AI news · AI agents & tooling · 10 June 2026
Most AI agents sit in a terminal or browser tab, waiting to be asked something. Hermes Agent's new email integration changes that — it polls your inbox every 15 seconds, reads incoming messages, and replies in-thread using the same persistent memory it carries across every other session.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 June 2026
Typing commands into an AI agent is still the default for most setups. Julian Goldie's latest video changes that — a Hermes Agent configured with Minimax M3 as the reasoning layer and voice mode enabled produces a working voice-first agent that takes on tasks, not just questions.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 June 2026
Nous Research shipped Hermes v0.16 — The Surface Release — on 5 June 2026, with a one-click native desktop application at the centre. The update also adds a remote gateway, a browser-based admin panel, and a fuzzy model picker across every interface.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 June 2026
Julian Goldie built a Jarvis-style personal AI assistant using Hermes Agent in a single session and shared the full walkthrough. The build does not require any coding beyond basic configuration — goals, voice mode, memory, the right model.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 June 2026
Julian Goldie demonstrated Hermes Agent configured as a Jarvis-style assistant — voice input, spoken replies, persistent memory across the session, and genuine task execution rather than simple answers. Here is what the demo shows.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 3 June 2026
Hermes Workspace V2 ships with direct browser chat, multi-profile management, a Kanban task board and mobile PWA support — the kind of interface layer that was missing when Hermes was a purely terminal tool. Here is what the upgrade changes in practice.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 1 June 2026
Julian Goldie used Claude Opus 4.8's Ultracode mode to build a functional agentic operating system in about 15 minutes — the kind of locally hosted dashboard that used to take a full day. Here is what the build produced and what you'd need more time for.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 30 May 2026
Julian Goldie connected Claude, Hermes Agent and OpenClaw into a single locally hosted dashboard — shared memory, shared goals, one screen to manage all three. It took roughly an hour to build using Claude Desktop, Next.js and Tailwind. Here is what the Agent OS setup looks like and what genuinely changes when your AI tools stop running in isolation.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 29 May 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 on 28 May 2026 with Ultracode — a high-effort orchestration mode that spawns parallel sub-agents from a single goal. Julian Goldie reviewed the launch the same day. Here is the honest read on what changes and what doesn't.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 27 May 2026
Julian Goldie ran Hermes Agent against the leading commercial AI agent on identical real-world tasks and argued the result isn't close any more. Here's what's actually new in the update and what it means if you're considering an AI agent for business work.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 27 May 2026
Hermes Agent has added a built-in video generation capability that runs inside the same workflow you already use for SEO and content tasks — no separate tool, no extra login. Julian Goldie walked through the new skill live.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 26 May 2026
Julian Goldie ran the updated Hermes Agent against Claude CoWork and OpenClaw on real business tasks. Here's the honest read on what each tool does well and where Hermes has genuinely moved ahead.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 25 May 2026
Running Hermes, OpenClaw and Claude separately is useful. Connecting all three as a coordinated system — with shared goals, persistent memory, and one dashboard — changes what's possible. Julian Goldie walked through the setup live.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 24 May 2026
Julian Goldie rebuilt a functional version of Hermes Agent using Claude Code in a single session. The exercise reveals what it now means for businesses to build and customise their own AI agents.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 23 May 2026
Hermes Agent OS 3.0 adds an Obsidian memory layer, Grok integration, ChatGPT data syncing, and a redesigned dashboard. Here's what each piece adds and whether it's worth the upgrade effort.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 22 May 2026
The 14th major release of Hermes Agent shipped on 16 May with 808 commits from 215 contributors. Key additions: xAI Grok as a first-class OAuth provider, native X (Twitter) search, a local proxy that makes Claude Pro or ChatGPT Pro work inside any OpenAI-compatible tool, and browser operations 180 times faster via persistent connections.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 22 May 2026
Connecting Claude to Hermes through a shared Agent OS dashboard gives each tool its proper role — Claude handles reasoning, Hermes handles execution and persistent memory. Julian Goldie walked through the four-layer Goldie Mission Stack. Here is what the configuration involves and what you get from running them as a coordinated system.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 22 May 2026
