iamlukethedev/Herald-OS
An agent-native operating system, with Hermes Agent as the interface. Independent project, not affiliated with Nous Research.
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Herald OS An agent-native operating system, with Hermes Agent as the interface. Herald OS is an operating system built around an AI agent. Instead of working through menus and folders yourself, you talk or type to Hermes, and it works across the whole machine: it opens apps, finds and organises files, watches what is running, remembers what matters to you, runs routines on a schedule, and builds software while you watch. Every action that changes something goes through a permission system you control. Every download is on the releases page. Pick the way that matches your machine: Hermes needs a model provider whichever you pick: a Nous Portal account, or an API key for a provider Hermes supports (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, a local model, and others). Herald OS shows a sign-in card the first time Hermes needs one. You need macOS 13 (Ventura) or later on Apple Silicon. 1. Install…
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- Install
- macOS
- On an Intel Mac
- Herald OS Linux on a PC
- Arch Linux
- Omarchy
- Another Linux
- The whole OS in a virtual machine
- How Herald OS fits together
- A look around
- What you get
- Building from source
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An agent-native operating system, with Hermes Agent as the interface. Independent project, not affiliated with Nous Research.
Repository facts
- Owner
- iamlukethedev
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 177
- Forks
- 23
- Open issues + pull requests
- 57
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-06T20:37:44.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-08T12:03:40.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai-agent, desktop-environment, fedora, hermes-agent, hyprland, linux, macos, niri, omarchy, operating-system
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