I have spent hundreds of hours in Hermes Agent building, experimenting, and I’ve seen every single masterass. And in this video, I’m going to take you through the seven levels of Hermes Agent step by step so you know what to expect at each level, the exact mistakes that you need to avoid, and what you need to do to progress to the next level so you can save more time, make more money, and get light years ahead of everybody else. And if you’re new, I’m Jack. I built and saw my LTC startup with a gazillion customers. Now I build my own AI companies and I share here the stuff that actually works. So if you haven’t already, grab that beautiful coffee and let’s dive straight in. Now there are seven levels to this Hermes agent. And if you make it towards the end of the video, they’re going to be saying, “Hey, who is this super intelligent Hermes individual I see before me?” That’s what they’re going to be saying about you when you make it to the end of this video. Now, we’re going to go through every level of Hermes from one prompt to an agent that literally does wonderful and fantastical things and a lot of mistakes. Now, here’s the thing. What? Level zero is where everybody’s at. Cuz just for context, nobody’s using this stuff. Like you’re seeing all this content cuz you watch it, but just like for context, barely anybody is using AI, let alone Hermes agent. So you are already ahead. Now let’s begin with level one, which is the beginner. This is basically the download and go individual. Essentially, what’s happened here is you understood that it’s an agent and not a chatbot. We know that chat bots you can have conversations with like Claude and Chat GPT. Hermes is something that actually goes ahead and does things for us. And to have reached level one, what you needed to have done is actually gone ahead to basically the website, grab the information and download Hermes onto your computer. And if this sounds like I’m speaking German, click this link on screen. I see the full process of getting it set up. But effectively, you’ve gone and you’ve installed it on your computer. Now, you’ve installed it on your computer and you’re connected to Telegram or your messaging platform of choice. Now, at level one, you’re using it for simple tasks. So you might say something like, “Hey there, I am going from Dubai to a random country in Europe for 3 months. Do some research. Write me a list of the best countries to go to with some insights and just save that HTML file on my desktop so I can check it out for me later when I come back.” Send that off and literally Hermes agent is going to do this for us and just save things for us to check whenever we want to. And as you can see, Hermes agent completes things for us. It uses tools. It’s got the chat. I can just do anything we want to in those current environments. And now I can even open this up and see its output. Now as you can see I open up and it’s given me a nice little breakdown of all the things that I want to do. Key difference here is that you’re using Hermes agent for anything and also tool calling to build interesting things. Now the biggest drawback at level one is you’re just using it for long oneshot prompt things. You need to make sure that you’re collaborating with Hermes agent. Ask it to understand your stated intention. Go back and forward and just be mindful of your context window. You could probably expect to save about 30 minutes a day when you’re using it in this type of fashion. And this brings us on to the second level of Hermes agent and one of its strongest features that if you don’t use it, you are not utilizing Hermes properly. Now with the apprentice at this level, effectively Hermes is getting to know you as an individual. Now the key thing about Hermes agent is that the more that it knows you, the better it actually gets. And I can show you here for example with this memory system. The more information, the more you speak to Hermes agent, the more information that you give it, the higher performance it will actually get. But what do I mean by that? Let me explain. So Hermes itself has a very cool memory system. For example, you can say to Hermes agent, hey, what was that thing? Could you just tell me one thing that we spoke about 2 days ago, please? You can actually get Hermes agent to recall specifically things that happened on days. Now, the cool thing is Hermes will commit to its own internal memory the more that you actually talked about it. But it isn’t even just about its memory on a service level because this is just basic at level two. It’s also its ability here to know who you are and tailor its specific advice based on what you’re trying to actually get. And as you can see, it’s talking about alarm, which is a video that came out a couple of days ago on my channel. Now, you are missing out on Hermes magic unless it knows about you. So, what you want to do effectively is use what we call a Hermes soul.md. What do I mean by that? Well, if I show you here, for example, on the OS, if I come down here, you can actually categorize your user profile and actually physically give it a soul. This is stuff like how do I want you to address me? Information about you and basically your business