Open Source · MIT License · By Nous Research

Hermes Agent

The AI agent that grows with you.

Install it on your server, give it your messaging accounts, and it becomes a persistent personal agent — learning your projects, building its own skills, and reaching you wherever you are. Not a chatbot. Not a copilot. An agent that lives on your machine and gets smarter every day.

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60+
Built-in Skills
20+
Chat Platforms
MIT
License
100%
Self-Hosted
Features

Everything You Need
in One Agent

Hermes Agent combines persistent memory, automated skill creation, and multi-platform reach into a single open-source package.

Persistent Memory

Remembers your preferences, projects, and environment across every session. The longer it runs, the better it knows you — no re-explaining context every time.

Automated Skill Creation

When Hermes solves a hard problem, it writes a reusable skill document so it never forgets how. Skills are searchable, shareable, and compatible with the agentskills.io open standard.

Multi-Platform Gateway

Connect Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Start a conversation on Telegram, pick it up in your terminal.

Scheduled Automations

Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Set up daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits, and morning briefings — all running unattended.

Parallel Sub-Agents

Spawn isolated sub-agents for parallel workstreams. Each gets its own conversation and terminal. Collapse multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns via RPC.

Full Browser & Web Control

Web search, page extraction, full browser automation — navigate, click, type, screenshot. Plus vision analysis, image generation, text-to-speech, and multi-model reasoning.

Powerful Capabilities
Out of the Box

From sandboxed code execution to real-time browser control — Hermes Agent handles it all.

Execution Environments

Local Terminal

Run commands directly on your machine

Docker

Isolated container with security hardening

SSH Remote

Execute on any remote server

Modal / Singularity

Cloud and HPC execution backends

LLM Providers

Nous Portal

Native OAuth integration

OpenRouter

Access 200+ models via API key

Custom API

Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint

Local vLLM

Run models fully on-premise

Skills System

Built-in Skills

MLOps, GitHub, diagramming & more — 60+

Auto-Created Skills

Agent writes new skills as it solves problems ∞

Community Hubs

Browse & install from agentskills.io

Open Standard

Portable SKILL.md format

Security & Privacy

No Tracking

Zero telemetry, zero data collection

Container Hardening

Read-only root, dropped capabilities

Local Data

All memory stored in ~/.hermes/

MIT License

Fully open source, audit every line

About

What Is Hermes Agent?

Hermes Agent is an open-source autonomous AI agent built by Nous Research and released in February 2026. It's not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE or a chatbot wrapper around a single API.

Hermes lives on your server, remembers what it learns, and gets more capable the longer it runs. It supports Linux, macOS, and WSL2 — with no prerequisites, installing everything automatically via a single curl command.

Open source · MIT License · Built by Nous Research. All data stays on your machine. No telemetry, no tracking, no cloud lock-in.

Quick Start

Get Started in
Minutes

No prerequisites. Works on Linux, macOS & WSL2. Installs everything automatically.

 

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1

Install

terminal 
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Installs uv, Python 3.11, clones the repo, sets up everything. No sudo needed.

2

Configure

terminal 
# Interactive setup wizard
hermes setup
# Or choose your model
hermes model

Connect to Nous Portal (OAuth), OpenRouter (API key), or your own endpoint. Interactive setup wizard.

3

Start Chatting

terminal 
hermes

Full interactive CLI with tools, memory, and skills. That's it.

4

Native Dashboard

Hermes Dashboard

Access the web-based dashboard to monitor your agent, view conversation history, and manage skills.

5

Go Multi-Platform (Optional)

terminal 
# Interactive gateway setup wizard
hermes gateway setup
# Start the messaging gateway
hermes gateway
# Install as a system service
hermes gateway install

Walk through connecting Telegram, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp. Runs as a systemd service.

6

Keep It Up to Date

terminal 
hermes update

Pulls the latest changes and reinstalls dependencies. Run anytime to get new features and fixes.

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Windows

Note: Native Windows support is experimental. Please install WSL2 and run Hermes Agent from there.

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A structured, self-paced curriculum to take you from first install to mastery of Hermes Agent — the open-source AI agent that grows with you.

 

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