This OpenSource Repo will 10X Your Hermes Agent — Transcript

Learn how to 10x your Hermes agent with the open-source Agent Reach repo, unlocking advanced research and real-time data capabilities.

Key Takeaways

  • Agent Reach repo dramatically expands Hermes agent's research and data access capabilities.
  • Structured data extraction reduces token usage and operational costs significantly.
  • Hermes now uses intelligent routing for better tool selection and fallback mechanisms.
  • Installation and integration of the repo are simple and user-friendly.
  • This upgrade enables Hermes to handle complex, real-time information from multiple platforms.

Summary

  • The video introduces an open-source GitHub repo called Agent Reach that significantly enhances the Hermes agent.
  • Most users treat Hermes as a simple chatbot, but this repo unlocks advanced research OS capabilities used by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • Agent Reach enables Hermes to access real-time data from platforms like X, LinkedIn, Reddit, GitHub, and RSS feeds.
  • It improves Hermes' data extraction by returning clean, structured text instead of raw HTML, saving up to 2.5x tokens and reducing costs.
  • The repo adds advanced web scraping, real-time data extraction, and fine-tuned natural language processing to Hermes.
  • Hermes gains intelligent routing, allowing it to select the best tools and fallback options for robust searches.
  • The installation process is straightforward, demonstrated by cloning the repo and integrating it with Hermes locally.
  • Hermes can now articulate its new capabilities and perform live tests, such as researching YouTube content.
  • The video creator, Jack Roberts, also offers a full CLI and Hermes masterclass course linked in the description.
  • Overall, the upgrade transforms Hermes from a basic chatbot into a powerful AI research assistant with expanded knowledge and efficiency.

Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown

00:00
Speaker A
This new open-source AI will 10x your Hermes agent. Now, most people use Hermes agent like a chatbot. They just ask it questions. But research operating systems are used by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. And if you apply them correctly, you can unlock capabilities that 99% of users don't even know exist. And so in this video, I'll show you exactly how to get it set up easily, giving your Hermes agent unlimited knowledge and making it way more powerful so you can stop wasting time, make more money, and get light years ahead of everybody else. And if you're new, I'm Jack. I built some molastic startup with a gazillion customers. Now I'm building my own AI startups and I just share here the stuff that actually works. So if you haven't already, grab that beautiful coffee and let's dive straight in. Now, when we're thinking about our beautiful Hermes agent, the best way to think about the way that most people use Hermes agent is a genius locked out of a library. When you ask Hermes agent to do something, it can do a very basic internet search. But effectively, there's some stuff it just can't grab, right? It can't grab transcripts from YouTube. It doesn't have access to every page on LinkedIn or Reddit or X. Therefore, it's not getting the very best knowledge available on the internet. But if we could in theory connect it, I think you could have access to essentially everything that's happening right now in the world. Now, in this video, I'm going to show you two level upgrades, okay? One in connections and one as a specialist that's going to drastically increase the performance and the knowledge and the research capabilities of your Hermes agent for anything that you want to go ahead and do. So, the idea here with this new brand new GitHub repo actually is that we can give our Hermes agent eyes. That's the whole idea. And the repo is something called Agent Reach. It's got over 32,000 stars. It's number one trending right now. It is blowing up. And the whole idea of this GitHub repo, and I'll show you right here, so you can have a look. It's this one right here that we're hanging out with. I'm going to dive into that with you in a second. If you do make it to the end of the video, which I highly recommend, you are going to have superpowers in your Hermes agent. People will be saying, "This isn't fair. How the hell is your Hermes agent so powerful?" So, what can we do with this repo? Well, we can give access to X, LinkedIn. Um, we can basically get RSS feeds, GitHub, anything that you possibly want to. This OS is even updating itself in the background. That's how much cool stuff's going on with it. And it basically the idea is that you get access to lots of different softwares. And it has different fallbacks to make the search more robust just so it works way better. And not only that, it's going to give us clean data and better answers. So it returns structured text, not raw HTML. So the same research costs a fraction of tokens. So it's literally going to save you money the more they're actually using it. This is an example. You could have like 86,000 tokens for the HTML. In other words, it's a website speak. But with the clean structured extraction, you know, you can get 30, 40% saving you loads more time. Again, 2.5x saving on the tokens. And that's really important to understand, guys, because the Hermes agent itself has a specific context window. And it's one of the biggest complaints. This actually solves that. It's why it's so, so important. And the good news is it's super duper easy to install. So, we're going to go ahead and install this one together. So, what we're going to do is head over to this GitHub repo right here. And I'm going to go ahead and grab the code. And all we're going to do is come down here and copy this. Beautiful. So, let me load up the operating system and we're going to have a conversation with this voice intelligence layer which is going to make it super cool. Let's come down and begin a conversation with Hermes agent. Okay. Come down and we can start off. Hey Jack, what's on your mind? Hey there. Basically, I've got a GitHub repo. I'm going to give it to you. What I'd like you to do is go ahead and install that for me. Uh, so we can use this new research engine. Sure, I can help with that. Let's get the details of the repo and we'll go from there. What's the link to the repository? Cool. I'm just going to enter it into the chat right now and then let Hermes work his magic in the background. Start by cloning that repo and setting it up. Are you planning to run this on your local machine or on a server? Yeah, let's run that on the local machine, please. All right, running it locally. It is. Let me pull in the information and get the installation process going. Beautiful. So, Hermes has done some work in the background. What I would love to know as well is could you just make a list of all the new capabilities that this repo has given to you as Hermes agent and then let's think of an example to test this just to make sure that it's completely live right now. Hermes now has the following new capabilities from that repo: advanced web scraping, real-time data extraction, fine-tuned natural language processing. Okay, so you get the idea. Basically, Hermes gives that full breakdown. Of course, if we prefer, we can just have a regular conversation with it if we want to, but it has access to all these different functionalities now, which is great. Cool. So, I've also got Telegram up, so if you prefer to just type it on the go, we can do. Cool. Hey, I just downloaded the brand new skill from GitHub. What I'd like to do is to wire this into Hermes agent so that you can use it yourself. And then just give me a short overview of the new skills that this has given you and how this improves on what you had