Automatiza tareas con Hermes AI Agent local (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: In this video, I'll show you how to use Hermes AI Agent step by step. Hermes is a free, open-source AI agent that can perform tasks on your computer, remember your preferences, and even automate repetitive work. We'll start by installing Hermes on Windows and connecting it to a local AI model, so you won't need a paid AI subscription. Then we'll explore memory, skills, and automation. I'll even show you how I'm using Hermes to help manage comments on my YouTube channel. I'm Kevin, and let's dive in. To get started, head over to the Hermes Agent website. I've included a link right here at the bottom of the screen. Hermes is free and open-source, and you can even run it directly on your own computer. Now, I'm using Windows for this tutorial, but Hermes also supports Mac and also Linux. You can install it using the command line, but since I'm using Windows, I'll go with the Desktop Installer. This makes the setup a lot easier. I'll click Download for Windows. Once the download finishes, open the installer and follow the prompts to install Hermes. Now that Hermes is installed, we need to connect it to an AI model. This is what gives Hermes the intelligence to understand our requests and to carry out tasks. Here, we have a few options. We could connect to a cloud-based model using New Portal, or we could run the model locally on our own computer. For this tutorial, I'm going to run a model locally. This means the AI model runs directly on my laptop, and I won't have to pay for API usage. Let's select this option here. Hermes is recommending a local AI model called Quen 3.8-27b. Now, this model runs directly on my computer, so I don't need to connect to a paid AI service. It requires about 18 gigabytes of storage, and you'll want a computer with enough memory to run it comfortably. If you'd like to explore other models, right here, you can click on Let Me Choose to see the available options. For this tutorial, I'm going to stick with the recommended model, and right over here, I'll click on Setup for Me, and Hermes will handle downloading and configuring the model automatically. Now that Hermes is all set up, let's put it to work. Here, we have the main interface. Over on the left-hand side, we can start a new conversation, we can explore capabilities, and right down here, we can manage scheduled tasks. We'll come back to some of these features later on. Now, at the bottom of the screen, we have a text box where we can tell Hermes what we'd like it to do, just like with chatGBT. But here's the difference. Hermes can actually take actions on your computer. Let's try something simple. I'll ask Hermes to create a folder on my desktop called Hermes Test. Inside that folder, I want it to create a document with five practical ways I could use an AI agent to automate everyday tasks. I've included this prompt in the description if you'd like to try it yourself. Now that I've entered this in, in the bottom right-hand corner, let's send that. Now, Hermes will figure out how to complete the task. Rather than just telling us what to do, it can use tools to create the folder and write the document. There we go. It's all done. Let's now head over to the desktop. I'll open up File Explorer, and there's the document that Hermes created. I'll double-click on it, and here we have a complete document with five different automation ideas. Next, let's give it something a little more challenging. Hermes can also interact with websites through a browser. That means it can navigate pages, click buttons, fill out forms, and complete tasks on our behalf. I get a lot of comments on my YouTube videos, and while I try to respond to as many as possible, keeping up with them can be challenging. So let's see if Hermes can help with that. First, let's set up a new session. Over on the left-hand side, we can click on New Session, or you could use the keyboard shortcut key CTRL together with N. I'll do that. Let's connect Hermes to a browser. To do that, let's go down to the text box here at the bottom, and then enter in the following command, forward slash browser. Here, I see it. And then let's type in Connect, and then press Enter. If I open up my taskbar, here we can see that it opened up Microsoft Edge, and it's connected to Hermes. You could also do this with Google Chrome. Here, I'll open up Microsoft Edge, so it uses up half my screen, and let's position Hermes so it uses the other half of the screen. In the browser window here, I'll navigate to YouTube Studio, and I've already signed in with my account. With the browser connected, let's go back over to Hermes, and I'm going to ask it to review my five most recent YouTube comments. For any comments that could benefit from a response, I'll have it draft a short, helpful reply. Right down below, I'll type in my prompt, and again, you'll find it down below in the description. And importantly, I'll tell it not to publish anything just yet. We'll do that a little later on. Over here, I'll send that. Hermes will now navigate YouTube Studio, find the comments, and determine which ones are worth responding to. And here are the results. So right up on top, we can see that Hermes found the five most recent comments, we can see the comment, and then right down below, it also drafted a suggested response. And honestly, I think this looks pretty good. So why don't we have Hermes post the response? Right down below, I'll type in a prompt, and I'll tell Hermes that I approve this reply and ask it to publish it beneath