Nous Research

Hermes-Agent is an open-source, autonomous AI agent you install and run on your own server. It's not a chatbot or a coding assistant confined to an editor. Instead, it's a persistent background worker that can handle tasks you give it across various platforms like Telegram, Discord, Slack, and the command line. You can start a conversation with it on one platform and continue it on another, making it a flexible assistant for your workflows.

What makes Hermes-Agent stand out is its ability to learn and grow over time. It has persistent memory, so it remembers the context of your projects and how it solved past problems. It can also generate its own skills from these experiences. You can schedule it to run automated jobs using plain English, and it can delegate complex tasks to isolated subagents that work in parallel. For safety, it executes code in hardened, sandboxed environments like Docker containers or via SSH.

This tool is built for developers, sysadmins, and technical teams who want to automate parts of their workflow. It's useful for setting up automated reports, handling routine system maintenance, managing project tasks through team chat apps, or building more complex, multi-step automation pipelines. Because it runs on your infrastructure, you have control over its data and capabilities.