The transcription addresses 15 common questions about the Hermes agent operating system (AOS), designed as a mission control for AI agents. Key topics include running Hermes locally by scoping it to a project folder, building SEO pipelines with provided setup files, and deploying AOS in the cloud securely via VPS or remote access tools. Hermes can automate backlink building through personalized outreach and guest post drafting, and generate e-commerce content by processing CSV files into SEO-optimized descriptions. For models, Grok is favored for its speed-to-quality ratio, while Claude and ChatGPT are options with specific API limitations. Obsidian is recommended as a memory layer using a flat tag-based structure for agents, with daily summaries to enhance context. Voice agents for leads can be implemented with VAPI and webhooks, requiring opt-in. Memory management involves short-term session logs and mid-term Obsidian vaults, with periodic summaries to prevent overload. Syncing between Claude and AOS is best done through memory sharing via Obsidian, not direct session sync. Transferring ChatGPT knowledge involves exporting data or using prompts to populate Obsidian. The response emphasizes practical, secure setups and invites further questions from the community.
So today we have a lot of questions about the agent operating system for Hermes that we've built out and this is basically like a mission control where you can control all of your AI agents in one place. So we're like code X anti gravity. We got called code over here where Hermes open core, Claude, et cetera. We have all of our tools built in. It's a really powerful system. But we get a lot of questions about this, which is what I'm going to answer today. Right. And so these are all the questions we've had recently inside the AI profit bottom. And I'm just going to work through them and also help you as much as we possibly can on this. So let's talk about this and have a look where up to, for example, we've got one question here from Scott who says Hermes on my personal machine how to use it. And he says, new to the space, look forward to making connections. silly question, how can I store Hermes on my personal machine or do I need to separate machine, et cetera. So number one, welcome Scott. But the short answer is yes, you can run Hermes on your personal machine. Most of us do. Right. The user separate machine comes from people who get nervous early about touching their agents and the main file system, which is fair. But the way Hermes is built is like you can scope into a project folder. And that's all it sees. So it's not like running rampant across all your files. Right. And you can have, for example, open cloth sandbox as well. So that's a totally separate flow. But yeah, you don't want to quarantine the tool just quarantine the folder. Right. And start small. You can have one project work inside it and expand as you trust it essentially. Let's have a look at the next question. So browser saying, hey guys, I'm trying to find the full setup for the skill and setup guide for SEO. Essentially, when you said the whole agenteic operating system you built is growing to a beast level. I'm trying to build the base for it. So basically the agent operating system is really improved. And the one that we created seven days ago isn't nearly as powerful as where it is right now. Right. Now for the SEO content pipeline specifically, the full read long is over here and for the setup. I would just give yourself a bit of time. Right. Now, if you're focused specifically on AI SEO. We've a gentle OS. We actually have a full zip file that over here, right in this section. So if you want to get that, I'll link to it directly over here. Next up, we have a question from Andreas, which is where's the productivity board from Trello. Right. And so if you want to get access to that, let me find it for you. So this is what it looks like. It's basically my productivity system that I use. And let me just test it out here. I'm just going to check this out. And you can get that right here. So you can get the Trello productivity board if you want that to. Let's see what else you got here on the questions. This is interesting. So how do you build an agent operating system in the cloud. Right. So if you have an agent operating system and it's running locally, how do you share it in the cloud cloud and that sort of thing. Right. So you can use like a VPS. You could also use a container and you could also use remote access. Right. So you could actually use like cloud flare with tail scale. And that hit. Let's use mission controlling the cloud. But just be careful with this stuff as well, because you don't want to me, but you want to make sure this fully secure and no one else can access it. So when you set this up is awesome for accessing remotely. Just be careful that you don't share it anyway. You wouldn't. All right. And don't give it access to anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable giving access to. Let's see what else you got here. This is pretty cool. So could you build a backlink builder with Hermes. Right. So if you're using Hermes agent. How can it build backlinks for us here. And if you're not sure what backlinks are basically the clickable links. From of websites. Yours the more you relevant authoritative backlinks you get the more likely you are to rank on Google and ever else. So there's free ways you can do this. Right. And you can pick whatever helps you the most. Right. So number one, you could do outreach automation. So Hermes can actually draft personalized emails from a list of prospects. You approve. You send and the personalization is really what you want there. Then you've also got guest post pipeline. So Hermes can actually find blogs in your niche. Contact editors draft angled pictures. And that's probably more likely to be accepted. Right. Then the final step is like you can actually, for example, have Hermes monitor opportunities on Harrow. Draft responses in your voice. And then you reach out to more people daily. Right. And then of course like you don't want to you don't want to focus on thin. The outside of those free things. Right. We got another question here, which is how can you generate content or e-con