the correct comment right over here. Down below, let's send that. Now, let's watch what happens. Hermes will find the comment, it'll click reply, enter the response, and publish it directly to YouTube. And there we go. Hermes just responded to a YouTube comment for me. And remember, we're doing all of this using an AI model that's running locally directly on my laptop. One of the most interesting features of Hermes is its memory. Instead of starting from scratch every time, Hermes can remember information about you and how you like things done. And the more you use it, the more useful it can become. Let's put that to the test. Since we're using Hermes to respond to YouTube comments, I'll teach it a few things about my channel and how I prefer to interact with viewers. Right down below, I'll type in my prompt. At a high level, I want my responses to be concise, friendly, and helpful. I also want Hermes to avoid generic replies and focus on actually answering people's questions. I'll also ask it to remember these preferences for future conversations. Right over here, I'll send that. Hermes has now saved these instructions to its memory, so I won't have to repeat them every time. Now, let's see whether it actually remembers. In the top left-hand corner, let's open up a new session. Now, this is important because I want to make sure Hermes isn't simply relying on our previous chat. Right down below, I'll ask a simple question. What do you remember about my YouTube channel and how I prefer to respond to viewer comments? Over here, let's send that. And there we go. Hermes remembers what my channel focuses on and how I prefer to respond to comments, even though we've started a new conversation. Now, what if we could teach Hermes an entire workflow, not just individual preferences? That's where skills come in. A skill is a set of reusable instructions that tells Hermes how to complete a specific task. Hermes can even create skills from tasks it's already performed. Let's now turn our YouTube comment management process into a reusable skill. We've already shown Hermes how to find comments, draft responses, and publish them. Now, I want to turn that entire process into a reusable skill. Down below, I'll type in my prompt. And again, you'll find this prompt in the description down below. Now, right up on top, I give it a name, the YouTube Comment Manager, based on our successful YouTube Studio workflow. And right down below, I list out all the different steps that it should follow. Now, in the bottom right-hand corner, let's send that. Right up above, we can see that it's now created our skill. To see all of our skills, over on the left-hand side, let's click into Capabilities. Right up on top, make sure you're on the Skills tab. And then over on the right-hand side, we can filter all of the different skills. I'll click on this, and right down below, we can filter to just those skills that are installed on your PC. I'll click on Installed. And now, if we scroll all the way down to the bottom, here we have the YouTube Comment Manager skill. Let's now test out our new skill. Over on the left-hand side, let's kick off a new session. Right down below, let's go down to the text field, and I'll type in my prompt. Now, notice that I'm referencing my YouTube Comment Manager skill by name. And over on the right-hand side, let's now send that. Here's the response. Now, notice, I didn't have to explain how to navigate to YouTube Studio, which comments to prioritize, or how I prefer to respond. Hermes followed all the different instructions saved in our skill and used what it remembers about me. And right over here, we can see all of the different suggested responses. Now, let's take this one step further and have Hermes run our skill automatically on a schedule. Over on the left-hand side, let's click into Scheduled Jobs. Here, we can set up tasks to run automatically, whether that's every day, once a week, or at a specific time. For my YouTube channel, I'd like Hermes to check for new comments every morning and prepare responses for me to review. To do that, let's set up a scheduled job. Right here, I'll click on the plus icon. Right over here, I can give my new scheduled task a name. I'll call this the Daily YouTube Comment Review. And right down below, I can also choose the frequency. Currently, it's set to daily, and it'll run at 9 a.m. I'm good with that. For the prompt right up above, I'll tell Hermes to use the skill that we just created. Now, in the bottom right-hand corner, I'll click on Create Cron. And now, Hermes is set to run this task automatically every morning. Over on the left-hand side, I can see the scheduled job is currently active. Now, one thing to keep in mind, for Scheduled Jobs to run, Hermes needs to be running in the background, and our browser session needs to remain accessible. Now, another interesting feature of Hermes is that you could connect it to messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. That means that you can communicate with your agent directly from your phone without having to open Hermes on your computer. To set this up, over on the left-hand side, click into Messaging. Here, you can choose the messaging platform you'd like to connect and follow the setup instructions. As an example, I could ask Hermes to check my latest YouTube comments while I'm away from my desk. And the best part is, you can use Hermes to automate all types of tasks, whether that's managing your emails, maybe researching topics, or just organizing information. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.