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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.

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.

🚀 Installation Install in 60 seconds on Linux, macOS, or WSL2
📖 Quickstart Tutorial Your first conversation and key features to try
⚙️ Configuration Config file, providers, models, and options
💬 Messaging Gateway Set up Telegram, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp
🔧 Tools & Toolsets 40+ built-in tools and how to configure them
🧠 Memory System Persistent memory that grows across sessions
📚 Skills System Procedural memory the agent creates and reuses
🔌 MCP Integration Connect to any MCP server for extended capabilities
🏗️ Architecture How it works under the hood
🤝 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