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Hermes Agent OS: FREE Local AI Agents + N8N!

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast · 2026-06-20 · 14 min
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The video answers community questions about Hermes Agent OS, an agent operating system you can build and extend with workflows like video, SEO, music, and more. It highlights a video agent that researches a topic and assembles an edited AI avatar video using Minimax, HeyGen, ElevenLabs, and Hyperframes. The host explains how to connect Agent OS on a VPS using a tutorial that deploys with Hostinger and secures access via Cloudflare Tunnel/Cloudflare Access, with Tailscale as an alternative, while noting a preference for local hosting. It also covers how to integrate Agent OS features into an existing dashboard by migrating one feature at a time, plus examples of triggering n8n workflows from Claude via a connector, local image/video generation setups, an automated SEO content pipeline with reported traffic growth, and Reddit-based SaaS marketing via daily subreddit posting.
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Problem solved
How to extend Hermes Agent OS with local AI, n8n, and automation workflows answered from community questions.
Benefits
  • Private, free, local AI image and video generation
  • Connect Agent OS to a VPS or existing dashboards
  • Automate SEO content across multiple websites
  • Trigger n8n workflows directly from Claude
  • Plug in cheaper GLM models alongside Claude
Use cases
  • SEO pipeline grew a site from 1-2 to ~215 clicks/day
  • Another site grew from zero to ~72 clicks/day
  • Subreddit grew from 25,000 to 293,000 views/month
  • Local AI avatar video generated in ~2 minutes on RTX 5090
  • Deploy one keyword to five websites with unique content
KPIs / results
  • ~215 clicks/day on one SEO site
  • ~72 clicks/day on another site
  • 293,000 Reddit views last month vs 25,000
  • ~2 min local video generation, RTX 5090 32GB VRAM
Tools / build
  • Hermes Agent OS
  • SEO content pipeline skill
  • Local video agent (MiniMax, HeyGem, ElevenLabs, Hyperframes)
  • Ernie local image generator (Comfy UI)
  • n8n Claude connector
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00:00
Hermes Agent OS Overview
  • Answering community questions on Hermes Agent OS
  • Music, video, and SEO agents built in
01:12
VPS Connection Setup
  • Deploy Agent OS to VPS via Hostinger, Cloudflare Tunnel
  • Tailscale or local hosting as alternatives
02:08
Integrate With Dashboards
  • Merge Agent OS features into existing dashboard gradually
  • Add one feature at a time
03:37
Local AI Image Generator
  • Local image generation with Ernie model from Baidu
  • Available on Hugging Face
03:57
Trigger n8n From Claude
  • Add n8n as a connector inside Claude settings
  • Claude guides setup step by step
04:30
Local Avatar Video Creation
  • Local AI avatar videos via Comfy UI, no API
  • ~2 minutes on RTX 5090, 32GB VRAM
05:13
Automated SEO Pipeline
  • Plug keyword and case study, deploy to five sites
  • SEO skill inside Agent OS
06:46
Reddit SaaS Marketing
  • Daily subreddit posts with case-study articles
  • Grew to 293,000 views/month
07:51
Build Custom Workflows
  • Build custom workflows like video, music, game studio
  • OpenRouter Fusion for Fable 5 level intelligence
08:56
Claude vs n8n Automations
  • Claude can build n8n-style automations directly
  • Or control n8n via the connector
09:33
Should You Use Hermes
  • Stick with Codex if happy; switch only if curious
  • Avoid overwhelm
10:03
AI Avatar Video Options
  • Video agent or full training process for avatar videos
10:29
SEO QandA For Sites
  • Landing-page vs blog quality depends on target keyword
  • Skip llms.txt; still ranking in AI search
11:52
GLM Model Integration
12:36
Paperclip Agent Teams
  • Paperclip runs teams of agents as an AI company
  • Buggy; fix available in AI Profit Boardroom
13:01
Wrap Up And Community
  • Recap local setups for video and images
  • Community access wrap up
So today we're going to be answering the latest questions on Hermes Agent OS. If you don't know what it is, basically you can build your own agent operating system and some of the questions inside the community around the one that I've built today we're going to answer because I know if everyone has questions like those, then we can answer them publicly and help as many people as we can. And so for example, you can see recently inside the system, I mean, we've built out all sorts of stuff like a music agent, we've built out a video agent, SEO agent. We even got the video agent to the point now where we can plug in a topic, it will go do the research, it will find relevant research to insert, and then it will edit it all together beautifully as you can see right here and actually uses a combination of mini Macs, Heygem for the avatar, 11 labs for the voice, and hyperframes to put it all together. It's absolutely wild. So today we're going to cover some of the best stuff that you can do with this. And this is just to inspire you and also just to help you. If you're building your own agent, you can help you out. And if you're building your own agent operating systems, definitely recommend doing that because it's how you unlock the full power of Hermes itself and any other AI agent that we use. So let's get straight into this and see what we've got right here. So first question that we got from Khalid was, Hermes Agent VPS from a hosting provider, how can I connect to Agent OS, right? So we give the zip file for Agent OS inside the AI profile boardroom. How do you connect to it for a VPS? So we've actually got a really good tutorial from John, who talks through exactly how to use it. So he deployed it with Hostinger, secured it with Cloudflare Tunnel, and then gave it Cloudflare access, right? And you can see the example mission control that used based on ours to create this agentic OS. And so if you're trying to build your own, give it VPS access, you can do that. You can also use Tailscale as well, which is another decent alternative. For me personally, I just host it locally, because I think like that's a more secure way to do it. But if you do want to have a system where you can have your AI agents working, you know, from a VPS or working remotely from an agent operating system, this is how you can do it. So good question from Khalid right there. Next question. So Will was asking, how do you plug