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Persistent agent
Hermes Agent
A self-hosted agent from Nous Research that runs on a server or laptop, talks to you through 20-plus messaging platforms, keeps cross-session memory, writes and refines its own skills, and runs cron jobs unattended.
- Maker
- Nous Research
- Status
- Available
- Launched
- 25 Feb 2026
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- free, self-hosted (you pay for model API usage or hosting, e.g. Nous Portal, OpenRouter, a VPS or serverless sandbox)
Capabilities
- memory
- scheduled tasks
- self-improving skills
- browser
- code execution
- multi-agent
- voice
- image generation
Surfaces
- cli
- desktop
- windows
- macos
- linux
- telegram
- discord
- slack
- signal
- matrix
- mattermost
- sms
- imessage
- teams
- google-chat
- dingtalk
- feishu
- wecom
- home-assistant
Plugs into
- mcp
- skills
- plugins
Runs on
- nous-portal
- openrouter
- openai
- anthropic
- google-gemini
- google-vertex
- xai
- deepseek
- ollama
- vllm
- sglang
- llama.cpp
- openai-compatible
Sources
- https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
- https://nousresearch.com/releases
- https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/
- https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/integrations/providers
- https://the-decoder.com/nous-research-releases-hermes-desktop-an-open-source-ai-agent-for-every-platform/
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/hermes-agent-maker-nous-research-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-1-5b-valuation/