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  "id": "hermes-agent",
  "name": "Hermes Agent",
  "category": "harnesses",
  "summary": "Nous Research's self-improving open-source agent: terminal UI plus messaging gateway, agent-curated memory and skills it writes and refines from experience.",
  "description": "Works with any model provider (Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, custom endpoints; switch with `hermes model`). Features from the README: full TUI, one gateway process for Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Signal, autonomous skill creation compatible with the agentskills.io standard, FTS5 session search, Honcho user modelling, a built-in cron scheduler, isolated subagents, and seven terminal backends (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona, Vercel Sandbox). Also ships batch trajectory generation for training tool-calling models. Install: `curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash` (native Windows via PowerShell).",
  "url": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com",
  "repo": "https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent",
  "docs": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs",
  "tags": [
    "cli",
    "tui",
    "self-improving",
    "memory",
    "skills",
    "messaging",
    "scheduler",
    "python"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "pricing": "open-source",
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "llms_txt": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/llms.txt"
  },
  "related": [
    "openclaw",
    "honcho",
    "agent-skills-spec",
    "modal",
    "daytona",
    "vercel-sandbox"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent",
    "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/llms.txt"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-22",
  "updated": "2026-10-22",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-22",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Nous Research",
  "longform": [
    {
      "type": "comparison",
      "id": "personal-agent-runtimes",
      "title": "OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent vs Pi: open-source agents you run yourself",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/compare/personal-agent-runtimes/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/compare/personal-agent-runtimes.json"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/hermes-agent/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/hermes-agent.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/hermes-agent.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/harnesses/hermes-agent.json"
  }
}