Made by humans, for humans — MIT License

Meet Your New
AI Sidekick

Not a coding copilot or chatbot wrapper. An autonomous agent that lives on your server, remembers what it learns, and gets more capable the longer it runs.

Let’s Get This Going

Pick your poison — grab the file and double-click. Even your non-techy friend can do this.

Grab the .deb

For Ubuntu / Debian — install with: sudo dpkg -i hermes-agent_1.0.0_all.deb

or just copy-paste this:
click to copy curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
  • Python, Node.js, and all the boring stuff — handled
  • Puts Hermes in ~/.hermes/ (its cozy little home)
  • Walks you through setup — it asks, you answer, done
Features

Why You’ll Actually Like Hermes

Actually Remembers Things

Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges. It learns your projects and never forgets how it solved a problem.

Teaches Itself New Tricks

Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. Compatible with agentskills.io.

Goes Where You Go

Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI — all from a single gateway. Cross-platform conversation continuity.

Runs on a Toaster (Basically)

Six backends: local, Docker, SSH, Daytona, Singularity, Modal. Run it on a $5 VPS, GPU cluster, or serverless — costs nearly nothing when idle.

Works While You Sleep

Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language.

Bring Your Own Brain

Nous Portal, OpenRouter (200+ models), OpenAI, or your own endpoint. Switch with hermes model — no code changes.

Where It Lives

Catch Hermes On Your Favorite App

Telegram
End-to-end encrypted
Discord
Slash commands & bot
Slack
Workspace integration
WhatsApp
Voice memo support
Signal
Privacy-first
CLI
Terminal UI
Cheat Sheet

Stuff You’ll Actually Type

hermesStart the party
hermes setupHold my hand through setup
hermes modelPick a brain
hermes toolsGive it more powers
hermes gatewayConnect to the world
hermes webFancy web view
hermes updateStay fresh
hermes doctorSomething broken? Ask this.
hermes configTweak everything
/modelNew brain, same Hermes
/skillsSee what it’s learned
/compressTidy up its memory
FAQ

Yes, Really. Read This.

Yes. No freemium, no 'free trial,' no sneaky premium tier. MIT licensed, fully open source. We just really like making cool stuff.

About the price of a decent coffee per month. $5 VPS if you want it always on, or serverless which costs basically zero when you’re not using it. Cheaper than your gym membership.

200+ models available. OpenRouter, OpenAI, Nous Portal, Kimi, MiniMax, or your own setup. Switch models mid-conversation if you want. Hermes doesn’t judge.

We built a proper .exe installer that even installs Linux for you (via WSL2). It's 2025, you can run Linux inside Windows now. Mind = blown, we know.

~/.hermes/ — one cozy folder on your machine. Sessions, memories, skills, configs — it all lives there. No cloud mystery, no data farming. Your data, your rules.

Ping us on Discord, read the docs (they’re actually good), or file a GitHub issue. We’re friendly, we promise.