websites using agent operating systems. Right. And so this is a really good example of how you can use the agent operating system. But I would use agent operating systems, not any 10 right. So Adam said, but how do I generate content should I use NATM, etc. And so the flow that I would do is like you plug a CSV of titles and the products you have into agent operating system, whether that's Hermes or Claude. The agent operating system can then read each role. You can generate SEO optimized titles and descriptions for each product. And then you can upload that to Netlify or just get a CSV out and upload that. Right. And then you could generate this for all your products. So that's basically what I recommend for doing this. You could actually use the I think there's a Shopify CLI as well. So you could connect to your agent to Shopify if you want to upload directly next question here. Best model for Hermes would it be chat. GBT would it be Grock Gemini or the tropics a shout out to Tony for asking this question. So on his answer is here like it does change every few weeks, but here's what I'd recommend. So right now my current favorite is Grock for a gentle tasks. So it's got the best speed to quality ratio of everything that I've checked out. Right. So for example, here we've got Hermes plugged into Grock. And then if we go over to studio, we can generate videos, test the speech images and it's pretty fast as well. And also a search Twitter. Claude is pretty powerful, but it's expensive as an API chat. GBT is awesome because you can use the author. So if you already got a subscription. And then if you want free, you could go with our for an open router. Right. And that's pretty easy to set up as well. And then Tony was asking should you use a waffle API. So you can use a wall from chat, GBT and Grock, those are the ones you want to focus on, but you can't use chat. You can't use Claude on a wall for agents just so you know next up. We got a question from Asif who says I'm a newbie in the community just had a question about connecting Hermes to Claude, right. Can you do that with a wall, etc. So you actually can't if you're using a wall with Claude. So Claude was actually stopped with using a wall for a few weeks ago. So this has changed, but you can use Grock a wall with Hermes and you can also use chat, GBT, a wall for Hermes. So either of those who'd work and you can log in directly into Hermes and use those instead. By the way, if you want me to answer your questions just like this with video tutorial and also a step by step breakdown of each one, then you can join the AR profit volume link in the comments description or go to the AR profit form.com and I answer these questions every single day, like you see right here, just to help people as much as I possibly can. And also I know if these people have questions like this, then probably everyone watching has these questions to so family says the new integrity is good. Do we still need Hermes and I love this question. Right. Antigravity is great. It's highly agente is browser native. It's fast. Google created a really good product there. But is a frame in that offer right Hermes is open source. Right. So you can pick the model. You pick the host. You pick the the way that you use it, etc. And I would say, anti gravity is great or generating, for example, websites and that sort of thing, but Hermes is more agente. Right. So if you look, for example, anti gravity is better for generating coding projects. Whereas if you have a look at Hermes, it's more for actually doing stuff. So for me personally, I prefer both, but I'll use anti gravity for coding and building out websites and apps and tools. And then I'll use Hermes agent for actually just going off and doing tasks. So anti gravity for coding and building stuff. Hermes more for actually doing early tasks on a schedule and also Hermes is open source, which means it's more customizable. We got another win here from Clovis who said he's using the obsidian ball on his agente operating system. So a lot of people actually using the agent operating system and then sharing what they've built inside their proper ball into, for example, like John as well, he built out his own operating system. And you can see here Clovis too. So pretty awesome system. And basically, you got it to integrate inside self. Now what this means basically is like you get more memory inside your agents and you get better memory. So for example, if you look at all of our agents plugged in here, they can all link. To our memory system over here and so all the knowledge all the context that we have is linked to our obsidian role. And so if it's linked to our obsidian role, then it can create better outputs for us. It understands this better, but has better context. And that's what the game is really about if you want super smart AI agents. We got another question here from Ryan, who says obsidian is a memory layer for AI agents, which is what I was just talking about here. And so you're saying like he's exploring the idea of having a second brain with obsidian as a memory layer. A few things that you're trying to figure out what vault structure actually works. How do you give access to your agents to obsidian any sort of tagging conventions to work well. And how do you stop a agents from giving the obsidian ball like low value content. So these are my answers, right. And basically we have something called the infinite context engine that I use. And that basically gives me the best possible outputs I can get. Right. You can see it over here. So this is the infinite context engine. We have a full video tutorial and set up guide on this. But basically, here's a way that I would look at it. Right. So in terms of the structure. When you start writing into it, you can use either para or Zettle cast and those are two good options. They built for humans browsing manually. Right. For agent readable. You probably want a flat structure. So one folder project plus a tags based discovery layer. And then agents can use tags way better than nested folders. Right. So it depends if you're using it for agents, then just a flat structure is pretty good. I'll to expose a vault. So you can actually just have this stored locally or you can use the MC.
