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Hermes Agent

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Open-source autonomous AI agent by Nous Research with persistent memory that improves over time. Self-hosted, 40+ built-in skills, and sandboxed code execution.

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Hermes Agent is an open-source autonomous AI agent developed by Nous Research. It runs on personal servers or VPS instances with persistent memory that learns and improves over time — automatically writing reusable skill documents when solving new problems.

Key Features

  • Persistent Memory & Skills — Remembers preferences and projects across sessions; auto-generates reusable skill documents
  • 14+ Platforms — Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, CLI, iMessage, WeChat, and more
  • 40+ Built-in Skills — Code execution, browser automation, web search, vision analysis, image generation
  • Model Agnostic — Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI (Grok), local models, and more
  • Self-Improving — Learns from interactions and builds a growing knowledge base
  • MIT Licensed — 100K+ GitHub stars, fully self-hostable
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