Published: 2026-05-31

Hermes Agent: Obsidian Integration, Multi-Profile Setup, and Agent OS

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Julian Goldie answers community questions about getting more from Hermes, covering Obsidian as a personalized knowledge base, why the Agent OS dashboard beats a raw terminal for skill management, how to create named specialist profiles with separate memory and soul files, and how to wire Hermes into a custom business dashboard built with Claude Code.

Source video

"Hermes Agent: Build & Automate ANYTHING!" by Julian Goldie SEO — Watch on YouTube →

Key Takeaways

Tell Hermes "sync to my local Obsidian folder" to auto-save conversations as notes and pull personalized context from your knowledge base into every future response.
Manage skills and MCP tools in the Agent OS dashboard rather than a plain terminal — it preserves full conversation history so you can see every skill installation and configuration you've made.
Create named specialist profiles with hermes profile create <name> then <name> setup — each profile has its own soul file, memory, API keys, skills, and scheduled tasks. Recommended for advanced users only.
Integrate Hermes into an existing Claude Code dashboard by feeding Hermes's GitHub documentation to Claude and asking it to build the integration.
Set scheduled tasks inside Hermes for recurring automations — for example, daily checks of who hasn't replied to an email, with automatic follow-up reminders.

Connecting Hermes to Obsidian

Obsidian is a local note-taking app that can serve as a "second brain" — a web of notes about your clients, goals, projects, and past decisions. When you connect Hermes to Obsidian, two things happen: Hermes auto-saves each conversation session as a note (so you don't have to manually log what you've done), and it reads your existing notes to provide context-aware, personalized suggestions. To connect them, just ask Hermes to sync to your local Obsidian folder. If you're running Hermes on a VPS, a direct link is also possible. The connection takes a few minutes to establish.

Multiple Profiles for Specialist Agents

If you need separate agents for different purposes — say, one tuned for coding tasks and another for client outreach — you can create named profiles, each with its own environment variables, soul file, memory, and skill set. The commands are straightforward:

hermes profile create coder
coder setup

Julian recommends starting with a single profile and only adding more once you have a specific, well-defined reason for separation. For 90% of users, one Hermes profile covering everything is the better approach.