Hermes + Grok: three new superpowers that change the workflow

If you already pay for X Premium, you already have Grok. Connect it to Hermes with one OAuth login, no API key, and the agent reads X for you, runs browser tasks, executes multi-skill playbooks from one slash command.

That's the news. Three drops landed this month: X Search (with video gen), Browse.sh, Skill Bundles. The stack stopped being a research tool and started being a real agent. Here's what's running on my machine.

Grok app vs Grok in Hermes

Grok in the app is fine until you close the tab. Then it forgets you exist.

Hermes wraps Grok. Same model, same reasoning, but now it remembers. Context accumulates. The agent on day 30 isn't the agent on day 1 because it's been listening the whole time. That's the whole pitch.

Just using X vs X + Hermes

The X API can only pull a headline and a few lines of any X article. x_search reads the whole damn thing. That's the move.

The Stack

Set Grok 4.3 as your base model and you'll learn why I lost two evenings. Don't.

The 3 latest Hermes superpowers

⚠ Heads up: x_search is OFF by default. After OAuth: hermes tools → CLI → toggle X Search on → restart. People miss this.

Video gen, in action

Prompt I typed:

> generate a short video of a dragon fighting with an ape 8 seconds.

Video link here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pG2uX7aF7k7aCYZXrUYKlE4BtbeQjBP8/view?usp=sharing

Four workflows I'm actually running

1. Daily brief. Hermes in the background with my thesis and preferences loaded. Every morning, brief on macro, geopolitics, tech, AI, crypto. Each report feeds Hindsight. The brief sharpens because it stops repeating what it already told me. Most people don't believe this until they see it.

2. Account tracker. Four AI accounts I refuse to miss: @gregisenberg, @milesdeutscher, @AlexFinn, @JulianGoldieSEO. Cron runs daily. The algorithm doesn't get a vote.

3. Bookmark digest. Cron pulls last 24hr bookmarks, dedupes, x_search reads the full articles, DeepSeek summarizes. My bookmarks stopped being a graveyard.

4. /post-maker. My Skill Bundle for shipping content. One command, `/post-maker write a post about X`, runs four skills in sequence:

Before bundles: five separate commands, five separate prompts, context loss between each. Now: one line. The whole pipeline runs. The output comes out coherent because each skill saw what the last one did. This is the orchestration tax that disappears.

Why this works: linear composition. Each skill's output feeds the next. Bad bundles fight each other (research + outbound + bug-fix in one shot. The agent picks the wrong path, output drifts, you lose precision). Good bundles chain. The rule: bundle what you run more than twice a week. Lower frequency than that, keep them separate. Bundling something you only do monthly is overhead disguised as productivity.

The shift in month one

You stop delegating the thinking. You form the hypothesis yourself and use the agent to test it. Hermes catches what you'd miss, compresses monitoring into a single brief, remembers what it told you three weeks ago when fresh data lands.

It can't decide what matters. That's still you. If you outsource the take, you don't have a take.

What you're actually building

X owns the data. Grok has access. Browserbase owns the browser layer. Hermes is the orchestration on top. If any of those layers changes terms tomorrow, your workflow goes dark. That's not pessimism — that's the stack.

What you're building is **operational leverage, not a moat**. An agent that processes the real-time town square for $10/month plus $0.10/day. Useful. Cheap. Not yours.

What's yours: your thesis, your judgment, your audience, the wiki where the thinking compounds. The agent is rented infrastructure. The take is the asset.

Just know what you're renting.

Want to run it yourself? Install:

hermes-agent.nousresearch.com. Browser skills:browse.sh.. Ping me if you hit something weird . I'd rather compare notes than guess.Want to run it yourself? Install:hermes-agent.nousresearch.com(https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com). Browser skills:browse.sh

Follow@babyape113for more workflows from inside the stack. Deeper macro pieces atthebabyape.substack.com

Stay curious. Stay humble. Invest responsibly.