The AI Agent That Learns You.
Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent with a built-in learning loop — it builds skills from experience, remembers across sessions, and runs on any model or platform you choose.
Built to Think, Learn, and Grow
A Closed Learning Loop
After complex tasks, Hermes autonomously creates skills and improves them during use. It nudges itself to persist knowledge and searches past conversations — getting smarter every session.
Lives Where You Do
Connect Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, or Signal through a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform continuity — your agent is always reachable.
Runs Anywhere, Not Just Your Laptop
Six terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Daytona, Singularity, and Modal. Deploy on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. Serverless persistence means it costs nearly nothing when idle.
No Model Lock-In
Switch between Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Kimi, MiniMax, GLM, or your own endpoint with one command. 200+ models available. No code changes, no migration cost.
Three Commands. That's It.
Install
Works on Linux, macOS, WSL2, and Android via Termux.
Setup
Configure your model provider, tools, and messaging platforms.
Start
Start your first conversation. Your agent is ready.
Works With Any Model
Switch providers with one command. No lock-in.
From the Community
Real users, real workflows.
“I migrated from Openclaw -> Hermes and so far, so good — Things 'just work' a lot better — The transition of data from OC -> Hermes was very easy too — It doesn't seem to randomly crash and stop working on me — When I ask it to do things, it'll create an actual skill, rather than just relying or hoping it'll remember what I want next time.”
“i've been using @NousResearch Hermes Agent for about a week and my initial thoughts are it just works out of the box. I find it's memory and learning to be far superior to OpenClaw without augmenting it with QMD or any additional memory systems.”
“Just updated to Hermes Agent v0.4.0 and as a non-technical heavy user who lives in this thing every day… this one feels like it was made for people like me. No code, no hassle, just straight-up better.”
“I gave it feedback: 'Your relevance scores are too generous. Anything below 7 shouldn't make the cut.' It updated its approach — and because it has persistent memory, it remembered that calibration. Three weeks in, the digests are genuinely good. Not because I fine-tuned anything, but because the agent learned my taste through normal conversation.”
“I migrated from Openclaw -> Hermes and so far, so good — Things 'just work' a lot better — The transition of data from OC -> Hermes was very easy too — It doesn't seem to randomly crash and stop working on me — When I ask it to do things, it'll create an actual skill, rather than just relying or hoping it'll remember what I want next time.”
“i've been using @NousResearch Hermes Agent for about a week and my initial thoughts are it just works out of the box. I find it's memory and learning to be far superior to OpenClaw without augmenting it with QMD or any additional memory systems.”
“Just updated to Hermes Agent v0.4.0 and as a non-technical heavy user who lives in this thing every day… this one feels like it was made for people like me. No code, no hassle, just straight-up better.”
“I gave it feedback: 'Your relevance scores are too generous. Anything below 7 shouldn't make the cut.' It updated its approach — and because it has persistent memory, it remembered that calibration. Three weeks in, the digests are genuinely good. Not because I fine-tuned anything, but because the agent learned my taste through normal conversation.”
“it's pretty obvious at this point. Hermes Agent > OpenClaw”
“The core difference in one sentence: OpenClaw stores everything and searches it. Hermes keeps almost nothing in the prompt and retrieves the rest.”
“I am actually getting stuff done instead of debugging.”
“It has built-in learning — if something breaks, it ACTUALLY remembers it and creates a skill for troubleshooting it. So far, completely better experience.”
“Looking through code it looks like an actual app where openclaw is more like tech demo.”
“it's pretty obvious at this point. Hermes Agent > OpenClaw”
“The core difference in one sentence: OpenClaw stores everything and searches it. Hermes keeps almost nothing in the prompt and retrieves the rest.”
“I am actually getting stuff done instead of debugging.”
“It has built-in learning — if something breaks, it ACTUALLY remembers it and creates a skill for troubleshooting it. So far, completely better experience.”
“Looking through code it looks like an actual app where openclaw is more like tech demo.”
FAQ
~/.hermes/skills/Ready to install Hermes Agent?
Free, open-source, and running in under 2 minutes.