Hermes Agent
Open-source agent that learns reusable skills as you use it.
A long-running personal agent from Nous Research that turns finished tasks into reusable skills, searches its own past sessions and keeps a model of the user. Reach it from a terminal UI or from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Signal through one gateway; it can schedule jobs, spawn subagents and run in local, Docker, SSH or serverless sandboxes. Works with any model provider.
- Vendor
- Nous Research
- Category
- Chat assistants
- Pricing
- Open source
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- MIT
- Platforms
- CLI, Linux, macOS, Windows, Android
- Launched
- 2025
- Website
- hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
Features
- Self-improving skills
- Scheduled automations
- Subagents
- Any model
Best for
- Agents
- Chat & assistants
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