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Hermes: Agent OS + Obsidian + FREE Apis + WebUI!

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

June 16, 2026

Build Your Own AI Operating System with Hermes Agent (Free Models, Memory, Video Pipelines & More)The video explains how to build an “AI operating system” using Hermes Agent to manage multiple AI workers (writing, editing, judging) in one place, swap in new models as they appear, and keep workflows...
Speakers: Julian Goldie
**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Today, I'm going to show you how to build your own AI operating system with Hermes Agent, and it's going to give you superpowers. Imagine having a whole team of AI workers, all in one place, working for you day and night. One writes your videos, one edits them, one checks them and makes them perfect, all at the same time, all for you. And here's the best part, it doesn't matter what new AI drops next week, your Hermes system just swaps it in and gets even stronger. You build it once and it grows with you forever. I'm also going to show you the power of this whole thing and how you can use it with free APIs and free models and the best ones to use, so that by the end of this video, you're going to have your own 24-7 AI command center that turns your ideas into real things faster than you ever thought was possible. Let's get into it. Hermes with Agent Operating Systems. I mean, for example, we actually built out this full game, as you can see right here, using the Agent Operating System and anything new that comes out as well, we can just plug into the system too. So for example, GLM 5.2 came out over the weekend. No problem. We've already built all sorts of amazing stuff with it, as you can see. Then also, the great thing about it is you can plug in all sorts of cool stuff. So for example, N2 with Free Cloud Code came out. We can now control it with our voice and build amazing stuff. We've got an Obsidian Memory Galaxy over here. So anything that you want to build with an Agent Operating System, you can. And if you saw the situation, for example, with Fable 5 and how that got removed, the good thing is if you're building a project, it doesn't matter what models come in and what models come out. Because you've got a system that holds it all together, and you can swap everything in and out and just improve from there. So that's the way that I look at this. And I think it's the best way to get the most out of AI right now. And also, the cool thing about this is like every time you have a new workflow, you add it into the system. Want to create videos? Okay, great. We've got a video agent there. Want to automate SEO? No problem. We've got the SEO content pipeline, right? Want to start building games or creating music? No problem. We'll add that in like you can see. And so when new stuff comes out, you can make the most out of it, no matter what model drops or what agent comes out. So let's get into this. The first question we got here was from Scott. And Scott was saying, you know, should you use an agent operating system? Or is it better to use Hermes Desktop? And for me personally, I would say it's much better using agent operating systems. Because, for example, if you pull up Hermes Desktop like so, let's open up Hermes Desktop. The problem with Hermes Desktop is that number one is only for Hermes. So if you have other agents working, for example, like Claude, how are you going to operate them inside Hermes Desktop? You're not. Whereas, for example, we can have a group chat with all of our agents in one place with Claude and Hermes and everything else in one place right there. We can also, for example, if a new model comes out like GLM 5.2, we can have a separate chat here for GLM 5.2. KimiK 2.7 comes out. No problem. Let's chat to it right here with a separate profile. And so I also like that. And the other thing I would say here is like, you can build more custom stuff that's more visual. So if you look at Hermes Desktop, like the UI is super simple, you can't really preview and see the amazing stuff that you've built with it. It's very hard to come back to as well. Whereas, for example, if you look at Hermes Jarvis that we built over here, well, that's ready and waiting whenever we need it. We've got Kimi as well with the CLI over here. You can't really do that with Hermes Desktop. And so the biggest differences I would say here is like, number one, you can manage more agents with an agent operating system. Number two, if anything new comes out, you can build that in. And number three, you can make it much more visual. Hermes Desktop is very, very simple. And it's not as fun to use Hermes Desktop as it is to use an agent operating system that you've built yourself that's optimized in exactly how you want it. By the way, if you want to ask questions like this and get me to answer them inside a video tutorial like you're seeing today, then just join the AI Profile Board and you can post inside the community. And then I'll answer your questions about agent operating systems or whatever you need help with. This is pretty cool. So Jason is building out his own sort of avatar for the agent operating system. So basically what he's done is he's got our agent operating system zip file and then he's improving it and making better and building on it. For me personally, I mean, this is one of the great things about this is you can add your own images and you can customize it how you want. I mean, look how cool that is.

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