or whatever it is that you actually are physically doing. And I’ll put a link down below for the soul. Hermes template that takes you through everything, mission goals, your business, key metrics, all this sort of stuff. The be the beautiful part of Hermes, okay, is that if two people speak to Hermes and ask it the same question, they should get radically different answers because it understands context. It’s all about context engineering. It needs to know about you and your information, your data, so it can best help you. And that’s one of the biggest differentiatories that we start to see at level two on our seven level scale. That’s why we call it the apprentice. And the key point here is that Hermes never starts from zero. It’s the agent that remembers your birthday. Its memory is one of its most coolest features and it should it should know that stuff about you. So at this level we should be looking at roughly 5 hours a week that we’re claiming back. Key thing is if it knows you, you can stop carrying all the information in your head. And remember this when we’re thinking about how much time it saves you. There’s such a thing as context switching, right? It isn’t just how much time did I spend doing something. You lose things when you switch between tasks. So having one of the world’s most intelligent personal AI assistants is an unbelievable gamecher and why it’s blowing up so much and it’s going to be such a huge thing in the future. Key details, it remembers your preferences, it can recall past chats, and there’s no need to reexlain. Now, custom instructions are one thing, but if you don’t use skills and commands properly in level three, you’re not utilizing its full potential. What do I physically mean by that? Well, we’re looking at two key things here. Okay, first thing I want to touch on here is some of the key commands and controls that will radically change your experience as her with Hermes. At this level, you’re starting to basically really utilize its functionality and how cool it freaking is. Let me show you exactly what I mean. First of all, I might give it a prompt that sounds something like this. Hey there, I would like to go online and find for me what are what is the best advice to scale my LinkedIn and acquire clients in that channel. Do some deep research for me and find that out. Okay, so you can give Hermes a prompt like this. We could be in the gym. We could be anywhere. Now, crucially, I can do a couple of things. I can do forward slash. I can do steer. And steer basically will guide it in one direction. I specifically want you to look at top creators on LinkedIn who are already doing very well and also YouTube. Now, what this means is I’m kind of like it’s it’s going to use this and think about this prompt before it’s even completed. Now, and it’s a great little hack. Another one I can do is background, which basically means whilst it’s doing that task, fire this one off in the background. So, I could say, “Hey there. I’d like to go ahead and do some research on the best way for me to grow my Instagram. Specifically, go and find me great Instagram creators and build me a beautiful list of ways that I can improve my Instagram.” Now, background tasks themselves happen in the background and it doesn’t even interact with the core thing that Hermes agent is doing. So, the idea here is that we’re using more of the features that exist within Hermes. We’ve got handoff, we’ve got clear, basically clear functions. And again, there’s lots of different things you can do. Now, the other really interesting one here is the model. Now, at this level, at level three, we’re basically using what I call model agnostic behavior. What the hell does that mean, Jack? What it basically means is that we tag in the best model for the job. That’s simply it. In fact, I can even show you with the Hermes app. If I pull this up, and even if you see here, for example, in the operating system for Hermes, if I come over here, you can see the model that we currently have tagged in. In my previous video, I also showed you how you can run this 100% privately, which is crazy. Now, the point here is that we can see the model we’re dealing with. We’re talking to chat 5.5 and if I have a conversation, I’ve got that freaking awesome. So, for example, if you can come now, you can see the different models I have within her agent, right? Anthropic, GitHub, open air codeex, open reach, etc. So, I speak to people all the time about Hemy’s agent. Now, some say, Jack, my credit was credits went very quickly. Your core model, okay, think of it like this. You want to connect your chat GPT subscription to Hermes agent. Super duper important that lets you use your $20 chat GPT subscription for anything. It is a coding powerhouse. Now the most intelligent model is Opus 4.8. But the reality is you don’t need it for everything. We don’t need astrophysicists, you know, basically building Legos for us. It’s not required. Sonet 4.6 is a very good middle ground of like really good performance, but it’s not going to burn your cost. These are API costs. The other model you need to have in here as well is Grock. Grock also connects via oorthth which means open authentication. You literally