NEW Hermes Agent Blank Slate Update!

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
So there's a brand new update from Hermes Agent, it's called Blank Slate Setup Mode. And what this means essentially is like, you can build your agent from the ground up using this blank slate setup. Now, why would you do that? Well, number one, you can basically change and tweak and customize everything about this particular agent. And then number two, you can create your own sort of version, which is pretty cool. Number three as well, it's gonna be a lot more efficient when you're using it, because it's not using all the calls. So it's much faster, as you can see right here.
And they actually guide you through like which setup you should use based on the individual systems you're using and what you actually want to do with it. But you can see here that you get three different setups now. So you can do quick setup, you can do full setup, and you can do blank slate, which means that everything starts off, like literally all the skills start off, apart from the bare minimum that you need to run it, which I think is pretty cool as well, because then, you know, if you're running this, for example, on a mobile device, or something less powerful, where you could use Hermes Agent with this blank slate mode, and then everything is disabled, and you can just add what you want later.
Almost like creating your own agent from scratch, which is pretty cool as well.
Now, we've already set it up. So let me show you an example of what it looks like.
If you go inside Hermes here, the way that I've done it, and this might be an interesting way for you to set up as well, is that what you can do is you can create a separate agent profile purely for Blank Slate mode. So you can see it right here. This is Blank Slate set up as an agent. And then we have it as a separate agent profile we can talk to. So we can sort of compare it side by side. So if we just message it right now, you can see this online conversational is ready to go. And then we've got all our agent profiles ready to go here. Now, also what I like about this set up is you can have multiple agent profiles. So you can have, for example, like GLM 5.2, you can have separate agent profiles depending on the skill. And then you got Blank Slate mode ready to go. And I'll talk you through how it works, et cetera. But essentially what this means is like this is a new way to set up your AI agent. So instead of like booting every tool switched on, it boots with almost nothing and you only turn on what you actually need. So nothing you didn't pick ever loads, not even after an update. So the way this works is like you got blank slate mode. It's just like the model, the files, the terminal. That's it. You pick only what job you want and then everything stays the same, even after the new updates. And this is something interesting as well because if you saw the situation with OpenClaw and OpenClaw's usage really declined when Hermes came out, because Hermes after every update was getting better, OpenClaw was getting slower and slower after every update because it was loading more tools, more skills, more setups. And so when you have this blank slate mode, you basically get a update proof version where it doesn't matter what comes out, it's not going to slow your system down. And this is pretty interesting when you think about it. It's like it's a totally new way of using it. Also, I know a lot of people like to use stuff like Pi and customize their own version of Pi coding agent simply because that is basically your full agent that you can build from scratch. And this is kind of similar where you can build your own kind of Hermes agent from scratch and now they are not doing too much. So, if you look at like before, every Hermes profile set up booted with the whole toolbox switched on. The agent could browse the web, run codes, touch my memory before I'd even ask it to do anything. The system prompts were stuffed with tool definitions you might not be using and every time you run an update, new tools you didn't choose just show up. This is the old way. And then every time you run an update, new tools get added. And you know, if you're trying to have something fast and lightweight, it's probably the last thing you want. Now with Blank Slate mode, your agents can start empty. So they just get a model, your files, a terminal, that's it. So you can basically have the minimal to make your Hermes agents as efficient as possible. So if you look at this, when you're doing the Hermes setup, you get three options, quick setup, full setup, blank slate. If you're wondering how to run the setup, you just go and type in Hermes setup inside your terminal. That's it, right? Simple as that.