Joined VIP to get in a room that no longer seems to exist, but the Skool sales page for Clief Notes still advertises it. I can imagine Jake is getting invited to work with some pretty impressive clientele, and I'm genuinely happy about that. If there is a transition taking place, I would be grateful if you guys would help set our expectations.

I want to take a minute to thank @Jake Van Clief for giving me the opportunity to bring this material to our community. This community is more than just a place to post, it's a place to engage with people, to learn and grow together and I am grateful to Jake and the community for making this skool what it is. If you have been following the releases of my latest classes, the latest rung on the ladder is open! (If you are just getting here, do not worry, the first three rungs are open, and you can find the links below in the "where you are standing" section of this post ☺️) Rung three built what survives the window. Rung four is what runs without you, open from today. Think of the last thing you asked the model to redo. It drafted, you read it, you said "shorter." It drafted again, you read again, you said "warmer." Then "send it." Four rounds, and every one of them waited on you, because the only thing that knew what good looked like was sitting in your head. That is not the model being lazy. That is a loop with a person welded into the middle of it, and the person is you. 📚 What just opened: Loop Engineering, the whole rung at once. The Overview draws the line the rung stands on, single-pass against a closed circuit, and the three classes carry one claim each: (1) The acting is easy, the evaluating is hard (2) A loop that does not know when to stop is not careful, it is lost (3) Some judgment stays with a person, on purpose Then the payoff, the whole series on one card, and my perspective on rung four. By the end you own a loop: your "done when" line rewritten as a check the system runs on its own work, a rule for when it stops, and one clear place where you still sign off. Fewer "agains," and every one that is left is one you chose. 🪜 Where you are standing (Rungs 1, 2 & 3 should be completed) If not, you can find them here. They are in order and should be taken from series 1 to series 2 and so on: PROMPT ENGINEERING 📚 Series 1 Overview

HERMES WORLD ENGINE Hermes World Engine is a folder-based creative workflow for building consistent characters and worlds, producing approved images, and animating those images. Briefs, specifications, references and review records preserve creative intent across generations. I built this entirely from scratch inside my Hermes Agent with the Desktop App on a Hermes Agent gateway on a VPS. I did not use anyone else's template but future builds will incorporate the ideas from Jake's recently re-made animation build. I've used eleven labs before , but the quality that Jake produced made me a believe it can be done properly. Build status Working prototype—not yet a full studio. Built and exercised: world/character records, image production, approvals, and brief-led image-to-video animation through Hermes → Nous → Seedance 2.5. Proven output: two accepted animated clips. All four workflow tests currently pass. Designed, not implemented: optional intake routing, story foundations, maps, multi-angle reference libraries, storyboards and sequence continuity. Future composition: voice, sound, captions and final assembly using tools such as ElevenLabs and Remotion—after animation assets are accepted.

I'm building the Hermes World Engine: a world that stays the same, with characters brought into it, so I can make animations that teach Hermes. This week I wrote the plan to expand it into a studio, and I wanted it reviewed by more than 1 model. So I set up Mixture of Agents in Hermes Agent: Kimi K3, DeepSeek V3.2 and GPT-5.6 Terra advising, Claude Opus 5.5 making the call. I gave the same plan to GPT-6.1 Sol alone. Sol rated my routing sound. The team found the missing boundary: the image route assumed approved assets already existed, and nothing said when a route was complete. The first 2 runs failed before I found the fix, and the fix was partly an ICM fix. The plan, the review rules and the video itself all live in ICM folders, across 2 workspaces. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗖𝗠 • The workspace sits on my Hermes server. The root carries AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and CONTEXT.md as the router, plus IDEA.md and README.md. • The stages: 00_setup, 01_spec, 02_render, 03_file, 04_animate. Today's route runs from a video brief to brief approval, a motion spec, a render, a consistency review, then acceptance and filing. • world/ is the canon: the characters (Hermes), and the environment with 10 locations, from Aether Falls and Crystal Citadel to the Gateway Pavilion, plus its core, forms, materials and light. • _reference/ holds the rules every stage reads: the world bible's template, the drift checklist, motion rules, spec rules, the setup interview, the routing map, and the studio extension design that got reviewed. • runs/ and tests/ hold what each render produced and the checks on it. The review rules went into _reference/ as well: judge outcomes, owners, handoffs and acceptance, and leave the tools alone. That one file is what got the advisers reviewing my plan instead of going looking for my tools. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗖𝗠 • 9 stage folders, 01_gameplan to 09_blog. Each holds a CONTEXT.md contract: what it reads, what it must not load, what it makes, and where I check it.

Credit: @HermesWatcher — original post: https://x.com/HermesWatcher/status/2105311718825947418 Most agents still wake up with amnesia. Skills are how you stop renting memory and start owning a stack you can inspect. Hermes Agent (Nous Research, MIT, folder-based) loads these as SKILL.md packages. Ranked by stars. Audit before you install. 1. SUPERPOWERS — 293,062 stars Agentic engineering: plan, code, test, ship. https://github.com/obra/superpowers 2. ANTHROPIC SKILLS — 179,036 stars Official library: docs, PDFs, sheets, decks, general agent work. https://github.com/anthropics/skills 3. UI UX PRO MAX — 131,683 stars Design intelligence for layouts and product interfaces. https://github.com/nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill 4. GRAPHIFY — 122,518 stars Turns code, docs, schemas, configs, PDFs into a queryable knowledge graph. https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify 5. CLAUDE-MEM — 94,963 stars Persistent memory across sessions. Stop the amnesia loop. https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem 6. ARCHIFY — 74,387 stars Architecture, workflow, sequence diagrams — validated, not vibe-drawn. https://github.com/tt-a1i/archify 7. LAST30DAYS — 63,212 stars What people are saying now on Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, the web. https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill 8. OPENMONTAGE — 61,909 stars Agent-assisted video production, end-to-end pipelines. https://github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage 9. HUMANIZER — 52,928 stars Scrubs obvious AI-writing tells. Makes text sound like a person. https://github.com/blader/humanizer