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Building a Custom Claude Agent OS: Voice Agents, Orchestration, Memory Loops & Model SwappingThe 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 o...

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 D...

Claude Fable 5 Is Back: 42 Builds, Real-World Tests, Limits, and Better AlternativesThe 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—especiall...

Hermes Agent v0.18 “Judgment” Update: Mixture of Agents, /goal Loops, /learn Skills + Proof-of-WorkThis episode breaks down the Hermes Agent v0.18 “Judgment” release and demonstrates key additions, especially the new Mixture of Agents system that fuses outputs from multiple models (e.g., Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5) to improve quality, with results shown on Goldie Bench and described as a one-shot...

Agent OS Updates + Community Q&A: Hermes, GLM 5.2, Memory, SEO Pipeline, and Model PicksThis 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 G...

LongCat 2.0 (Open Source) Tested: Benchmarks, Games, and GLM 5.2 ComparisonThe 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 and...

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, prod...

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, thoug...

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, Cla...

Hermes Mixture of Agents (MOA): Combine Claude + GPT with an Aggregator to Beat Frontier ModelsThe 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 b...

Claude Sonnet 5 Review: More Expensive, Worse Than Opus 4.8? (Benchmarks & Agent Tests)The video reviews Anthropic’s newly released Claude Sonnet 5, described as more agentic and capable of planning and tool use, but argues it underperforms Opus 4.8 on benchmarks (including agentic coding) while costing more. The creator shares Goldy Bench examples Sonnet 5 generated (a ray caster maze, a brok...

Export Controls Lifted: Fable 5 & Mythos 5 Returning Tomorrow (Official Anthropic Update)The episode reports that U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been lifted, citing a tweet and Anthropic’s official June 30, 2026 announcement that access will begin being restored tomorrow (likely within 24–48 hours). It notes Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s statement about wor...

Plug GLM 5.2 Into Claude Code + Obsidian (Cheaper Claude Code Harness + Agent OS Workflow)The video shows how to plug GLM 5.2 into Claude Code and Obsidian to get Claude Code’s agent harness with a cheaper “brain,” enabling app, website, game, and tool building while saving everything to a workspace and logging outputs into an Obsidian memory system for personalization and automatic organization....

Hermes Agent Power Five: 5 Best Use Cases (Oracle, Outreach, Video, SEO, Loop Engineer)The video explains the “Hermes Power Five,” showing how Hermes Agent is used inside an agent operating system to make it more powerful than using it in a terminal. It covers five key use cases: (1) Hermes Oracle, which pulls trending news from X on a 24-hour schedule, categorizes it, and helps generate and publi...

Agent OS Q&A: Memory Galaxy Setup, Multi-Agent Orchestration, Video Agents, GLM 5.2, and VPS DeploymentsThe episode answers recent AI Profit Boardroom community questions about an agent operating system that combines tools and agents (Hermes, Hermes Oracle, Claude, mission control, Kanban, and NotebookLM) in one place. It highlights organizing multiple projects in Obsidian’s “Memory Galaxy” wi...

Huge Hermes Agent Update: Build Scalable Multi-Agent Teams Discover the massive new update to Hermes agent that fixes database concurrency and unlocks scalable multi-agent Kanban boards. Learn how to build a Content Factory that runs multiple agents in parallel without freezing to automate complex SEO and content workflows. This update effectively removes the cap on multi-agent collaboration for f...

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Grok 4.5 (V9) Announced: Private Beta, Opus Comparisons, and Why Systems Beat Model HypeGrok 4.5 has been announced as a new update based on a 1.5 trillion V9 foundation model, with Cursor data included for supplemental training, and is currently in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla. Early evaluations suggest performance close to or possibly exceeding Opus 4.8, and Elon Musk frames V9 as a solid wo...

I Built a Claude Agent Operating System (Mission Control for AI Agents & Workflows)The video showcases a custom “Claude agent operating system” built as a mission control dashboard that unifies AI agents, CLIs, and one-click workflows for tasks like pulling trending news (Hermes Oracle), generating SEO and social content, images/thumbnails, AI avatar videos, and even music, with daily auto-org...

Hermes Mixture of Agents 2.0: Beat Frontier Models with a Panel of AI Agents (Agent OS Demo + Benchmarks)Julian demonstrates a new Hermes Mixture of Agents 2.0 setup that stacks multiple models as a panel of agents inside Hermes Agent, aggregating one prompt across several models into a stronger final output. He says he tested 42 builds with the same prompts and shows a leaderboard where systems l...

China’s Open GLM 5.2 Matches Anthropic Mythos in Cybersecurity—Why Systems Matter More Than ModelsThe script discusses a Wall Street Journal–reported claim that China’s ZAI model GLM 5.2 matches or beats Anthropic’s highly restricted Claude Mythos on cybersecurity benchmarks like discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities, despite Mythos being gated to a small vetted group and Fable 5 bei...

One-Sentence App Builder: Idea → Plan → Approve → Shipped in Minutes (Hermes Agent + Agent OS)The video demonstrates an app builder system inside an Agent OS using Hermes Agent to turn a single sentence idea into a working single-page app with minimal clicks. The workflow is: enter an idea, agents classify it and draft a plan, you approve or deny, and a coder agent builds, tests, and fixes bugs be...

Hermes Agent OS: Mission Control Dashboard for Voice Agents, News, Studio, Outreach & MoE IntelligenceThe video walks through the Hermes Agent Operating System, a UI-based “mission control” dashboard that organizes Hermes Agent and its tools into multiple mini apps to make it more powerful than using Hermes in desktop or terminal form. It demonstrates voice and chat control (including browser...

Qwable 27B Coder: Best Local Coding Model Yet? (Benchmarks, Demos & How to Run on Mac)The video demos Qwable 27B Coder, a new open-source local coding model on Hugging Face (updated end of June) built on a Qwen 3.6 27B base, showing projects made locally like a polished animated landing page and working games. It’s run on a Mac Studio (Apple M4 Max, 36GB) using Apple MLX (not available via Oll...

Agent OS Q&A: Using Codex, Claude Code, Local LLMs (Ollama), GLM 5.2, Updates, Memory & Team SetupJulian answers recent community questions about his Agent Operating System, a system for linking and automating AI agents with tools like voice control (Hermes Jarvis), Memory Galaxy, Kanban orchestration, and a local agent engine. He explains multiple ways to use a Codex subscription inside A...