Video by Hugging Face via YouTube
Hermes is an always-on AI agent with a simple but useful architecture: an agent loop, memory, context construction, gateway integrations, and scheduled cron jobs. In this video, I walk through how Hermes builds context, talks to external services like Telegram and Slack, compresses long conversations, and learns from previous interactions.
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🤓 *Topics Covered*
– Hermes agent architecture
– Context, memory, and compression
– Gateways, SQLite, and cron jobs
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⏱️ *Timestamps*
00:00 – Intro
00:57 – Bird’s-eye view of the architecture
03:49 – Agent loop
07:31 – Context
13:28 – Context compression
18:28 – Context compression prompt
19:59 – Gateway
28:00 – Memory
34:37 – Cron jobs
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🔗 Links
– Written version: https://alejandro-ao.com/tutorials/hermes-agent-architecture/
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