{"slug": "hermes-agent-shipped-an-update", "title": "Hermes Agent shipped an update", "summary": "Nous Research's Hermes Agent, an open-source general-purpose AI agent written primarily in Python, has reached 248,000 stars on GitHub and was last updated in September 2026. The agent builds skills from experience, persists knowledge across sessions, searches its own past conversations and constructs a model of the user, and works with any model provider including Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI or a self-hosted endpoint. Hermes Agent runs on infrastructure from a small VPS to serverless and is reachable from messaging apps such as Telegram, but executes shell commands on the machine where it is installed, so it is not sandboxed.", "body_md": "# Hermes Agent\n\nNous Research's self-improving AI agent that builds skills from experience and remembers you across sessions.\n\n## Sources and review\n\nChecked against public documentation on . Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.\n\nPeople who want a persistent personal agent on their own server that improves the more it is used.\n\nYou want a sandboxed assistant; it runs shell commands on the machine it is installed on.\n\n## About Hermes Agent\n\nHermes Agent, built by Nous Research, is a general-purpose AI agent with a built-in learning loop: it creates skills from experience, improves them in use, persists knowledge, searches its own past conversations and builds a model of the user across sessions. It works with any model provider, including Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI or your own endpoint, and runs on anything from a small VPS to serverless infrastructure, reachable from messaging apps such as Telegram.\n\nHermes Agent is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 248k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.\n\n```\ncurl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash\n```\n\n**Make your product part of the discovery.** Explore advertising\n## Hermes Agent vs. the alternatives\n\n[All 20 alternatives →](https://agentsearchengine.app/alternatives/hermes-agent)\n\n| Record | Stars | Pricing |  |  | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Hermes Agentthis listing | 248k | Python | MIT | Open source | \n| [AutoGPT](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/autogpt) | 188k | Python | — | Open source | \n| [ragflow](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/ragflow) | 91k | Go | Apache-2.0 | Open source | \n| [deer-flow](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/deer-flow) | 83k | Python | MIT | Open source | \n| [anything-llm](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/anything-llm) | 66k | JavaScript | MIT | Open source | \n| [goose](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/goose) | 55k | Rust | Apache-2.0 | Open source |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hermes-agent-shipped-an-update", "canonical_source": "https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/hermes-agent", "published_at": "2026-09-23 09:22:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-23 09:29:21.119085+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Nous Research", "Hermes Agent", "GitHub", "Nous Portal", "OpenRouter", "OpenAI", "Telegram", "Python"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hermes-agent-shipped-an-update", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hermes-agent-shipped-an-update.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hermes-agent-shipped-an-update.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hermes-agent-shipped-an-update.jsonld"}}