Kimi K3 + Hermes Changes AI Agents Forever

[00:00:00]Kimi K3 plus Hermes changes AI agents forever. What if the smartest AI agent you could run wasn't even made in America? What if it was open source and almost nobody's using it, right? There's a new model quietly beating the big names at coding. Plug it into the right agent and it gets scary good. [music] Most people are only touching 1% of what it can do. Let me show you the other 99.

[00:00:19]I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie.

[00:00:21]I help you learn AI tools and actually use them in your work. Today I'm running Kimi K3 inside Hermes and I'm doing all of it inside my agent OS. Stick around because near the end I'll show you a website that literally follows your mouse with a video playing on top. I've never seen an agent build anything like it. First, the setup. Inside my agent OS, I made a new profile and called it Kimi K3. Then I connected it to Hermes.

[00:00:42]Hermes is the agent, Kimi K3 is the brain. To plug the model in, I open my terminal, start a new tab and type Hermes model. A drop down pops up. I pick Moonshot, which is Kimi, then I log in with the coding plan and I'm ready.

[00:00:54]That's it. Now Kimi K3 is running as the brain of Hermes inside my agent OS.

[00:00:59]Here's the first thing I did with it. I used this to draft a full week of short scripts built to pull the right people into the AI Profit Boardroom. I handed it the topics AI Profit Boardroom members keep asking about and it wrote the hooks and captions in one go. That's the kind of content that brings the right audience into the AI Profit Boardroom. Now, if you ever want to swap models, it's easy. I go to my manage dashboard inside agent OS, open models and type Kimi. If it doesn't show up, I hit refresh. Then I switch. Two ways in, both fast. You can also just chat with Kimi directly, but honestly, chat is the boring part. The real power shows up when Kimi is the brain and Hermes is the hands. Watch this. In Hermes, I type /learn and I hand it a link to a guide.

[00:01:35]Hermes reads the whole guide. It digests it. Then it saves it as a skill it can use later. So, it doesn't just answer once and forget. It actually learns. I used this to teach it our exact AI Profit Boardroom onboarding guide. Now, every time it writes a welcome message or a first call prep doc, it already knows how we do things inside the AI Profit Boardroom. One link and it learned our whole flow. Now, here's where it gets wild. I connected Kimi K3 to Blender through an MCP. Blender is a free 3D tool and MCP is just a bridge that lets the agent use another app like it's got hands. With the latest Blender update, Kimiko 3 can model a 3D product and build a promo for it. I call this the imagination printer. You describe a product or a whole world and it prints it in 3D. I use this to build a 3D mock-up of an AI Profit Boardroom badge and spin it into a short promo clip.

[00:02:18]That's the kind of visual I drop into content to make the AI Profit Boardroom stand out. Let me slow down and show you why that learn thing matters so much.

[00:02:25]When Hermes finishes a {slash} learn, it doesn't just spit out an answer. It shows you what it took from the guide, the core lessons, and what it did with them. Then it saves all of that as a skill stored locally to your Hermes agent. So think about what that means.

[00:02:37]The skill it saved was literally how to use Kimiko 3 with Hermes. So now Hermes understands its own brain. Kimiko 3 is the brain, Hermes is the hands, and the hands now know exactly how the brain works. It goes deeper than that. I have a memory system running across both the Kimiko CLI and the Hermes agent. So the context follows me everywhere. When Kimiko 3 launched, I plugged our memory straight in on day one. That means the agent already knows my projects, my style, and my workflow before I even ask. It's not starting from zero every single time. It remembers. And here's the neat part. The memory sits in a shared layer, so it doesn't matter if I'm in the terminal with the Kimiko CLI or clicking around in the Hermes agent.

[00:03:13]Both of them read from the same place.

[00:03:15]So a note I leave in one shows up in the other. The skills stack up, too. Every guide I feed it becomes one more thing it can do on demand. Over a few weeks, the agent quietly turns into a specialist that knows my exact way of working. And that's the whole difference between a fun little toy and a real system you can trust with real work.

[00:03:31]This is the part most people skip. They stay stuck in the chat box. They never save skills. They never build any memory. So every session starts blind.

[00:03:38]Once you set this up inside your Agent OS, the agent gets a little smarter every time you use it. And that Agent OS I keep showing you, that's the reason all of this runs so smooth. If you want my exact setup, it's inside the AI Profit Boardroom. You get the full Agent OS zip file ready to install with Kimmy K3 and Hermes already plugged in. We built a complete 30-day road map to walk you through it step-by-step. There are walkthroughs for connecting the model, saving your first skill, and setting up the memory layer. And on the coaching calls, you can share your screen and I'll help you fix your setup live.

