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6 Hermes Agent use cases I promise will change your life

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Intro

0:00Hermes Agent is the most powerful AI

0:02software out there right now. The issue

0:04is 99% of people have no idea what to do

0:07with it. In this video, I'm going to go

0:09over six use cases that have totally

0:12transformed my workflow. By the end of

0:14this video, if you stick with me, you'll

0:16have a 24/7 AI employee doing work for

0:20you around the clock. Now, let's lock in

0:22and get into it. So, I've been using

0:24Hermes Agent a ton for a couple months

0:26now. I have it working for me at all

0:28times. I've literally have like five

0:29different Hermes agents doing work for

0:31me. So, what I'm going to do is I'm

0:32going to go through six use cases that I

0:34think are incredible. Now, if you

0:35haven't set up Hermes agent yet, I have

0:37a full setup video. Link for that is

0:39down below. Check that out. I don't want

0:41to go through Hermes setup on every

0:42single video I do. So, check that out if

0:44you're not set up yet. But, if you're

0:45set up, let's go into some of these use

0:47cases. Use case number one, I think, is

Goals

0:49one of the most underrated features in

0:51AI this year, and that is slashgoal. But

0:55how do you slash goal? Because if you

0:57use slashgoal the wrong way, you will

0:59get absolutely nothing out of it. But if

1:01you use slashgoal the right way, you get

1:04incredible results. So for those who

1:06don't know, slashgoal allows your agent

1:08to do really longunning tasks. I've had

1:12slashgoal run for over 24 hours straight

1:15for me working on a task. The key to it

1:18is is metapar prompting though. This is

1:20what unlocks slashgoal. If you do slash

1:23goal and just say build me an app, you

1:26might as well have not written / goal,

1:27it'll just build an app like a normal

1:28thing. But if you get it the right

1:31details and the right constraints,

1:33slashgoal becomes a banger. Now the

1:35question becomes, how do you get those

1:37details and constraints? Simple

1:38metaprompting. So how do you metaprompt?

1:40Well, you go to your AI, you tell what

1:42you want to do. You say, "Hey, build

1:44this prompt for me." And it will make a

1:46detailed prompt way better than you

1:48could have written by yourself. So

1:49here's the one I'm going to use. I want

1:51to do a slash goal with you. But first,

1:53I want to come up with the perfect

1:55prompt for it. I'm looking to build a 3D

1:57third-person shooter with Go Dot. Then I

1:59go into all the details of the game.

2:00Then I say at the end, please build me a

2:02/goal prompt for this. And I hit enter.

2:05This is going to build me the /goal

2:08prompt. And what this will do is give

2:10Hermes a really powerful goal prompt

2:13that will allow it to run for literally

2:15hours on end building absolutely

2:17incredible apps. This is what you want

2:19to do if you want Hermes to build you a

2:22really detailed complex app. If you want

2:25to make really detailed, complex

2:27changes. If you want to write really

2:29long, detailed documents, this is when

2:32you would use slashgoal. A lot of the

2:34times I'll have Hermes kick off a

2:36slashgoal to build an app. Then I will

2:38take the code it writes and put it into

2:40like a claw code or codeex to finish the

2:42work off. But slash goal is a really

2:43good way to do it. So here we go. It

2:46built me an entire opinionated/goal

2:49prompt. Look how much more detailed that

2:50is. That is way better than a prompt I

2:52have. So, what we're going to do is

2:53this. I'm going to copy it. I'm going to

2:55paste it in there. I am going to hit

2:57enter on that prompt. It's going to

2:59first before kicking off the slash goal.

3:02Ask me a few questions, which I love.

