§ 01 · The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Alex Finn opens with a declaration — Hermes Agent just had its biggest update yet, and he is blown. Eight features, one video, a 24/7 autonomous employee waiting at the end. The numbered list on screen starts at one and does not stop until it hits eight.
What the video promised.
stated at 00:12 "If you stick with me until the end, you are going to have your own twenty-four-seven autonomous employee doing more work for you than you can ever expect in your entire life." delivered at 13:13
Where the time goes.
00:00 – 00:29
01 · Cold open + promise
Mind-blown hook, promises 8 changes + autonomous employee payoff.
00:29 – 02:11
02 · Feature 1: Session recall memory
Token-free programmatic session recall. Live demo: query what was worked on May 10.
02:11 – 04:01
03 · Feature 2: Background tasks
/background command enables true multitasking. 3 parallel research tasks + live chat simultaneously.
04:01 – 05:27
04 · Features 3+4: Grok OAuth + real-time tweet search
Dual-use X subscription inside Hermes. Enables live tweet search for content research.
05:27 – 07:00
05 · Feature 5: Native Codex CLI
Spawn Claude Code as a worker sub-agent from Hermes. Demo: 3D FPS in Three.js as a background task.
07:00 – 09:03
06 · Feature 6: Computer use
Agent sees and controls the desktop. Demo: read Notion calendar + add event (15-min timing miss).
09:03 – 10:43
07 · Feature 7: Native video generation
Text-to-video via Grok Imagine inside Telegram. Demo: dragon vs horse AI video.
10:43 – 13:13
08 · Feature 8: Auto Kanban task generation
Drop a goal in triage; Hermes breaks into subtasks and assigns to sub-agents automatically.
13:13 – 13:43
09 · CTA
Like + subscribe, Vibe Coding Academy Skool plug, comment-bait asking what video to make next.
Visual structure at a glance.
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:40
concept
Session Recall
Token-free programmatic memory that recalls every past session by date without consuming AI tokens.
Steal for Pitch angle for any tool with long-term memory: no token cost is a concrete differentiator worth calling out explicitly.
02:51
concept
/background command pattern
Delegate multiple long-running tasks to background workers while keeping main chat available for synchronous queries.
Steal for Framework for explaining async agent workflows to non-technical audiences: give it tasks, go make coffee, come back to 40 subtasks done.
05:27
model
Orchestrator + Worker model
Use Claude/ChatGPT as orchestrator, plug in Grok/Codex as specialist workers for specific tasks.
Steal for Applicable to any multi-model AI workflow explanation — the muscle framing is reusable.
12:40
concept
Morning Kanban routine
- Wake up
- Write to-do list
- Drop into Kanban triage
- Go make coffee
- Return to 40 subtasks in progress
Use Kanban triage as a daily delegation ritual — agent auto-decomposes and assigns while you step away.
Steal for Strong lifestyle-angle hook for any automation video: by the time I come back from coffee, 40 tasks are already running.
Lines you could clip.
12:42
"By the time I come back, I have like 40 different subtasks that all my agents are just working on."
00:07
"Hermes agent just had its biggest update yet, and my mind is blown."
02:02
"This takes it to the next level."
How they spent the runtime.
Hook length29s
Info densityhigh
Filler5%
Things they pointed at.
00:00productHermes Agent
04:01productGrok 4.3
05:27productCodex CLI
How they asked for the click.
13:13
next-video
"Let me know in the comments what video do you want from me next."
Three-option comment bait (Hermes use cases / Codex masterclass / Claude Code masterclass) plus subscribe ask and Skool community link. Clean sandwich execution.
Word for word.
HOOK opening / re-engagementCTA the pitch metaphor story
00:00HOOKHermes agent just had its biggest update yet, and my mind is blown. This is the update that I think officially puts it ahead of Open Claw.
00:09HOOKIn this video, I'm going to cover the eight changes that have totally changed the way I use Hermes agent. If you stick with me until the end, you are going to have your own doing more work for you than you can ever expect in your entire life.
00:26HOOKNow let's lock in and get into it. So I don't do a ton of update videos, but this latest update was so good that I wanted to make a video around it. Let's go through these eight changes.
