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GPT-6 Astra + Hermes Agent is SCARY GOOD!
AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast · 2026-09-08 · 9 min
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Problem solved
How to plug a GPT-6 Astra
ChatGPT subscription into
Hermes Agent for a customizable, all-in-one agentic workspace.
Benefits
- Use existing ChatGPT Plus subscription as Hermes Agent's frontier brain
- Swap models per profile: GPT-6 Astra, GLM 5.2, QEN 3.7, Kimi K 2.7
- Fully customizable open-source UI vs fixed Codex interface
- One localhost hub replaces clicking between ChatGPT, Codex, ZAI, Hermes desktop
- Combine Astra with ChatGPT image 2.0 for image-capable workflows Claude can't do
Use cases
- One-click 'publish to WordPress' creating four SEO articles across four websites
- Hermes Oracle pulls trending topics on a 24-hour schedule with custom UI
- Ad studio generating creative, copy, and image library from a text brief — built in ~3 back-and-forths with ChatGPT
- Hermes Apollo Jarvis-style voice agent using ChatGPT real-time voice
- Competitor and trending-topic analyzer producing daily content ideas
KPIs / results
- 4 SEO articles to 4 websites in one click
- Ad studio built in ~3 back-and-forths
- 24-hour automated trending-topic schedule
Tools / build
- Hermes Agent with GPT-6 Astra profile
- Hermes Oracle trending-topic scheduler
- Hermes Apollo voice agent
- Ad studio with ChatGPT image 2.0
- Agent OS SEO + WordPress publisher
Today I'm going to show you how to connect GPT-6 Astra with Hermes Agent. And the great thing about this is if you're already on like ChatGPT Plus, or if you're on one of the ChatGPT plans, you've already got access to Astra, you can literally just plug it in to Hermes Agent and make Hermes Agent like literally have the most powerful frontier brain in the world. It's absolutely amazing. Bear in mind, you can't plug in your subscription from Claude into Hermes, but you can do it with GPT-6 and then you can take it one step further. So for example, you could have a new profile with a new Hermes bot inside there. You could use it with a voice agent like Hermes Apollo. We'll come on to this later. Hermes Oracle, Hermes Muse. And the fantastic thing about GPT-6 Astra is that you can literally just go into Codex and it can build whatever you want. So when you combine this with something like Hermes with Astra, it becomes unbelievable. In fact, we've got Codex over here so we can switch between GPT-6 Astra and we've got Hermes inside one place. I think that makes it much easier. So let's first of all talk about Hermes Agent inside GPT-6. How do you connect them? Good question. So literally all you do, super simple and easy, and I'll show you an example of how we did this earlier this week when it first dropped. So literally all I did, and I think this is probably the best way to use it, is you go to Codex. Make sure you're on Astra as you can see right here. And then you can say, can you switch the model inside Hermes and set up a new profile as GPT-6? You might say, why would you have a new profile? I think it's much easier to manage that way. So for example, every time there's a new model that drops, we've got GLM 5.2 or we've got, for example, one with local models. We have QEN 3.7, Kimi K 2.7. It's just like really easy to switch between the brains and the different models inside Hermes that way. And then we've got it all inside one chat here. And also that's great because also inside Hermes, as you can see right here, every time we add a new profile, we have that as a Hermes bot with its own set of routines, its own sole MD file, and also its own agent inbox. And so, you know, just like Grokbot, you can use the power of Hermes bot and it's inside one beautiful place with GPT-6 Astro or 5.6, and you can switch between them and that sort of thing. You now might also say, okay, how does it perform or what can it do differently that you can't do inside Codex, which is a great question as well. So here's why I love Hermes. Hermes is open source, which means it's much more moldable. So, for example, if you're using Codex, this is what it looks like and you can't really change the UI. You're kind of like fixed and there's going to be certain workflows or certain systems you want to set up that you want to customize completely, but you can't because Codex is stuck like that. So how do you fix that? Well, the way that I like to do this is I will create custom workflows. So, for example, with Hermes Apollo, kind of like, you know, it's kind of like Jarvis essentially. We can speak to Hermes. It's actually using ChatGPT voice real time to build with that. And then we can see our conversation here. We can see everything we're built down here. We can speak to it. And also we've got, for example, like Hermes Oracle over here. Now with Hermes Oracle, this is really cool. So this is a custom UI we've built. Again, you can't do this with Codex. You can't do this with ChatGPT, but you can do this with this system with Hermes Agent. And so essentially what we've got here is a full workflow where it pulls in the latest trending topics. It runs on a 24-hour schedule. Bear in mind, like Hermes Agent is designed for stuff like this. Like Codex, it can create schedules, but it's kind of like messy and it doesn't look as nice. So here's an example of a schedule inside Codex. Here's an example of a schedule inside Hermes. Which one looks more beautiful and interesting? For sure it's the Hermes version, right? And so that's why I like this. So what this actually does is it pulls in the latest information. And then from here, not only can it create the schedule, but we have like all these buttons that just connect to our system. So we can click on like publish to WordPress and that will create four SEO articles to four different websites about that particular topic in one single click. You can't do that inside the schedules with Codex. Good luck with that. Like it just, it's not going to look anywhere near as good as that. And then also we can flick between these. So you see how you basically create your own mini SaaS tool for Hermes? You absolutely can't do with something like Codex. And that's the biggest difference. Now, if I want to use Codex, instead of me going over to like a different app over here, which is like time consuming. And if you've got like ChatGPT and then Codex and then ZAI and then Hermes desktop over here, it's a lot of