connect it, you sign in, and you’re basically using Grock within the engine. Now, the cool thing about Grock, again, it’s on your subscription and you get access to the entirety of X. So, you can say, hey, uh, what’s happening this week with websites? And it’ll tell you all the top posts. It’s freaking amazing. Then, we want to tag in the right models. You want to make sure that you’ve got Open Routter as well. Open router is a very important piece of software that effectually lets us connect to anything in the world that we want to. Why do I like it? Well, let me show you this. If I come over to rankings, you can see we have access to every model. You can access free models. You can access any model that you wish. It’s really freaking impressive. This is how I personally access 4.8 um with Claude. And essentially, we can ratchet it down whenever we want to. We can even use DeepSeek V4 Flash, which is fantastic. So we get to basically ratchet it up based on performance and cost and also privacy. So we get to move those dials up to get the right models we want to. And at level three of the system guys, what we’re doing is leveraging the right model for the right task. This is also the level where we begin to introduce skills. Now when it comes to skills, what I think is really important is the skills are only as good as the model doing the skill and what the skill actually is. So, for example, in the pantheon here, I’ve got in the operating system. One of the things that I’m very specific about when I add my skills is specifying three things. So, let’s go with the alchemist in this case, right? I specify what the job is, a description of that job, and then a system prompt, which is completely optional. And then, crucially, I come down and I actually specifically outline what the model is. Why? Because I don’t want 4.8, which is really expensive, doing something that we could delegate to a free model or something on Deep Seek. And of course, we can connect this entire thing. Then if I want to change my primes, I can visually come in, see them, and make adjustments as I want, as I come and go. Now, why is this so important? This really, if you’re down to it at level three, are some of the biggest time saves that you’re going to get because it can do things like go and do my competitive research, go and find for me all the outliers that exist on Instagram. And you can build software that looks like this. And this, for example, if you’re trying to grow on Instagram, as for instance, shows you all of the outliers. I scrapped this from my community. Why is this so cool? Well, this would be something that you could have spent hours doing. And this is why this can save you up to a day a week cuz you can now delegate tasks and automations and research to Hermes and it will execute for you perfectly. Now this sounds like I’m actually speaking Portuguese. I’m going to put a link down below for this full claw code course that will take you from foundation and setups, building websites, power features, memory systems, Hermes setup, stuff I have never covered on YouTube before. I’m going to put all down below. People mess about this course all the freaking time. You also get complete immediate access to this entire operating system. I’ll put a link down below so you can check that and upgrade if that’s valuable to you. And just FYI, by the way, um our price on our community is popping up on the 13th. So if you see it ahead of time, we’d love to welcome you. So we’ve covered this in level three and it does lead us very nicely onto the fourth level of Hermes, which is the integrator. Now in the integrator section, this is where really Hermes goes to a completely new level. And if you look at this graphic as a for instance, okay, what we’re really doing is connecting it and giving it the ability to connect to your world because the more things that you touch and interact with that we can plug into Hermes, the more it can really do. A lot of the stuff that we’ve covered so far is you speaking to Hermes and Hermes doing things like create me a report that does X or go and research Y. In level four, we really unlock the new capabilities when we give it access to things like reading our emails, things like creating calendar appointments with us and our friends and our our colleagues and potential business partners, looking at notion for like things like our to-do list, plugging into Slack so I can get immediate updates. For example, maybe you’re on ClickUp, right? One of the things that we could do with ClickUp is have our team, this is one of the things I implemented, basically giving updates on that. And now basically when I want to know what’s going on in my business, I can say, “Hey, Hermes, what were the numbers this week?” And the really cool thing and I want to stress this upon you, okay? Is that you give it text but also numbers. So if I’m saying, “Hey, I’m thinking about this from a strategic point of view. What are your thoughts on this strategy?” And one of the things my Homies agent will know to do depending upon what I’m talking about is it can go to different databases. Say you’re connected on ClickUp or whatever you are. It can go through the latest updates