🤖 Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is Nous Research's self-improving, open-source AI agent framework. It is the only agent with a built-in learning loop -- it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.

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📊 Tool Datasheet

Metric	Details
Tool Name	Hermes Agent
Category	Self-Improving Agent Framework, Multi-Platform Gateway
Purpose	Persistent-memory agent with autonomous skill creation, 6 terminal backends, 20+ messaging platforms, and 60+ built-in tools.
Developer	Nous Research
License	Open Source
Install	`curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh
Website	hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
GitHub	github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

🛠️ Capabilities

1. Self-Improving Skills: After completing a complex task, Hermes can create a reusable skill. During future runs, it improves that skill based on what worked. Skills are portable and community-shared via agentskills.io.
2. Persistent Memory: File-based MEMORY.md/USER.md for frozen per-session context, plus SQLite with FTS5 for full-text session history search. Honcho dialectic user modeling builds a profile over time.
3. 6 Terminal Backends: Local, Docker, SSH, Daytona, Singularity, Modal. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence - hibernate when idle, wake on demand.
4. 20+ Messaging Platforms: CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, SMS, Teams, and more - all from one gateway process.
5. 60+ Built-in Tools: Web search, extraction, browsing, vision, image generation, TTS. MCP support for connecting external servers. execute_code for Python scripts that call tools via RPC.
6. Subagent Delegation: Spawn isolated workers for parallel workstreams, each with their own context window.
7. Cron Scheduling: Built-in scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, backups, audits - in natural language, running unattended.
8. Model-Agnostic: Works with Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or local models via Ollama/MLX.

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🧭 Quick Start

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

Full documentation: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs.