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ActiveNous Research · MIT

Hermes Agent

A personal, self-improving agent you run on your own machine or server. It keeps long-term memory, learns skills, schedules recurring jobs and connects to tools via MCP.

For: Beginners and operators who want a private, always-on assistant

Hermes Agent cheat sheet

Capabilities

  • — Long-term memory
  • — Skills
  • — Scheduled jobs
  • — MCP tools
  • — Terminal, web, desktop and chat apps
  • — Any model provider
  • — Subagents

How to start

  1. Install: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
  2. Run hermes model to pick your model provider
  3. Run hermes setup for the full setup wizard
  4. Open the web dashboard and create your first skill
  5. Connect a tool via MCP with read-only permissions first

Verified sources

Official repository Official docs Beginner playbook
Latest release
v0.22.5
Released
23/10/2026
Last activity
24/10/2026
Last verified
24/10/2026