that you had that week from your team and say, “Well, actually Jack, did you know that um you know Kevin or I don’t know Sarah M or whatever actually submitted a report that unlocked this new thing?” that’s really relevant for you to know. So the idea is you don’t have to rely on your memory or you shouldn’t have to rely on your memory. Plugging Hermes into your world will create new optionality for you. And this is a key thing that everybody’s missing. How do I actually plug in new things? Well, it’s so unbelievably straightforward. Let me show you what I mean. So say we have our Hermes agent here, right? And again, it’s even working now in the background answering our things before. And I’m going to come down here. I’m going to do a for slash and we’re going to stop, which is going to kill all the background processes. And that’ll be the end of it. But let’s say I want to connect something. So, one of the big ones I love to connect to is Granola. They’re not sponsoring this video or anything, but the point with Granola is they will let you chat to any of your meeting histories. For example, I could say, “Hey, dude. Um, what was the title of the last meeting I had, and can you tell me one action I took from it, please?” Now, when you connect anything to Hermes agent, sometimes you’ll just store the API key on your desktop. Other times, you can literally log in by via an MCP, which is freaking awesome. And bear in mind, guys, this is one of the cool benefits of having this on your desktop. like it’s already got all of your signins and credentials, so you don’t need to duplicate this. I mean, I’m not getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to sell you some kind of VPS. I tell you exactly what I do in these situations, which is run it locally on my computer. I don’t really see the point or value in running it on a VPS to be honest with you. So, it’s just really cool and just makes it a lot easier to do things like this. So, we would just come down and we click on allow access in this case. And as you can see down here, one action you took away from AI automation coffee was to collaborate with someone in the workshop regarding iOS knowledge graph. There you go. You can see exactly how that’s connected and we even set the one up together. And the other thing to bear in mind is if you’re ever not sure how to connect something, just say, “Hey, I want to give you the ability to do this thing. What do you need from me to do it?” And just follow through the instructions. One little side hack for you. Don’t ever paste those API keys directly in Hermes. You can save them on your desktop or it’ll give you a terminal command. You can enter that in and it will throw basically explain everything to you step by step. Now, where most people get stuck at this level is they basically give it the MCP candy store. We give you imagine giving the 5-year-old all the candy in the world in a candy shop, it would go freaking in ballistic. So, same thing here. Now, the more MCPs that we give to him, his agent, the bigger its context window actually grows. Now, there are cool tools we can do like laser loading them and stuff, but fundamentally we don’t want to give it loads of garbage that we’re not physically using. So it’s context window doesn’t balloon significantly. That’s just one to watch out. And the idea is the fewer number of keys we can give it the better. Now a couple things I really want to bear in mind with this. First of all, emails. I personally do not give it the ability to send emails. It can draft them. It can add things to my calendar, but it can’t send emails just yet. So I kind of like to keep that one internally rather than sending it out. Some point it will be fine, but at the moment I just like to keep that um requirement to myself. And so really level four is about crushing your admin. It should be able to do anything you need it to do. Anything that you would personally do on a laptop, Hermes should be able to do that for you. And if it can’t, just ask yourself, why doesn’t it have that access and just connect it to Hermes. It’s a really good exercise to do and will save you so much time. Now, level five is when it starts to get very interesting. We call this level the orchestration level. Effectively, where Hermes becomes not only an executing agent, but a manager that manages other agents to do different tasks. It can in fact spin up multiple agents and every single update that you see with Claude Opus 4.8 can now do this cool thing. It can do ultra work. Hermes can do the exact same thing. Remember someone asked me recently, Jack, what’s better, Claude or Hermes? It’s like asking me what is better, Lewis Hamilton or Ferrari. They’re different, right? Hermes is the if you think of Hermes is more kind of like the the actual agent system and then the actual driver, the race car drivers are things like Claude and Chat GPT. This is more of a system that surrounds her. Now, the key thing here is that Hermes itself can use Opus 4.8 and all of these individual models to do many different things at the exact same time. And we just mentioned, didn’t we, about the Pantheon, this idea that we can actually go ahead, if I bring up the right actual tab