previously. And then we're going to test this live together to see that in action. And I like to do this as well mainly because it's great for Hermes to explain and articulate exactly how it works. And I always do this whenever I get a GitHub repo. Hermes has read and understood everything anyway. So it's good to give you that breakdown back in terms of what's working and how you can improve on it. So Hermes has come back. We've got new useful roots and this is a good way of thinking about it. It's not making Hermes more intelligent. What it's doing is improving its rooting. It's an intelligent rooting system. So Hermes doesn't need to rethink every time it wants to do something. It knows it's got the exact processes that have been outlined in the skill, which is fantastic. And again, it knows which tool to use for which platform. It can run a live dock to check out and prove what is working. And it gets better fallbacks when normal web tools fail, which is really freaking handy. So instead of summarize this repo, you say scout this repo and see if it's worth making a video about. And then Hermes can do its magic. So what we're going to do is give it this little prompt here, which is go ahead and wire everything up. And the beautiful thing is Hermes agent can go ahead and do that for us. Beautiful. Now, Hermes has come back and connected that together. And by the way, if this sounds like I'm speaking Japanese, I'm going to put a link down below for the CLI code full course that will take you from foundation setup, website, a full Hermes masterclass, everything you need to know to get up, get started, compliance stuff I've never shared on my channel, as well as this entire cloud operating system, the voice visual intelligence layer you just saw me, and all the other bells and whistles. I'll put a link down below so you can go ahead and grab that one. Now, one of the things we want to do here is just confirm first of all what is active and put it to the test. Probably one of the best tests we can do is YouTube. So, we've got web pages and it's just given it now more intelligent routing. So, when we say to Hermes, hey, go find out this information.
00:16
Speaker A
capabilities that 99% of users don't even know exist. And so in this video, I'll show you exactly how to get it set up easily, giving your Hermes agent unlimited knowledge and making it way more powerful so you can stop wasting
00:29
Speaker A
time, make more money, and get light years ahead of everybody else. And if you're new, I'm Jack. I built some molastic startup with a gazillion customers. Now I'm building my own AI startups and I just share here the stuff
00:40
Speaker A
that actually works. So if you haven't already, grab that beautiful coffee and let's dive straight in. Now, when we're thinking about our beautiful Hermes agent, the best way to think about the way that most people use Hermes agent is
00:51
Speaker A
a genius locked out of a library. When you ask Hermes agent to do something, it can do a very basic internet search. But effectively, there's some stuff it just can't grab, right? It can't grab transcripts from YouTube. It doesn't
01:03
Speaker A
have access to every page on LinkedIn or Reddit or X. Therefore, it's not getting the very best knowledge available on the internet. But if we could in theory connect it, I think you could have access to essentially everything that's
01:15
Speaker A
happening right now in the world. Now, in this video, I'm going to show you two level upgrades, okay? One in connections and one as a specialist that's going to drastically increase the performance and the knowledge and the research
01:27
Speaker A
capabilities of your Hermes agent for anything that you want to go ahead and do. So, the idea here with this new brand new GitHub repo actually is that we can give our Hermes agent eyes.
01:38
Speaker A
That's the whole idea. And the repo is something called Agent Reach. It's got over 32,000 stars. It's number one trending right now. It is blowing up.
01:45
Speaker A
And the whole idea of this GitHub repo, and I'll show you right here, so you can have a look. It's this one right here that we're hanging out with. I'm going to dive into that with you in a second.
01:52
Speaker A
If you do make it to the end of the video, which I highly recommend, you are going to have superpowers in your Hermes agent. People will be saying, "This isn't fair. How the hell is your Hermes agent so powerful?" So, what can we do
02:03
Speaker A
with this repo? Well, we can give access to X LinkedIn. Um, we can basically get RSS feeds, GitHub, anything that you possibly want to. This OS is even updating itself in the background.
02:13
Speaker A
That's how much cool stuff's going on with it. And it basically the idea is that you get access to lots of different softwares. And it has different fallbacks to make the search more robust just so it works way better. And not
02:24
Speaker A
only that, it's going to give us clean data and better answers. So it returns structured text, not raw HTML. So the same research costs a fraction of tokens. So it's literally going to save you money the more they're actually
02:35
Speaker A
using it. This is an example. You could have like 86,000 tokens for the HTML. In other words, it's a website speak. But with the clean structured extraction, you know, you can get 30 40% saving you loads more time. Again, 2.5x saving on
02:48
Speaker A
the tokens. And that's really important to understand, guys, because the Hermes agent itself has a specific context window. And it's one of the biggest complaints. This actually solves that.
02:58
Speaker A
It's why it's so so important. And the good news is it's super duper easy to install. So, we're going to go ahead and install this one together. So, what we're going to do is head over to this GitHub Reaper right here. And I'm going
03:06
Speaker A
