So, this is Obsidian, and it has all the
info about my business, life, and goals.
And now, I added Hermes agent to it for
the best second brain setup you could
possibly have. And in this video, I'm
going to show you exactly how I set this
up, why I believe this is the best
second brain setup possible in 2026, and
several use cases that you can start
implementing today to be more productive
and more organized. So, first let's talk
about why this actually makes Hermes
agent a lot better. And the primary
thing is that you as the user, the
human, you can see what the agent is
doing. Normally, it works on files that
you never look at. But connecting it to
Obsidian and having all these visual
graphs and these connectors, seeing the
patterns, having a clear folder, clear
markdown files, easy to edit. All of
that makes you, the human, more in
charge. It makes you a better
orchestrator. Also, you can customize
anything by just editing an Obsidian
Note, right? You don't have to go into
the code config files, terminal. If you
just get an idea, you just edit it as a
skill if you have a lot of skills. For
example, right now I have 185 skills
myself. Roughly half of them are
pre-built into Hermes. The other half
are my custom skills. But if you want to
edit something specific, Obsidian is
probably one of the best interfaces to
do it in. And your AI agent will use the
new version of that file instantly.
Also, your knowledge compounds every
time you have to repeat like remember
this, save this, all that stuff. It's
wasted tokens, right? But if you have it
nicely organized inside of Obsidian in
your second brain, then you can easily
reference specific files. You can see
what you already have stored. You don't
have to keep asking the AI. You don't
have to do the same research you already
did. Plus, this also allows you to have
the same files on multiple different
devices. So, for example, here I have
these files on my MacBook, but with
Obsidian Sync, which I'm going to show
you how to set that up, I can have it on
my phone and have it on a VPS where the
Hermes agent will be running. So, these
files can be in multiple locations. So,
even if someone steals your phone or
your MacBook gets destroyed, your
knowledge, your SOPs, your playbooks,
your skills, that will remain. Now,
perhaps the most important concept to
understand here is the difference
between dead files and living files.
Most of the files that you have
currently are dead files. What that
means is that no AI agent can access
them. And that's because they cannot
work on them. They cannot use them as
context. They cannot compare them to
other files. They cannot do research on
them. They're dead files. And that
doesn't matter if they're on a
disconnected hard drive or if they're
sitting on your computer or in your
Google Drive. If there is no easy way
for a powerful AI agent to access them,
those files are useless. So, in order
for any file to be considered a living
file, which by the way, that's like a
term that I started using two months
ago, and I guess it kind of caught on,
it needs to be able to be used by an AI
agent as a skill, reference, memory,
context, part of a prompt, anything. It
just needs to be usable by AI agent to
do tasks more efficiently, to do work
for you, to be more relevant and helpful
for your life. If a file can do that, if
it can be accessed by a agent, it is a
living file. So in this video I'm going
to show you how you can take your files
and using Obsidian and Hermes agent turn
them into living files so that AI agents
can actually work for you. They can
actually improve your life and so that
you can have better context engineering
than 99% of people. Living files are
just markdown files, right? They can be
used by any AI agent and all of them
basically run on markdown files. So you
can take your Obsidian vault and load it
up in cursor, open code, cloud code,
codex or any other AI agent and it can
instantly see your organized second
brain and you don't have to do any of
the organizing yourself. This is why a
lot of people got intimidated with this
like previous wave of these notion
content creators all this obsidian stuff
is because it required so much work
yourself, right? You had to have perfect
awareness of every single folder of
every single file, the entire structure.
All of that is a thing of the past. Now
we can use a powerful AI agent such as
Hermes agent to do all of that for you.
So you can focus on the thing that you
do best. Generating ideas, writing down
your unique thoughts and doing the
things you actually like doing and
outsourcing everything else to Hermes
agent. Also, there are several problems
that this approach fixes. First of all,
it was very difficult visualizing and
customizing skills in Hermes. So that's
the first problem. Second, most people
never look at their skills at all, which
means they have skills that they haven't
used in months. the skills that they are
using are outdated and not really
relevant. It's a huge issue. Next, the
agents work as invisible, right? If it
creates a file somewhere, you kind of
need to either remember it or you
probably forget that it is created. But
when you use obsidian like this, you can
see your whole vault, all the files, all
the folders, the entire structure. Or if
you prefer the graph view, you can look
at the graph view and see how everything
is interconnected on a semantic level.
