Full Hermes Agent Tutorial (Desktop) 🧠 A Useful Agentic AI Workflow

What if your AI Agent got smarter every time you used it? 👀 Hermes Agent is Agentic AI that learns from interactions, remembers style/workflows, & builds its own skills so it gets better every day. With the NEW Desktop App, Hermes is easier than ever. In today's video, I show you how to get Hermes started from scratch, with tips for safety & cost-savings along the way ✨   / wanderloots   Hermes Agent, by Nous Research (https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/), is a self-evolving AI Agent harness. That means it has skills, tools, and memories that enable the agent to tap into past conversations, codify style & preferences, & build custom workflows that improve every time you use them. Hermes has persistent memory, which means it extracts key information and remembers it over time, building a profile of you & how you work. These memories are used to build skills that improve over time as you repeat your workflows. Over time, you'll need to ask Hermes to do less, while still achieving more (without repeating yourself). Hermes is free & open source, so you can be confident that it is an agent you can use for the long haul. You can easily connect to local models like Gemma4 or Qwen through Ollama, so you can run your agent privately & freely. The new desktop app makes it easier than ever to get started. Whether you're new to agentic AI or are confident leveraging agent harnesses, this tutorial walks through everything you need to know to get Hermes working for you. In today's video, I show you how to get Hermes Agent set up with the desktop app, connect to a local model with Ollama, connect to a cloud model like ChatGPT (through Codex), and how you can build a daily briefing bot automation that messages you through your favourite messaging app (like Telegram) so you can even chat with Hermes on the go. For more on connecting to Ollama:    • Run Your Own Agentic AI? 🦙 Full Ollama Set...   I also touch on why the skills & architecture of Hermes make Obsidian & the LLM Wiki a natural companion of this incredible agentic AI tool. More on LLM Wiki here:    • Why LLM Wiki? 🧠 Future Of Knowledge For Ag...   I hope you enjoy! ✨ P.S. I greatly appreciate any feedback, please let me know what you think 😊 Join My Membership: YouTube    / @wanderloots   Patreon:   / wanderloots   💌 Sign up for my [free newsletter: Recalibrating](https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.et...) 🏡 Wander my Digital Garden https://wanderloots.xyz Timestamps: 00:00 What is Hermes Agent? Why Should I Care? 01:06 Today's Outline & Goals 01:25 What Makes Hermes Different? 02:34 Installing & Running Hermes 03:26 Connecting A Local Model To Hermes 06:48 Testing The Local Model In Hermes 07:40 Connecting A Cloud Model To Hermes (Codex Example) 08:35 Creating Hermes Profiles (Separate Agents) 10:11 Skills, Tools, & Memories 13:02 Other (Very) Important Settings 16:14 Tips On Getting Started With Hermes 17:34 Setting Up A Messaging Gateway (Telegram Example) 19:58 Practical Example Workflow: Automated Daily Briefing Bot 21:38 Cron Jobs (Automations) 25:55 Automation Tips 27:25 Other Hermes Uses & Workflows 28:06 Next Steps For Hermes LINKS (MY WORLD) 🧭 [Recalibrating Newsletter Home](https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.et...) 🏔️To start reading from the beginning: [Recalibrating Newsletter Entry 1: What Recalibrating Means To Me](https://wanderloots.substack.com/p/1-...) 🌍 My [Website](https://wanderloots.com/) 📸 My [Print Shop](https://wanderloots.darkroom.com/) ✨ SOCIALS 🟣 [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/wanderloots.eth) 📸 [Instagram](  / _wanderloots  ) 📰 [Flipboard](https://flipboard.com/@_wanderloots) 📍 [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.ca/wanderloots/) 🐦 [X (Twitter)](  / _wanderloots  ) 🤖 [Reddit](  / _wanderloots  ) MY FAVOURITE TOOLS 😴 🤯 The [Waking Up App](https://dynamic.wakingup.com/guestpas...) (use this link for a 30 day free trial) 📝 [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) (decentralized note-taking) 📹 [Adobe Suite](https://prf.hn/l/lQ9DwpA) (general creativity) ❤️ [Welltory](https://app.welltory.com/payments/pla...) (Health Tracker) EQUIPMENT USED 6. Camera [Sony A7iii](https://amzn.to/3seSHv6) 7. Lens [Sony F2 28 mm](https://amzn.to/3TiWCT2) 8. Tripod [K&F Concept](https://amzn.to/3soCKCP) 9. Main Lighting Neewer 660 PRO RGB: https://amzn.to/3CEcU2V