a piece over which is obsidian and mcp. With the tagging conventions, you can have basically ones for each part of your project. So if we have a look over here and we look at the tags that we've used, and let's say for example, we have a look at this system here. You can see how we tag these, depending on the project. So for example, if something is related to the air profile, for bottom, my agents will tag it as that. And then you can also have a review agent that runs nightly if you need to improve the outputs, right? So you can read new notes, you can flag low signal ones, and that's a good system for monitoring it. It's quite advanced, but if you really want to go in granular detail, you can do that. So John is asking about how to basically get an AI as a voice agent to call your leads. Now obviously your leads need to opt in if you're gonna call them with AI, right? So that's really important, but yeah, this could work. So you could use something like VAPI, right? And then the trigger could be a web hook where they get a call within 30 seconds, and we're always gonna help if you get in contact. With your leads as well, right? And then also you want some time of day rules as well for that, right? So that's the way that I would look at it. And also I think if it's good enough, like the lead doesn't really care if it's AI, they just care that someone showed up fast. Next one from Jason, which is about how to use agent operating system on Docker or as a mobile app, which is a really cool one. So Jason was asking about to go for a set up process and stack agents. I would be careful of just giving it remote access, but if you do wanna set this up, but you could use Docker or something like that, Cloudflare, tunnel and tail scale, might be a better option as well. And then for the mobile app, I think you could do that through tail scale actually, that could be a good option. And I think a lot of people using Hostinger for this, that's what I've seen. Memory and context in larger AI agent systems. So Tony was asking how are people handling memory systems and that sort of thing. So here's the way that I do. I have a short term way, so you can have per session context, just leaves in the conversation. Then you can have midterm, which is you could have Obsidian, for example. And that's the way that I would look at it. It's like on Obsidian Vault with Mountdown files, which is easy for AI agents to query and humans to read. It's probably one of the best ways to do this, right? And then also if you don't want to update it too much, for every 10 to 15 turns, your agent can then summarize the conversation or you can do this daily as well. So that's a good way to do it. And we also have a full set up inside the infinite context engine system, which I'll link to you in a sec. So you can see the infinite context engine here. This is the full set up that we use. Or just one daily summary as well, from your AI agents to the memory system, could work really well too. Next question. So Augustine was saying, "Agent operating system, a lot of people want to sync this with the Claude app and that sort of thing." So the way that I would probably do that is sync it to my Obsidian Vault with the conversation summaries, if you don't want to use the API, right? So if you try and sync like Claude inside the terminal to your agent operating system, it doesn't work so well. But if you want to just use Claude directly inside the agent operating system, you can do that instead, right? So for example, if I go to the "Egent-Aggmission Control" here, and I try and speak to Claude, that's not going to sync to my terminal and vice versa, right? But the cool thing about this is the we can just have it summarize to our Obsidian Vault and then the conversations get logged and synced between them as a context in the memory. So that's the way that I would do it. And you don't really want to sync sessions, you want to sync the memory. That's the most important part. I think we've got one more question now. All right, so this is from John Mezzo, he's an absolute legend. And he was saying, how do you transfer chat GPT in public? See knowledge over to Obsidian, right? How do you do that? So let's say, for example, you're on chat GPT and you want to sync all of the knowledge inside chat GPT over to your agent operating system or to your Obsidian Vault, right? How do you do that? So here's the way that I would do it, right? You can actually migrate your AI history into Obsidian so Hermes can read it all in one day and start from scratch. So the way that you can do that is you can export from chat GPT directly if we have a look at that. And you can do this with a prompt as well. So you're going to actually ask like chat GPT to just tell everything you know about you. Or if you go to this section here, you can export your data from chat GPT and any other tool, right? And so that's where you can do it. And then once it's in Obsidian, Hermes can read that all locally or via MCP. Alright, so we've answered all the questions, it's 15 different questions from the App Profit Boarding. This literally just like the last 24 hours. As you can see right here, like I just, all