Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent has drawn a lot of attention because it tries to get better the longer you use it. It stores what it learns about your projects and turns successful solutions into skills it can reuse, so repeated tasks should take less explaining over time. Being open source and model agnostic, it also leaves you in control of where it runs and which models it calls.

• One agent and one memory can be reached from the desktop app, the command line or messaging apps like Telegram, Slack and Signal.
• Natural language scheduling lets it run reports, backups or briefings without you watching.
• Subagents get their own conversations and terminals, which keeps complex pipelines organized.
• Sandboxing options include Docker, SSH, Singularity and Modal for safer command execution.
• Nous Portal plans start at $20 a month for hosted tools and access to 200 plus models, but they are optional.

Hermes Agent is best for developers, tinkerers and small teams who want a personal agent they can host and shape themselves. A practical tip: start it in a Docker sandbox with a limited working directory, and back up its data folder before moving machines, since that folder holds the memories and skills that make it useful.