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Inside My Hermes Agent OS: Competitor Tracking, Outreach Automation, Voice Agent & One-Click ContentThe 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 folder...

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 OSThe 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 buildin...

OmniRoute: The Free Open-Source AI Coding Gateway That Routes Across 90+ Free ProvidersThe video demos OmniRoute, a free open-source (MIT) tool that lets users code and build apps across popular coding tools via a single endpoint that can route requests through 237 providers, including 90+ free options with automatic fallback when a provider fails or quotas run out. The presenter shows generating...

Hermes Agent v0.18 “Judgment Release” Explained: Mixture of Agents, /learn, /journey & Background Fan-OutHermes Agent released v0.18, the “Judgment Release,” introducing key upgrades the host explains and demonstrates, including Mixture of Agents (combining multiple models for stronger one-shot builds), the /learn command (teach Hermes a new skill from a link and save it for future sessions, w...

Claude Fable 5 Agent OS Demo: Automate Outreach, SEO, Videos, Thumbnails & More (1-Click AI Systems)Julian showcases an “Agent OS” built with Claude Fable 5 that centralizes multiple AI agents to automate business tasks like lead generation and email outreach, pulling trending news from X to draft and publish blog/social content for SEO, and creating images, voice, music, thumbnails, and video...

Cut 65–69% of Tokens with Claude Code (and Any AI Agent) Using CavemanThe 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...

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 animat...

Agent A1: New Free Local Chinese Agentic Model (35B MoE) + Benchmarks, Speed & SetupThe 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 mini...

Cut 65–69% of Tokens with Claude Code (and Any AI Agent) Using CavemanThe 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...

Hyperframes + Hermes Agent is INSANE!

Hermes Astros is Absolutely INSANE!

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 snak...

10 Ways to Cut Fable 5 Token Usage (Up to 95% Less) — Model Routing, Headroom, Ponytail + MoreThe 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 wor...

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 onl...

Agent OS: VPS + Elevenlabs + Hermes!

Claude Fable 5: Last 72 Hours to Build & Automate (Before July 7)The script warns that Claude Fable 5 is only available for three more days until July 7 before moving to API-only access, and recommends using the limited window to automate high-impact work rather than building generic web pages. It suggests starting with a quick time audit to identify where you spend the most time, then using F...

How to Build an Agent Operating System (Agent OS) in 5 LayersThis episode explains how to build an “Agent OS,” a single system where multiple AI models and agents (like Claude and Hermes) work together with shared context to automate tasks such as lead generation, outreach, news research, SEO, video, and more. The creator describes replacing “14 scattered tabs” with a five-layer stack—foundation (...

Hermes Agent OS Q&A: Skills Migration, Best Settings, SEO Automation, Memory, and Mobile AccessThe episode answers recent community questions about the Hermes Agent Operating System, which unifies tools like Hermes Oracle, a studio for image/video/voice generation, GLM 5.2 in quad code, Open Montage for AI film creation, and a memory system. It explains that Claude CLI skills can be transferre...

Gemma 4 Just Got Up to 90% Faster on Mac (Ollama + MLX)Google’s Gemma 4 has a new update that makes it up to nearly 90% faster on a Mac when run through Ollama using MLX, enabling much faster local model performance. The script explains that Gemma 4 is free on Ollama and MLX is a free open-source project, and that Ollama now supports MLX models directly so you can install via a simple command afte...

Laguna XS 2.1: New Local Agentic Coding Model (Benchmarks, Demos, Setup Options)Julian tests the newly released Laguna XS 2.1 local agentic coding model from Poolside, highlighting its speed, lightweight setup, 256K context window, and availability on Hugging Face. He compares benchmark results (including SWE-bench) against Qwen 3.6, North Mini Code, Claude Haiku 4.5, and GPT-OSS, then demonstrate...

Run Hermes Free Forever: Gemma 4 MLX Update Makes It Up to 90% Faster (Ollama + Apple Silicon)Julian demonstrates how to run Hermes for free using a new Gemma 4 update with Ollama on Apple Silicon via MLX, claiming up to 90–95% faster local performance compared to before. He shows Gemma 4 set up as a free profile inside an agent OS, with examples like quickly responding to prompts, building a simp...

Use Claude Code Free Forever with Gemma 4 (90% Faster Local AI on Apple Silicon)The video explains how to run Claude Code for free by pointing the Claude Code CLI at Google’s Gemma 4 model, highlighting a new update that makes Gemma 4 about 90% faster on Apple silicon when run locally with Ollama using MLX. It outlines a simple setup: download Ollama, download Gemma 4, and connect it to Claude Cod...

Agent OS Q&A: Fable 5 Tests, Hermes Setup, VPS/Windows Tips, and Free API OptionsThis episode answers community questions about an agent operating system setup with memory and multiple agents (including newly added NotebookLM short videos), covering what people are using Fable 5 for, its credit/token limits, gating to Opus 4.8, Claude service-busy bugs, and upcoming Goldy bench tests and leade...