Hermes Agent V0.17 Just Changed AI Agents Forever!

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
So, Hermes have just dropped version 0.17, the reach release. I'm going to guide you through exactly what it means, what's changed, what it means for you, how to use it, et cetera. We're going to get straight into this. You can see the GitHub right here and the new updates. This literally just dropped four hours ago, and this is the new update from Hermes. Now, if you don't know how to get this update, all you do is you update inside your dashboard. So to do that, you can go to your Hermes, go to manage, scroll down, click on update Hermes, and it will begin updating, as you can see right there inside your dashboard. You can also go inside the terminal, and then once you've finished updating, it will say 0.17, not 0.16, or you can go inside your terminal and you can say Hermes update to get the latest version. So let's talk about the highlights, what's changed, what it means, what it means for you, et cetera. So some of the highlights here. Number one, Hermes reaches iMessage. So this means essentially that you can use iMessage with Hermes. You can run Hermes font on login, authenticate, and then Hermes can send and receive iMessages, which means that you can use your Hermes agent basically on your phone. You can use it with iMessage. It's pretty good. So if you've ever tried to put an AI inside iMessage, it's not that smooth. Now it is using this new setup. Top of that, they've got something called Raft, right? So Raft Hermes joins the Raft network as a gateway channel. So new bundled Raft platform adapter lets Hermes connect to Raft as an external agent for a wake channel bridge. So you can see an example of what Raft looks like, and you basically add Hermes to it now as well. And this way humans and AI agents can build together according to their platform. Again, this is pretty new to me. I've never come across Raft before, but that looks pretty cool as well.
And then we have an improved Hermes desktop app. So if you've ever used Hermes on the desktop, it's got a lot better this week.
By the way, some of these releases, they bring out before the announcement of the big release. So they'll just release them part by part as you can see. And then once you go into Hermes desktop, you can click update now, and it'll begin updating and then you can get the latest version of Hermes desktop. You might be wondering, okay, what happened? What's changed, et cetera?
So you got native OS notifications, live sub agent watch windows, and all sorts of stuff here. Now there's also asynchronous sub agents. So you can delegate work and keep going with Hermes. That's another big part of the update. Now if you're wondering, okay, what are asynchronous agents? So you can see an example right here. Basically what this means is that you can fan out and delegate all your tasks at once. So you can spawn a team of sub agents all at one time, the work together. Now if you want to see an example of how that looks in practice, basically you can give Hermes a task and it will delegate it to multiple sub agents when it's a sub agent related task, right? So basically you have a lead agent like your main Hermes agent profile, then you give it a task and it will spawn like four to five sub agents. And then it will actually gather those sub agents tasks together and you get the results back in your chat. So let's say for example, you were building out a website as a use case, you could say to Hermes, okay, go off, research this topic for this keyword, optimize the page, post it to my website, and also make sure you create a video at the same time. So when it does that, essentially you would have like multiple sub agents working on different parts of the task that are automatically delegated by your lead Hermes agent. So for example, it could be like one starts working on the keyword research, one starts creating a video, etc.
If you want to see an example of that in action, here's an example of how it can play out, right? So you can say, okay, go off and create this video and then you've got like an editor. You might have a judge, you might have a video writer, and you might have, for example, a script writer too, and they will work at the same time building out stuff together. There's also an option for editing images.