TLDR
The Hermes agent integrated with Obsidian creates a powerful second brain system where markdown files become "living files" accessible to AI agents for automated tasks. By storing skills, notes, and context in Obsidian and syncing them via a VPS, users can visually manage their knowledge base while delegating organization and task execution to the agent. The setup uses a VPS (Hostinger), Obsidian Sync, and Hermes agent to enable persistent, multi-device AI-augmented workflows.
Key points
- Hermes agent connected to Obsidian allows users to visually see and customize skills via notes instead of code config files.
- Knowledge compounds when stored in organized Obsidian vaults, avoiding wasted tokens from repeated queries.
- Living files are markdown files easily accessible by AI agents as skills, reference, or memory, unlike dead files on disconnected drives.
- Obsidian serves as a human-and-agent readable interface for context engineering, with system prompt (soulm file) always loaded and skills loaded on demand.
- The VPS setup (Hostinger) with CMAX terminal and Pi agent enables managing the server via plain English commands to install Hermes agent.
- Obsidian Sync synchronizes the vault across MacBook, phone, and VPS, ensuring continuous access and backup.
- The '/go' feature in Hermes agent lets users delegate complex multi-step tasks (e.g., scraping YouTube transcripts) that run until the outcome is achieved.
- Manual setup of VPS and Obsidian sync is largely automated by Pi agent, requiring only goal-oriented English instructions.
Tools mentioned
- Hermes agent
- Obsidian
- Hostinger
- Pi agent
- CMAX
- Obsidian Sync
- OpenRouter
- GLM 5.2 (open-source model)
- Kimi K2.7 (model)
Techniques
- Living files
- Context engineering
- VPS-based agent orchestration
- Obsidian vault syncing
- Goal-driven autonomous execution (/go feature)
Takeaways
- Store all knowledge as living markdown files in Obsidian for AI agent accessibility.
- Use a VPS to run agents 24/7 and sync vaults across devices.
- Delegate VPS management and agent setup to an AI agent (e.g., Pi) via plain English.
- The '/go' feature enables complex, outcome-driven tasks without manual step-by-step guidance.
Transcript (captions)
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
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