to go ahead and grab the code. And all we're going to do is come down here and copy this. Beautiful. So, let me load up the operating system and we're going to have a conversation with this voice intelligence layer which is going to
03:14
Speaker A
make it super cool. Let's come down and begin a conversation with Hermes agent. Okay. Come down and we can start off.
03:19
Speaker A
Hey Jack, what's on your mind? Hey there. Basically, I've got a GitHub repo. I'm going to give it to you. What I'd like you to do is go ahead and install that for me. Uh, so we can use
03:28
Speaker A
this new research engine. Sure, I can help with that. Let's get the details of the repo and we'll go from there. What's the link to the repository?
03:36
Speaker A
Cool. I'm just going to enter it into the chat right now and then let Hermes work his magic in the background.
03:40
Speaker A
Start by cloning that repo and setting it up. Are you planning to run this on your local machine or on a server?
03:46
Speaker A
Yeah, let's let's run that on the local machine please. All right, running it locally. It is.
03:51
Speaker A
Let me pull in the information and get the installation process going. Beautiful. So, Hermes has done some work in the background. What I would love to know as well is could you just make a list of all the new capabilities that
04:01
Speaker A
this repo has given to you as Hermes agent and then let's think of an example to test this just to make sure that it's completely live right now.
04:08
Speaker A
Hermas now has the following new capabilities from that repo. Advanced web scraping realtime data extraction fine-tuned natural language processing.
04:18
Speaker A
Okay, so you get the idea. Basically, Hermes gives that full breakdown. Of course, if we prefer, we can just have a regular conversation with it if we want to, but it has access to all these different functionalities now, which is
04:27
Speaker A
great. Cool. So, I've also got Telegram up, so if you prefer to just type it on the go, we can do. Cool. Hey, I just downloaded the brand new skill from GitHub. What I'd like to do is to wire
04:36
Speaker A
this into Hermes agent so that you can use it yourself. And then just give me a short overview of the new skills that this has given you and how this improves on what you had previously. And then we're going to test this live together
04:48
Speaker A
to see that in action. And I like to do this as well mainly because it's great for Hermes to explain and articulate exactly how it works. And I always do this whenever I get a G repo. Hermes has
04:57
Speaker A
read understood everything anyway. So it's good to give you that breakdown back in terms of what's working and how you can improve on it. So Hermes has come back. We've got new useful roots and this is a good way of thinking about
05:07
Speaker A
it. It's not making Hermes more intelligent. What it's doing is improving its rooting. It's an intelligent rooting system. So Hermes doesn't need to rethink every time it wants to do something. It knows it's got the exact processes that have been
05:20
Speaker A
outlined in the skill, which is fantastic. And again, it knows which tool to use for which platform. It can run a live dock to check out and prove what is working. And it gets better fallbacks when normal web tools fail,
05:30
Speaker A
which is really freaking handy. So instead of summarize this repo, you say scout this repo and see if it's worth making a video about. And then Hermes can do its magic. So what we're going to do is give it this little prompt here,
05:39
Speaker A
which is go ahead and wire everything up. And the beautiful thing is Hermes agent can go ahead and do that for us.
05:44
Speaker A
Beautiful. Now, Hermes has come back and connected that together. And by the way, if this sounds like I'm speaking Japanese, I'm going to put a link down below for the CL code full course that will take you from foundation setup
05:53
Speaker A
website, a full Hermes masterass, everything you need to know to get up, get started, compliance stuff I've never shared on my channel, as well as this entire cloud operating system, the voice visual intelligence lay you just saw me,
06:06
Speaker A
and all the other bells and whistles. I'll put a link down below so you can go ahead and grab that one. Now, one of the things we want to do here is just confirm first of all what is active and
06:14
Speaker A
put it to the test. Probably one of the best tests we can do is YouTube. So, we've got web pages and it's just given it now more intelligent routing. So, when we say to Hermes, hey, go find out
06:23
Speaker A
this information, it's got that system already built into it. So, some stuff that needs connecting and talk about that in a second. So, and how this actually physically works under the hood if you want to get X, Reddit, all those
06:33
Speaker A
different bits and pieces. So, I'm going to say awesome. Let's put this to the test. I would like you to go over to the Jack Roberts YouTube channel and find my latest long form video and then why don't you go ahead and tell me what was
06:44
Speaker A
the first sentence of that video using your skill. Okay, send that one off and let it work its magic. And then just like that, not only has it found the correct YouTube video, it's given me the exact sentence, which I think is just
06:57
Speaker A
really cool because now I have access to YouTube. Now we can do this with GitHub.
07:00
Speaker A
So I could say, "Hey there, I'd like to go ahead and test this GitHub. Tell me what this GitHub repo is about uh and if it's worth discussing. All right. And I'm going to drop in the actual ironically the GitHub that we're talking
07:12
Speaker A
about right here. So we can test this one out. Beautiful. And just like that, it's come back and actually got everything for us. So give your AI agent eyes across the internet. It helps you search for things like YouTube, GitHub,
