docs: rebrand messaging — 'the self-improving AI agent'

- Lead with the learning loop: autonomous skill creation, skill
  self-improvement, memory nudges, FTS5 session search, Honcho
  dialectic user modeling
- 'Runs anywhere' angle: 6 backends, serverless persistence with
  Daytona/Modal, not tied to your laptop
- 'Built by model trainers' replaces 'model-agnostic'
- Updated README tagline, feature table, subtitle
- Updated docs landing page hero, description, key features
- Updated docusaurus tagline and pyproject.toml description

README.md

@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@
   <a href="https://nousresearch.com"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Built%20by-Nous%20Research-blueviolet?style=for-the-badge" alt="Built by Nous Research"></a>
 </p>
 
-**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.
 
 <table>
 <tr><td><b>A real terminal interface</b></td><td>Full TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output.</td></tr>
 <tr><td><b>Lives where you do</b></td><td>Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity.</td></tr>
-<tr><td><b>Grows the longer it runs</b></td><td>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 <a href="https://agentskills.io">agentskills.io</a> open standard.</td></tr>
+<tr><td><b>A closed learning loop</b></td><td>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. <a href="https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho">Honcho</a> dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the <a href="https://agentskills.io">agentskills.io</a> open standard.</td></tr>
 <tr><td><b>Scheduled automations</b></td><td>Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language, running unattended.</td></tr>
 <tr><td><b>Delegates and parallelizes</b></td><td>Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns.</td></tr>
-<tr><td><b>Real sandboxing</b></td><td>Six terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, and Daytona — with persistent workspaces and container security hardening.</td></tr>
+<tr><td><b>Runs anywhere, not just your laptop</b></td><td>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.</td></tr>
 <tr><td><b>Research-ready</b></td><td>Batch trajectory generation, Atropos RL environments, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models.</td></tr>
 </table>
 

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" }]

website/docs/index.md

@@ -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.
 
 <div style={{display: 'flex', gap: '1rem', marginBottom: '2rem', flexWrap: 'wrap'}}>
   <a href="/docs/getting-started/installation" style={{display: 'inline-block', padding: '0.6rem 1.2rem', backgroundColor: '#FFD700', color: '#07070d', borderRadius: '8px', fontWeight: 600, textDecoration: 'none'}}>Get Started →</a>
@@ -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
+- **Delegates & parallelizes** — Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Programmatic Tool Calling via `execute_code` collapses multi-step pipelines into single inference calls
-- **Real sandboxing** — 6 terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona
+- **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

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',