Hermes Agent

Self-hosted agent from Nous Research that builds skills from experience and is reachable from the terminal and chat apps

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Hermes Agent, built by Nous Research, is an open-source agent with a learning loop: it creates skills after complex tasks, improves them during use, keeps curated memory and searches past conversations. It has a terminal interface and a desktop app, and a single gateway connects it to Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Signal. Scheduled jobs run unattended in natural language, subagents handle parallel work, and it can run locally, in Docker, over SSH or on Modal, Daytona or Vercel Sandbox. Any model can be used, including Nous Portal, OpenRouter and OpenAI.

Use cases: personal-assistant, other, agent-memory, workflow-automation, team-chat

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Jobs: personal assistant, otherREADME
Autonomy: Autonomous: runs tasks end to end and reports backREADME
Where you use it: Terminal, Desktop app, Slack, otherREADME
Hosting: You run itREADME
Models: openai, nous portal, openrouterREADME
Interfaces: agent-skillsREADME
Open source: YesREADME

Facts extracted by Claude Sonnet 5.5 from the linked sources on Oct 24, 2026; reviewed Oct 24, 2026. Wrong fact? Tell us.

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Stars: 256,750
Forks: 56,154
Open issues: 16,986
Last commit: Oct 24, 2026 (6 days ago)
Last release: Oct 23, 2026 (8 days ago)

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License: MIT
Repository: github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
Website: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: README github-graphql

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