{"data":{"slug":"hermes-agent","name":"Hermes Agent","tagline":"MIT self-improving agent from Nous Research — skills from experience, multi-channel gateway, any model","category":"agents","categoryName":"AI Agents","url":"https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com","github":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent","pricing":"open-source","hook":"Hermes Agent is a self-hosted agent with a closed learning loop: it writes skills from hard tasks, improves them in use, searches past sessions, and keeps a deepening model of you — reachable from a TUI or from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Signal through one gateway.","whatsGood":"MIT (NousResearch/hermes-agent), release v0.21.6 (2026-10-08). Install via the official curl/bash or PowerShell scripts; docs also cover MSIX on Windows. Bring any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, local, and more) and switch with `hermes model`. Full TUI with slash commands and streaming tool output; messaging channels share one gateway process with cross-platform conversation continuity. ★~253k.","theCatch":"A full personal/coding agent surface, not a drop-in Claude Code plugin — you run the gateway and own model keys, channel tokens and the memory/skill store it writes. Exact-pinned Python deps and a 3.14-oriented install path mean supply-chain and upgrade care; follow their install docs rather than improvising. Multi-channel access widens the security surface the same way OpenClaw does. Vs openclaw (freemium multi-channel assistant) and claude-code (paid Anthropic terminal agent): Hermes is the MIT self-improving host you operate yourself. oh-my-hermes is niche plugin tooling for this host, not a substitute. Stars have grown extremely fast (about 3,940 a week since the repo opened in July 2025), so judge it on a trial run, not the count.","verdict":"The open-source agent with a real learning loop — run it if you want skills and memory you own, not another rented chat UI.","addedAt":"2026-10-12","featured":false,"domain":"AI Agents","subSpecialty":"Agents","subcategory":"Skills","tags":["tui","self-host","permissive","skills","active","fast-stars"],"capabilities":[],"surfaces":["Self-host"],"ecosystem":["Multi-platform"],"licenseModel":"OSS/MIT","githubStars":255005,"starsPerWeek":3927,"access":"free","archived":false,"repo":{"createdAt":"2025-07-22","pushedAt":"2026-10-19","license":"MIT","archived":false,"checkedAt":"2026-10-19"}},"related":[{"slug":"claude-code","name":"Claude Code","tagline":"Terminal-first coding agent with deep repository context"},{"slug":"cursor","name":"Cursor","tagline":"The AI-first code editor that understands your codebase"},{"slug":"devin","name":"Devin","tagline":"Autonomous AI engineer for defined engineering tasks"},{"slug":"stagehand","name":"Stagehand","tagline":"AI-native browser automation that mixes code and natural language"},{"slug":"browser-use","name":"Browser Use","tagline":"Open-source framework for LLM-driven browser agents"}],"links":{"self":"/api/gems/hermes-agent","html":"/gems/hermes-agent","markdown":"/gems/hermes-agent.md","category":"/api/gems?category=agents","categoryPage":"/stacks/agents"}}