3:03It's just going to clarify some things

3:04before works for hours on end. And then

3:07off it goes. It's going to start

3:09building the game. And this could run

3:11for a very long time. We will check back

3:13on this game towards the end of this

3:15video. So stick around for the result of

3:17this massive slash goal, but use

3:19slashgoal, but more critically do meta

3:21prompting with it. Next up, I want to

Kanban board workflow

3:23talk about starting your day with the

3:25Hermes canband board. If you're not

3:28familiar, Hermes just released this

3:29feature. It's incredible. It's a builtin

3:32cananband board. And what's great is is

3:34when you put tasks in this canband

3:36board, it auto assigns the task to your

3:39Hermes agents and sub agents and gets it

3:41done autonomously. To access this, just

3:43go to your terminal, type in Hermes

3:45dashboard, hit enter, it'll give you a

3:47URL. You click on it, you go to

3:49Cananban, and you're in. Here's how I

3:51like to use this, though. This is my

3:52favorite way to use this. Every day, I

3:54start off my day. I write down my to-do

3:57list of things I need to do on this

3:59piece of paper and then I take anything

4:01Hermes can do and I put it in my canban

4:04port. I put it in triage. If you put

4:06your ideas into triage, it auto assigns

4:09them to agents. So, here's the routine

4:11that has changed my life. You wake up,

4:13go to your computer, open up your canban

4:16board, get all your to-do items for that

4:18day, and start putting them in triage.

4:20So, here's how I'll do I'll say script a

4:22new Hermes YouTube video about use

4:26cases. I'll click create and I'll make a

4:29new one. Come up with three tweets about

4:32Hermes use cases. Create. That's two in

4:36there. Find all the latest trending AI

4:40tools and make a report. Create. And so

4:44now I start my day. I got my tasks I

4:46need to do that day. I give it to triage

4:48inside the Hermes canban board. Now I

4:51go, I look at my other things like pay

4:53my credit card bill. Hermes

4:55unfortunately at the moment can't do

4:57that. Maybe that's a feature coming

4:58soon. I go I pay the bill myself. I come

5:01back and as you can see it's taking the

5:04task from triage and it's moving it into

5:06to-do and getting it done autonomously

5:08for me. So you start your day you go.

5:10Hey Hermes, here's everything I need you

5:11to do. Put in the camb board. You go get

5:14your human work done. And by the time

5:16you're done with that, Hermes took care

5:18of all the work it can do. This is like

5:20having the employee. This is what you

5:22do. The cananban board is excellent. Use

5:24it. If you made it through these first

5:26two use cases so far, then you know how

5:28powerful AI agents are and you know you

5:30have to be using them daily. But once

5:32you start, the question always becomes,

5:34what can I automate and what tools

5:36should I use for it? The good news is my

5:38friends and former employer HubSpot have

5:40partnered with the channel and have

5:42built this entirely free AI agents cheat

5:45sheet. This guide is sick. It covers a

5:48ton. It covers seven different AI agent

5:51tools, how to set them up, costs, the

5:54best use cases for each. This makes it

5:57so you know exactly what you're getting

5:59into before you start using these AI

6:01agents. My personal favorite part of the

6:03guide is the starter prompts here. You

6:05can just copy and paste these prompts

6:07into each agent it talks about and

6:10you're immediately getting value out of

6:11them. And even if you're brand new to AI

6:14agents, there is so much to learn in

6:16this guide. It's completely free, no

6:18strings attached. So, if you want the

6:20guide, check out the link down below.

6:22And thanks to HubSpot for supporting the

6:24channel. Now, back to the Hermes use

6:26cases. The next use case I love to do is

Technical breakdown

6:29full technical research and breakdowns

6:31of competing apps. So, if you're a

6:33builder and you're vibe coding an app,

6:35you probably have other apps in your

6:37space with you and you want to go see

6:39how they work so that you can include

6:41anything that's interesting in your own

6:43app. One thing I do all the time is I

6:46will have Hermes go out and do complete

6:48technical breakdowns by going onto their

6:51site, clicking around, looking at the

6:53console, and seeing how that app works.

6:55So, say I want to do a complete research

6:57and technical breakdown in my app,

6:59Creator Buddy. Maybe I'm building a

7:00competing app to it. What I would do is

7:02I'd go in and I'd say, "Open a browser

7:05and go to creatorbuddy.io.

7:07Do a full research and technical

7:09breakdown of the site. What stack does

7:11it use? How does it work? Which features

7:12does it have? What can we emulate? I hit

7:15enter on that. What GPIs is about to do

7:18is it's going to pop open a browser and

7:22actually start doing the research for me

7:24because Hermes can control your

7:26computer, control browsers. It's going

7:28to go off while I'm doing work and do

7:30full breakdowns and research in its own

7:33browser while I'm doing my own thing.

