Hermes Agent is an AI agent from Nous Research built around a closed learning loop. Rather than resetting each session, it creates skills from experience, refines them during use, is periodically nudged to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations (FTS5 session search with LLM summarization), and builds a model of the user across sessions using Honcho dialectic user modeling. Its skills are compatible with the agentskills.io open standard.
It works with any model, switchable via hermes model without code changes (Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, custom endpoints, and others), and is reachable from a terminal TUI or from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI through a single gateway, with voice-memo transcription and cross-platform continuity. It can run on a low-cost VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless backends (six terminal backends including local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, and Daytona, with Modal and Daytona hibernating when idle). Additional features include a built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform, isolated subagents for parallel workstreams, and batch trajectory generation and compression for research.
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Agent37 Cloud
Managed hosting for Hermes/OpenClaw/Claude Code agents + a hosted Gateway API.
AgentGUI
Desk-based GUI to observe and steer teams of AI research agents running on Hermes or the Claude Agent SDK
Claw3D
Self-hosted 3D virtual office that visualizes AI agents reviewing code, running standups, and executing tasks in real time
ClawManager
Kubernetes-native control plane for provisioning and governing AI agent instances across OpenClaw and Hermes runtimes
ClawSec
A security skill suite for OpenClaw, Hermes, PicoClaw, and NanoClaw.
Collection of Souls
Library of reusable agent personality layers distributed as drop-in SOUL.md files
Cronalytics
A Hermes cron cost and observability plugin.
Hermes Agent Desktop
A desktop client and UI for Hermes.
Hermes Agent Operator
Kubernetes operator that runs Hermes agents as declarative custom resources covering config, skills, crons, RBAC and networking
Hermes Agent Self-Evolution
Official evolutionary self-improvement that optimizes skills and prompts and opens PRs.
Hermes Android
Flutter Android client for the Hermes Agent, with streaming chat, voice dictation, and dashboard controls over Wi-Fi or Tailscale
Hermes Client
Web/PWA chat interface for Hermes Agent that maps each profile to an agent and streams the CLI over SSE
