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title: "Hermes Agent Documentation"
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description: "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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# Hermes Agent
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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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<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>
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<a href="https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent" style={{display: 'inline-block', padding: '0.6rem 1.2rem', border: '1px solid rgba(255,215,0,0.2)', borderRadius: '8px', textDecoration: 'none'}}>View on GitHub</a>
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## What is Hermes Agent?
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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.
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## 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 |
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| ⚙️ **[Configuration](/docs/user-guide/configuration)** | Config file, providers, models, and options |
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| 💬 **[Messaging Gateway](/docs/user-guide/messaging)** | Set up Telegram, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp |
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| 🔧 **[Tools & Toolsets](/docs/user-guide/features/tools)** | 40+ built-in tools and how to configure them |
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| 🧠 **[Memory System](/docs/user-guide/features/memory)** | Persistent memory that grows across sessions |
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| 📚 **[Skills System](/docs/user-guide/features/skills)** | Procedural memory the agent creates and reuses |
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| 🔌 **[MCP Integration](/docs/user-guide/features/mcp)** | Connect to any MCP server for extended capabilities |
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| 📄 **[Context Files](/docs/user-guide/features/context-files)** | Project context files that shape every conversation |
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| 🔒 **[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 |
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| 🤝 **[Contributing](/docs/developer-guide/contributing)** | Development setup and PR process |
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## Key Features
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- **Lives where you do** — CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, all from one gateway
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- **Grows the longer it runs** — Persistent memory and self-created skills
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- **Scheduled automations** — Built-in cron with delivery to any platform
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- **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
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- **MCP support** — Connect to any MCP server for extended tool capabilities
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- **Research-ready** — Batch processing, trajectory export, RL training integration
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