Hermes Agent
Nous Research's autonomous AI agent — persistent memory, self-generated skills
Nous Research's autonomous AI agent with persistent memory and self-generated skills; gets better the more you use it. The post cited 8.7k stars (March) — it has exploded since; re-verify before writing.
AI agents that code, operate computers, and get work done.
Key features
- Self-improving agent with built-in learning loop: creates and improves skills from
- Agent-curated memory with FTS5 session search, LLM summarization, and cross-session recall
- Runs on VPS, GPU clusters, or serverless (Daytona, Modal); talk via Telegram, Discord
- Any model provider supported: Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, custom endpoints; switch
- Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform; spawns isolated subagents for
Good for
- Personal AI agent running on a cheap VPS, not tied to a laptop
- Users wanting an agent that learns and persists knowledge across
Stack & tags
Pythonai-agentself-improvingagent-memorymulti-channelschedulingsubagentsopen-source
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bashFrom the project README on GitHub.
Screenshots
Screenshots from the project’s GitHub README.