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Episode 1 · May 18, 2026 · 09:07

New Hermes AI Kanban Update Is INSANE!

New Hermes AI Update: The Ultimate Autonomous Workflow


Learn how the new Hermes AI Kanban update automates task breakdown and agent assignment with a single triage prompt. This video reveals how to build a self-sequencing AI team that handles research, content, and engagement without manual intervention.


00:00 - Intro: The Hermes AI Upgrade

00:11 - How the AI Orchestrator Works

00:42 - Writing Smarter Agent Descriptions

01:07 - Real-World Workflow Example

03:18 - Creating Multi-Agent Workflows

04:28 - Mastering the Triage Prompt

05:12 - Intelligent Task Sequencing

06:29 - 3-Step Practical Setup Guide

Full transcript

New Hermes AI Kanban update is insane. Hermes Agent Kanban just got a serious upgrade. One prompt in, the AI takes it from there. Full task breakdown.

Agents assigned. Let me show you exactly what changed and why this matters. So here's what Hermes just shipped. You drop a single prompt into the triage.

The orchestrator agent reads it. Then it breaks that prompt down into every subtask needed to get the job done. And here's the part that's actually impressive. It doesn't just list the tasks.

Automatically assigns the right agent profile to each one based on what that agent specializes in. You used to have to do that yourself. You'd write the prompt. Then manually figure out which agent handles what.

Then assign it. Then check it. Now the orchestrator does all of that for you. And they added one more thing in this update that makes the whole system smarter.

You can now write a description for each agent profile. So you're basically telling the orchestrator, hey this agent is great at research. This one handles outreach. This one writes copy.

The orchestrator reads those descriptions and uses them to decide who gets what task. The result, a way tighter workflow. S-errors. S-manual work.

The system actually understands what each agent is built for. Let me give you a real example of how this works in practice. You're running a community like the AI profit boardroom, and you want to launch a new member campaign. You drop one prompt into Hermes triage, plan and execute a new member onboarding campaign.

The orchestrator breaks that into subtasks, write the welcome sequence, design the onboarding checklist, draft the announcement posts, set up the follow-up messages. Then it reads your agent descriptions and assigns each task automatically. The copywriting agent gets the emails. The strategy agent gets the campaign plan.

You didn't touch any of it. That's a real workflow. And the prompt you'd use is literally just that one sentence. Here's why this is a big deal.

Most AI tools still need a human in the middle. You prompt, you get output, you go move it somewhere, you assign it to the next step. There's always a handoff that requires you. Hermes just removed that handoff.

The orchestrator is the one doing the routing now. Think of it like a project manager who never sleeps. You tell them the goal. They figure out who does what.

They hand it out. You just check the results. And the agent profile descriptions, that feature is doing more work than it looks like. Because before this, the orchestrator was guessing.

It had to infer what each agent was good at based on the agent's name or generic setup. Now you give it a brief. This agent specializes in writing content that gets engagement for online communities. The orchestrator now knows.

When a content task comes in, it goes to that agent every time. The more specific your descriptions, the smarter the routing gets. You're essentially training the system to think the way you think. If you want to go deeper on setting this up and actually building automated workflows like this for your business, the AI Profit Boardroom has a full playbook on Hermes and AI agent orchestration.

Got step-by-step tutorials walking you through exactly how to set up your agent profiles, write descriptions that actually work, and build triage workflows that run themselves. Four live coaching calls every week where you can bring your Hermes setup and get feedback in real time. That's 2,800 members. A lot of them are already running Hermes Kanban for client work, content production, and lead gen workflows.

Link in the description or go to AIProfitBoardroom.com. Now let's talk about what you can actually build with this. The update opens up a bunch of workflows that weren't really practical before because the bottleneck was always the routing. How do you make sure the right agent gets the right task without babysitting the whole thing?

That's what this solves. Here's a workflow that works really well right now. You've got a Hermes Kanban board set up with three agent profiles, one for research, one for content, one for community engagement. You write a description for each.

Research agent finds relevant AI news, summarizes updates, pulls stats and sources. Content agent writes posts, emails, and updates based on research summaries. Engagement agent responds to comments, DMs, and community threads in a friendly, helpful tone. Now you drop one prompt into triage.

Create a weekly content update about the latest AI tools for our community members. The orchestrator reads that, sends a subtask to the research agent to pull the latest updates, sends a subtask to the content agent to turn that research into a post, and if you want, it sends a subtask to the engagement agent to draft replies to expected questions, all from one prompt. You're not touching it until it's done. And here's the open loop you need to think about.