On that point, usually the work that AI
does, most people don't get any benefit
from it. When you run like a deep
research query, if you don't save it
into a living file, aka a markdown file
that is easily accessible, usually on a
VPS, so that multiple AI agents can
access it and the AI agent can run 24/7,
the AI work is useless. You're paying
for cloud, you're paying for CGBT. But
if you're not doing something with their
outputs, it's useless. Like what is the
result of a deep research in CHBT that
you run three months ago? It's not
working for you. But if you think this
is just relevant to skills, you are
missing the bigger point. With your
context, the model becomes more useful
to you. And your notes are your context.
This is what makes Obsidian very, very
powerful. It's perhaps the best way to
organize your notes, your thoughts, your
context in a way that's both human
readable and agent readable. But the
agent doesn't silently read all your
entire vault into the memory because
that would be very inefficient. It would
cost a lot of tokens. It would bloat the
context window. Right? There are two
things that make it really work. First,
there's a small part which is the system
prompt. the small memory that it always
loads right the most essential things
your name how you prefer your answers
like I always put in make your answers
concise stuff like that right in Hermes
this is known as the soulm file the
second one is most of your knowledge
this is going to be your skills your
notes these are only loaded on demand
when it's relevant right so these are
not going to be bluring the context
window unless you're talking about that
specific thing so the way to understand
it is that the memory the core memory
the system prompt is always on and your
nodes and skills are only pulled in when
relevant. Now, let's focus on setting up
Hermes agent. The best way to do that is
on a VPS. You literally give a full
computer to the AI agent, so it can do
anything. And the easiest VPS setup out
there by far is Hostinger. They even
have a dedicated landing page just for
Hermes agent, which I'm going to put in
the first link below the video. So, here
when you get here, just click on choose
plan and select KVM2. This is more than
enough to run Hermes agent, open claw,
py agent, agent zero, codec cli all on
the same VPS. Here you get redirected to
your cart. Select the period. I
recommend going with 24 months because
you get the best value. And you set it
up once and you have it forever. It's
boosting your productivity every single
day of your life. And personally, every
month that goes by, I'm adding more and
more VPSs into my life and business. So
the sooner you'll get started on this,
the more advantage you'll have over
everyone else. Now, here we don't need
this. So, uncheck this because we're
going to be using a different AI
provider. However, on the right, click
on have a coupon code and type in code
David to get additional 10% off.
Hostinger was kind enough to sponsor
this video. So, if you want the best
deal possible for your VPS, make sure to
use code David. Most of these uh add-ons
we can skip. If you plan on scraping,
you can check this off. If you need an
email for agent, you can check this off.
But you can leave most of them off to be
fair. For the operating server, uh you
can select either Hermes agent or go
with a plain Ubantovps. But the server
location, just select something close to
you. So I'm in Poland right now, Kat
Vita. So Lithuania is very close. And
that's good. So then click on continue.
Let's go to the checkout. If you don't
have an account on Hostinger, just
create one. It's super easy. Takes 20
seconds. And then finish the checkout by
adding your billing details and your
credit card information. So once you
purchase the VPS, go to the left and
click on VPS. Select the one you just
purchased. And you'll see a bunch of
stats. So this since this is a fresh
server, you can see that we don't have
any usage data yet. But what we do have
is the SSH access which allows us to
connect to it from my own computer,
right? You don't need to understand how
SSH works. None of that. It's just
basically a way to manage your VPS
through your MacBook. So I'm going to
copy that and we need to open that
inside of a terminal. So I'm going to
type in terminal. Boom. Paste that in.
And then it's going to ask you for a
root password, which if you didn't save
that, you can easily change it here and
generate. Just make sure you actually
save it because we're going to be
needing that. Go back to the terminal
and paste that in. And now we are
connected to our virtual private server
from our MacBook. So I can do clear, can
do ls, you can see the directory pwd.
