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The Hermes Agent repository contains the AI agent project and links to its related documentation.
About Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is an open source AI agent project from Nous Research, hosted as a GitHub repository written in Python. According to its homepage, the agent creates skills from experience, improves them during use, searches its own past conversations, and builds a model of the user across sessions. It can run on a low-cost virtual private server, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure, and it can be reached from messaging apps while it runs on a cloud machine instead of a personal laptop.
Users can choose among several model providers, including Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, and a custom endpoint, and switch models with the hermes model command. Use of any model depends on that provider's own terms and costs. Pricing for the project itself is not stated in the source.
Key features
- Creates skills from experience and improves them during use
- Searches its own past conversations
- Builds a model of the user across sessions
- Switches between multiple model providers with the hermes model command
- Terminal interface with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, and streaming tool output
- Access through Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and command line
Best for: Developers and technically experienced users who want to self-host an open source AI agent and choose their own model provider.
Good for
- Open source, with the code available in a public GitHub repository
- Can run on a small virtual private server, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure
- Model provider can be changed with a command, without code changes
Hermes Agent at a glance
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Hermes Agent FAQ
Does the agent need to run on my own computer?
No. The homepage states that it is not tied to a laptop and that users can talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud virtual machine.
Which AI models can it use?
The homepage lists Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, a custom endpoint, and many others. Models are switched with the hermes model command.
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