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Jack Roberts
100 hours of Hermes Agent lessons in 23 minutes
⏱ 23 min video · 3 min read24 May 2026Worth watching
TL;DR
Jack Roberts walks through advanced Hermes Agent (an AI personal assistant built on Claude) configurations he has developed over hundreds of hours of use. The video covers memory systems, background tasks, cron jobs, model switching, goal frameworks, and how to connect Hermes to tools like Obsidian, Granola, Gmail, GitHub, and Grok to build a deeply personalised AI operating system.
Key points
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Add a soul.md file to Hermes to give it context about who you are, your preferences, and how you want it to behave — this is the single most impactful personalisation step.
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Connect Hermes to Obsidian (or Pinecone), an AI meeting notetaker like Granola or Fireflies, and Gmail via Zapier MCP to enable dynamic recall of notes, meetings, and emails.
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Use the /background slash command to run multiple simultaneous tasks in Hermes without them interrupting each other.
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Set up a cron job for an 8am morning brief that includes weather, motivational quotes, upcoming meetings, and a 'dreaming sequence' where Hermes reviews all context and surfaces three daily recommendations.
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Use the super goal framework (a mega-prompt that breaks goals into human-assigned and AI-assigned tasks) rather than the standard /goal command to handle multi-step projects requiring human input.
Actionable insights
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Run Hermes locally on your own Mac rather than a VPS for simplicity and security; use Docker containers if you want to isolate it from your other files.
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Back up your entire Hermes agent daily to a private GitHub repo so you can migrate it to a new machine at any time without losing memory or configuration.
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Use Firecrawl for all web scraping and internet search tasks inside Hermes — it cuts costs by around 80% compared to raw HTML fetching.
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Tag specific models to specific tasks: use Grok for real-time X/Twitter trend research, Gemini (via anti-gravity CLI) for multimodal and long-context tasks, and Claude Opus or Sonnet for general reasoning and chat.
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Connect Hermes to Claude Code via a Claude OS bridge so your coding context and conversational context are fully shared — eliminating the split-world problem.
Notable quotes
“Downloading Hermes and not using these great insights is essentially buying a Lambo and only keeping it in 10 mph.”
“The best personal assistant is the one that you are going to use.”
“Hermes is the agent that grows with you. The more it knows about you, the better it gets.”
Worth watching?
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Worth watching the full video?
Watch if you actively use Hermes Agent or Claude-based tools — the key configs and frameworks are all captured here, but the live demos and exact prompt structures are easier to follow by watching.
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