Hermes Agent: How to Automate Lead Generation!

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
We have a new member of the squadron, my friends. Hermes, Agent have added a pet. I want to show you how to set up, what it's used for, what it means, and how to use the Hermes Agent Sidekick system. So let's get straight into this. Your agent now has an animated pixel pet that reacts to everything it does, resting, thinking, done or stuck, so you can read its status in a single glance. This was a brand new update that just dropped a few hours ago, and so your Hermes agent can now adopt an animated pet. This is a small sprite that reacts to what the agent is doing. It's idle, running at all, thinking, waiting, finishing, or failing in the GUI or TUI, or in your agent operating system, like you can see we have added right here. And you actually have nearly 3,000 pets to choose from via the Pet Dex gallery, or you can actually submit your own, which is pretty cool. So how does this work? Well, basically, you have your agent work in a way, the sidekick changes the pose to match, and in just one glance, you know exactly what's going on. So once your agent works, the sidekick changes pose to match, and you read its status in one glance. Kind of like easy to figure out, okay, where is your agent up to? What is it doing right now? So for example, if we choose this pet, and I'll show you how to set up in a second, you have the same pet but five faces and one for whatever your agent is doing. This is a magic, the pet isn't decoration, it's a status light with a personality. As your agent moves to work, the pet swaps pose to match. So you stop reading spinners and log lines, you just look at the little guy and go, right, he's doing this, he's doing that. And these are the five real poses, straight from my dashboard. So you can see that we have the pet set up over there, and you can see we've got idle, thinking, done, failed, waiting, and each one of these changes. So for example, when it's failed, you can see it crying right there. You might also say like, what is the actual point of this? So the point is peripheral awareness. You don't watch your agent every second, but you can just glance over whilst doing something else. So a spinner tells you nothing, like for example, if he's just working inside the terminal, but a pet sort of waves when it's done or cries when it failed, tells you the one thing you needed without reading a word. So it's just kind of like an easy way to figure out, okay, where's your agent up to? Now, how can you set this up? There's three ways. You can use a command line, you can use a desktop, and we've got an agent operating system, dashboard set this up as well. So you can have one pet, same agent, same step, and then you just look and glance whenever you're working. You might also say, does this work outside of Hermes own apps? So the pet ships with Hermes in the command line and the TUI, in the desktop app, they're all built in. We actually added it inside the agent operating system dashboard as well, took a little bit of wiring. But if you run it the normal way, it just appears you don't need to wire in. We've done that for you. So let me show you an example. If we say, okay, what are you doing?
It's now going to start thinking and it changes its pose. That's how easy it is to use.
Now you might be wondering, okay, how do you actually do this? Let me show you an example outside of thinking. So what you can do is you can run Hermes updates. You need to get the latest version of Hermes as this just dropped.
Once you've done that, you've got the pet engine. Then you can actually browse the gallery. So if you run inside your terminal, Hermes Pets List, as you can see right here. So we do Hermes Pets List. You can see all of the different types of characters that we can pull in.
Then you can install whichever one you want. So for example, if you wanted to install Boba, you would do Hermes Pets, install Boba, select. And you can see once that's done, by the way, it's got the response right here. So once it's idle, we get idle back.
Then you can watch you react. So you open the chat with your agent, the pet sits in the corner, changes poses as the agent works.