07:21
Speaker A
RSS, Reddit X, etc., etc. Here's a key nuance. It isn't a magical scraper. It's more like a routing and install and doctor system. So which tool to use?
07:30
Speaker A
Which background is currently working? What needs authorization? what's broken, etc., etc. Now, how this works give you access to things like LinkedIn, Reddit, and X, is it does it based on a cookie system. So, essentially the way that
07:42
Speaker A
this is configured is that you sign into those services on your computer and then it uses that cookie. So, that's fine, so to speak, but it's only really as sort of like balanced and functional unless something changes in the background, it
07:54
Speaker A
might not work. I personally don't like going down that route. So, what I do instead is leverage other systems that I think are way more robust. For example, if you connect within your Hermes agent, uh you can actually connect Grock very
08:07
Speaker A
very easily via the Grock Oorth. And you can do this in terminal also. But what we can do here, if you actually go ahead and use Grock, you can search the entirety of Twitter. So for example, if I come off this, I might come back over
08:18
Speaker A
and say something like, "Hey dude, I'd like to go ahead and use Grock and find for me like five trending and interesting developments with Claude code in the last week. I want to know ones that have say good view velocity,
08:29
Speaker A
good engagement velocity and everything like that. So you can configure this using Claude or Hermes itself. Just bear in mind that the ripper itself is in Chinese. So if you're on the doctor, you may not understand it unless you
08:39
Speaker A
basically speak Chinese. I personally though I'm not using any of the cookie things cuz I think things like X I can actually access myself uh within Telegram by connecting it to Grock. But if you did want to bring in those
08:50
Speaker A
different things like Reddit and you didn't want to give your API key, you can use this kind of strategy to grab the cookies. And then just like that, it's gone ahead and used Grock and now we have access to the entirety of X all
09:01
Speaker A
within Hermes agent. How cool is that? And all you have to do is just connect X to it in the model selector, which is really cool. Now it's come back with some ideas, dynamic workflows, things around agent loops, lots of
09:11
Speaker A
conversations around that. That has been around for a very long period of time. But what's really cool is actually come down here. It used Gro X for the search tool and then it actually went ahead and used our agent research and a YouTube
09:21
Speaker A
like basically YouTube search to sanity check it to make sure that it's fully aligned which I think is really freaking cool and it leads us very nicely then onto the second part of this and that's essentially this idea that we now have
09:32
Speaker A
this research machine in our pocket. This idea that we can yap to Hermes agent whenever we want to and it goes and finds out all of this wonderful information. But we can take it one step further and this is where we get to
09:43
Speaker A
level two. Now, what if I told you that what we're going to be using right here now is actually used by OpenAI themselves and also Anthropic. So, it takes it to a bit of different level and just gives different capabilities to our
09:56
Speaker A
Hermes agents. And I'm talking about clay.com. So, this is used by a gargantillion different companies which I thought was super interesting, piqu my interest initially. HubSpot, they got case studies with what Canva, OpenAI, very very cool. So think of Clay as like
10:10
Speaker A
almost like a database or a table that fills itself in. It's like a go to market data platform and it enriches leads from like hundreds of different sources. So information is one thing, but when we want to grow our business or
10:22
Speaker A
do various different things, Clay is a super duper kind of big uh system that can work in the background. It's got agents. It's got lots of really cool stuff. We're going to integrate it into Claude and also Hermes agent to give it
10:33
Speaker A
some really powerful capabilities. When I reached out to the team, I said, "Dude, I want to do a video with you guys." they graciously agreed to sponsor this part of the video. So, thank you Clay for doing that. But let's start
10:43
Speaker A
actually by logging in. I'll show you exactly what I mean and why this needs to be on your radar why it's so cool.
10:47
Speaker A
So, I'm going to come over down here and just sign in with Google real quick. So, first of all, if you wanted to take your signals to another level, one of the things we can do if you click on signals
10:54
Speaker A
on the left hand side and let's say that you and I want to target dentists or you and I want to target, I don't know, doctors, whatever it could be, we can actually start using some of these different categories to do that. So
11:05
Speaker A
there's lots of stuff that you can do within the actual clay platform itself, but we're going to be using the connector. So we can actually use it within Hermes directly and also claw.
11:13
Speaker A
You can come down to the plus button down here, go down to connectors, and you can add it as a brand new connector, which of course here is just going to be clay. And you can see the different
11:21
Speaker A
things you can do. The capabilities are exactly the same within Hermes agent. Now, I've made it unbelievably easy to connect Hermes with Clay. I'll put a link for this down below so you can literally go ahead and grab it. All
11:31
Speaker A
you're going to do is come down, going to copy all of this, like so. head over to Hermes and just drop it in. And then once that happens, essentially it's going to open up something for you to authorize yourself. And if not, you can
