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Agent browsing in Desktop

Feature · Built into Hermes ·  · 0:26

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No sound. Below: what's on screen, beat by beat.

  1. At 0:00

    The Hermes Desktop home screen shows a large "HERMES AGENT" wordmark on a deep blue background, with a chat box at the bottom. The window tilts and settles.

  2. At 0:04

    A request appears at the top of the chat: "Open YouTube in the preview pane, search for 'Hermes Agent setup', annotate the top result with the label 'watch this', then click it and let it play."

  3. At 0:07

    A preview pane opens on the right and loads YouTube, first as grey placeholder tiles, then the home page with "Try searching to get started".

  4. At 0:10

    Pink outline boxes with small tags appear on the YouTube page, jumping between the search box and links in the sidebar.

  5. At 0:14

    Hermes types into the YouTube search box until it reads "Hermes Agent setup", then runs the search.

  6. At 0:16

    Results load. A sponsored ad comes first, followed by "Hermes Agent Full Tutorial for Beginners | Setup Guide" and "How To Set Up Hermes Agent To Run Your Day".

  7. At 0:18

    Pink outlines move across the results page, landing on the search button, sidebar links and result titles.

  8. At 0:24

    A pink box marks the title "Hermes Agent Full Tutorial for Beginners | Setup Guide", with a small pink tag above it that reads "WATCH THIS". The clip ends on this marked-up result.

Hermes can drive the built-in browser in Hermes Desktop's preview pane, working through web pages while you watch. In the video it searches YouTube and labels the top result, as the request asked.

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HermesWatcher @HermesWatcher ·
Okay, This is a big Hermes Desktop update 👀Hermes can now actually use the Preview pane.Not just open a page.Not just read a page.Use it.Click. Type. Scroll. Navigate. Annotate.Inside the same visible browser pane you are watching.That is a big deal.It means Hermes Desktop is starting to feel a lot less like a chat window attached to tools and a lot more like an agent that can work through web tasks in front of you.Think about the use cases:
  • Open documentation and show you exactly where a setting lives
  • Walk through a setup flow and point out what to click
  • Search a site, open the right result, and keep moving
  • Work through a dashboard while you supervise
  • Annotate important controls on a crowded page
  • Reproduce a web issue step by step
  • Fill out multi-step web workflows with you watching
  • Find the right tutorial or guide and take you straight to it
That changes the feel of Hermes Desktop.Because now Hermes is not just telling you what to do.It can show you, point to it, and act on it in the same workspace.This one opens up a lot!!!

The post as written on Aug 22, 2026, with any sign-up offers and pointers to replies left out. Figures in it are from that day. The summary above follows the official docs, so check the docs (opens in a new tab) for the version you run.

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