NousResearch/hermes-agent
The agent that grows with you
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Hermes Agent | Hermes Desktop The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop — talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM. Use any model you want — Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, your own endpoint, and many others. Switch with hermes model — no code changes, no lock-in. A real terminal interfaceFull TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output. Lives where you doTelegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI — all from a single gateway process.…
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- Hermes Agent ☤
- Quick Install
- Linux, macOS, WSL2
- Windows (native, PowerShell)
- Troubleshooting
- Windows Defender or antivirus flags uv.exe as malware
- Getting Started
- Skip the API-key collection — Nous Portal
- CLI vs Messaging Quick Reference
- Documentation
- Migrating from OpenClaw or another agent
- Contributing
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What this repository does
The agent that grows with you
Repository facts
- Owner
- NousResearch
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 259,342
- Forks
- 57,047
- Open issues + pull requests
- 52,215
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2025-07-22T22:22:28.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-01T12:11:39.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai, ai-agent, ai-agents, anthropic, chatgpt, claude, claude-code, codex, hermes, hermes-agent, llm, nous-research, openai
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