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STEP 1 Give It a Home Old laptop — dust it off and put it to work Mac mini — small, silent, always on Cloud server — accessible from anywhere This is where your agent lives 24/7. Pick one and move on. ONE WEEKEND Step one, give it a home. STEP 2 Install an Agentic Harness Hermes Agent — turns a model into a real agent Runs the loop — plans, acts, checks its own work The engine — everything else plugs into this Without a harness, it's just a chatbot. This is what makes it agentic. THE ENGINE install an agentic harness. I use Hermes Agent This is that turns an AI model into an actual agent. STEP 3 Choose the Model Claude — reasoning and judgment Codex — code-heavy workflows Gemini — long context, multimodal You're not locked in. Swap the brain anytime. NOT LOCKED IN choose the model that powers it. Claude, Codex, Gemini. You're not locked STEP 4 Teach It Who You Are Who you are — background, role, goals What you do — your business, your work How it runs — your process, your rules This context turns a generic model into your agent. YOUR CONTEXT Step four, teach it what you do, and how your business works. STEP 5 Give It Persistent Memory Hancho AI — remembers past conversations No repeating yourself — it builds on what it knows Gets sharper — the more you use Memory is what makes it feel like it actually knows you. IT REMEMBERS give it persistent memory, Honcho AI, so it learns conversations. STEP 6 Add Skills Teach specific jobs — one skill at a time Reusable — built once, used forever Stacks — skills compound into capability Skills are how a generalist becomes a specialist. SKILL STACK Step six, add skills that teach it specific jobs. STEP 7 Connect the Tools Email & calendar — reads, drafts, schedules Documents — pulls and edits your files Browser — goes and gets the answer Tools turn thinking into doing. TOOLS ONLINE Step seven, connect it you need, like your email, calendar, or your browser. STEP 8 Connect Communication Channels Slack, Telegram, iMessage — talk to it anywhere Hermes Voice — powered by ElevenLabs That British voice — straight out of the movies This is the moment it stops feeling like software. IT TALKS BACK Step eight, connect it to communication channels like Slack, or iMessage. you use Hermes Voice, powered by ElevenLabs so you can talk to it that British voice in the movies. STEP 9 Build the Jarvis Interface Claude Design — build a custom interface Connect Hermes Voice — speak to it to directly Just like Iron Man — the full Jarvis feel By Sunday night, you have a real Jarvis. JARVIS, ONLINE And step nine, purely for the Jarvis feel, use Claude Design a custom interface, then connect Hermes Voice so that you can speak to your agent just like Jarvis And by Sunday night, an AI agent your business, uses your tools, and even talks back to you. weekend setup inside my free email course. and I'll send you the link.