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05 — The Video Watch List (every URL verified 2026-09-11)

Verification method: each video was found via YouTube search-results scrape (videoRenderer metadata), then confirmed with the YouTube oEmbed endpoint (curl -s "https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=<URL>&format=json") — every entry below returned HTTP 200 with matching title/author (status PASS). Publish dates, durations, and view counts were read from each watch page's metadata. Raw evidence for all 21 entries: video-verification.json in this directory. 21/21 PASS, 0 FAIL.

Tier 1 — Hermes-specific, start here

1. Learn 95% of Hermes Agent in 31 Minutes

  • Channel: Sharbel A. | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta2wg6xPaY4 | Duration: 31:28 | Published: 2026-08-09 | Views: ~129k
  • oEmbed: PASS (title/author match)
  • What it demonstrates: end-to-end Hermes fundamentals — install, sessions, skills, memory, the learning loop. The most complete single-video orientation found.
  • Watch this when you want the fastest real overview of the whole harness before touching config.

2. Hermes Agent Fundamentals In 29 Minutes

  • Channel: Tina Huang | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_N84t1rUU0 | Duration: 29:40 | Published: 2026-07-20 | Views: ~463k (highest-reach Hermes video found)
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: conceptual grounding — why Hermes' memory/skills loop differs from one-shot coding agents; practical walkthrough.
  • Watch this when you want to understand why Hermes feels different from Claude Code, not just which buttons to press.

3. Every Level of Hermes Agent Explained

  • Channel: Jack Roberts | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GtF_uHbGhw | Duration: 25:35 | Published: 2026-06-17 | Views: ~163k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: beginner → advanced ladder of features (memory, skills, automation, multi-agent).
  • Watch this when you want a map of what to learn next after the basics.

4. Hermes Agent Full Tutorial INSTALLATION + USECASES

  • Channel: CodeHead | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GjyOQy19so | Duration: 7:47 | Published: 2026-05-14 | Views: ~64k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: install through real use-cases, compact.
  • Watch this when you want a quick install-to-value demo to share with a colleague.

5. Hermes Agent Explained In 5 Minutes

  • Channel: CodeHead | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GpWELm3_XI | Duration: 4:53 | Published: 2026-05-23 | Views: ~251k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: 5-minute conceptual pitch of the agent and its learning loop.
  • Watch this when you want the elevator pitch before committing 30 minutes.

Tier 2 — Hermes-specific deep dives

6. 100 Days With Hermes Agent in 21 Minutes

  • Channel: Sharbel A. | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCa3BtpkziQ | Duration: 21:19 | Published: 2026-06-17 | Views: ~58k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: long-horizon usage — what memory/skills accumulation actually looks like after months of daily use.
  • Watch this when you want to see the payoff of the learning loop over time.

7. Hermes Agent - Crash Course for Beginners (AI Agent)

  • Channel: Adrian Twarog | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sAmpcSOVEw | Duration: 22:19 | Published: 2026-07-21 | Views: ~46k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: beginner crash course from a well-known dev-YouTube creator.
  • Watch this when you want a second independent explanation of the basics.

8. Hermes Agent: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide

  • Channel: Metics Media | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwPUOVUdApE | Duration: 37:08 | Published: 2026-04-24 | Views: ~119k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: long-form beginner guide incl. setup and everyday workflows.
  • Watch this when you want the most thorough single walkthrough in one sitting.

9. Hermes Agent Just Killed OpenClaw (Full Tutorial)

  • Channel: Leon van Zyl | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmtpYUOr7_U | Duration: 19:59 | Published: 2026-04-28 | Views: ~16k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: full tutorial framing Hermes against the OpenClaw workflow (MCP config, memory, agents).
  • Watch this when you want a practitioner's feature-by-feature tutorial.

10. Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw

  • Channel: Sharbel A. | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwqhemjHq3E | Duration: 15:28 | Published: 2026-04-20 | Views: ~35k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: head-to-head comparison of the two agent harnesses.
  • Watch this when you want the tradeoffs between Hermes and its main alternative.

11. Better than OpenClaw? Testing Hermes Agent w/ Qwen 3 model

  • Channel: Tonbi's AI Garage | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tpuky8HpXw | Duration: 15:08 | Published: 2026-03-11 | Views: ~18k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: Hermes driven by an OpenRouter-served open model (Qwen 3) — directly relevant to an OpenRouter-connected install.
  • Watch this when you want to see how small open models behave inside Hermes.

12. Use This To Make The Hermes Agent Basically Free

  • Channel: AI LABS | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d02TYoOzfE | Duration: 13:08 | Published: 2026-07-01 | Views: ~55k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: running Hermes on cheap/free model backends.
  • Watch this when you want to cut inference costs on an OpenRouter account.

13. Hermes Agent The 24/7 Self-Evolving AI Agent!

  • Channel: WorldofAI | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu2fgknmemA | Duration: 9:15 | Published: 2026-04-07 | Views: ~47k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: always-on operation: gateway, cron, background automation.
  • Watch this when you want to turn Hermes from a chat window into a 24/7 assistant.

Tier 3 — Adjacent (origin/philosophy; not tutorials)

14. Hermes Co-Founder on Building an AI Agent That Improves Itself | Karan Malhotra

  • Channel: Peter Yang | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWjh5Z4s8jY | Duration: 46:45 | Published: 2026-08-02 | Views: ~37k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: interview with Hermes' co-founder on the design philosophy (self-improving agents, skills as memory).
  • Watch this when you want to understand where the product is going.

15. Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with you | Episode #357

  • Channel: Practical AI | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZhvPXnmwA | Duration: 47:34 | Published: 2026-05-20 | Views: ~1.9k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: podcast-depth technical discussion of the agent architecture.
  • Watch this when you want the engineering story behind the learning loop.

16. Did Hermes Agent just kill OpenClaw? (full guide)

  • Channel: Alex Finn | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP6yf22OJdI | Duration: 13:55 | Published: 2026-03-31 | Views: ~132k
  • oEmbed: PASS
  • What it demonstrates: guide-style comparison/switch content.
  • Watch this when you want a switcher's guide perspective.

17. Hermes Agent: Why Everyone's Ditching OpenClaw in 2026

  • Channel: Luke Alexander AI | URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UgXUjT-QtI | Duration: 18:03 | Published: 2026-03-26 | Views: ~14k
  • oEmbed: PASS — adjacent, comparison content.
  • Watch this when you want more comparison context.

Honesty note (required by task spec)

At least 16 of the 17 entries above are directly Hermes-specific (not merely adjacent); the "fewer than 5 exist" fallback clause was NOT needed — no padding was necessary. Entries found in search but excluded as thin/low-signal: iqN6MVzpJTk (3.1k views, news-style), 83nWNRKZTCE (465 views), 6M2tItdARew (1.2k views), P2LIFtrRr2U (promo-style) — all also verified PASS and kept in video-verification.json as spares. No official Nous Research YouTube tutorial channel was found in searches; the strongest signal of Hermes-specific video content is the third-party ecosystem above.

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