Hermes Agent
Nous Research's self-improving AI agent that builds skills from experience and remembers you across sessions.
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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.
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