

And so every customer gets their own kind of bay in our garage, so to speak, in our shop, and that bay is permanent, and that bay is backed up.

do something with it.

really great um thanks to everyone who took some time today to listen in to us um a really great 50th episode anniversary and it's a real pleasure of mine to host you um hope to see you again soon in person somewhere in the world and we'll be following you and listening to what you have to say and what you're thinking about um just a little shout out to folks who are maybe curious about open source um it really hit me on the head we've we've been a little bit more closed source over the last 10 years but just a little story before we go i was talking about i was talking to a friend about why he's using like claude fable for everything he's doing and he said well i don't know like what's another hundred bucks And we've been doing a lot of work with the open source harnesses, both open claw and the Hermes agent.

Um, and.

I was chatting with my other pals in Morocco and Cambodia, and they're like, we don't even have like 20 bucks just kicking around to go.

And I let it go.

And Hermes agent talked to my local model and made a box in FreeCAD.

And if I had a 3D printer, I could actually print out a box that That's pretty incredible.

The world's going really fast, Doc, don't you think?

Yes.

So even if you set a local model to extra high reasoning, and even if you use something like OpenClaw or Hermes agent, these agents that have a long system prompt-

Which is-

... with lots of in-

It's a chatbot app.

It's more of an agent app, really.

Um, think of it as a lightweight version of Hermes Agent-

Okay