01What the Hermes Project Manager Agent is
The Hermes Project Manager Agent is a tool inside Julian Goldie's Agent OS that turns a rough idea into a finished build. You type one messy line, tap Approve one time, and a team of AI agents goes off and builds the whole thing.
Julian calls the setup the Goldie idea foundry. On screen you see a pipeline. Ideas come in on the left, and finished things come out on the right, such as a web page, a little app or a tool, all built by AI agents.
Why did Julian build it? He used to have loads of ideas, and every idea hit the same wall. He would write it down and nothing would happen, because there was no time to research, plan or build it.
By the time he came back, he had forgotten why it mattered.
If you have a notes app full of things you meant to do this week, this is the problem it fixes. The only thing Julian does is say yes.
02Background: Hermes agent and why it needs a board
To understand the Hermes Project Manager Agent, it helps to know what Hermes is. Hermes agent comes from a team called Nous Research, who released it for free in February this year. It is open source, so anyone can use it and look at how it is made.
It has grown fast. By the middle of October, the Hermes project had over 253,000 stars on GitHub, and a star is basically a person saying they like it. Nous Research says people have copied the code more than 24 million times.
The big idea is simple:
- Hermes remembers your projects.
- When it figures out how to do something, it writes that down as a skill.
- It can use that skill again later, so it gets better the more you use it.
The catch is that out of the box, Hermes lives in a terminal, which is a black screen full of text. It is hard to see what you built, what is done and what is waiting. So Julian put Hermes inside a board you can actually see.
03The five steps of the Hermes Project Manager Agent
Julian says the Hermes Project Manager Agent works in five steps. Each one takes a job off your plate, and the last one is the reason he built the whole thing.
- Capture: you drop the idea and walk away.
- Shape it: the agents sort the idea and push the good ones forward.
- Plan: an agent writes a real plan for anything worth building.
- The gate: you choose Approve or reject.
- The forge: a project manager agent hands out jobs and the build happens.
The key is that you are never asked to do the heavy lifting. You react to a finished proposal instead of staring at an empty page.
Julian starts one live at the start of the episode. He types a request for a welcome page for new AI Profit Boardroom members that shows them where to start on day one. He hits capture, and that is his whole job for now.
04Steps one and two: capture and shape it
Capture is the first step, and it removes the wall that kills most ideas. You drop the idea in and walk away. There is no folder, no tags and no neat form to fill in.
It can be a single messy line, a link, or even a voice note. It lands in the system and the agents take it from there. Julian points out that most ideas die because writing them down properly feels like work, so you put it off.
Here is a second idea he drops in: make a simple quiz that tells a business owner which AI agent to start with, then points them to the AI Profit Boardroom. One sentence, and done.
Next comes shaping. This step takes about 15 seconds. You tap shape it and the idea slides along the board.
- The good ideas get pushed forward.
- The noise gets filed away.
- You do not sort a single thing by hand.
On screen, one of Julian's ideas got parked because the agent decided it was not that useful. Julian says it was right.
05Steps three and four: the plan and the one gate
Julian knows what you might be thinking: who decides what gets built, and will it go off and do random things? The answer is no, and that is where steps three and four come in.
In step three, an agent writes a real plan for anything worth building. You can see the idea, how the agent classified it, and the plan itself. The plan covers the approach it will take, the first milestones, and which agents will build each part.
Julian opens the welcome page idea from the start. The plan says what the page will show, the order of the sections, and which sub agent handles it. He can read the whole thing in under a minute.
He says this is the step most people skip when they work with AI. They type a big request and hope for the best. Here you see the plan before a single thing gets built.
Step four is the one gate. This is the only place you step in. There are two buttons, Approve or reject, and that is the button that matters most.
06Step five: the forge and what you can do after
Step five is the forge. When you approve, a project manager agent spins up and hands out jobs to sub agents. A sub agent is just a helper agent with one job, and together they build the real thing.
The things that can come out include a landing page, a small app, a calculator or a checklist tool. When it is done, it shows up running inside your dashboard.
From there you have several options:
- Click preview.
- Open it full screen.
- Open it in a new tab.
- Leave a comment, such as make the headline bigger.
- Hit rebuild so the agents take another shot.
So if you do not love the first result, you do not start over. You tell the agents what to change, or you ask them to try again.
Julian says this is how ideas actually turn into finished things, often on the same page.
07Old way versus new way, plus where it all lives
Julian compares the old way with the new way. In the old way, you write the idea in your notes app, mean to research it at the weekend, open a blank doc, stare at it, and close it because you are tired. Maybe you hire a freelancer and it takes two weeks to come back.
Most ideas never get built.
In the new way, you drop one line into the idea foundry and agents sort it. An agent writes a plan, you approve it once from anywhere, and sub agents build it. It shows up running in your dashboard.
There is also the question of where things live. If you only use Hermes in the terminal, it is hard to look back, because it scrolls away. In the Agent OS, everything sits on one board from inbox to shipped.
You can refresh the page, click away, come back, and it is all still there.
Everything is also saved to your Obsidian vault as plain notes. Obsidian is a free notes app that keeps notes as simple files on your own computer.
08Memory, who it is for, and how to get it
Julian connects the board to what he calls his memory galaxy. Every dot is a note, and the lines show how they connect. Every idea, plan and build becomes memory, so your agents can read it later and already know what you built last week and why.
The Hermes Project Manager Agent is for business owners who have ideas but never get them built. Julian says there is a window right now, because most business owners are still writing ideas down and forgetting them.
Inside the AI Profit Boardroom, members get:
- The full Agent OS as a zip file ready to install.
- The idea foundry, Hermes, Jarvis and the Obsidian memory setup.
- A 30 day Agent OS roadmap.
- Four coaching calls every week.
- Daily tutorials on pushing real business ideas through the pipeline.
The roadmap starts with installing Agent OS and connecting Hermes on day one. Day two is dropping your first idea in and approving your first build. Day three is hooking up Obsidian memory.
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