We're in root. And here we can do
basically anything with the server. So
now we can manage our own VPS and do
anything we need with it. Run
automations on it, run different AI
agents on it, chrome jobs, whatever you
want. It's basically a full dedicated
computer running in the cloud that you
can utilize for so many things. So
again, if you don't have your own VPS
server, click the first link below the
video and set up your first VPS on
Hostinger. This is what I use for all of
my VPS's. It's what everyone on my team
uses. So again, click the first link
below the video and give it a shot. And
if you want the best deal possible, use
the code David for another 10% off. All
right, so I'm going to go back to the
terminal. And actually, there's a better
way than using the default Mac OS
terminal, and that's using CMAX. So if
you go to cmax.com, this is a free
application that is basically a better
terminal for the AI agent era that has a
lot of different cool ways to save time,
nice keyboard shortcuts. It's easier to
use. It's faster and more pleasant to
use than the default Mac OS terminal. So
if you don't have CMAX, definitely
recommend downloading it. Again, it's
open source and completely free. So
here's what it looks like when you open
Cmax. I'm just going to zoom in a bit
and see the into root level. And what
I'm going to do is I'm going to open PI
agent. Boom. And again, I have videos on
all of this, so feel free to watch them
after this one. But you can use any
other agent, cloud code, codeex, Hermes,
whatever. We're going to use Pi to
manage the VPS to set up Hermes, set up
Obsidian, and do everything we need on
the VPS. So instead of me having to be a
DevOps expert having to, you know, SSH
into it and do all this stuff, we're
going to use an AI agent to do all of
that for us. So again, I'm going to copy
the IP address for the root access, go
into CMAX, and on the right hand
terminal, I'm going to paste that in.
And you can do all of these steps in the
default terminal. If you prefer the
default Mac OS terminal for some reason,
feel free to use it. I'm just going to
show you my own workflow, which I've
optimized over the last couple of years,
right? So, click on change. If you
forgot the root password or if you have
it saved, just copy it. And then back to
CMAX, paste in the root password. And we
should be SSH. There we go. We're SSH
through the VPS. So, I'm going to say
check the
right pane
CMAX pane in this Cmax workspace and let
me know if you see the VPS
uh stats we just sshed.
So, I'm going to confirm with PI agent
that it can see this and it can access
this. And that's the beauty of CMAX.
This Pi can easily see this right hand
side. Both of these are terminals and
yes, it can see it. So, I'm going to say
create now run clear in there. So
instead of me typing clear, I can have
pi run the clear. Obviously this is a
very simple example but it can do a lot
more. We can for example run codex cli
on there to install codex agent which I
think is the best for like coding and
managing your servers or we can just
delegate the herma setup installation to
pi and you can talk to pi agent in plain
English which I have running uh opus 4.8
because unfortunately fable was disabled
but any decent model will work. The main
idea here is that you talk to an AI
agent in plain English and the agent
manages the VPS and runs all the
terminal commands on the VPS. So, let me
show you how powerful that is. I'm going
to go to GitHub and to the official
Hermes agent repository which is almost
at 200,000 stars. So, huge congrats to
the news research team, the guys who
created Hermes agent. Amazing
accomplishment. I'm going to scroll down
and go to the quick install section.
Copy it. Boom. And then basically go
back to Cmax. Okay. Now, install Hermes
agent root level on this VPS. Boom. And
again, I'm going to do anything. I'm not
going to I'm going to lift my hand so
you guys can see I'm not doing anything.
The PI agent is going to monitor and you
can see it goes into sleep when the
setup is going. So, on my run side, this
is installing all the dependencies,
packages, everything needed for Hermes
agent to work root level on the VPS and
if anything is missing, Pi is going to
figure it out. So the PI agent is
monitoring the status of the VPS. It's
monitoring the Hermes agent setup. And I
don't have to understand any of it. I'm
not going to even pretend I understand.
Like most most of these dependencies and
terminal commands, I don't even know.
Okay? Even though I'm managing like 15
different VPSs and I've tried all the AI
agents myself and I have thousands of
hours with these AI agents. I'm not a
Linux expert. Like I'm not a DevOps
professional. I don't know all these
things. But I can talk to Pi in plain
English and I know the goal I want,
right? I know I want to set up Hermes
agent with Obsidian and that's enough.