the agent operating system into an existing dashboard? So let's say, for example, you got an existing dashboard like this, and you're trying to use Hermes Agent Operating System to plug it in. How would you connect them, etc.? So the way that I would approach this, obviously, there are two different systems, and you're trying to merge them, which is a little bit complicated. But the way that you would do it is you explain to the agent, whichever agent built out your dashboard originally, hey, here's a new version of the dashboard. Here's an old version. I just want to bring in some of the versions and some of the features from the new version inside the agentic OS into my old dashboard. And then just slowly build out like one feature at a time. I wouldn't merge a whole thing at once, simply because if you do the whole thing at once, it's going to be messy, it's going to be complicated. Whereas if you simplify it down to like just a few things or one thing a day, for example, one thing a week, then you can merge it slowly and you can build our agentic operating system into yours. The other option as well, of course, like you could have sort of, as we were talking about before with a VPS gateway, you could kind of have that linked to the client dashboard as well. That's another option. But I think that would be even more complicated. So I'd stick with version one. By the way, if you want to be able to ask me questions and also get our agent operating system, you can get that inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Link in the comments description or just go to the AI Profit Boardroom.com. So Daniel had a pretty cool result with a local AI setup. So basically, he's been building out an image generator that works locally, which is pretty wild when you think about it. Using Ernie, which is a Chinese model from Baidu. So it can generate images locally. So if you're looking for like a local image generator, you can actually get this off a hugging face and then generate images locally, which is wild when you think about it. So one question we got here was about how to trigger an NASN workflow. So let's say, for example, you've got NA10, you've got Claude. You can actually set up NA10 as a connector inside Claude. And they have a full example of how to do it, as you can see right here. So that's probably the easiest way. Then you can just go to your settings, connectors, and add NA10 as a connector inside your settings. And if you're struggling setting it up, you can just ask Claude to guide you through it step by step. Now, this is wild. So Daniel has his own local setup. And basically what he's done now is he can create videos locally with AI avatars. And you can see an example right here. So he's talked about its setup and how to do it. And bear in mind, like, there's no API involved with that, right? It's just a local setup. I mean, if you can generate images, you can generate videos locally, etc. This is absolutely amazing. And it took around two minutes to generate this specific example. Let's have a look at this. Wow. That's really good quality as well, isn't it? This was on Comfy UI with an RTX 5090 with 32 gigabytes of VRAM. So that shows you what's possible with this stuff. So Claire has just joined and she was looking for help with SEO and how to automate websites with SEO. So one of the things that we've been looking at recently is this SEO setup inside our content pipeline. It's inside the Argentic OS. And basically what you can do is you can plug in a keyword, you can plug in a case study, and then just deploy to five websites with five unique pieces of content. And these are the example websites we've been deploying content to. So you can see an example right here of what it looks like and how it works. And if you're wondering if it actually works or not, you can see an example of our results here as well. So this website, for example, it went from like one or two clicks a day, several clicks a day over there. And then it grew to 100 or 215 clicks a day recently. It's also on a super nice trajectory. Here's another example. So this website grew from like zero clicks a day all the way up to, it's getting regularly like 72 clicks a day and it's growing in trajectory as well. So, you know, this process, basically what we've got here is an SEO skill that can create content step by step using our system here. And it's super nice, great quality, a nice little skill, and it's plugged into the Argentic OS. So that's been pretty amazing for SEO. Definitely recommend it. The cool thing as well, you can see here, for example, like Bobby, building out his own custom GPT for the first time. So there's all sorts of people at different levels. Like you've got some people running their own super complex local setups that can generate AI videos and images. And then you've got other people who are just joining, but it's the first time they're trying an AI and they're still building like pretty amazing stuff. So now one question we got from RPA was like, how do you, you know, how do you market a SaaS? Right. So especially on Reddit. So this is what we do because we do this for the Argent OS system and also the AI Profit Boardroom. And basically the way this works is we have a subreddit, which we post to daily. And you can see like per month, but look at the last 12 months is grown from like 25,000 views a month to last month. We got 293,000 views in the last month. And so what we do is we post content daily as a team to this subreddit and basically post articles with case studies. So you can see the case study right here. And then you can see the full article underneath. And that's a really good way to do it. You know, you can reach a lot of people on Reddit and you can automate this with AI as well. So a really powerful system right there. And you can also generate the content with the SEO pipeline, but you would just, you know, post that to Reddit instead of your website. So I really, also one of the other things about this as well is like you can actually update and build new things into your agent operating system whenever you want. So for me personally, I build these workflows in just because I'm like, well, okay, this will be super useful. You know, the video agent, the SEO agent, music agent, game studio even. And so anything that you find useful, you can build in here. So if you look, for example, Dan, he looked at the open router fusion situation and then he plugged in his system that could do all