00:36The first update is dramatically improved memory.
00:40They added into Hermes agent what is called session recall. Now your agent can recall every single thing you've done and talked about by session. So you can do things like say, hey.
00:52What did we do or talk about last Thursday? Or, hey. What did we talk about two months ago?
00:56And it will be able to recall every single thing from every single session without having to use token calls at all. They implemented a very cool technology that doesn't rely
01:07on AI tokens to recall memory. It's just able to do it programmatically. Let me show you how this works.
01:12So if I'm coming in here and I wanna know what we did so if I'm coming in here and I wanna know what we did, like, between Monday and Wednesday last week. Right? Like, I'm working on a couple projects.
01:22I wanna see what we discussed last week. And by the way, again, you can do this. Hey.
01:27What were we discussing, like, two and a half months ago on this specific day at this time? But watch this. What were we working on on May 10?
01:36And boom. Here we go. Now it's going to go, and it's going to look at what we were doing May 10.
01:41Okay. On May 10, we did a deep equity research project together. You sent me a tweet with 40 tickers across 10 themes.
01:47I fanned the work. It told me look. It looks step by step.
01:50It told me exactly what we did and what I sent it. This improves the memory so much. One of the biggest complaints I get about OpenClaw and really every other AI agent out there is the memory.
02:02This takes it to the next level. So make sure you update your Hermes. All you gotta do is say, Hermes,
02:07update to the latest version. Hit enter.
02:11It'll update there, and you will get this new session recall in your memory, which will make it so much better at remembering everything you've done in the past. The next major feature I think is awesome is background task. Background tasks allow you to give your agent multiple tasks to do that it will work on in the background.
02:29One of the issues with these AI agents is when you give it a task, it's kind of busy now. You can't have it do other things. It's very hard to multitask
02:39unless you set up a multi agent approach. But to do a multi agent approach, you either need to spend a ton of money on your AI tokens, or you need to have a really good computer with a lot of agents running, not with background tasks.
02:51Now your agent can do multiple things at once without having to spin up a ton of agents. Watch this. So to give your agent background tasks, all you need to do is do slash background
03:02and then give it a task. So for instance, watch this. I'm gonna have a go off and research the top 10 AI agent startups from the last thirty days.
03:10So now it's getting to work. I'm gonna have it research my last 50 newsletters I sent out.
03:16Let me know which ones are working. And I'm gonna have it research the top trending YouTube videos in AI. Boom.
03:22And while it's doing all that, I'm gonna say, what time is the Spurs game tonight? And I'm gonna hit enter, and it's gonna be able to communicate with me even though it's doing all these background tasks at once. So this is allowing it to really do true multitasking
03:39without having to set up 20 different agents. And as you can see here, told me the time of the game. It's actually starting one hour from now, so I gotta finish this filming quickly.
03:47And then it went in and it found all these trending videos on Claude Code, Open Claw, Hermes agent. It did all those things at the same time while it's still working on the two other background tasks I gave it. This is the best way so far to do multitasking
04:01with your agent slash background. Give it as many tasks as you want, and you'll still be able to talk and communicate with your agent, which is amazing. The next two are closely related, and this is pretty cool.
04:11We'll go through this quickly. Grok 4.3 OAuth.
04:14So Grok 4.3 just released in full. It's a solid model. It gets the job done.
04:20I think the advantage here is twofold. One is a lot of people are subscribed to Grok 4.3 because they're subscribed on x. So now you can double use that OAuth inside your Hermes agent if you wanna save a little money.
04:32Next update for Hermes agent, which is the fact that you can use Grok OAuth to search real time tweets. So this is awesome. If you use your Grok 4.3
04:43OAuth, you can have it search x for posts in real time. So find trending news, find trending topics, find trending content.
04:52It's really, really cool. All you need to do is add Grok 4.3 as a provider. So even if you're using Claude or Chad GPT
05:00as your orchestrator model, you can add in Grok 4.3 and say, hey. Anytime I ask you about posts, use Grok 4.3,
05:08and it will be able to use it as a muscle. So if you do a lot of research around content, which is something I do quite often, make sure to plug in your Grok 4.3 OAuth so you can do a lot better native research on tweets.
