# Hermes Agent

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

## Facts
- **Category:** [Autonomous Agents](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/autonomous-agents)
- **Type:** Agent
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 248,225
- **Language:** Python
- **License:** MIT
- **Last repo activity:** today (Sep 23, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
- **Source code:** https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/hermes-agent
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
People who want a persistent personal agent on their own server that improves the more it is used.

## Avoid if
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.

## Install

```
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
```

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