The agent that
grows with you.
Install it on a machine, give it your messaging accounts, and it becomes a persistent personal agent that grows with you — learning your projects, building its own skills, and reaching you wherever you are.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
Works on Linux & macOS · No Python prerequisite · Installs everything automatically
Not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE. Not 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.
What it does
Lives Where You Do
Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform continuation. Start a conversation on Telegram, pick it up in your terminal.
Grows the Longer It Runs
Persistent memory across sessions — it learns your preferences, projects, and environment. When it solves a hard problem, it writes a skill document so it never forgets how. Skills are searchable and shareable.
Scheduled Automations
Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Natural language scheduling for daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits, morning briefings — all running unattended through the gateway.
Delegates & Parallelizes
Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Each gets its own conversation and terminal. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns.
Real Sandboxing
Five terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, and Modal. Container security hardening with read-only root, dropped capabilities, PID limits, and namespace isolation.
Full Web & Browser Control
Web search, page extraction, full browser automation — navigate, click, type, screenshot. Plus vision analysis, image generation, text-to-speech, and multi-model collaborative reasoning.
See it in action
40+ built-in tools
Works with everything
Chat Platforms
LLM Providers
Execution Environments
40+ built-in skills & growing
Skills are procedural memory — reusable approaches for recurring tasks. The agent creates them when it solves hard problems, and loads them automatically when similar tasks come up. Install more from community hubs with a single command.
Built-in Skills
40+ skills bundled out of the box covering MLOps, GitHub workflows, diagramming, note-taking, and more. The agent also creates new skills on the fly as it works.
Skills Hub Integrations
Browse, install, and manage skills from multiple community hubs. Quarantine and audit systems keep your agent safe.
Open Standard
Skills follow the agentskills.io open format — portable SKILL.md files that any agent can use. Create your own and share them.
Get started in 60 seconds
Install
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bashInstalls uv, Python 3.11, clones the repo, sets up everything. No sudo needed.
Configure
# Interactive setup wizard
hermes setup
# Or choose your model
hermes modelConnect to Nous Portal (OAuth), OpenRouter (API key), or your own endpoint.
Start chatting
hermesThat's it. Full interactive CLI with tools, memory, and skills.
Go multi-platform (optional)
# Start the messaging gateway
hermes gateway
# Install as a system service
hermes gateway installConnect Telegram, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp. Runs as a systemd service.
Windows? Use WSL or PowerShell:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iexResearch-ready
Batch Processing
Generate thousands of tool-calling trajectories in parallel with automatic checkpointing. Configurable workers, batch sizes, and toolset distributions.
RL Training
Atropos integration for reinforcement learning on agent behaviors. 11 tool-call parsers for training any model architecture.
Trajectory Export
Export conversations in ShareGPT format for fine-tuning. Trajectory compression fits training data into token budgets.