The latest Hermes update adds computer use on Mac — your AI agent clicks, types, scrolls, and navigates the desktop while you use another application. Combined with swarm mode and a new free model on OpenRouter, here is what the capability looks like and where it is ready to use now.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 18 May 2026
Julian Goldie walked through a setup that runs Claude Code, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent simultaneously without paying for API access — by routing all three through free models on OpenRouter. Here's what the configuration actually requires and what you give up by skipping the paid tiers.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 18 May 2026
Most coverage of Hermes Agent focuses on SEO workflows. Julian Goldie's latest walkthrough goes further — showing the tool handling inboxes, app builds, website deployments, and recurring task management. Here's what actually holds up in practice.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 18 May 2026
Hermes Agent has always been open-source, but you still needed a paid model to get useful results — until Owl Alpha appeared on OpenRouter with a 1-million-token context window and no cost. Julian Goldie showed how to connect the two.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 15 May 2026
Julian Goldie ran OpenHuman, Hermes Agent and OpenClaw against the same brief. The comparison cuts through the YouTube hype to show where each tool earns its keep in a real workflow — and where Hermes has pulled into a clear lead on open-source AI agent usage.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 15 May 2026
The new Hermes Agent UI replaces terminal commands with a browser-based dashboard showing chats, files, swarms, tasks, and missions in one place. Here's what actually changes when your AI agent has a proper interface — and who it genuinely helps.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 15 May 2026
Julian Goldie walked through a Hermes Agent session handling real business tasks — content drafting, prospect scraping, site auditing — all from goal-based prompts. Here's an honest look at what the tool handles well and where it still needs a human in the loop.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 14 May 2026
The Hermes HUD UI is a free browser dashboard that shows memory state, scheduled jobs, skill usage, API health, and token costs in real time — no terminal needed. Here's what changes when you can finally see what your AI agent is actually doing.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 14 May 2026
HyperFrames is a new open-source Hermes skill that generates SEO-ready MP4 videos from written descriptions — no timeline editor needed. Julian Goldie tested one on an SEO brief and reported it ranking first on Google and inside AI Overviews within 19 hours of publishing.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 13 May 2026
Connect Claude to Hermes Agent through the Model Context Protocol and you give your AI a way to stop just answering questions and start doing things. Julian Goldie walked through the setup — here's how the delegation loop works and what tasks it handles well.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 13 May 2026
Julian Goldie published a complete Hermes Agent setup walkthrough for business owners starting from scratch — install, model, memory, skills, and first goal. Here's what you actually need and what to configure before your agent starts doing anything useful.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 12 May 2026
Julian Goldie ran a live session combining Hermes Agent, Aion UI, Obsidian and Omi — a four-tool stack that gives your AI agent continuous memory across sessions. Here's what each piece does and what the full stack looks like in practice.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 11 May 2026
Julian Goldie tested Hermes Agent with Claude powering a coordinated swarm of specialist AI agents on a single SEO brief — planner, builder, and reviewer all working in parallel. Here's what the workflow actually produces.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 10 May 2026
Google is quietly building a Gemini-powered AI agent codenamed Remy, designed to manage tasks across Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Android apps. Julian Goldie covered what we know — here's the honest take on whether it poses a real challenge to OpenClaw.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 10 May 2026
Hermes Workspace brings your AI agent's task list, memory, skill library and swarm controls into one graphical dashboard — no terminal needed. Here's what it actually adds day to day.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 9 May 2026
The latest Hermes Agent update adds Codex browser use: your AI agent can now click, search, fill forms, and navigate websites automatically. Here's what it actually changes for automation workflows.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 9 May 2026
Most coverage of Hermes v0.13 focused on /goal and Kanban. The changes that matter most for teams building with it long-term are quieter: swappable AI providers, eight security closures, proper state persistence, and support for seven languages.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 9 May 2026
Hermes Agent v0.13 — the Tenacity release — shipped on 7 May 2026 with 864 commits and 295 contributors. Here's the practical first-look: what shifted in day-to-day behaviour, and what to review before pulling the update.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 May 2026
