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.
Quick Links
| 🚀 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 |
| 📄 Context Files | Project context files that shape every conversation |
| 🔒 Security | Command approval, authorization, container isolation |
| 🏗️ 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