7:35This is massive to do if you are

7:38building any sort of app. You want to

7:40figure out who your competitors are, who

7:42else is in the space, and then have your

7:44Hermes agent go and do research on those

7:46competitors. Pop them open in a browser,

7:49click around, see what their tech is,

7:50and build you a full research breakdown,

7:53which you then can feed to your other

7:55agents who are building your app and

7:56include a lot of things they're doing

7:58well inside your own app. So, let's see

7:59what it's doing here. So, as you can see

8:01here, it has its own browser. It's

8:03navigating to Creator Buddy. It's

8:04looking at the console. It's getting the

8:06images on the site. It's opening the

8:07terminal. It's creating tasks for

8:09itself. Then it's asking for permission

8:10to search through and find all the

8:12different tools and libraries in it. So,

8:14we're going to say go right ahead. By

8:16the way, as it's doing that, my other

8:18hermesization's still going. It's still

8:20building out that game we gave it. I

8:22hope it has something interesting by the

8:23end of this. And look at this. It built

8:25the entire report out. Gave it a

8:27highlevel overview exactly all the tech

8:30behind it, which is all accurate. It has

8:32the payments, how much everything costs.

8:34It has all the analytics, the the events

8:37the analytics are collecting. This is

8:39amazing. If we were to go say, "Hey, put

8:41this in a markdown file." Then we take

8:43that markdown file with hands to claude

8:45coder codeex. It can build out

8:48everything creator buddy is doing well.

8:50You can quickly emulate any other app

8:52out there. So, this is really, really

8:54powerful for research. The next use case

8:56I want to talk about is an awesome one

Personal wiki

8:58that everyone should be doing and that

9:01is creating your own memory wiki. This

9:04is a website you can go to that has all

9:06your memories on it, all your daily logs

9:08on it. So, you can go back, go through

9:10every conversation you've had, what

9:12you've talked about, what you've done in

9:13the past, and basically just have a hub

9:15for everything you've done with your

9:17agent. This is mine right here, and I'll

9:19show you how to set it up in a second,

9:20but basically, you can go in, see a

9:23whole bunch of topics you've talked

9:24about in the past, see each and every

9:26one of your daily logs and what you've

9:28worked on every single day. And it's

9:30basically like an automated diary. It

9:33tracks everything I've talked about,

9:34everything I've done. So if I ever

9:36think, oh, what did I do with my Hermes

9:38agent when it comes to this subject,

9:39what I've done here before, it all goes

9:41in here. And what's amazing is this

9:44reinforces your memory system. If you

9:46have your Hermes agent maintain this

9:48memory wiki, it can go back and look at

9:51these daily logs itself. So it's great

9:53for you to remember what you've worked

9:54on the past, almost like a diary, and

9:56it's great as memory reinforcement for

9:58Hermes. How do you set it up? Super

10:01super simple. Just use this prompt. I'll

10:03put this down below, so feel free to

10:04copy and paste it. I want to build a

10:06memory wiki. This should be a site I can

10:08visit that has a list of all the

10:10subjects we've talked about and the

10:12daily logs of what we've done together.

10:14I should be able to click on any of the

10:16subjects or daily logs and get more

10:17details on the conversations we've had

10:19and the work we've done. You put it in,

10:22your Hermes agent will build the site.

10:24It'll build the entire memory wiki. And

10:26now you'll have an entire place to view

10:28all the work you've ever done, chats

10:30you've had, things you've talked about

10:32with your Hermes agent, and it's going

10:34to reinforce the memory, too, which is

Computer administrator

10:36awesome. This next use case is a great

10:38one. I use this whenever I'm out on the

10:40go, whenever I'm on different devices,

10:42and that is a general computer

10:44administrator. What does that mean? This

10:46is really, really helpful if you have

10:48multiple devices. Maybe have a computer,

10:50an iPad, a laptop, your iPhone. As long

10:53as you have at least a computer and a

10:55cell phone, you should be doing this.

10:57What you want to do is install Tailcale

10:59on all your devices. This isn't

11:01sponsored. Tailcale is completely free.

11:03You install it on all your devices. And

11:06what it does is it creates a private

11:08network for all your devices, which will

11:10allow you to have your Hermes agent go

11:13in and do work across every device you

11:16have. Why would you want to do that?

11:19Many reasons. Say you're on the go.

