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Inside My Hermes Agent OS: Competitor Tracking, Outreach Automation, Voice Agent & One-Click Content The video tours a custom “Hermes Agent OS” the creator built to make Hermes far more powerful than using it only in the terminal or desktop app. It showcases Hermes Astros, a workflow that monitors competitors and keywords via an API and turns trending topics into content ideas that can be sent...

Agent OS Q&A: CLI Setup, Obsidian Memory, Goal Mode Autonomy, Hermes iMessage + Free Coding (OmniRoot) This episode answers recent AI Profit Boardroom questions about configuring and using the Agent Operating System, including how to set up individual CLIs from the install folder (and hide unused ones), and how to organize client work using an Obsidian memory system with separate project folde...

RTK Token Savings: Cut LLM Token Usage by ~80% (Plus Ponytail, Headroom & Caveman) The script explains testing RTK, an open-source filter that sits between an AI agent and the shell to remove padding and duplicate output from common commands, reducing token usage while keeping results the same. The presenter reports 82.9% average token savings in their tests, cites RTK’s README claim of 60–90%...

Use OpenAI Codex for Free with OmniRoute (93 Providers + Auto Fallback) in Agent OS The video demonstrates a “free Codex engine” setup that uses OpenAI’s Codex CLI routed through OmniRoute/OmniRoot to access 93 providers (with auto fallback when a free API runs out or rate limits), allowing Codex to plan, write files, and run commands as usual without a Codex subscription. The creator shows buildi...

Agent OS Q&A: How to Start, What to Automate First, and Best Features (Hermes, SEO, Memory) The episode answers recent questions about building and using an agent operating system, emphasizing that once set up it can transform daily work by automating recurring tasks and integrating useful open-source tools like AI film generation and SEO systems. For beginners, the advice is to simplify by on...

OmniRoute: Code with AI for Free Forever (90 Free Providers + Auto Fallback + Token Savings) This episode demos OmniRoute, a free open-source AI gateway that lets coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor route through a single local endpoint to 237 providers, including 90 that are free forever, with automatic fallback when limits are hit. The presenter shows OmniRoute generating projects (an anima...

Agent A1: New Free Local Chinese Agentic Model (35B MoE) + Benchmarks, Speed & Setup The video reviews Agent A1, a newly released free Chinese local model designed for agentic tasks, showing it running privately and offline inside an Agent Factory workflow alongside free Claude code. The host demos outputs like a landing page, a neon snake game, a “Dragon Realm” open-world game, a keyboard min...

Cut 65–69% of Tokens with Claude Code (and Any AI Agent) Using Caveman The script explains a free, open-source “Caveman” skill that reduces output tokens for Claude Code and other agents (Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Copilot, and more) by making responses short, blunt, and direct while keeping code, commands, file paths, and error messages unchanged. Installed via a one-line command, it...

Meet Hermes Apollo: A Local, Voice-Activated Jarvis Inside Agent OS (Build Apps, Briefings & Browser Control) The script demonstrates Hermes Apollo, a voice-activated assistant inside Agent OS that responds quickly via ChatGPT real-time and can run agentic tasks through a backend agent using GLM 5.2. The presenter shows Apollo telling a joke, teaching a Chinese word (“xie xie”), building a sna...

10 Ways to Cut Fable 5 Token Usage (Up to 95% Less) — Model Routing, Headroom, Ponytail + More The video explains how to reduce token usage when working with Fable 5, noting it can consume tokens quickly, only allows 50% of a subscription, and will move off-subscription by July 7. It shares 10 practical tactics, including routing tasks to cheaper models (e.g., using Fable 5 only for the hardest wo...

Building a Custom Claude Agent OS: Voice Agents, Orchestration, Memory Loops & Model Swapping The speaker demos a custom “Claude agent operating system” built over two months to unify tools like Fable 5 and Hermes into a single, customizable mission-control UI with shared memory and organized outputs. They show how features evolved from simple chat into multiple model profiles, Hermes Mixture...

Fable 5 vs Hermes Mixture of Agents vs Fusion: Side-by-Side Build Tests (Games, WebOS, Landing Pages) The video compares Anthropic’s Fable 5, Hermes Mixture of Agents, and Open Router’s Fusion by testing 42 builds and showing side-by-side results across multiple projects, including a racer game, Nordic crypt game, orbit simulation, landing page, Dragon Realm, a WebOS, VoxelCraft, Frostfell, and a...

Claude Fable 5 Is Back: 42 Builds, Real-World Tests, Limits, and Better Alternatives The script reviews Claude’s Fable 5 after its return, showing results from 42 builds and how to access it by selecting Fable 5 in Claude’s model list. It notes Fable 5 is included in a subscription only until July 7, after which it may require extra paid credits, and it sometimes auto-switches to Opus 4.8—especial...

Agent OS Updates + Community Q&A: Hermes, GLM 5.2, Memory, SEO Pipeline, and Model Picks This episode answers recent community questions about the Agent Operating System (Agent OS), which centralizes and orchestrates multiple AI agents in one place. It covers recent updates including a Hermes lead generation tool, Mixture of Agents testing, an auto-updating memory system using Obsidian, a new...

LongCat 2.0 (Open Source) Tested: Benchmarks, Games, and GLM 5.2 Comparison The episode covers the official release of LongCat 2.0, an open-source Chinese agentic model revealed as the model behind the AoAlpha free API, with features like Sparse Attention, Zero Compute Experts, and MIPD. The host reviews benchmark claims (including Terminal Bench 2.1 and SWE-Bench Pro comparisons versus GPT-5.5 an...

NotebookLM Just Added 60-Second Vertical AI Video Overviews (Coming Free Soon) The script covers NotebookLM’s new feature for generating 60-second vertical short video overviews, now rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers and expected to reach free users soon. The creator demonstrates examples and explains that each video is generated from a specific NotebookLM notebook’s research, pro...

Claude Sonnet 5 vs GLM 5.2: One-Shot Coding Showdown (Games, Benchmarks, Cost & Agent OS) The video compares Claude Sonnet 5 and GLM 5.2 side by side using one-shot builds (dungeon crawler, raycaster maze, multiple games, a website UI, and a Web OS), noting Sonnet 5 sometimes looks smoother but often feels basic or lacks gameplay, while GLM 5.2 is frequently more interesting and polished, thou...

Fable 5 Is Coming Back Tomorrow: Export Controls Lifted, Global Access Returns (Plus New Safeguards) Anthropic announced that Claude Fable 5 will be redeployed globally starting July 1 after U.S. export controls imposed June 12 shut down access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone due to immediate compliance needs. The controls were lifted June 30, with Fable 5 returning across Claude Platform, Cl...

Hermes Mixture of Agents (MOA): Combine Claude + GPT with an Aggregator to Beat Frontier Models The script explains Hermes’ Mixture of Agents system, which lets you combine multiple models (e.g., Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5) into a panel and choose an “aggregator” model to fuse their outputs, treating the mix as one virtual model. The presenter demos results like generating a Windows-style OS and...