Hermes Agent — The Agent That Grows With You | Nous Research

Open Source • MIT LicenseThe Agent That<br>Grows With You.<br>Not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE or a chatbot wrapper around a single API. An autonomous agent that lives on your server, remembers what it learns, and gets more capable the longer it runs.

1. InstallCopy<br>curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash

2. ConfigureCopy<br>hermes setup

See It in Action<br>Hermes

Hermes Agent

Features<br>*]:border-b [&>*]:border-current/20 [&>*]:p-4 sm:[&>*:nth-child(odd)]:border-r lg:[&>*]:border-r lg:[&>*:nth-child(3n)]:border-r-0">Lives Where You DoTelegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Email, CLI — and a growing list of platforms. Start on one, pick up on another.

Grows the Longer It RunsPersistent memory and auto-generated skills — it learns your projects and never forgets how it solved a problem.

Scheduled AutomationsNatural language cron scheduling for reports, backups, and briefings — running unattended through the gateway.

Delegates & ParallelizesIsolated subagents with their own conversations, terminals, and Python RPC scripts for zero-context-cost pipelines.

Real SandboxingFive backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal — with container hardening and namespace isolation.

Full Web & Browser ControlWeb search, browser automation, vision, image generation, text-to-speech, and multi-model reasoning.

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