As long as you can speak English and you
know the goal that you want to achieve.
If you have a powerful agent like
Hermes, like Pi, like agent zero, you
can easily talk to him in plain English
and he can run the commands. And as you
can see, when it's waiting, it just goes
to sleep. Sleep 20, which means it will
wait 20 seconds to see if there's any
change on the VPS. And I can literally
just go chill. I can go outside for a
walk. I can go have a coffee. I can
launch another Codex Loop agent in the
background. whatever I need to do. Pi is
going to take care of it. There we go.
And let's look at can you actually
interact with this? It's going to be
interesting. Yeah. So, it's going to be
asking me questions. So, when it doesn't
know, it just asks you, right? So, it it
set up everything. So, now we have her
message and root level and uh we can
just go with a quick setup. So, I'm
going to speedrun through this. Boom.
Quick setup. Waiting for approval. So,
we don't we don't want to do news
portal. Actually, I'm going to kill
that. Boom. Hermes setup provider.
Inference provider. So, actually I'm
building my own provider. I'm still
keeping it private. We'll see if I
release it to public if there's enough
interest. The whole idea is complete
token controls, having full transparency
and overview of where your tokens are
going. Just observability, graphs, you
know, being able to set limits per
model, per API key, complete controls.
So, I'm building that for myself and my
team. I might make it public. We'll see.
Depends if there's interest in it. But
for now, we can go with open router
because u it's kind of the classic. So,
just go to open router.ai, I create an
account if you don't have it and then go
to credits. Charge up some money. You
don't need $200. Just do $5 or $10. Then
go to API keys. Click on new key. I'm
going to name it subscribe. If you're
watching this and if you want me to make
more videos on Hermes agent, make sure
to subscribe in YouTube Studio. Over 60%
of you are not subscribed. So, majority
of you are not. And it's completely free
again. So, please go below video, click
the red subscribe button. It helps out a
lot. I'm going to put some limit just
$20 on this key. create, copy, go back
to CMAX and again keep your API keys
private. Do not share them with anybody.
Okay? And again in Cmax you can easily
re resize these uh terminals which is
just amazing. And again you can zoom in
each terminal individually. So one you
can have like completely zoomed out the
other one completely zoomed in. It's
really great. So if you're still using
the default Mac OS terminal guys just
switch to CMAX. It's open source. It's
free. It's no brainer. I'm going to
paste in the open our API key. tell me
to select the model. Now, normally I
would go with open 4.8 fast, but we need
to go open source guys and GLM 5.2 is
amazing. Probably the best open source
model right now from Z AI. So, go with
GLM 5.2. It's way more cost efficient
than Opus as well, and it's like the
closest model to the cutting edge of uh
of the closed source AI models, right?
So, if you haven't tried GLM 5.2, I
highly recommend you do so. It is the
first open source model that doesn't
feel like it's behind. When it comes to
this, I'm going to keep the current
setup. Just enter through it. We're not
going to do any um any messaging
platforms right here. That's good. Local
browser. That's fine. Choose a provider
for image generation. We can skip that.
Skip. Skip. Skip. Okay, we're done. So
now we can switch back to having Pi in
charge. Say I went through the setup,
try launching Hermes and see if it
works. The beauty of this is that if any
of you encounter error talking to Pi can
fix it, right? So this is the thing like
you can use agents to set up other
agents. All right, so it started Hermes
agent and it's probably going to send a
test prompt now if I had to guess. Send
a test prompt. There we go. Hermes agent
is working and it's fully set up on a
VPS. The next step is connecting
Obsidian so that it's synced between
your MacBook, your phone, your Obsidian
cloud vault and the VPS so that Hermes
agent can fully manage your second
brain. Now I can say like ask we can
either interact with you directly or
through pi maybe it's better to do it
directly now list out all your skills
and by the way if you want to switch to
a different model maybe like kim K2.7
code you could just copy the model name
and then inside of pi you can say now
switch the default model for Hermes to
be instead via open router right so the
pi can change the Hermes config you
don't need to know where is the YAML
file where that is located on the VPS
how Hermes looks the internally the
architecture you can just tell Pi hey I
want to change the default model and it
will do that and now it's debugging the
VPS way faster than I would be able to
type external commands and way way
faster than I could understand all these
thousands of tokens right like imagine
if you had to read all of this as a
human it would take you minutes a long
time to read all of this and to
understand all of this the model it can
absorb 10,000 50,000 100,000 tokens and
just instantly understand what it means.
