# Loop Engineering Totally 10x Hermes agents
Canonical: https://social-archive.org/tommypkm/Q7aNyddQPp
Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQRDjI5owZI
Author: AI LABS
Platform: youtube
## Content
Everyone is talking about loop engineering like it's a new thing. It's not. But agent loop engineering changes everything when you combine claude loops with an always-on hermes agent. This loop engineering Claude breakdown shows the full hermes agent setup almost nobody is doing. Community with All Resources: http://ailabspro.io The Roundup: Our daily newsletter covering the AI stories. Join now: https://www.theroundup.so/ In this video we break down what loop engineering actually is, and why it stops being hype the moment you run it on an always-on agent. We start with the shift from prompt engineering to loop engineering, then walk through the five parts every loop needs to run on its own: context management, feedback quality, verification gates, a termination condition, and state across turns. From there we get into the two types of loops. Deterministic loops are for tasks with a clear definition of done, like tests passing or code compiling. We show how to point the Hermes agent at a deployed app, catch a commit that breaks production, and launch Claude Code in non-interactive mode to fix issues in a loop until every test passes. Then we cover non-deterministic loops, the ones where there's no clean rule for done, like building a UI. This is the setup almost nobody is doing. We use a skill we built called AI Slop Detector, pair a builder model with a separate verifier (a GPT model), and let that adversarial loop run until the slop is gone. Because Hermes has self-evolving skills, the verifier gets stronger every time you point out something it missed. If you've been wondering what is Hermes agent, how to use Hermes agent, or how it holds up in a Hermes agent vs OpenClaw comparison, this is the full walkthrough. We go through real Hermes agent use cases and show why an always-running Hermes AI agent is the right place to build these loops, whether you run it alongside Claude Code or on its own. #Claude #AI #ClaudeCode #HermesAgent #Obsidian #Hermes #OpenClaw #ChatGPT #ClaudeSkills