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# Hermes Agent
An open-source AI agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its own skills, and reaches you wherever you are.
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## What is Hermes Agent?
It's not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE or a chatbot wrapper around a single API. It's an **autonomous agent ** that lives on your server, remembers what it learns, and gets more capable the longer it runs.
## Quick Links
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| 🚀 * * [Installation ](/docs/getting-started/installation )** | Install in 60 seconds on Linux, macOS, or WSL2 |
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| 📖 * * [Quickstart Tutorial ](/docs/getting-started/quickstart )** | Your first conversation and key features to try |
| ⚙️ * * [Configuration ](/docs/user-guide/configuration )** | Config file, providers, models, and options |
| 💬 * * [Messaging Gateway ](/docs/user-guide/messaging )** | Set up Telegram, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp |
| 🔧 * * [Tools & Toolsets ](/docs/user-guide/features/tools )** | 40+ built-in tools and how to configure them |
| 🧠 * * [Memory System ](/docs/user-guide/features/memory )** | Persistent memory that grows across sessions |
| 📚 * * [Skills System ](/docs/user-guide/features/skills )** | Procedural memory the agent creates and reuses |
| 🔌 * * [MCP Integration ](/docs/user-guide/features/mcp )** | Connect to any MCP server for extended capabilities |
docs: add 11 new pages + expand 4 existing pages (26 → 37 total)
New pages (sourced from actual codebase):
- Security: command approval, DM pairing, container isolation, production checklist
- Session Management: resume, export, prune, search, per-platform tracking
- Context Files: AGENTS.md project context, discovery, size limits, security
- Personality: SOUL.md, 14 built-in personalities, custom definitions
- Browser Automation: Browserbase setup, 10 browser tools, stealth mode
- Image Generation: FLUX 2 Pro via FAL, aspect ratios, auto-upscaling
- Provider Routing: OpenRouter sort/only/ignore/order config
- Honcho: AI-native memory integration, setup, peer config
- Home Assistant: HASS setup, 4 HA tools, WebSocket gateway
- Batch Processing: trajectory generation, dataset format, checkpointing
- RL Training: Atropos/Tinker integration, environments, workflow
Expanded pages:
- code-execution: 51 → 195 lines (examples, limits, security, comparison table)
- delegation: 60 → 216 lines (context tips, batch mode, model override)
- cron: 88 → 273 lines (real-world examples, delivery options, expression cheat sheet)
- memory: 98 → 249 lines (best practices, capacity management, examples)
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| 📄 * * [Context Files ](/docs/user-guide/features/context-files )** | Project context files that shape every conversation |
| 🔒 * * [Security ](/docs/user-guide/security )** | Command approval, authorization, container isolation |
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| 🏗️ * * [Architecture ](/docs/developer-guide/architecture )** | How it works under the hood |
| 🤝 * * [Contributing ](/docs/developer-guide/contributing )** | Development setup and PR process |
## Key Features
- **Lives where you do** — CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, all from one gateway
- **Grows the longer it runs** — Persistent memory and self-created skills
- **Scheduled automations** — Built-in cron with delivery to any platform
- **Delegates & parallelizes** — Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams
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- **Real sandboxing** — 6 terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona
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- **Full web control** — Search, extract, browse, vision, image generation, TTS
- **MCP support** — Connect to any MCP server for extended tool capabilities
- **Research-ready** — Batch processing, trajectory export, RL training integration