here and show you this all these different systems, these different skills that we want to build out to do various different things. But what is really cool about Hermes agent is that we can actually ask it to do multiple things at the same time. Let me show you what I mean. And this is really where the sub agents come to play. So I can say hey there I would like you to create for me a team of agents. I would like one of the sub aents to be called it chat GBT 5.5. I want to use DeepSeek V4 and I’d like to task Deepseek V4 with going and doing some comprehensive research on the best industries to sell websites to. I want GPT4, excuse me, GPT 5.5 to critique it and I want them to go around in a loop until they’ve solved the issue. And then I would like to have Opus 4.8 eight as an orchestrative agent that will oversee it like his team, spin up as many sub agents as you see fit, but a lot of the work I want done by the very cheap Deep Seek V4. And as you can see, it’s actually going ahead and doing that for us. So, we have multiple agents in Hermes working in parallel. Now, this is the reason why this is even better in some respects than Opus 4.8 is mainly because we’re not just using Claude here. Now obviously you can connect these things to Claude which is fine but again I get to bring in any model I want to to do anything that I want. You can do this within Claude but I also think it’s one of the coolest things that we can do in Hermes which is completely model agnostic. We bring in the best model for the job and we have these fantastic parallel agents working for us. Now on level five itself this is where you can really explode your output if you know what you’re applying for. Remember the biggest hallmark basically of a of a beginner automator is that you automate stuff that should simply should not exist. The idea is this is high leverage when you know the high leverage thing that you’re focusing in on. Right? We don’t just talk about AI here. We talk about in the context of winning like in life like in business in our physical health in our relationships. We want to be the best version of ourselves and that means we know the problem that we’re solving. AI is an accelerant to that end. So the point is you can start to tank your output if you know what you’re focusing on and what your bottleneck is in your particular business or situation. So it’s a real explosive feature. But it brings us very nicely onto the sixth level where it takes one step further and this one is known as the builder. So first thing to understand about Hermes agent is that it does ship real things. Anything I’m getting fired up right now. Anything you can build in claude code you can build in Hermes agent. And honestly for me guy, this was the coolest unlock to be at the gym doing my bench press. I used to decline, incline, whatever you want to do and being able to actually code things and build things is a freaking unbelievable. If you’re building software, the ability to have those conversations, spin up the different sub aents and build software whilst you’re doing anything else you want to is literally gamechanging. It is no longer just a chatbot. This is software. You are building software and I’m telling you right now that is the future. Building these micro softwares, these micro apps is insane. If you have the idea, if you can imagine it, you can build it. That’s kind of the point here. Hermes lets us do this remotely. And in my view, no other app items of like, you know, Codeex and Claude really compete with Hermes remote ability. You can hack it and make it hacky, but then what you start to realize is you’re basically just rebuilding Hermes anyway. So, this is why this is so freaking sick. And at level six as well, you start to use its automation features. And what do I mean by that? I mean about asking it to do things at certain times. Taking what we call asynchronosity, which means that most people do this, I answer, you respond. You you ask a question, I respond. What people in level six do at the builder level is they’re actually adding scheduled tasks. They’re saying, “Hey, Hermes, um, I need to go and have a conversation this weekend with, you know, I don’t know, Mckenzie and K. um do some deep research over the next 24 hours and then on Friday afternoon make sure you give me a fresh report on my desk find the email addresses of all the board the members of the board and actually draft me an email or you’ll say and also send me a reminder on Thursday evening that I need to go ahead and do this thing and you’re basically creating your schedule tasks and it’s unbelievably easy to do for example you just say hey there I’ve got a big meeting on Sunday could you just set me a reminder I don’t know midday at 12:00 on Saturday Dubai time to do some preparation for my meeting with uh in the video. I want you to do some deep research between now and then. Find out who the members of the board are and then also go ahead and um find me five interesting things to talk about in that meeting. Whatever the thing is, I can send that off and I’m just explaining it. I’m yapping in English. By the way, when I’m not using Glider, which I’m using for my speech dictation, fastest in the