Hermes Agent V0.16 Just Changed AI Agents Forever!

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Hermes Agent v0.16, The Surface Release Just Dropped. You can see I've already updated right here. And I'm walking through exactly what it means, what's changed, what the new updates mean for you, how to use them, et cetera. Let's get straight into it. So this is Hermes Agent v0.16, just dropped today a few hours ago. And if you're wondering how to get it, you can just go to your dashboard inside Hermes like so, and then you can click the Update Hermes section. So super easy now because there is a new update to Hermes this week that just dropped, where you can manage everything inside one dashboard. So for example, you can actually chat to Hermes Agent, which you couldn't do before inside the dashboard. You also got your MCs, MCP set up there, your skills, your schedule tasks, et cetera. You can manage everything in one place, which is there's also some really cool updates that have just dropped for Hermes this week, they help you do other stuff. So for example, if you want like a simple, easy way to manage Hermes, you can actually just go into the desktop app. And if you're wondering how to get it, you can just get it from their official website like so. And then from here, you would download it. It's available for Windows as well as Mac.
Once you've done that, you can install it. And there we go. We have Hermes Desktop ready to launch. We can click install and start using it ASP. Now in the background, whilst it's installing that, let me walk you through the other stuff. So you can also run the desktop app with a remote Hermes, which means if you have Hermes hosted somewhere else, maybe it's not local, then you can actually connect it to your desktop app as well. And one of the big things here is the web dashboard is now a full admin panel. So it's just getting easier and easier to manage your AI agents. If you go inside the manage section here, this is the Hermes dashboard. We've already built it into the Agent OS. If you want to run it separately, then what you can do is run Hermes dashboard as a terminal command and then get access to it. And once you've done that, you can chat with it directly inside the chat here. You can look at your sessions, which is great because you can actually see multiple sessions across multiple different platforms to manage it. You can check the models and one of the interesting things that just dropped as well is Minimax M3 and also ElevenLabs connects with a phone number to Hermes Agent as well, which I'll come on to in a minute. Now those are not part of the update, but those are some other cool things you can do. And obviously it's easier and easier to manage your models and also the auxiliary models as well. So you've basically got the main model here, which is great, and then you can configure your AI agent with other models too. So you can say, OK, for MCPs, use this model, for example, web search, use this model. So maybe, for example, you want to plug in Grok Awolf if you're subscribed to Twitter as a web search. And then you might use something like MiniMax M3 that just dropped this week for image creation, etc. Then you've got the logs here so you can see everything that's been done. You've got your scheduled tasks, you can manage them, edit them. They've also dropped something really cool, which is the skills search. So kind of like OpenClaw did, you can now search across all of your skills.
But not just that, you can also search across skills on the web. What does that mean? Well, essentially, you can find new skills that you're interested in using, that you haven't built, but you can install them in one single click from other sources. So for example, we type in social media here. And by the way, in the meantime, let's open up these desktops so I can show you. And so that's just getting connected here.
And then in the meantime, we can see all of these different skills that we can install. If we want to install on these skills, we can just click Install like so. And that's a one click install for external skills. Always be careful. Check the skill yourself before you install it. Or you can even just create your own version of a skill that you actually like. But you get the point. Very easy to find and update skills. Not only your own, but also the people's. And you can just type in a keyword here and then find that across the whole place.