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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 Windows |
| 📖 **[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 |
| 🏗️ **[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
- **Real sandboxing** — 5 terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal
- **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