The agent descriptions you write right now are going to determine how good your automation gets over the next few months, because Hermes is improving fast. The better your descriptions, the better the orchestrator gets at routing. You're building an asset, not just setting up a tool. People who nail their agent profiles now are going to have a serious advantage as this system gets more powerful.

The ones who skip it are going to be stuck reassigning tasks manually forever. Let's talk about the triage prompt itself, because this is where most people mess up. Vague prompt gets vague results. The orchestrator is smart, but it needs something to work with.

The tighter your triage prompt, the better the task breakdown. Good triage prompt, research the top five AI productivity tools released this week, write a short summary of each, and create three social posts we can use to share with our community. Bad triage prompt, do something with AI news. First one gives the orchestrator clear output targets, knows it needs research tasks, writing tasks, and publishing tasks, can assign those properly.

The second one is too vague. You'll get something back, but it won't be clean. So when you're setting up your Hermes triage, spend two minutes writing a proper prompt. It's worth it.

The whole downstream workflow depends on that first input. One more thing worth mentioning, the subtask decomposition is not just splitting your prompt into pieces. The orchestrator is actually thinking about dependencies, knows that research has to happen before writing, knows that a campaign plan has to exist before outreach can start. So it's not just assigning tasks, it's sequencing them.

That's the piece that makes this feel less like a task manager and more like an actual team. The orchestrator thinks about order, it thinks about what needs to happen first, and it routes accordingly. Now here's where I think this is going. Right now you're still writing the triage prompt.

You're still the one kicking things off. The direction of this tech is pretty clear. The gap between you write a prompt and the system figures out what you probably need and starts it is getting smaller every month. Hermes is already closer to that than most tools.

The orchestrator is already doing the job of a project manager. The agent descriptions make it smarter every time you add detail. The subtask sequencing means it's thinking about workflow, not just tasks. The logical next step is predictive triage, where the system watches what you've been working on and suggests tasks before you even ask.

That's not science fiction. That's just the next version of what Hermes already does. If you're running any kind of content operation, community, agency, or service business, this update is relevant to you right now. Because the hours you spend every week breaking projects into tasks and figuring out who does what, that's exactly what Hermes just automated.

Let me give you the practical setup path. Three steps. First, audit what you actually do every week. Write down the five to ten recurring workflows, campaign launches, content updates, client onboarding, whatever your week looks like.

Those become your triage prompt templates. Second, set up your agent profiles and write real descriptions. Don't be lazy with this. Spend five minutes per agent.

Tell the orchestrator exactly what each agent is good at. Be specific. Writes engaging short form content for online communities focused on AI tools and automation is way better than content agent. Third, test your triage prompts before you rely on them.

Drop a real workflow into triage. Check how the orchestrator broke it down. Check who it assigned tasks to. If the routing looks off, go back and sharpen your agent descriptions.

That's the setup. It takes a couple of hours once, just dropping prompts and reviewing outputs. The people who build this right now are going to have a completely different workflow in 90 days. Because every triage prompt you run is teaching you how to write better prompts.

Every agent description you refine makes the routing smarter. You're compounding. People who wait are going to be three months behind and scrambling to catch up when this becomes standard. This is the kind of automation that doesn't replace what you do.

It just handles the coordination layer so you can focus on the actual work. The orchestrator manages the team. You manage the goal. That's what this update does.

And it's one of the most practical AI automation upgrades I've seen in a while because it removes a real bottleneck that every single person running any kind of operation deals with every day. One prompt. All breakdown. Write agents assigned.

Correct sequence. You review the output. The Hermes Agent Kanban just got a lot closer to a real autonomous workflow system. If you want the full Hermes setup, agent profile templates, triage prompt library, and a step-by-step walkthrough of how to build this into your actual business, come join us in the AI Profit boardroom.

We've got daily tutorials where we go hands-on with tools like Hermes, showing you exactly how to set up your orchestrator, write agent descriptions that actually root correctly, and build triage workflows your business runs on. Four coaching calls every week. Bring your Hermes board, show us what you've built, and we'll help you tighten it up live. Members, a lot of them deep in AI agent workflows right now, plus a prompt library packed with triage prompts and agent templates you can just copy and use.

And a member map so you can connect with other Hermes users near you. Link in the description or go to aiprofitboardroom.com. And if you want the notes from this video plus access to 100 plus AI use cases like this one, join the AI Success Lab. It's free.

Members in there sharing exactly how they're using tools like Hermes in real workflows. Link in the comments and description.

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