clicking around. It's a lot of clicking buttons, wasting time. And it kind of distracts me. It's very hard to focus in that way. Whereas for example, like this, it's basically like a website for all my AI. So it's running on local host. But if I want to use Codex, I just go over here. And if I've got Codex set up, I can just flick between GPT-6 Astra. Or let's say, for example, I'm not doing something super heavy. And it's just like a task that any API could do. You know, something basic, for example, like content creation. Well, I can switch to OmniRoot. Or I can switch to HY3. No problem. No big deal. And so you see how we can easily customize every single element of this whole system. And it's like you can swap in, swap out everything. And that's the beautiful thing about it. You just don't get that sort of control with any desktop app. You're not going to get that with Claude. You're not going to get that with ChatGPT. But you will get that when you plug in GPT-6 into Astra. And it doesn't matter about using GPT-6. Like you could use any different profile of that. So here's another example. So what this does here, as you can see, is it basically pulls in the latest data and analyzes my competitors and trending topics in my industry. And then it gives me ideas for content based on what is going on in the industry today and what's trending. And so for this, I can easily quickly get new ideas for content. It looks beautiful. Like it's just, I mean, it's fun to play around with. And we've got all of these different tools ready to go with Hermes Astra plugged in whenever we need to. Bear in mind as well, Hermes Astra can generate images. So you can have your own image studio like I've got here. It's a nice little gallery. And then what I will say, and this is where it gets really powerful, is you can build your own custom workflows that are used in a combination of Hermes, of Astra, and also of the different things that Astra can do that no other API can do. Let me give you an example of that. So if you look at, for example, Claude. With Claude, number one, you can't, if you've got a subscription, you can't plug in your subscription to Hermes. You have to use the API. And number two, it can't generate images, but ChatGPT can. So you can use Astra 6, GPT 6 with Astra. And then you can combine that with ChatGPT image 2.0 image generation. So if we go over to this section inside the ad studio, you can see here that we've got this ad generator, which is absolutely amazing. So we can just type in the details of what we want to generate. And then it will generate the creative and the copy and FNS, right? And we can regenerate in one click if we want. We've got, for example, the text. We can get the image. We've got the creative direction. And we can see all of our library of ads here as well, which is unbelievable. So you see how that becomes way more interesting? Because if you're doing anything on a regular basis, it could be generating ads. It could be SEO content. We've got an SEO tool over here. It could be generating videos. You've got that inside one place. It's just like, I want to create SEO content. Okay, just click over there, right? I want to create video content. Okay, I'll just click over there, right? I don't even need to think about what app I'm using or what agent I'm going to use. I don't even think about agent harnesses at this point. I think in terms of workflows, in terms of automations, in terms of what's one click away that's going to save me time. That's what it's all about. That's the game. So if you want to get this whole system, you could set it up yourself. If you want to get this whole system, you get it inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Link in the comments description or go to the AI Profit Boardroom.com. This is the agentic operating system, always improving it. Every time, for example, when HermesBots came out a couple of weeks ago, we plugged that straight into the system. When Astra6 came in, we plugged that straight into the system. When we realized that we could create amazing ads and a member inside the AI Profit Boardroom actually requested us to do this, we were like, that's a great idea. Let's build it into the tool. And I also like that because it's a community where we all learn, we all grow, we all help each other together. That's the vision and the mission for this. And you can post questions inside the community. I personally answer them. Quite often with video tutorials to help you as much as I can. So you can see, for example, when people are asking questions, I give them really in-depth guides and also create a video tutorial like this. So I just make a personal video tutorial for Donnell and then we give them the details underneath, like if you don't have time to watch the video and that sort of thing. So it's really, really powerful. It's a great way to just get everything you need to win with AI. If you like this sort of stuff, we've actually got a full one-hour course on Jupiter 6 Astra inside here as well and Hermes. And also we have a full beginner to expert course here. If you're running a business, you just want to automate every part of it. Additionally, if you're someone advanced and you get the full advanced systems here, and we're always updating this along with the agent OS system. So you can grab the agent OS over here. And then if you scroll down, you can get the SIFAR and install it. And then also inside the calendar, you can jump on four weekly coaching calls where you can get help and support in real time, ask questions, share your screen, meet other call members, et cetera. And then in the map, you can meet people in your local area who are building out with AI agents like you. So feel free to get that link in the comment description or just go to ai profit boardroom.com. That is how to use Jupiter 6 with Astra. How do you use it? You just go to Codex and ask it to plug in. Why would you use it? Because it's much more customizable and it's really powerful. And how can you build custom workflows with it? Well, for example, in this situation with the ad studio, literally all I did was I went to chat GPT. I was like, can you add a section inside here that can generate ads for us? And you can see an example right there. And it literally took like three back and forths before we had something that was actually working and actually useful. Pretty insane. So see you inside there. Cheers for watching. Bye-bye.