Hermes Agent

NousResearch/hermes-agent

Nous Research's always-on agent that builds memory from use and generates its own skills; works in the terminal and many chat platforms.

Why pick itBuilt around self-improvement — it learns you over time. Supports many models; another popular self-hosted agent besides OpenClaw.

Install

Chat with an always-on agent from the terminal TUI or Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Signal
Have it create skills after complex tasks and search its own past conversations
Set up daily reports, nightly backups and other scheduled automations in natural language
Run it on a VPS, Docker, SSH or serverless backends instead of your laptop

Run curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
Reload your shell (source ~/.bashrc) and run hermes to start chatting
Use hermes model to pick or switch model providers

Works with Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, your own endpoint and others. On Windows, antivirus may falsely flag the bundled uv.exe.

Summarized by AI from the project docs; check the official docs before relying on it.

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