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.
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. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform continuation. 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
LLM Providers
Skills System
Security & Privacy
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.
Built for MLOps & AI Training #
Beyond task automation — Hermes Agent is a platform for generating training data, running RL experiments, and exporting trajectories for fine-tuning.
Batch Processing
Generate thousands of tool-calling trajectories in parallel with automatic checkpointing. Configurable workers, batch sizes, and toolset distributions.
RL Training
Atropos integration for reinforcement learning on agent behaviors. 11 tool-call parsers for training any model architecture.
Trajectory Export
Export conversations in ShareGPT format for fine-tuning. Trajectory compression fits training data into token budgets.
Get Started in Minutes #
No prerequisites. Works on Linux, macOS & WSL2. Installs everything automatically.
Install
Installs uv, Python 3.11, clones the repo, sets up everything. No sudo needed.
Configure
Connect to Nous Portal (OAuth), OpenRouter (API key), or your own endpoint. Interactive setup wizard.
Start Chatting
Full interactive CLI with tools, memory, and skills. That's it.
Go Multi-Platform (Optional)
Walk through connecting Telegram, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp. Runs as a systemd service.
Keep It Up to Date
Pulls the latest changes and reinstalls dependencies. Run anytime to get new features and fixes.
⚠️ Native Windows support is experimental. Please install WSL2 and run Hermes Agent from there.
Ready to Run Your Own Agent? #
Self-hosted, open source, and free forever. One command to install, one command to start.