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 listed in this index written primarily in Python, with 260k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in November 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
