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Hermes Agent

Open-source, self-hosted personal agent from Nous Research with memory and a messaging gateway

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Abouthermes-agent.nousresearch.com

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-hosted AI agent from Nous Research. It has persistent memory, creates its own skills, and connects through a messaging gateway to Telegram, Discord, Slack, and more. A desktop app runs on macOS and Windows, and a terminal install covers Linux.

For an agent

Use it to run a personal agent you host yourself. Connect only the messaging accounts you can afford to expose to an agent.

Why it is here. It is an open, self-hosted option for a persistent personal agent.

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Notable for
  • From Nous Research
  • Self-hosted
  • Messaging gateway
Provenance

Verified 2026-10-09. HTTP 200. https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/ (HTTP 200, page fetched 2026-10-09), https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent (GitHub API, 252030 stars), depo.zip listing https://www.depo.zip/tools/j57a5vgk1hk57pk2hwppr3p8r987t43b

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