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Hermes Agent

Self-improving personal AI agent that learns skills and keeps persistent memory.

Categories
AgentMemory
Pricing
BYO KEY
Source
Open source
Hosting
Self-host
Platforms
CLIWebAPI
Models
BYO key / model
Verified
Jun 6, 2026

A self-hostable AI agent from Nous Research that builds skills from experience, maintains long-term memory, and is reachable through a terminal TUI, a web dashboard, or messaging gateways (Telegram, Discord, Slack). It runs anywhere from a small VPS to local Docker, and works with any model via Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, or self-hosted endpoints. Free and open source under MIT; you bring your own model access.

Capabilities 5

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Terminal / CLI agent (primary capability)
  • Tool / function calling (primary capability)
  • Multi-agent orchestration (secondary capability)
  • Workflow orchestration (secondary capability)
  • Agent memory (primary capability)

Pros & cons

  • MIT-licensed, self-hostable
  • Persistent cross-session memory
  • Autonomous skill creation/improvement
  • Reachable via Telegram, Discord, Slack, more
  • Runs on a tiny VPS, any model
  • Self-hosting and setup required
  • BYO model access (costs are yours)
  • Young project, evolving fast
  • No managed turnkey hosting

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