world right now, I typically do my voice message when I’m talking to Hermes and I just yap and I talk because the speed at which you can get information out is four or five times faster, which is why I speech type. It’s like honestly the biggest productivity hack I’ve had and something I use with Hermes all the time. Now Hermes is setting a reminder to remind me of something. I mean, this sends me a daily brief every single day. It’s freaking incredible. And then it’s always going to do some research and come back and make that reality. Look at this right now. Set a wonderful reminder research for June 6, you know, midday. It’s like an executive assistant, but it never forgets and and it’s like the most intelligent thing in the world. You’re only really limited by how you’re physically applying her to your situation. And what level six is going to give you is something really powerful. And it’s this idea I mentioned of asynchronosity that it ships without you. It does things without you and your relationship goes from being I say you respond to something completely asynchronous and it does that. So things get built even when you’re not thinking about them. That’s like the huge unlock for level six with Hermes. And that then takes us to the doorstep of the most powerful level of Hermes agent and that is the agentic power user. And the idea behind the agentic power us is we have one operating system for every AI. What do I physically mean when I say that? Well, I best showing you. So this for example is the agentic operating system that I use. Now here obviously we’ve got a full overview of all the brands that we’re connected to, all the different integrations that we have. We can talk to Hermes. I’ve been over the incredible functionalities. This has this ability to create midterm goals for your business. And it breaks down in steps and give you like eight different steps of what Hermes is going to do, what you’re going to do, and vice versa. The pan tend to look at our different skills. And this is where it gets really interesting, right? After we’ve got the memory, we’ve got the Obsidian integration, we’ve got all our documents, which is crazy. If I want to look at, for example, something Hermes made for me, I can look at this. There is nothing else to do this right now. Like, you’re going to build PDFs, you’re going to build documents, you’re going to build softwares, but they just live in the chat or they’re just filed somewhere. The ability to actually physically see in a dashboard all the stuff that Hermes does for you is incredible. Like let’s say that you want to write an invoice to the UFC for your UFC debut. You want to do a headcake or something like that. Well, okay, it’s great that it’s in the chat and it can send things, but wouldn’t be I want to come back and look at it and do various different things. I can do that. But the real unlock is connecting your world together. Remember, context engineering is one of the biggest trends that you’re going to see. It is exploding. And the idea here for me to see my spend across every model, claude code, codeex, anti-gravity to have the ability to have basically Hermes agent dream for me. What do I mean by that? I mean it’s going to look at every message that I’ve said to it. It’s going to look at all the stuff that I’ve done not only in Hermes but in Claude code, in anti-gravity, in codeex, in anything else that I’m touching. And we use all of that data, all the skills to proactively think about are there ways that I can improve this? like what does Jack what is Jack not doing that he should be doing what are the skills that he’s not using that he should be using to do research and feed that back to you and crucially the ability and I got here in the memory section right now to see everything from my Obsidian memory that connects everything together and literally even the code memory and the Hermes memory the Agentic operating system users are individuals that don’t operate in silos they have their entire AI connectivity in one location and it basically means that I do coding on claude code. Cool. I do coding in Hermes. They’re no longer separate. That gap is completely bridged and unlocks capabilities that people don’t even realize actually exist. And at this level, not only is it running without you, it reports and does work for you whilst you are actually physically sleeping. So, three truths you really need to understand. It’s not a better coder than Claude code. It is literally using claude code. That’s really important to understand. The number here is that you can’t really have over a thousand agents running simultaneously. The agreed number of agents that we think can be done does vary based on different models, but realistically it’s not going to be a thousand. And the magic itself isn’t something you need to wait 17 years to do. This is something you can build and learn in a couple of videos if you just apply yourself. Now, understanding where you’re at in those seven levels and where they fall apart, the next thing we need to do is embrace the most powerful level. And that’s learning exactly how to utilize this agentic operating system, which we’re going to do together in this video. Right.