11:40
Speaker A
just run this in the terminal. Going to come down here. This is MCP access. Just pick the workspace that you want to give it to. Come down and click on authorize.
11:48
Speaker A
And as you can see, authorization is now successful. So when you pick your workspace, if the first one doesn't work, you can actually check out the second one and that will work for you absolutely fine. And then to validate
11:56
Speaker A
that, we can just say to Hermes agent, hey there, could you just confirm that you have access to the clay MCP, please?
12:02
Speaker A
And it's cool because then we can turn this into a skill. So we can use it whenever we want to. We'll just get Hermes agent to confirm it. And then we can test out the magic of Clay. And just
12:11
Speaker A
like that, it's now fully connected. So let's give it a prompt. Hey there. So I would like you to based on everything you know about me, go and grab for me three people from Anthropic and three people from OpenAI that I could make
12:24
Speaker A
contact with. I want you to do some research on them based on all the things you have available in CLA. and write for me a personalized message for all six of those individuals who I as a YouTuber um
12:34
Speaker A
founder entrepreneur could make contact with to work with those organizations and then I'd like to go ahead and create for me a HTML overview so I can see all the messages background information research but also feel free to publish
12:45
Speaker A
that in the chat first of all pretty tough challenge but again if this information is amazing we will absolutely crush it with this and just like that Hermes is completed we've done everything with clay which is fantastic it's hidden crow is a HTML document
12:58
Speaker A
which we're going to check out in a second. It's got six people, three from OpenAI and three from Anthropic. And he's explained why that's helpful. So, I'm going to pull up the HTML document that it pulled together, which I thought
13:09
Speaker A
was really helpful. Actually, the fact that we can do this with Hermes again is freaking awesome. Six AI partnerships for Jack. Let's check out exactly what we're dealing with here. So, best angle is pitch yourself as a creative founder
13:20
Speaker A
blah blah blah. And then we've got OpenAI, why him collaboration idea, message, message, message. So, not only do we have the six contacts, we've also got a figurative message that we can send there. And then one thing I'm
13:30
Speaker A
noticing here is we don't actually have the contact information because I didn't ask for it. So, we're going to go straight back over to Hermes and ask Clay to go ahead grab us those emails as well. I want to come back. It's gone
13:39
Speaker A
ahead. Clay has found four out of the six so far. Two in progress. It's just polling. And it's just so handy to be able to say, "Hey dude, what are these email addresses and be able to get those
13:46
Speaker A
just from a question." Beautiful. And now we've got all the emails back. I'll blow them out for their privacy. But you get the idea of what clay is possible, especially when we're looking at things like incorporating with Hermes and this
13:56
Speaker A
co this idea that everything we have sits together in one specific location and of course from that we can do a gargantillion different things have those live conversations if we want to which is cool. So clay itself and this
14:08
Speaker A
is important to understand in terms of what it can do why people are using it verified emails can do AI research find signals sync with CRM and do individual outreach specifically this is what I mean so they've got a waterfall across
14:19
Speaker A
150 providers and the pricing only hits when you find a hit so you're not basically charged for something that doesn't work we can find committee so find decision makers which is cool they've got a clear agent AI research
14:30
Speaker A
which is quite handy and then if you want to build up the sequences you've also got a personalized outreach but it does lead me on very nicely to kind the crux of this entire intelligence system and that's the fact that we're building
14:40
Speaker A
out this research intelligence agent so that when we're using Claude and Hermes whichever platform we're actually going ahead and talking to we can actually get the right information as quickly as humanly possible saving us time saving us failures and saving us a lot of money
14:53
Speaker A
because it's not failing. So now we have a research intelligence system that without a proper operating system behind it isn't going to get us as far as we want to go. So, what we need to do next is build that operating system, which we
15:05
Speaker A
do in this video right
Topics:Hermes agentAgent Reachopen source AIAI research OSweb scrapingreal-time data extractionnatural language processingGitHub repoAI agent upgradeJack Roberts

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main purpose of the Agent Reach GitHub repo?

Agent Reach enhances the Hermes agent by enabling access to real-time data from multiple platforms and improving data extraction with structured text, making Hermes more powerful and efficient.

How does Agent Reach improve Hermes agent's token usage?

It returns clean, structured text instead of raw HTML, which reduces token consumption by up to 2.5 times, saving money and allowing Hermes to process more information within its context window.

Is it difficult to install and set up the Agent Reach repo with Hermes agent?

No, the installation is straightforward. The video demonstrates cloning the repo and running it locally, making it easy for users to upgrade their Hermes agent quickly.

Get More with the Söz AI App

Transcribe recordings, audio files, and YouTube videos — with AI summaries, speaker detection, and unlimited transcriptions.

Or transcribe another YouTube video here →