YouTube Comments Agent with Hermes
The dangerous mistake on a comments desk is a confident claim about a person: deciding an account belongs to a real brand, or ruling a sponsorship inquiry fake. The instructions forbid both and keep every statement inside what the comment itself says. Hermes does that reading on open Hermes models, hosted for you, with the read only YouTube tools already attached.
Watch it work before it's live
Run a staged conversation — no account needed. The agent handles it for real while a simulated world answers its tool calls; nothing touches real accounts, and nothing is actually sent.
Comments digest, Tuesday 14 April
312,000 subscribers. Overnight there are 214 new comments across six videos, 90 of them on Sunday's dovetail jig tutorial, which has passed 180,000 views. Eleven people ask which router bit was used and the video never says, four ask whether the jig fits an imperial base, and one account named for a Spanish tool brand asks who handles paid collaborations.
Set up in minutes
Using this template drops you into a guided setup. It asks exactly this, nothing else:
Connect YouTube
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.
Connect Slack
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.
Channel rules
What your channel wants surfaced and how you sound when you answer: which questions deserve a reply, who handles sponsorship and press, what you treat as spam, and any subject you never discuss in the comments. Draft replies copy the tone you describe here.
Runs on Hermes
Preselected for this page — connect your Hermes account during setup, or switch to NoClick's built-in models with one click.
Watch it handle a test run
A staged conversation against a simulated world — then it’s live.
Why Hermes for this agent
No verdict on who wrote it
Accounts are reported, never identified. A brand inquiry is passed on with the account name and the exact ask, and whether it is genuine stays a human call.
Impersonation leads the message
An account copying the channel name and picture to work the viewers is the one thing that jumps the queue, with a line saying to report it today.
Before you fork
What if it misreads a comment about somebody being harmed?
Anything alleging harm leads the morning message rather than sitting in the quiet count, and the comment is quoted rather than paraphrased so a person reads the original words. It is a read only workflow, so an over reported case costs five minutes. The failure that would actually hurt is a real report buried under strings of emoji, and the ordering is built against that one.
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Put YouTube Comments Agent to work on Hermes
Free to start. Guided setup, a test run against staged conversations, and it's live.