of this stuff, as you can see. And we've already built fusion in here as well, which is kind of like a way of achieving Fable 5 level intelligence according to the benchmarks. I would always try it yourself. But according to the benchmarks, you can achieve Fable 5 level intelligence with smaller models. So if you're not tested this out, it's a good thing to try. And you can always build new workflows and just adapt it however you want. So if we look at the screenshot here, you can see how they've adapted their mission control to build in this automation. So anything that you have an idea for, you can just build it in with your AI agents. So this is another question similar to the one before, which is like, can you build the same sort of automations with Claude that NA10 performs? And the answer is definitely you can. So yeah, you can definitely. So for example, the way that you can do this is you've got two options. Number one is you can go directly to Claude and Claude can build any of this stuff out for you directly. It will just guide you through the process if you explain exactly what you want. Option number two is you can actually use NA10's connector with Claude and control NA10 and build workflows with Claude directly through the connector. So there's two options for that. Now here's a question from Brian, which is, you know, should you get into Hermes or not? Right. What's better? The way that I would look at this is if you don't have the understanding of what the difference is between these agents and that sort of thing. And if you're happy with Codex, I wouldn't switch because you can just stay 100% focused and there's no need to switch. Like it's fun to use Hermes agent, but if you don't have that much time and you want to avoid overwhelm, I would just keep it simple and stick to Codex. So we got a question from Lloyd on how to create like AI avatar videos. So the way that we've been doing this recently is using that video agent, as you can see here inside the agent OS. You can see an example of how that works. And that is a fully, you know, AI powered video. But we've also got full training on our process, which you can see up here. So if you want like a step by step breakdown without using the agent OS, you can use that too. So there's two different options for that. Now we've got some SEO questions here from Paul. So Paul was saying, you know, recently launched a travel website, low domain rating. So if you don't know what domain rating is, it's just the authority of a website. And three questions here. Are high quality landing pages as important as blog content? So for number one, I would say it's always coming down to the keywords you're trying to rank for. So for example, if you're trying to rank a landing page, then the quality of that landing page matters a lot. The same with blog posts. If you're trying to rank a blog post for a potential keyword, then the quality of that blog post matters just as much. And when it comes to like keyword cannibalization, you don't want to create two types of content for the same keyword. So what you would do is just look at what's already ranking, reverse engineer that, and then create content around that. Usually the AI can actually figure out the search intent itself. Now, for AI search visibility, is LLM's text worth implementing? For us personally, we've not implemented LLM's text. It's not that important. And we're ranking pretty well inside AI search engines. Here's an example. So you can see for this keyword, we are ranking here. And we'll also rank in there too. And also there. So you don't need LLM's text to rank for those keywords inside AI search engines. Davide was talking about GLM. GLM 5.2 is available and it's US hosted on Alarmus Cloud. So we've already built it in to the agent operating system, as you can see right here. And it's built some absolutely amazing stuff. So, for example, you can see an example of what we built here. If we keep going through, here's some more examples of stuff we've built just for fun. But also just see the power of it. And it is absolutely amazing as a tool. It's not as good as Claude Opus 4.8. But wow, it is close. Very, very close. So super powerful stuff right there and really good to build with. You can also use it inside Hermes as well. You can plug the coding plan into your Hermes agents. Another question we got was about Paperclip. Now, Paperclip is a system where you can basically create like a team of AI agents working in their own sort of AI company, like you can see right here. And you can build some amazing stuff with this. You can see all the stuff we built here. Now, if you're struggling to set it up, Paperclip is a little bit buggy. So we've actually got a full fix right there inside the AI Profit Boardroom on exactly how to fix that, which is great. And I think that's all the questions answered on the Agent OS. So that is Hermes Agent OS. We've talked about some of the best ways to use it. Local setups, how to generate video and images locally. Some ways to use N8N with Claude. Some of the best automations as well. And how to integrate this inside one single place, as you can see right here with all of our different workflows. Now, if you want the full setup from me, you can get that inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Link in the comments description or go to the AI Profit Boardroom.com. And inside the AI Profit Boardroom, you can ask me questions like this. And I answer them in video tutorials like you can see every day today. So I write down the whole process step by step. And then I also answer them inside the videos you've seen. Inside the community, you can ask questions, get help and support whenever you want. And every question gets answered, which is great. We've also got 106 people online right now. So 24-7, we've got people online ready to help you as well, which is great. It's a great community with all of our best trainings. And you can get new daily updates over here. So we add new daily updates based on what's just dropped. And we have the full agent operating system, which we literally just updated today. And you can grab the full zip file right there. You can also jump on weekly coaching calls where we wire it together and build it together. And then inside the map, you can meet people in your local area who are using AI agents like you. So feel free to get this all. Link in the comments description or go to the AI Profit Boardroom.com. Thanks for watching.