Hermes Just Got 10x Better

TITLE: Hermes just got 10x better… CHANNEL: Alex Finn DATE: 2026-05-19 ---TRANSCRIPT--- Hermes Agent just had its biggest update yet and my mind is blown. This is the update that I think officially puts it ahead of Open Claw. In this video, I’m going to cover the eight changes that have totally change the way I use Hermes Agent. If you stick with me until the end, you are going to have your own 24/7 autonomous employee doing more work for you than you can ever expect in your entire life. Now, let’s lock in and get into it. So, I don’t do a ton of update videos, but this latest update was so good that I wanted to make a video around it. Let’s go through these eight changes. The first update is dramatically improved memory. They added into Hermes agent what is called session recall. Now, your agent can recall every single thing you’ve done and talk about by session. So, you can do things like say, “Hey, what did we do or talk about last Thursday?” Or, “Hey, what did we talk about two months ago?” and it will be able to recall every single thing from every single session without having to use token calls at all. They implemented a very cool technology here that doesn’t rely on AI tokens to recall memory. It’s just able to do it programmatically. Let me show you how this works. So, if I’m coming in here and I want to know what we did. So, if I’m coming in here and I want to know what we did like between Monday and Wednesday last week, right? Like I’m working on a couple projects. I want to see what we discussed last week. And by the way, again, you can do this. Hey, what were we discussing like two and a half months ago on this specific day at this time? But watch this. What were we working on on May 10th? And boom, here we go. Now, it’s going to go and it’s going to look at what we were doing May 10th. Okay. On May 10th, we did a deep equity research project together. You sent me a tweet with 40 tickers across 10 themes. I fan the work. It told me, look, it looks step by step. It told me exactly what we did and what I sent it. This improves the memory so much. One of the biggest complaints I get about OpenClaw and really every other AI agent out there is the memory. This takes it to the next level. So, make sure you update your Hermes. All you got to do is say, “Hermes, update to the latest version.” Hit enter. It’ll update there. And you will get this new session recall in your memory, which will make it so much better at remembering everything you’ve done in the past. The next major feature I think is awesome is background task. Background tasks allow you to give your agent multiple tasks to do that it will work on in the background. One of the issues with these AI agents is when you give it a task, it’s kind of busy now. You can’t have it do other things. It’s very hard to multitask unless you set up a multi- aent approach. But to do a multi- aent approach, you either need to spend a ton of money on your AI tokens or you need to have a really good computer with a lot of agents running. Not with background tasks. Now, your agent can do multiple things at once without having to spin up a ton of agents. Watch this. So, to give your agent background tasks, all you need to do is do slashbackground and then give it a task. So, for instance, watch this. I’m going to have a go off and research the top 10 AI agent startups from the last 30 days. So, now it’s getting to work. I’m gonna have it research my last 50 newsletters I sent out. Let me know which ones are working. And I’m gonna have it research the top trending YouTube videos in AI. Boom. And while it’s doing all that, I’m going to say, “What time is the Spurs game tonight?” And I’m going to hit enter. And it’s going to be able to communicate with me even though it’s doing all these background tasks at once. So, this is allowing it to really do true multitasking without having to set up 20 different agents. And as you can see here, told me the time of the game. It’s actually starting one hour from now. So, I got to finish this filming quickly. And then it went in and it found all these trending videos on Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Hermes agent. It did all those things at the same time while it’s still working on the two other background tasks I gave it. This is the best way so far to do multitasking with your agent. Slashbackground. Give it as many tasks as you want and you’ll still be able to talk and communicate with your agent which is amazing. The next two are closely related and this is pretty cool. We’ll go through this quickly. Gro 4.3 O. So Grock 4.3 just released in full. It’s a solid model. It gets the job done. I think the advantage here is twofold. One is a lot of people are subscribed to Gro 4.3 because they’re subscribed on X. So now you can double use that OOTH inside your Hermes agent if you want to save a little money. next update for Hermes agent which is the fact that you can use Gro Ooth to search realtime tweets. So this is awesome. If you use your Gro 4.3 OOTH, you can have it search X for posts in real time. So find trending news, find trending topics, find trending content. It’s really, really cool. All you need to do is add Gro 4.3 as a provider. So even if you’re using Claude or Chad GPT as your orchestrator model, you can add in Grock 4.3 and say, “Hey, anytime I ask you about posts, use Grock 4.3 and it will be able to use it as a muscle.” So if you do a lot of research around content, which is something I do quite often, make sure to plug in your Grock 4.3 OOTH so you can do a lot better native research on tweets. The next awesome update in the Hermes agent is native codec CLI use. Now your Hermes agent can natively built into Hermes use the codec CLI. So even if you’re on Chad GBT 5.5 or you are on Opus as your orchestrator, it can spin up as a worker a codec CLI session, which basically means it can do its own vibe coding, which if you have a Chad GBT subscription will save you tons of money because now you don’t have to have your Opus do a whole ton of coding for you, which will be really expensive. Or if you’re already using Chad GBT as an orchestrator model, you’ll get better results because it will use its native coding functionality. So all you need to do is go in and you can even do this as a background task. So let’s combine a couple of these things here and say use codeex to build a 3D firsterson shooter using 3JS in a single HTML file. And I’m going to hit enter on that. And now the background task is going. It’s actually using the native codec, which in my opinion is the best vibe coding tool out there right now to build this out. And so now I can go have Hermes do other things, research other things for me. And in the background, codec CLI is building out an entire application for us. You need to be