05:21The next awesome update in the Hermes agent is native codec CLI use.
05:28Now your Hermes agent can natively built into Hermes, use the codec CLI. So even if you're on ChadGBT 5.5
05:36or you are on Opus as your orchestrator, it can spin up as a worker a Codec CLI session, which basically means it can do its own vibe coding, which if you have
05:48subscription, will save you tons of money because now you don't have to have your Opus do a whole ton of coding for you, which will be really expensive. Or if you're already using ChadGBT as an orchestrator model,
05:59you'll get better results because it will use its native coding functionality. So all you need to do is go in, and you can even do this as a background task. So let's combine a couple of these things here and say, use codecs to build a three d
06:12first person shooter using three JS
06:16in a single HTML file. And I'm gonna hit enter on that. And now the background task is going.
06:22It's actually using the native codec CLI, which in my opinion is the best vibe coding tool out there right now to build this out.
06:31So now I can go have Hermes do other things, research other things for me. And in the background, Codec CLI is building out an entire application for us. You need to be using Codec CLI, especially if you do any sort of vibe coding with your AI agents.
06:46So really, really cool. It builds its own folder inside the Hermes folder where that project will live, and it's spinning up codec.
06:54So it's using a separate agent, your codec CLI to actually build it out, which is really cool. The next update I really love, number six here, is computer use.
07:04Your agent now can control your computer. Anything you can do on your computer, your agent can now do as well. It can see what you're doing.
07:13It can complete tasks. It can click around. Anything you want, it can work alongside with you.
07:18This is really cool. So for instance, if I wanna go in, I wanna say, look at my Notion calendar and let me know which events I have today
07:29and then add a new event for 7PM,
07:35and I hit enter on that, it is going to now let me pull open my calendar. It is going to let's look at this side by side here. It's using computer use as you can see here.
07:46It should see a couple different meetings here, meeting with Ben, meeting with Angela, meeting with Allison. And let's see here. There there it is.
07:53Seize the events. Note your 7PM slot overlaps the IO Gemini. Go on to Google IO tomorrow.
08:00Let's say, make an event called film video.
08:05I'm gonna hit enter on that. And now we should be able to watch it actually
08:12build an event on my calendar using my computer. So I'm not touching my computer at all right now. It is going in, and it is actually looks like it's going to add the event.
08:22So, boom, you see a new event. I haven't moved my hands once. It added the event to the calendar.
08:28It looks like there's one issue. It did hit for 06:45. So it did fifteen minutes early.
08:33So maybe telling it to add events might not be the best use case here. Point being is your agent can now control your computer and do whatever you need for you.
08:42One way I think this could really be helpful is if you're out and about on the road wherever and your computer's still running, you go on your phone, you go on Telegram on your phone and say, oh, man. I forgot I had this open.
08:53Can you do this for me real quick? Can you change this around for me real quick? Could you exit out of this for me real quick?
08:58And it'll be able to actually control your computer and do that for you, which is really, really cool. The next really awesome feature, we got two more, and these both are amazing, is native video
09:10generation. Now your Hermes agent can go text to video or even photo to video natively right through your chat.
09:18So if you say something like, generate me a video of a dragon, it'll be able to generate you an AI video. You don't have to go to other websites or other experiences to do it. As long as you have this hooked in to your Grok OAuth.
09:31So, again, this is another great reason to have Grok OAuth hooked in. You can use it to generate videos with Grok and Magic. So let's do this.
09:39Generate me a short video of a dragon fighting a horse. We're gonna hit enter on that.
09:46And now you can see it's using its video generate tool. It wrote its own prompt to do this. It's gonna generate us a video straight in Telegram here.
09:54No need to go to any other AI tool. No need to listen to the Higgs field chills all over YouTube having you go to that scam alleged website. It all happens native
10:04inside of Telegram. Look at this. Here you go.
10:07Red dragon versus a white horse. That's all done in Grok Imagine. All done right in Telegram.
10:13There you go. There's your AI generated video. Really cool.
10:16I mean, are you gonna ever need videos of dragons versus horses? No. But the fact that you can generate these videos natively
10:23without having to go to other websites is incredible. So you just set up your Grok OAuth. By the way, all you need to do that is in your terminal.