So you cannot really compete with the
model managing your own VPS. So a lot of
you need to kind of give up your you
know need to be a Linux expert devops
expert and realize that if you have the
right setup like I have instead of CMAX
with the left side being PI agent the
right side being SSH into the VPS
setting setting up the premise agent
you're just going to out compete the
people that are doing everything
manually. Having the right agentic setup
is really the biggest productivity cheat
code in 2026. So now if I do clear and
type in her mass, we should see the
model being switched to Kim K2.7.
There we go. Let's do Hey, who are you?
What model are you? As you can see, it's
running Kimmy. We even have some Chinese
characters right here. So yeah, that's
how easy it is to manage your Hermes
agent, update your Hermes agent. Stop
trying to do everything manually. Just
sit down for 30 minutes, create a nice
proper setup that lets you do your work
more efficiently. And just like this
CMAX workflow makes it very easy to
manage VPS, I'm going to show you how to
manage your entire second brain with
Hermes and Obsidian. So next, let's set
up the Obsidian. All right, so the next
step is going to obsidian.md
to install Obsidian. So click on get
Obsidian for Mac OS or if you have
Windows, Linux, whatever. So Obsidian is
basically the best way to manage your
markdown files and your context for AI.
So again, download the app, then go to
account and make sure to create an
account. And that's because we're going
to be getting the Obsidian Sync, which
is a subscription to sync it across all
your devices and the cloud. It's an
encrypted way. So even the people at
Obsidian cannot access your notes. But
this allows us to have a synced state of
all our skills, all our markdown files,
notes, everything between your MacBook,
your VPS, your phone, how however many
devices you need basically. So there we
go. I just created a new account and
signed in. Next, we need to go into
Obsidian on your MacBook. So this is
what it already looks like when you have
something opened. As you can see, I have
a bunch of markdown files. I have the
graph editor, but I'm going to show you
everything from scratch. Setting up a
new account and a new vault. So first go
to settings bottom left. Click on
general and then here in the middle you
see account. Click on login and login
with the same account you just created.
Boom. Here we go. Login. And we're
logged into the account. Amazing. Next,
we need to create a new vault. So if you
go to the top and click on file, open
vault. As you can see, I have two
existing vaults here, but I'm going to
create a completely new one. Click on
create. Vault name is going to be Hermes
plus Obsidian. Just put in some vault
name. It doesn't matter much. Location.
Select the location on your MacBook
where you want this vault to be saved.
Vault 2. Create. Open. Boom. And create.
This is going to open a fresh vault as
you can see. Can close the other one.
And this is what it looks like. Welcome.
This is your new vault. Create
something. Create a link. Blah blah
blah. So on the right, you can create a
new node. can name this for example
business roles and then you can list out
you know all your people name name on
the right you can see the graph and you
know all the connections in there create
a link so you can for example link to
like welcome add link you can link to
like different things you know name
welcome welcome all this stuff it's
going to show up on your graph but again
the main idea here is that we don't have
to manage any of this her agent is going
to do all of that for us it's going
organize the best possible structure for
your context, for your notes, for your
skill, for your entire second brain. So
the next step is connecting Obsidian to
the VPS so that Hermes agent can manage
it fully and completely. So to sync your
files between your MacBook and the VPS,
there are two options. One of them is
the official one from Obsidian. That's
the Obsidian Sync, which is paid $4 a
month. Or you have sync thing, which is
open source and free, which requires a
bit more setup. So it's up to you. I'm
going to link both of them in the pack.
Again, second link below the video.
Everything I mentioned, all the skills,
setup, terminal commands, literally
everything mentioned in this video is
going to be in the second link below the
video. So, feel free to grab that. It's
going to be completely free. I'm going
to go with the official option because
uh I think most of you are going to go
with that and it's the proper way. It's
uncrypt encrypted. It's the easiest
setup. It does cost a couple of dollars,
but if you want to go with the open
source sync thing free alternative that
requires more setup, feel free to do
that. The steps are roughly the same.