using codec, especially if you do any sort of vibe coding with your AI agents. So really, really cool. It builds its own folder inside the Hermes folder where that project will live. And it’s spinning up codec. So it’s using a separate agent, your codec to actually build it out, which is really cool. The next update I really love, number six here, is computer use. Your agent now can control your computer. Anything you can do on your computer, your agent can now do as well. It can see what you’re doing. It can complete tasks. It can click around. Anything you want, it can work alongside with you. This is really cool. So for instance, if I want to go in, I want to say look at my notion calendar and let me know which events I have today and then add a new event for 700 p.m. and I hit enter on that. It is going to now let me pull open my calendar. It is going to Let’s look at this side by side here. It’s using computer use as you can see here. It should see a couple different meetings here. A meeting with Ben, a meeting with Angel, a meeting with Allison. And let’s see here. There, there there it is. Sees the events. Note your 7 p.m. slot overlaps the IO Gemini going to Google IO tomorrow. Let’s say make an event called film video. I’m going to hit enter on that. And now we should be able to watch it actually build an event on my calendar using my computer. So I’m not touching my computer at all right now. It is going in and it is actually looks like it’s going to add the event. So boom, you see a new event. I haven’t moved my hands once. It added the event to the calendar. It looks like there’s one issue. It did it for 6:45. So did it 15 minutes early. So maybe telling it to add events might not be the best use case here. Point being is your agent can now control your computer and do whatever you need for you. One way I think this could really be helpful is if you’re out and about on the road, wherever and your computer’s still running, you go on your phone, you go on Telegram on your phone, say, “Oh man, I forgot I had this open. Can you do this for me real quick? Can you change this around for me real quick? Could you exit out of this for me real quick?” And you’ll be able to actually control your computer and do that for you, which is really, really cool. The next really awesome feature, we got two more, and these both are amazing, is native video generation. Now, your Hermes agent can go text to video or even photo to video natively right through your chat. So, if you say something like, “Generate me a video of a dragon,” it’ll be able to generate you an AI video. You don’t have to go to other websites or other experiences to do it. As long as you have this hooked in to your Gro Oath. So, again, this is another great reason to have Gro Oath hooked in, you can use it to generate videos with Gromagic. So, let’s do this. generate me a short video of a dragon fighting a horse. We’re going to hit enter on that. And now you can see it’s using its video generate tool. It wrote its own prompt to do this. It’s going to generate us a video straight in Telegram here. No need to go to any other AI tool. No need to listen to the Higsfield chills all over YouTube having you go to that scam alleged website. It all happens native inside of Telegram. Look at this. Here you go. Red Dragon versus a white horse that all done in Gro imagine all done right in Telegram. There you go. There’s your AI generated video. Really cool. I mean, are you gonna ever need videos of dragons versus horses? No. But the fact that you can generate these videos natively without having to go to other websites is incredible. So, you just set up your Gro Oath. By the way, all you need to do that is in your terminal, do Hermes tools, hit enter in the terminal, then you can choose the video generation tool, enable it, and it’ll just have you sign into Grock, and you’re good to go. Really, really easy to do. And the last one is auto cananban task generation. This is a really cool one. Stick around for this. Now you can drop goals into your Hermes canband board and it will auto turn that goal into a bunch of tasks and assign those tasks to sub agents. This is really cool. Watch this. So this is amazing. For anyone who hasn’t played around with it yet, make sure you go in here, go to your Hermes dashboard. You can just go in term say Hermes dashboard. Then you click on canban. Once in canban you can start adding tasks to your triage. And what’s going to happen is whatever task you add to your triage, Hermes will automatically take that task, break it into subtasks, and then assign those subtasks to all your different agents. If you have multiple agents, multiple sub agents, they’ll get assigned, and they’ll get to work on your task. Watch this. So, I’m going to go into triage. I’m going to say new task. I’m going to say script me a video for a Hermes master class. then design a thumbnail and I’m going to let’s see I’m going to say use the garage imagine for that I’m going to say create now the task is in triage watch what happens in a second here and boom look at this automatically in todo went script me a video for Hermes agent another one went write full masterclass video script another one one did generate Hermes masterclass thumbnail so it took my task it broke it into subtasks and now they’re all in to-do and as you can see here each are assigned to a different sub aent so each are going to get that task now this is amazing it’s going to get to work and this is great because if you have big lofty tasks all you need to do is go in go into your cananband board add them to triage and if you have a list of 10 of them you can just put them in and Hermes will go and just break them all down into their little components and build them out for you my favorite way to use this is every morning I wake up, I get my to-do list, I write this little to-do list down here every single morning. I take those tasks, I put it into triage, I hit enter, I go make my coffee. By the time I come back, I have like 40 different subtasks that all my agents are just working on. Saves me so much time. It is awesome. These were the big updates. If you learned anything at all, make sure to leave a like down below, subscribe, turn on notifications. Also, join the Vibe Coding Academy. I do a live boot camp on Hermes and other AI tools every single week. You can join in, ask me questions, get tech support, whatever you want. Hit the link down below if that’s the number one AI community on planet Earth. Let me know in the comments what video do you want from me next. Full Hermes use cases, codeex masterass, Claude Code Masterass, super curious. Let me know in the comments. Hope this was helpful. I’m so grateful you’d stick with me here. Watch all these videos. Hope they’re really helpful. I’ll see you in the next video.