10:31Do Hermes tools. Hit enter in the terminal. Then you can choose the video generation
10:37tool, enable it, and then it'll just have you sign in to Grok, and you're good to go. Really, really easy to do.
10:42And the last one is auto Kanban task generation.
10:48This is a really cool one. Stick around for this. Now you can drop goals into your Hermes Kanban board, and it will auto turn that goal into a bunch of tasks and assign those tasks to sub agents.
11:01This is really cool. Watch this. So this is amazing.
11:04For anyone who hasn't played around with it yet, make sure you go in here. Go to your Hermes dashboard. You can just go in a terminal, say Hermes dashboard.
11:13Then you click on Kanban. Once in Kanban, you can start adding tasks to your triage.
11:19And what's going to happen is whatever tasks you add to your triage, Hermes will automatically take that task, break it into subtasks, and then assign those subtasks
11:30to all your different agents. So if you have multiple agents, multiple sub agents, they'll get assigned, and they'll get to work on your task.
11:38Watch this. So I'm gonna go into triage. I'm gonna say new task.
11:41I'm gonna say script me a video for a Hermes master class, then design a thumbnail.
11:51And I'm going to let's see. That's all I'm gonna say, use the Garak Imagine for that. I'm gonna say create.
11:58Now the task is in triage. Watch what happens in a second here. And boom.
12:02Look at this. Automatically in To do went script me a video for Hermes agent. Another one went write full master class video script.
12:10Another one one did generate Hermes master class thumbnail. So it took my task. It broke it into
12:17subtasks, and now they're all in To Do. And as you can see here, each are assigned to a different sub agent.
12:24So each are gonna get that task now. This is amazing. It's gonna get to work.
12:29And this is great because if you have big lofty tasks, all you need to do is go in, go into your Kanban board, add them to triage. And if you have a list of 10 of them, you can just put them in, and Hermes will go and just break them all down into their little components and build them out for you.
12:46My favorite way to use this is every morning I wake up. I get my to do list. I write this little to do list down here every single morning.
12:53I take those tasks. I put it in a triage. I hit enter.
12:57I go make my coffee. By the time I come back, I have, like, 40 different subtasks that all my agents are just working on. Saves me so much time.
13:06It is awesome. These were the big updates. If you learned anything at all, make sure to leave a like down below.
13:16CTAI I do a live boot camp on Hermes and other AI tools every single week. You can join in, ask me questions, get tech support, whatever you want. Hit the link down below if that's the number one AI community on planet Earth.
13:26CTALet me know in the comments what video do you want from me next. Full Hermes use cases, codex masterclass, Claude code masterclass. Super curious.
13:34CTALet me know in the comments. Hope this was helpful. I'm so grateful you'd stick with me here.
— full transcript
§ 05 · For Joe
The numbered-list demo formula.
Steal this format
Eight features, one slide that grows, screen recordings that prove every claim — this is the lowest-effort high-trust format for AI tool update videos.
- Open with the number: '8 changes that totally changed the way I use X' sets expectation and keeps viewers through the end.
- Build your list on screen incrementally — each new item appearing is a visual progress bar signaling more is coming.
- Demo every claim live — even an imperfect demo (calendar event landed 15 min early) is more credible than a screenshot.
- Combine related features into one demo to show two items with one screen recording (background tasks + Codex CLI).
- Use the morning routine as your lifestyle CTA: 'by the time I come back from coffee' is a concrete image anyone can steal.
- End with a three-option comment-bait question — gives viewers a reason to engage and tells you what to make next.
§ 05 · For You
What you can actually do with this today.
For the non-developer
Hermes Agent now does eight things it could not do last week — and most of them require zero coding to use.
- Session recall: ask your agent 'what did we work on last Thursday?' and get a full summary without re-explaining context.
- Background tasks: type /background and a task, then keep chatting — your agent juggles both without slowing down.
- Computer use: leave a task running on your desktop and have the agent handle it remotely from your phone via Telegram.
- Auto Kanban: write one big goal, drop it in triage, go make coffee — come back to a broken-down task list already assigned to sub-agents.
- You need an X Premium subscription to unlock Grok OAuth features, but if you already have one it is free to wire in.
