I watched @Nick Vasilescu 's episode on Marketing Against the Grain about building a first AI employee, and one part of it stuck with me more than the rest: the Obsidian piece. A lot of people focus on giving an agent a computer, tools, and an inbox. Those are the obvious parts. But Nick also gave the agent a knowledge base, a Markdown vault with context around the business and current work, so it wasn't starting from zero every time. That's the part that made something click for me. I'd been using a Second Brain setup for a while, mostly the way people usually use one: dump notes, link ideas, find things later. Useful, but personal. After watching that episode, I started looking at it differently. The same structure that helps a human think clearly can also help an AI employee keep more context between sessions, instead of starting cold every time. That shift matters. It changes what the vault is for. It stops being just personal notes and starts becoming infrastructure an agent can read from and eventually write back to. I'm still building this piece by piece, not shipping a finished system. But I wanted to say thanks to Nick for the nudge and let this group know I'll be posting shorter field notes here more often as I work through it. Partly to build the habit of writing things down as I go. Partly because I'd rather get feedback early than polish something in private for months. If this rhythm holds up, I'll eventually bring it over to my own channels too. But I want to work it out here first with people who are building similar things. If you've already gone down this road, tell me where it got messy. I'd rather hear it from you now than find it myself in three weeks. This is Chris from the Digital Field of Dreams, signing off.

After resolving error, I am following demo on this video. https://youtu.be/Y7FVj4njob0?si=ztCXUAGa5oI4zxWq&t=2046 34:06 mark. Choosing model part. It says you could navigate by pressing arrow up and down but it doesn't work at all. How to choose option? First part, it worked-choosing first choice. But model part...I can't select by pressing arrow button. Up down. So I am stuck at this point. If I press enter key then it shows backend terminal choosing option which I don't know what to choose there either. ------------ This is my screen recording. https://www.loom.com/share/a22d3b996eb642c198c3b96306ea6c26 I found out I had to click bottom window which is terminal. So I could choose chatGPT 5.5 Then there was no more procedure like you showed as demo. I keep trying... This is last attempt. https://www.loom.com/share/0f5bf82b4f00431ab0e0709c6e46825b I can choose model again...how do you select? Choosing web search & extract etc...that part. Is it because I use free account so it doesn't show? -------------- I am non technical person. It would be very helpful to screen record from signing into your fresh Orgo computer then....how to set up Hermes and Obsidian. I setup Obsidian on my home mac and connected to GitHub-synced now. I want Orgo Obsidian to be synced with GitHub Obsidian. Anyway, first thing is how to make Hermes to work properly. I saw many videos on how to set Hermes on VPS. Thank you!

For an agent deployed on Orgo could you spin it up its own openai account so it naturally uses one of the monthly sub tiers as its master brain? then use api to call other platforms such as claude? For an agent doing some heavy lifting could this work out cheaper than pure api token use?