Memory and skills: the two unlocks

0:00 And those two things are memory and skills. And honestly, I'd argue that Hermes is already more powerful than Open Claw and most other agents out there. But memory and skills are what takes it to another level. Memory lets Hermes actually remember your business, your projects, and how you like to work. And skills let you teach it new things it can do again and [music] again without you explaining them every single time. Set up both properly and you stop repeating yourself and Hermes starts getting better the more that you use it.

0:48 So, let me show you how this works. Now, before we set anything up, it's worth understanding why memory and skills make such a difference. You see, most AI is disposable. So, what I mean by that is that you give it a task, you close the window, and next time you're starting from scratch. Hermes doesn't work like that because it remembers, and because it can reuse what you teach it, you're not booting a blank agent [music] every single time.

1:12 You get one that knows more and does more the longer you use it. And that's what makes it compound. Now, this works fine if you run Hermes on your laptop. But if you want it running scheduled tasks or doing work while your computer's off, it needs to be on 24/7.