So, first I'm going to purchase the
monthly $5 plan here. There we go. So,
the plan is active. So, now we can open
Obsidian to start syncing notes.
Literally click this button and it will
we're going to select the new vault
here. And at the bottom below my webcam,
you should see it actually. No, this
way. You see this uh sync? It's red. We
should initialize it. So, click on
Obsidian settings sync.
Choose the remote vault. Create new
vault.
Going to remote 02 region automatic
encryption. Enter an encryption and set
a clear password for this remote vault.
Boom. Make sure it's a very secure
password. If you're not using a password
manager, please sit down for 20 minutes
and set up a proper password manager.
Create. Boom. Remote vault. Connect.
Continue. Merge. You're going to put the
same password here and click start
syncing. And here we're currently
connected to the remote 02 volt. So the
next step is actually going to be
installing the Obsidian Headless on the
VPS. So what I did is I copied the full
setup, full prompt. And again, this is
going to be included in the bundle.
Second link below the video. Just put in
your email and I'm going to email you
all of these resources completely for
free. So make sure to grab that. And I
just paste it into Pi and says run this
setup. Right. And it killed the Docker
container which was incorrect. And now
it's using Obsidian Headless to do it.
It's asking me for the email. So, I'm
going to type that in. Boom. It's going
to ask me for the password. Is this the
account password or the remote vault
one? Answer in short. When you're not
sure, just ask the agent. Don't be
afraid to ask. Okay, it's the account
password. So, I'm going to copy that.
Boom. Just going to paste that in.
Enter. And we're logged in. Check. Now,
we should be logged in.
And literally, the agent walks you
through the steps. It helps you figure
out any debug issue. Listing out the
remote vaults. Okay, it found the remote
vault. There it is. Remote 02. Amazing.
This is This is so good, guys. Like I
highly recommend doing the Cmax setup PI
agent on the left or any other agent.
Okay, now it wants the encryption
password. And again, I'm pasting it
directly into the terminal, not to
agent. So, it's not going to enthropic.
All of this stays private on my VPS.
Boom. Paste that in. And we should be
good. Check. Now, it's only going to run
the OB sync by itself.
Yet it ran it ran the OB sync. I really
don't have to do anything. Bolt synced.
And now we need to check if Hermes agent
can access it. Let's see what's
happening. Blah blah blah. Now
installing the systemd service for
continuous autosync. It's doing all of
this by itself, guys. It's crazy. Like I
don't know what to explain. If you don't
have multiple VPSs for multiple AI
agents, what are you doing? Like you can
use it for anything. I'm using it to
track my calories. I'm using it to do
autonomous research. I'm using it to do
code development, soft like software
development, so many different things.
Like preparing for interviews with
podcast gets the use cases are endless.
Like if you don't see the use cases, it
really is a poverty of imagination. You
probably just lack creativity. It's not
that the AI isn't useful enough. You
just don't have the right setup or you
haven't figured out what the use cases
are for you. All right, it says it's
done. Blah blah blah. Hermes pointer the
vault. Check your back now. VPS test
should appear in the obsidian. Let's go
here. And we have VPS test here.
Amazing. So this file was created on the
VPS and now we see it on the MacBook. So
I'm going to screenshot this and give
this feedback to Pi. I see it. What now?
Can you start Hermes on the VPS and have
him
check if he sees the Obsidian vault?
Okay, so it cleared the terminal. It
started Hermes agent. There it is.
And look at it. It always does the
sleep, right? So this is one agent
managing the other. Okay, Hermes is up
asking to verify the world. It gives it
the location and it sees it. So now
Hermes agent can fully access all our
files and they're going to be instantly
synced between our MacBook Obsidian and
the VPS.
Create a note saying Hermes Hello. And
let's see how fast it is. Literally
instant, guys. That that was instant.
That was less than half a second and I
can see it synced to my MacBook. Okay,
so basically what I did is I sent a
screenshot of this prompt which again
included in the second link below the
video and this will sync all of the
Herma skills with the Obsidian vault. So
PI agent is setting all of that up.
