Hermes Workspace: New Mission Control is INSANE!
The video demonstrates how to set up multiple AI models and agent profiles within Hermes Workspace, while honestly acknowledging the platform's syncing difficulties. The presenter also promotes their own 'Agent Operating System' as a simpler alternative, showing features like agent swarms and model switching. The tutorial is framed around answering a community member's question about adding multiple models to Hermes.
Summary
The video opens by addressing a question from a community member named Code Mind, who asked how to set up multiple models inside Hermes and Hermes Workspace, noting that only the default model appeared to be available. The presenter begins by walking through the installation process, copying a terminal command to install Hermes Workspace, and explains that while installation is straightforward, syncing API keys and backends can be complex.
The presenter demonstrates how to add multiple AI models using the 'hermes model' command, including Mistral, Grok (via an X/Twitter OAuth login), and mentions other options like Llama, OpenAI Codex, and local models via Atomic Chat. He shows how signing into X with an existing Twitter subscription allows users to connect Grok directly into Hermes, selecting Grok 4.3 as an example.
Throughout the tutorial, the presenter is candid about Hermes Workspace's instability, showing real-time errors, slow loading, and syncing failures. He repeatedly turns to Claude (either Claude Desktop or Claude Code) to diagnose and fix backend issues, recommending that users enable 'bypass permissions' in Claude to reduce back-and-forth friction. He notes the workspace requires running multiple local ports and creating API gateways, which is not obvious from the one-click install.
The presenter then pivots to promoting his own 'Agent Operating System' (Agent OS) as a more reliable and feature-rich alternative, highlighting its daily updates, specialized workflows (SEO, video, image generation), Kanban board, and multi-model chat support. He contrasts this with Hermes Workspace's more basic interface and slower update cycle, noting for example that OAuth for Grok wasn't yet supported in Hermes Workspace at the time of recording.
The video concludes with information about the 'AI Profit Boardroom' community, where viewers can access the Agent OS zip file, daily updates, video tutorials, four weekly coaching calls, direct messaging with the presenter, and a local city connection map.
Key Insights
- The presenter argues that Hermes Workspace's one-click install is misleading, as running multiple local ports and creating API gateways makes true setup far more complex than advertised, often requiring Claude to fix backend issues.
- The presenter reveals that users can connect Grok to Hermes by authenticating through their existing Twitter/X subscription via OAuth, effectively repurposing a social media subscription as an AI model login.
- The presenter states that he built the Agent Operating System specifically because Hermes Workspace had persistent syncing problems, and his system delivers daily zip file updates with new features, unlike Hermes Workspace's slower update cycle.
- The presenter claims that enabling 'bypass permissions' in Claude Desktop or Claude Code is essential for smooth AI-assisted setup, because without it users face constant approval prompts that create significant back-and-forth friction.
- The presenter notes that Hermes Workspace lacked OAuth support for Grok at the time of recording, illustrating that because Hermes itself moves so fast, the Workspace UI often lags behind and doesn't yet support newly available models or auth flows.
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