Hermes Agent
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop, it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop, talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM. Use any model you want, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, your own endpoint, and many others. Switch with hermes model, no code changes, no lock-in. A real terminal interfaceFull TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output. Lives where you doTelegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI, all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity. A closed learning loopAgent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. Scheduled automationsBuilt-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits, all in natural language, running unattended. Delegates and parallelizesSpawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns. Runs anywhere, not just your laptopSeven terminal backends, local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona, and Vercel Sandbox. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence, your agent's environment hibernates when idle and wakes on demand, costing nearly nothing between sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. Research-readyBatch trajectory generation, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models.
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The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop, it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop, talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM.
Use any model you want, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, your own endpoint, and many others. Switch with hermes model, no code changes, no lock-in.
A real terminal interfaceFull TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output. Lives where you doTelegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI, all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity. A closed learning loopAgent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. Scheduled automationsBuilt-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits, all in natural language, running unattended. Delegates and parallelizesSpawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns. Runs anywhere, not just your laptopSeven terminal backends, local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona, and Vercel Sandbox. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence, your agent's environment hibernates when idle and wakes on demand, costing nearly nothing between sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. Research-readyBatch trajectory generation, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models.
Hermes Agent at a glance
| Stars | 248k |
|---|---|
| Forks | 53k |
| Language | Python |
| License | MIT |
| Last update | 2026-09-24 |
| Contributors | 3941 |
How to install Hermes Agent
bash curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
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