Hermes v0.13 adds a /goal command that locks an AI agent onto a target and keeps it working until the job is genuinely done — no re-prompting, no drift. Here's what actually changes in practice.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 May 2026
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is an open-source model that can see images, transcribe audio, analyse video, and read documents in one pipeline. Julian Goldie showed how it connects to Hermes Agent to run the whole stack locally, without paying for cloud APIs.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 May 2026
Hermes Swarm Mode lets you configure distinct agent profiles — researcher, planner, writer, reviewer — and launch them all simultaneously against a shared brief. Here's what changes when you move from sequential to parallel agents.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 May 2026
PaperClip coordinates multiple AI agents autonomously. Stack it with Hermes and Gemma 4 and you get a free, open-source multi-agent system that handles complex workflows end-to-end — no paid API required.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 7 May 2026
Hermes Agent's Kanban update gives multiple AI agents a shared task board to draw from, work in parallel, and hand off when stuck — the biggest change to how Hermes manages work since launch.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 7 May 2026
Hermes V0.12 adds a background Curator that automatically reviews and tidies your skill library every seven days, native Google Meet and Spotify integrations, a 57% faster startup, and 360 bug fixes.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 5 May 2026
OpenClaw 2026.5.3 is a repair release — over 200 bug fixes, a new bundled file transfer plugin with path-based security, and cleaner plugin management across Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp and Slack. Julian Goldie walked through what shipped. Here's what matters.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 4 May 2026
OpenClaw 5.2 adds proper multi-agent mode — sub-agents that run in parallel with isolated sessions and automatic recovery when a task stalls. Julian Goldie walked through the release. Here's what changed and what it means for anyone running AI agents in production.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 4 May 2026
Anthropic accidentally shipped 512,000 lines of Claude Code source in an npm package, naming Sonnet 4.8 and revealing KAIROS — a built-but-unshipped persistent background agent mode. Julian Goldie covered the findings. Here's what developers actually need to know.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 3 May 2026
Hermes takes an SEO goal — keyword cluster, content calendar, landing page build — and works through every step in a loop until the job is done, no prompting at each stage. Julian Goldie tested it on real SEO targets. Here's what it produced and where it still needs human oversight.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 1 May 2026
Comfy UI now connects to Hermes Agent, giving it a free, local layer for generating images, video, and audio on demand. Julian Goldie walked through the integration — here's what the combination can actually do for a business and where the setup still bites.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 30 Apr 2026
Aion is a free multi-agent dashboard that wraps a proper graphical interface around Hermes Agent — chat, session history, model switching, and task management in one place. Julian Goldie walked through the setup; here's what it changes for day-to-day use.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 30 Apr 2026
Hermes Labyrinth v0.1.0 is a read-only observability plugin that maps every prompt, tool call, failure, and model switch your Hermes Agent makes. Released 29 April 2026, it's the first practical answer to the AI agent black-box problem.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 29 Apr 2026
Hermes Agent v0.11.0 ships a free desktop app that replaces terminal access with a GUI for sessions, memory, model switching, and tools. Here's what actually changed and whether it matters for running a local AI agent.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 28 Apr 2026
Google merged Vertex AI into a new Gemini Enterprise platform at Cloud Next '26, adding Agent Studio and Agent Gateway for building multi-agent workflows. Julian Goldie walked through it — here's what matters for UK businesses right now.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 26 Apr 2026
On 23 April 2026, Anthropic added 13 personal app connectors to Claude Cowork — Spotify, Uber, Uber Eats and more. The point is the pattern, not the app list: business-grade connectors are the obvious next step.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 24 Apr 2026
By default Claude starts fresh every session — it doesn't know your clients, conventions, or history. Connecting it to an Obsidian vault through MCP gives it a persistent knowledge base it reads before every task.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 23 Apr 2026
Moonshot AI's open-weight model coordinates up to 300 specialist agents in parallel and runs autonomously for 12-plus hours. Here's what's real, what's noise, and what it means for a UK business.
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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 21 Apr 2026
Anthropic's Skills feature packages reusable workflows into short files Claude Code loads on demand — cutting token costs and keeping agent runs consistent.
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