There's a lot of details that I
personally don't want to handle. It's
reading all the steps and it's executing
uh the setup and we should be able to
see all our skills. Oh, it's here. Okay,
so the graph is populating. You can see
very nice animation here uh that's
Obsidian is known for and all of the
Hermes agent skills are being populated
into our Obsidian vault right now. And
what that means is that if we go to
skills, we can actually edit them. You
can see how it's structured and
architectured. And it's even creating
the links between the different skills
to see like how they're connected, what
references what. So when we go for
example to I don't know email, you can
see like we have a the skill for this
and you can edit this, right? This is
like much better than not having any
observability. This is like clean
markdown rendered with the details, code
blocks, headers, quotations,
diff like copy pasteable uh shell
commands, right? This is a skill. This
is a skill.md file that Hermes comes
built in prepackaged with. And again,
maybe you want to edit just one small
step of this. Maybe you want to change
something about a GitHub skill, maybe a
GitHub issues, right? Here's the skill.
You can exactly describe your
preferences, change something, update it
however you want. Of course, you can
tell the agent to do that, but the in
like before you didn't really have good
observability on what is happening. Now
with this setup inside of Hermes agent
you can see all the skills you can see
all your notes you can see which are
connected semantically which are close
to each other any links and uh you can
manage them very easily very nicely in a
way that's visual interactive and u that
just feels like the future of context
engineering so your notes your second
brain your your personal information
your data private data put it on
Obsidian encrypted vault sync it between
your devices your phone your MacBook
your VPS Yes. And let Hermes agent
manage your second brain. This is the
future. It's u very obvious. And again,
the setup I just showed you all the step
in this video. So if you haven't done
them, watch it again and implement the
setup. It's not that difficult. Now to
show you the actual power of this, I'm
going to go back to Cmax. So we run
Hermes agent here. Boom. I'm going to
say uh run clear on the VPS. Now start
Hermes on the VPS. And we're going to
say
actually we're going to use the /go
feature which is one of the most
powerful features inside of Hermes
agent. It started off inside of a codeex
but Hermes added it now. So I'm going to
do /go and basically I'm going to say
scrape YouTube to find the 50 highest
views videos about clo code and then
fetch their transcripts as raw txt files
and save them into our obsidian vault as
separate markdown files.
Interrupt this. Boom.
So, SLG goal and it's going to be
focusing on this goal, right? It already
comes with pre-built skills like YouTube
content and Obsidian. And you can see
the goal set. And the beauty about the
goal is that you have a clear end state.
If you have a verifiable, quantifiable
end outcome, which in this case is
finding the 50 highest views YouTube
videos about cloth code and saving them
as markdown files. This is not
debatable, right? If you have 45, you're
not finished. If these are not the
highest views videos, it's not finished.
If these videos are about codex and not
cloud code, it's not finished. And what
that means, the beauty of slashgo
feature is that it works until the end
outcome is finished. Doesn't matter if
it's 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 5 hours, it
will just keep going. And again, Codex
probably has the best /go feature.
Hermes agent probably the second best.
But Hermes agent is a general agent.
It's not optimized for just coding. You
can do anything with it. Right? So now
it's asking for permission. I'm going to
prove that. And it's going to keep
working until it figures figures this
out and until it saves these files in
the location of our vault. And if I had
to do this manually, finding the 50
highest views videos on YouTube about
cloud code, that's like hours of work.
Instead, I just spoke it in like 10
seconds. I just type in / goal and
described literally in 10 seconds using
my voice what I want to accomplish. And
now Hermes agent is going to do all the
steps which would take me at least 3 4
hours of real human work. This is the
leverage that AI agents can give you. So
again, if you want this setup for
yourself, make sure to set up Hostinger
VPS. It's going to be the first link
below the video. It's one of the most
affordable and easy ways to set up a VPS
and everyone should absolutely be
running their own virtual private server
in 2026. And if you want all the
resources, prompts, skills, terminal
commands, setup, everything I showed you
in this video, click the second link
below the video, enter your email, and
you're going to get all these bundles
completely for free. With that being
said, thank you guys for watching. I
hope you found this video valuable and
I'll see you next