One keyboard shortcut, and your AI floats on top of whatever you're working on.
No copying, no pasting, no switching windows.
Eleven things you can do with it — every one shown on screen below.
And stick around for the last one, because it's the habit that makes all the others ten times more useful.
02 · The setup
Press ⌘⇧H — the window vanishes.
The whole app folds down into a bar that floats over whatever you're working in.
When you're not using it, it's click-through glass — your clicks land on the app beneath.
⌘⇧H
recreation of a real workflow
What you're watching: ⌘⇧H pressed — the full Hermes window disappears, and the bar drops in over the app, ready to go.
03 · The one word
Say "this" — the bar knows the window underneath.
You never tell it which app or file you mean — the position of the bar IS the context.
04 · Use case 1 · messy notes
Messy note in, clean plan out.
I put the bar over a scrappy note and typed: "Turn this into a clean to-do list, most urgent thing first."
The sheet unrolls, streams the answer, and fades away on its own.
recreation of a real workflow
What you're watching: the bar over my Notes app — one line typed, the model streams its thinking into the band, delivers the ordered list, and the band fades back to just the bar.
THINKING IT?"If it knows what I'm working on, it must be watching my screen."
No — saying "this" passes the app's name and the window's title, never a screenshot.
Metadata, not pixels — and on a Mac even window titles stay blocked until you grant permission.
real HUD window · captured live
The real thing — the actual HUD bar on my Mac: the composer, the model chip, the mic and the voice orb.
05 · Use case 2 · long documents
A 40-page PDF in five bullets.
Bar over the PDF: "Summarize this in five bullets" — then the follow-up that actually matters: "What's the risky part of this?"
recreation of a real workflow
What you're watching: a 40-page vendor agreement under the bar — five bullets stream in, then the follow-up flags the auto-renewal trap and the exact date to set a reminder for.
06 · Use case 3 · contracts
"When is this due, and what happens if I'm late?"
Point the bar at any contract and ask the scary question in plain words.
Consulting Agreement — final.pdf
…Client shall pay each invoice within fourteen (14) days of the invoice date. Amounts unpaid after the due date accrue a late charge of two percent (2%) per month until settled…
+When is this due, and what happens if I'm late?
Due April 14 — fourteen days after the invoice date.
Late = 2% added every month, starting April 15.
Pay by the 14th and nothing changes. Reminder set for April 12?
Animated walkthrough of the ask — the dates and the penalty pulled straight out of the clause.
07 · Use case 4 · writing
Flabby email → "Tighten this up."
"Tighten this up. And give me three subject lines" — then steer with one word at a time: "Shorter." "More direct."
recreation of a real workflow
What you're watching: a rambling draft under the bar — rewrite plus three subject lines, then "Shorter." then "More direct." — each follow-up sharpens the same email.
08 · Use case 5 · numbers
Margin math, right over the pricing page.
No calculator, no spreadsheet detour — ask the bar while the numbers are on screen.
spring-pricing.numbers
Unit cost: 22Sale price: 39Bundle size: 40
+If this costs 22 and I sell at 39, what's my margin?
Margin: 17 per unit — 43.6%.
A bundle of 40: cost 880, revenue 1,560 — 680 profit.
Same margin, forty times the volume.
Animated walkthrough — margin per unit, then the bundle of 40, worked out over the sheet.
09 · Use case 6 · threads
A thread under the bar → a reply worth posting.
"Draft a reply to this that adds a real example" — it reads the thread sitting underneath and drafts in your lane.
recreation of a real workflow
What you're watching: the bar over a thread — Hermes highlights the tweet it's reading, then drafts a reply with a concrete example instead of a generic "great point!"
10 · Use case 7 · your downloads folder
"Which of these is the invoice from last week?"
The agent has real tools — it doesn't guess from the file names, it actually looks.
Downloads — 47 items
📄 screenshot-042.pngTue
📄 invoice-4471.pdflast week
📄 deck-v3-FINAL.keyMon
📄 receipt-store.pdfyesterday
📄 notes-call.txttoday
+Which of these is the invoice from last week?
invoice-4471.pdf — created last Tuesday, from Meridian Supply.
The rest are receipts, screenshots and a deck.
Animated walkthrough — the scan sweeps the folder, the right file lights up, the answer names it.
11 · Use case 8 · the buddy bar
Drag it to a corner and keep it there.
Park it once, and it becomes the place quick questions go all day.
recreation of a real workflow
What you're watching: the bar dragged down over a brief, parked, asked one quick question — the answer lands and fades on its own.
12 · Use case 9 · voice
There's a mic on the bar.
Talk instead of type — and the model picker sits right beside it.
+What's left on the launch list?Kimi K3 ▾
Three things: subject lines, the pricing page, and the Thursday call.
Want me to draft the subject lines now?
Animated walkthrough — mic pulsing, your words transcribed into the bar, the answer in the band. The model chip beside the mic switches brains in one click.
13 · Use case 10 · the morning sweep
Three windows, three questions, ninety seconds.
Inbox → task board → yesterday's notes, with the same bar floating over each.
📥 Inbox
"Anything urgent in this?"
One — the supplier reply. Everything else can wait.
📋 Task board
"What's blocked here?"
Two cards, both waiting on the same approval.
📓 Yesterday's notes
"What did I say I'd do today?"
Send the pricing page and book the Thursday call.
the whole sweep · ~90 seconds
Animated walkthrough — the glow hops from window to window as each question lands. Your whole morning triage, before the coffee's cool.
14 · Use case 11 · follow-up chains
The session remembers — steering is the skill.
"Now put time estimates on each." "Expand bullet three." "Make it half as long." — each ask sharpens the last answer.
The AI Profit Boardroom is where the actual Agent OS lives — the templates, the prompts, the daily rooms, the weekly walkthroughs. The same Hermes stack you just read about, taught hands-on inside.
