diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 831c40bb..fa9a2bd0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@
-**The fully open-source AI agent that grows with you.** Install it on a machine, give it your messaging accounts, and it becomes a persistent personal agent — learning your projects, building its own skills, running tasks on a schedule, and reaching you wherever you are.
+**The self-improving AI agent built by [Nous Research](https://nousresearch.com).** It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop — talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM.
-Use any model you want — [Nous Portal](https://portal.nousresearch.com), [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai), OpenAI Codex, or your own endpoint. Switch with `hermes model` — no code changes, no lock-in.
+Use any model you want — [Nous Portal](https://portal.nousresearch.com), [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai) (200+ models), OpenAI, or your own endpoint. Switch with `hermes model` — no code changes, no lock-in.
| A real terminal interface | Full TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output. |
| Lives where you do | Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity. |
-| Grows the longer it runs | Persistent memory across sessions. When it solves a hard problem, it writes a skill document for next time. Skills are searchable, shareable, and compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. |
+| A closed learning loop | Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. |
| Scheduled automations | Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language, running unattended. |
| Delegates and parallelizes | Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns. |
-| Real sandboxing | Six terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, and Daytona — with persistent workspaces and container security hardening. |
+| Runs anywhere, not just your laptop | Six terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Daytona, Singularity, and Modal. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your agent's environment hibernates when idle and wakes on demand, costing nearly nothing between sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. |
| Research-ready | Batch trajectory generation, Atropos RL environments, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models. |
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
[project]
name = "hermes-agent"
version = "0.1.0"
-description = "AI agent with advanced tool-calling and toolsets"
+description = "The self-improving AI agent — creates skills from experience, improves them during use, and runs anywhere"
readme = "README.md"
requires-python = ">=3.11"
authors = [{ name = "Nous Research" }]
diff --git a/website/docs/index.md b/website/docs/index.md
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--- a/website/docs/index.md
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@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
slug: /
sidebar_position: 0
title: "Hermes Agent Documentation"
-description: "An open-source AI agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its own skills, and reaches you wherever you are."
+description: "The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. A built-in learning loop that creates skills from experience, improves them during use, and remembers across sessions."
hide_table_of_contents: true
---
# Hermes Agent
-An open-source AI agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its own skills, and reaches you wherever you are.
+The self-improving AI agent built by [Nous Research](https://nousresearch.com). The only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
Get Started →
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ An open-source AI agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its
## 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.
+It's not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE or a chatbot wrapper around a single API. It's an **autonomous agent** that gets more capable the longer it runs. It lives wherever you put it — a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure (Daytona, Modal) that costs nearly nothing when idle. Talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM you never SSH into yourself. It's not tied to your laptop.
## Quick Links
@@ -38,11 +38,13 @@ It's not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE or a chatbot wrapper around a singl
## Key Features
+- **A closed learning loop** — Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges, autonomous skill creation, skill self-improvement during use, FTS5 cross-session recall with LLM summarization, and [Honcho](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho) dialectic user modeling
+- **Runs anywhere, not just your laptop** — 6 terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, Daytona, Singularity, Modal. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your environment hibernates when idle, costing nearly nothing
- **Lives where you do** — CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, all from one gateway
-- **Grows the longer it runs** — Persistent memory and self-created skills
+- **Built by model trainers** — Created by [Nous Research](https://nousresearch.com), the lab behind Hermes, Nomos, and Psyche. Works with [Nous Portal](https://portal.nousresearch.com), [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai), OpenAI, or any endpoint
- **Scheduled automations** — Built-in cron with delivery to any platform
-- **Delegates & parallelizes** — Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams
-- **Real sandboxing** — 6 terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona
+- **Delegates & parallelizes** — Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Programmatic Tool Calling via `execute_code` collapses multi-step pipelines into single inference calls
+- **Open standard skills** — Compatible with [agentskills.io](https://agentskills.io). Skills are portable, shareable, and community-contributed via the Skills Hub
- **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
+- **Research-ready** — Batch processing, trajectory export, RL training with Atropos. Built by [Nous Research](https://nousresearch.com) — the lab behind Hermes, Nomos, and Psyche models
diff --git a/website/docusaurus.config.ts b/website/docusaurus.config.ts
index f1217dee..da15e0bf 100644
--- a/website/docusaurus.config.ts
+++ b/website/docusaurus.config.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import type * as Preset from '@docusaurus/preset-classic';
const config: Config = {
title: 'Hermes Agent',
- tagline: 'An AI agent that grows with you',
+ tagline: 'The self-improving AI agent',
favicon: 'img/favicon.svg',
url: 'https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com',