[00:04:09]Everything I'm showing you today is in there done for you. Okay, back to the good stuff. This one's called Hermes Oracle. It's Kimmy K3 running inside a custom workflow in my Agent OS. It pulls the latest news from Twitter and sorts it by what's trending. It runs on a schedule all on its own on a cron job.

[00:04:25]Mine refreshed a few hours ago while I was asleep. Then, with one click, it drafts an SEO post and publishes it straight to WordPress targeting that trending topic. I used this to spin up a fresh blog post around a topic AI Profit Boardroom members were buzzing about that morning. It found the trend, wrote the post, and published it to our site before I even finished my coffee. That's how I keep the AI Profit Boardroom showing up in search. Next is Hermes Astros because Kimmy K3 handles long tasks so well, I use it to watch my competitors and my keywords. I set the competitors, I set the keywords, then it checks daily what's trending and how I can make content that ranks. It gives me unique titles and fresh angles. I use this to find angles my competitors totally missed, then fed them into my video agent for the AI Profit Boardroom, infographics, research reports, even a podcast with Notebook LM, all from one competitor scan. Here's a fun one, mixture of agents. It's a panel of models working side-by-side like a little team. I had Kimmy K3 and GLM 5.2 working together fused into one output.

[00:05:21]Two open models thinking as one.

[00:05:23]Sometimes that team beats a single top model because they check each other's work and you're not burning through your limits on the big closed models. I used this to write a launch page for a new AI Profit Boardroom training with both models drafting and refining it together. The result was sharper than either one on its own. This next one is my favorite, long horizon goal mode.

[00:05:41]Kimmy K3 has a huge context window and it can run for hours, even days, without you sitting there. So, in my Agent OS, I have a goal mode workflow. I give it a goal, and it just keeps going until it's done. I can stop it whenever I want. I use this to say, "Build me a full topical map around a core AI Profit Boardroom topic, then write and publish a batch of posts on it." It ran on its own for hours, filling out the whole cluster. I just checked in later. Now, why trust Kimiko 3 with all of this?

[00:06:06]Because it's not just talk. On the front-end code arena, Kimiko 3 is sitting at number one right now. On the big intelligence indexes, it lands in the top three, right next to Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Soul. When I tested it against Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 on building little games and tools, Kimiko 3's version usually looked cleaner and felt nicer to use. It's a Chinese open model going toe-to-toe with the top US labs. That's exactly why it's trending everywhere.

[00:06:34]You can also run a whole team of Kimiko 3 agents on a Kanban board. Each one gets a job. One's the director, one's the judge for quality, one does the building. They pass the work between them and finish it together. I set this up to produce a video for the AI Profit Boardroom. I dropped in the task, said what kind of video I wanted, and the three agents built it as a team. Because Kimiko 3 is so agentic, it flows way better than the older models did. And here's the one I promised. I gave Kimiko 3 a free, open-source skill called Remotion. It builds videos with code. It made a website that follows your mouse with a video playing right on top.

[00:07:07]There's a progress bar at the bottom, and you can click to skip to any part you want. The video zooms in and out with nice colors and clean text, fully scripted and edited by the agent itself.

[00:07:17]I used this to build a promo page for the AI Profit Boardroom that actually moves with you as you scroll. It's the kind of page that makes people stop and pay attention to the AI Profit Boardroom. Here's the truth. A lot of people avoid open agents like Hermes.

[00:07:29]They feel a bit clunky, a bit back and forth, not as smooth as the big closed tools. But when you drop Kimiko 3 in as the brain, all of that changes. It feels smooth. It feels useful. And running it inside my Agent OS is what ties the whole thing together. The models, the skills, the memory, the workflows, all in one place. Quick tips before you go.

[00:07:46]One, don't live in the chat box. Save skills with {slash} learn so your agent gets smarter every time. Two, set up a memory layer early so it knows your work from day one. Three, start with one workflow like Oracle before you stack more on top. Four, let the long tasks run. That's where Kimmy K3 really shines. If you want the full process, SOPs, and 100 plus AI use cases like this one, join the AI Success Lab. Links in the comments and description. You'll get all the video notes from there plus access to our community of 85,000 members who are crushing it with AI. And if you're about to try Kimmy K3 and Hermes yourself, come do it with me.

[00:08:18]When you set this up, you'll hit a few little snags. Connecting the model, saving your first skill, getting the memory layer just right. Inside the AI Profit Boardroom, I walk you through all of it. You get the coaching calls to fix your setup live, the tutorials, the road maps, and the exact prompts I use with over 4,000 members building right alongside you. Come join us at aiprofitboardroom.com.