The medium is the model
who's running this
TITLES is a creative studio built around artists’ models.
Artists train custom models with their own work and get paid each time someone uses one.
I’m Derrick, an artist and filmmaker who works on product at TITLES.
how the models work
Artists train and own their models.
TITLES credits and pays the artist who chose the work used for training whenever someone uses the model, including through an agent.
One model, credited to @amonsilex — with other people’s work made from it below.
finding a model
Search for the feeling you want.
Use the short description on each model to search before you know the artist’s name.
The agent reads the same catalogue and chooses from live results.
Glintsomes
by @gwilym
- Style
- painterly, illustrative
- Mood
- surreal, playful, folkloric
- Excels at
- single-figure characters
your turn
Make one image in Studio.
At titles.xyz, choose Enter Studio, pick an artist’s model and type a prompt.
Spend ten minutes getting your bearings.
how it works
The agent works in a loop.
After running a tool, the agent inspects the result inside the conversation and chooses a next step with the same files and context still available.
what “connecting” means
Once you connect TITLES, the agent can use it through your account.
It can search the catalogue, make work and publish when asked.
We’ll add TITLES to Hermes in the next section.
how I use one · 01
I use it for small jobs that eat up the week.
A scheduled job reads Slack, Linear and my meeting notes, then posts one list: what needs me today, what’s only FYI, and a suggested next step on each.
I started here because mistakes are cheap and easy to catch.
how I use one · 02
For films, I use an agent as an ongoing image source.
After I give it a direction, it makes stills and short clips while I work elsewhere, ready for me to browse whenever I get stuck.
Some of the stranger results change where the film goes.
step 1
Install Hermes
hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
Download the app and open it with the runtime already included.
The install takes a few minutes, so start it now while I keep talking.
step 2
Add the OpenAI key
Under Settings → Providers → OpenAI, paste the long string from the card on your table.
The key gives Hermes access to OpenAI for today’s workshop.
Keep the key on this machine and use it only today.
step 3
Connect TITLES
Start a new chat in Hermes and send:
Hermes adds the server and opens the TITLES sign-in page.
skill · generate-image
One request can cover the full run.
Ask for the result you want, and the skill will search the catalogue before returning the finished files.
Your turn: ask for an image.
Make me a poster for a night of experimental film.
titles_search_models → titles_generate_image
Two versions from Cut From Elsewhere by @juujuumama, with links to both files.
iteration
Keep working in the same conversation
The source image and its context are already available to the agent.
Push the building toward dusk. Keep the red light in the window.
titles_generate_image · two outputs
Keep the second one.
Infrawest by @jungleboy made both dusk studies.
skill · edit-image / restyle-image
Choose the kind of change you want.
Use edit-image for a local change such as the sky or background.
restyle-image keeps the subject while an artist’s model rebuilds the image around it.
skill · style-explorer
Roam the library
One roadside shrine at blue hour, interpreted through six artist models.
Lucky Golden by @jwrenn · Ambivalence by @irpanji95 · Amon Silex by @amonsilex · Gallery Show by @aleqth · A Dream I Had Last Night by @sudutalien · Cut From Elsewhere by @juujuumama
skill · curation-digest
Build a reference board while you work.
Name a material, mood or artist. The agent browses the feed, saves its picks and leaves notes for your next pass.
Paperwork by @anamariacaballero
skill · promo-pack
Make the artwork fit each placement
A cover, post, story and banner made with Protocolized × hyperpress by @hyperpress.
chaining
The agent can run several skills from one request.
Name the result you want and it plans the sequence.
Find a painterly folk-horror model, make four stills, choose one to animate and publish it.
style-explorer → generate-image → animate-image → titles_publish
The second still became the opening frame. Diamonds and Dust by @lou90210 shaped the set.
the part you keep
Save the process as a new skill.
The agent writes down what worked under a name you can use as a shortcut later.
Turn that process into a skill called dusk poster.
You can now say “make me a dusk poster” whenever you want me to repeat this workflow.
Make one with a cat.
Noisebits by @ffmec
scheduled jobs in Hermes
Give the agent a time and a job.
Set Hermes to make a batch while you sleep or work elsewhere.
You return to a folder of files ready to review.
Every night · 02:00
Make six Dusk Index studies
Use the saved skill. Put the files in /dusk-index/overnight.
Next run tonight
after today
Use the same TITLES connection in other agents.
Claude
web & desktop
Claude Code
for coding
ChatGPT
+ Codex
Cursor
editor
Hermes
what you installed
Paste the TITLES server address into any agent that supports MCP.