the questions that we have, I know that everyone has them, it's not just the people of us. And so that's why I answered these videos and she told us like this, just so that I can answer in granular detail, everything that we've talked about today and just get you the best information you can on this stuff, right? And so if you want this sort of stuff, but you can bring your question, get it answered. And every Q&A is built from questions members posted inside the App Profit Boarding. So if you've got one, maybe that's Hermes set up, Agent Operating Systems, Obsidian, SEO Pipelines, anything, drop it in the App Profit Boarding and we'll cover it in the next session, right? So this is all designed for people inside the community. You can connect me personally, you can ask questions inside here. You can also jump on, we could coach and cause, you get all of my best systems, including a new version of the Agent Operating System that we've just dropped this morning with all my new updates. You can connect with people inside the map here as well and it's right there for you, right? And you've seen all the wins here as well, right? We've got so many cool testimonials and wins from people who have never done this stuff before and have just learned how to do it. So that's what it's about. Link in the comments description or go to the App Profit Boarding.com.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Hermes can run on a personal machine by scoping into a project folder, avoiding the need for a separate machine.
The agent operating system (AOS) is continuously improved; an SEO content pipeline setup is available as a zip file.
To share an AOS in the cloud, use a VPS, container, or remote access tools like Cloudflare with Tailscale, ensuring security.
Hermes can build backlinks through outreach automation, guest post pipelines, and monitoring opportunities on platforms like HARO.
For e-commerce content, use AOS to generate SEO-optimized titles and descriptions from a CSV, then upload to platforms like Netlify or Shopify.
Recommended models
Claude cannot be used with API wrappers for agents; Grok and ChatGPT API wrappers work with Hermes.
Obsidian can serve as a memory layer for AI agents, using a flat structure with tags for better agent readability.
Voice agents for lead calling can be set up using VAPI with webhooks, requiring lead opt-in and time-of-day rules.
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For memory in large systems, use short-term (session context), mid-term (Obsidian vault), and daily summaries to maintain context.
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Sync Claude with AOS by summarizing conversations to Obsidian, not by syncing sessions directly.
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Transfer ChatGPT knowledge to Obsidian by exporting data from ChatGPT or using prompts, then making it readable via MCP.
Summary:
The transcription addresses 15 common questions about the Hermes agent operating system (AOS), designed as a mission control for AI agents. Key topics include running Hermes locally by scoping it to a project folder, building SEO pipelines with provided setup files, and deploying AOS in the cloud securely via VPS or remote access tools. Hermes can automate backlink building through personalized outreach and guest post drafting, and generate e-commerce content by processing CSV files into SEO-optimized descriptions.
For models, Grok is favored for its speed-to-quality ratio, while Claude and ChatGPT are options with specific API limitations. Obsidian is recommended as a memory layer using a flat tag-based structure for agents, with daily summaries to enhance context. Voice agents for leads can be implemented with VAPI and webhooks, requiring opt-in.
Memory management involves short-term session logs and mid-term Obsidian vaults, with periodic summaries to prevent overload. Syncing between Claude and AOS is best done through memory sharing via Obsidian, not direct session sync. Transferring ChatGPT knowledge involves exporting data or using prompts to populate Obsidian.
The response emphasizes practical, secure setups and invites further questions from the community.
FAQs
Yes, you can run Hermes on your personal machine. It scopes into a project folder, so it doesn't access all your files, and you can start small with one project.
For a full setup, refer to the provided guide. For AI SEO specifically, there's a zip file available in the agent OS section.
You can use a VPS, a container, or remote access tools like Cloudflare with Tailscale. Ensure it's fully secure and not shared with unauthorized users.
Yes, Hermes can do outreach automation by drafting personalized emails, find guest post opportunities, and monitor HARO for link-building prospects.
Currently, Grok offers the best speed-to-quality ratio. Claude is powerful but expensive, ChatGPT is good with a subscription, and you can use free options via OpenRouter.
Use a flat folder structure with tags for agent readability. Expose the vault locally or via MCP, and use tags per project. A review agent can run nightly to flag low-value content.
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