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Hermes

Hermes Agent is a self-hosted, open-source autonomous AI agent from Nous Research — "the agent that grows with you." Unlike a chat window you start fresh each time, Hermes keeps a persistent memory of your preferences, projects, and environment across every session, so you stop re-explaining context. When it solves a hard problem it writes a reusable "skill" document (compatible with the agentskills.io standard) so it never forgets how to do it again. You reach it through the messaging apps you already use — Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal — or the CLI, all from one gateway process, and a built-in cron scheduler lets it run unattended tasks (daily digests, nightly backups, weekly audits) described in plain language. It runs on local models for full privacy or cloud models for more power, and deploys six ways (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, and the serverless Modal/Daytona backends that hibernate when idle). For a researcher it is the tool when you want a private, always-on assistant that accumulates context about your work instead of forgetting it. (Note: distinct from the Hermes large language models, also by Nous Research — this is the agent that runs on top of a model.)

• free
• self-host
• Open source
• Docker

Docker image nousresearch/hermes-agent:latest · Original container source