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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.

Hermes Agent Nous Research's self-improving AI agent that builds skills from experience and remembers you across sessions. Sources and review Checked against public documentation on . Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement. People who want a persistent personal agent on their own server that improves the more it is used. You want a sandboxed assistant; it runs shell commands on the machine it is installed on. About Hermes Agent Hermes 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. Hermes Agent is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 248k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026. curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash Make your product part of the discovery. Explore advertising Hermes Agent vs. the alternatives All 20 alternatives → https://agentsearchengine.app/alternatives/hermes-agent | Record | Stars | Pricing | | | |---|---|---|---|---| | Hermes Agentthis listing | 248k | Python | MIT | Open source | | AutoGPT https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/autogpt | 188k | Python | — | Open source | | ragflow https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/ragflow | 91k | Go | Apache-2.0 | Open source | | deer-flow https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/deer-flow | 83k | Python | MIT | Open source | | anything-llm https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/anything-llm | 66k | JavaScript | MIT | Open source | | goose https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/goose | 55k | Rust | Apache-2.0 | Open source |