11:21Maybe you're on a business trip and you

11:22have a document that's on your computer

11:24and you forgot to put it on your laptop

11:26or on your phone. You can just go on

11:28your phone, go to Hermes and say, "Hey,

11:31get the document off of the computer and

11:34drop it in this chat so I can download

11:35it on my phone." Or maybe you have a

11:38couple different computers and you want

11:39to run a local LLM on one, but use it on

11:42another. You can do that. You can say,

11:44"Hey, Hermes, go install a local LLM on

11:47my Mac Studio and then set up a web app

11:50on my MacBook Pro." It basically allows

11:52your Hermes agent to use and leverage

11:55every single device you have. This is

11:58also really cool if you're a builder.

12:00So, say you vibe code something on your

12:02laptop, but you want to test it on your

12:04iPhone or on your desktop computer,

12:06you'll be able to do that. You'll be

12:07able to access everything on local host

12:10on other computers. Typically local host

12:12is obviously just for the local devices.

12:15But if you have a tail scale network

12:18connecting everything together, you can

12:20have your Hermes agent go on the other

12:23computer, test it on their local host,

12:25do everything there. It's really really

12:27helpful. It basically gives Hermes agent

12:29superpowers. So this is an amazing use

12:32case because it basically makes every

12:35device into one huge network you can

12:37access from anywhere in the world. It's

12:39super. Honestly, probably the number one

12:41use case I use Hermes for. So, general

12:44computer administrator, basically the

12:46CEO of all your devices is what it turns

12:48Hermes into. Make sure to do that and

12:50get that set up. And the last use case I

Morning priority prompt

12:52want to go through with you basically

12:54makes it so your Hermes can self-improve

12:56every day, learn a little bit more about

12:58you, and do better work. And that is

13:00your morning priority prompt. Basically,

13:03the way this works is your Hermes agent

13:06will come in and every morning

13:07proactively message you and ask you what

13:10your number one priority is that day.

13:12This happens for me every single morning

13:14at 9:00 a.m. And what happens is when I

13:17answer that question, it learns a little

13:19bit more about who I am, what I'm trying

13:22to do that day, and improves its memory

13:24on me. So, the first thing it'll do is

13:26come up with tasks that it can do to

13:28help that priority. The second thing

13:30it'll do is just learn more about who I

13:32am and what I'm working on. This allows

13:34it to be a lot more accustomed for you

13:36and constantly learn who you are. So,

13:38what you want to do is this. You're

13:40going to use this prompt, which I put

13:42down below as well. Every morning at

13:439:00 a.m., ask me what my number one

13:45priority is for that day. Then, come up

13:47with tasks you can do to help me with

13:49that priority. Then, update your

13:51memories about me accordingly. The

13:53better the context your agent has about

13:55you, the better work it can recommend,

13:58the better work it can do, and the more

14:00custom it can be for you. So, you want

14:02to run this prompt and you want to make

14:04sure you answer this question every

14:05single morning. The more you do this,

14:08the more your agent will self-improve

14:10and be custom for you. So, this is

14:11really, really important to do. With

14:13that being said, it looks like our game

14:15is done. Let's go in here and see what

14:18this game's all about. All right, so I'm

14:20in the game. It's dark, so it is like

14:22splinter cell. I'm shooting the enemy.

14:24Okay, I killed an enemy. I can loot

14:25their body. All right, so I have ammo on

14:28them. They have a bandage. Let's take

14:30the bandage. Let's take the ammo. Oh,

14:32we'll take all. All right, we got that.

14:34Let's close out. So, there is loot now.

14:36We're going. All right, so it looks like

14:38Oh. Oh, they see me through the wall.

14:40There's a wall here. So, it is very

14:42stealth like and I'm dead. So, there is

14:43the bones to a game here, right? There's

14:46pretty good bones. You can loot people,

14:48you can kill people, you can pick stuff

14:49up. That's pretty cool. Oh, we got loot

14:51value. That's pretty cool. Is it the

14:53best game ever? No. But now I can give

14:55it a goal and have a go improve things.

14:57I can say, "Hey, use the Chad GBT image

14:59gen model and make assets for the game.

15:02Didn't turn out half bad." I hope this

15:04was helpful. If you learned anything at

15:06all, leave a like down below. Make sure

15:08to subscribe to the channel. It truly

15:09means the world you would watch these

15:11videos and learn from me and care about

15:13anything I'm saying at all. Thank you,

15:15thank you, thank you for watching. I

15:17will see you in the next

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