Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is a self-hosted AI agent from Nous Research for people who want an assistant that remembers past work and handles recurring tasks. It runs on macOS, Linux and native Windows, or on a server you control. Model connections include Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI and your own endpoint; choosing a hosted provider sends model requests to that service.

Its memory goes beyond conversation history. Hermes creates reusable skills after complex tasks, revises them during use and searches previous conversations to recover context. It also uses Honcho to build a model of the user across sessions, and its skills follow the agentskills.io standard.

You can work through its terminal interface or message it through Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal or Email. Conversations can continue across those channels, and voice memo transcription lets you send spoken requests. In the terminal, you can interrupt a task and redirect the agent while it works.

A built-in scheduler handles unattended jobs such as reports, backups and audits, then delivers results through connected channels. The agent can keep working on a cloud VM while you reach it through a messaging app.

Hermes is open source under the MIT license. For people moving from OpenClaw, it can import memories, user-created skills, messaging settings and selected API keys. Optional Nous Portal access is paid and connects model requests with services for web search, image generation, text-to-speech and a cloud browser.