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Hermes Agent Apollo is ABSURD!

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

October 12, 2026

Hermes Agent Apollo is ABSURD!

Speakers Julian Goldie

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SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Good morning, sir. How can I help?

Julian Goldie (0:02)

Can you open up Google for me?

SPEAKER_1 (0:04)

Right away, sir.

Julian Goldie (0:05)

Nice. Can you find some SEO keywords for me?

SPEAKER_1 (0:08)

Certainly, sir. What's the site or topic?

Julian Goldie (0:11)

It's for a website about AI automation.

SPEAKER_1 (0:14)

Let me have a look, sir. Start with AI automation, AI workflow automation, AI automation agency, and AI automation for small business.

Julian Goldie (0:24)

Stop.

SPEAKER_1 (0:25)

More specific topics include...

Julian Goldie (0:27)

Now, can you open up my Obsidian Vault?

SPEAKER_1 (0:30)

Right away, sir. Sir, I'm seeing your Obsidian notes about your latest projects, including OpenSEO, Ornith 9b, and Agent OS Deploy Safety, plus a Claw Code chat window with an Agent Update Notification.

Julian Goldie (0:44)

Awesome. All right. Now, just give me a minute. Can you see my screen right now?

SPEAKER_1 (0:50)

Let me take a look, sir.

Yes, sir, I can see it. You have Agent OS open on the Hermes page with a chat discussing SEO keywords and content ideas. I'll wait while you take a moment.

Julian Goldie (1:02)

So this is Hermes Apollo, which is basically like a voice-activated AI agent. It can see our screen, it replies instantly, has access to our memories, understands everything about me. And also it's super powerful because if we switch through our automations, like if I go to Hermes Oracle here, you can see that we still have the voice agent. We can also change the voice at any time. And additionally, one of the best things about this is it's not using an API, right? So it doesn't cost me to use this because I've already got the Chat Cheapity subscription, and I just used the CLI and one of the latest Chat Cheapity updates for voice inside our agentic OS, right? We can also minimize it and open it up at any time, and it's ready to go. Or what we can actually do is switch over to the Hermes Apollo tab, which you can see, and then that's ready to go. Now we can also see that we've got a full conversation history here. We can click on it to activate it if we want to. And then also if we scroll down, we can see our previous conversations with the voice agent. Plus we've got everything that we built with it directly here. So we can actually see, for example, this full to-do list app that we just built recently. We can open that up in full. We can take a look at that. And additionally, we can also share anything that we're working on inside our agentic operating system as a screen, and it can see the screen. As vision understands what we're working on and everything else. So it's a super powerful system where we can basically operate it in real time, and it's like a voice-activated AI assistant that understands everything that we're doing, right? Really, really powerful. So you might ask, OK, well, how much does this cost? But it's not costing us anything because we already have the Chat Cheapity subscription. I just use the voice CLI from here as well.

Now, we can also switch to wall mode. With wall mode, basically, we have it like sitting in the background, we can have a voice activated AI agent in the background. Still works real time. And we can get like daily briefings, we can change the voice on it, we can see everything that we've talked to about it, and we can see its full status over here. And then if we want to escape from that, we can just close that as you can see here. Now, really, really cool. The other great thing about this is that, for example, if you're using a voice agent inside the chat here, well, you've got the pop up on the right hand side where you can close and open this on any tab.

So what this means essentially is like you could be doing one thing with the text based version of Hermes and then you open up Hermes Apollo and you can chat with it whilst you're waiting for a reply. And then it could do two things at once. You can kind of multitask whilst you're waiting for responses. Now, the other thing that I like about this is every time that we use it, for example, we go to our memory system here.

Every time we use it, Hermes Apollo actually updates inside the memory system here. What this means essentially is like, if you went back into any of the agents inside the Agent OS, it's fully synced to your conversation inside Obsidian. So Hermes Apollo is always giving context to your other agents, and they're all synced up together and vice versa. So for example, you can see here, there are other AI agents when they're running, for example, like the daily updates automation, that is plugged into the memory system, and then guess who can access that? Hermes, our voice agent. So it's really powerful and a lot of fun to use as well.

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