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Open-source AI agent from Nous Research that lives in your terminal and desktop — persistent memory, scheduling, subagents, and sandboxed execution.
About Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source agent, shipped both as a terminal app and as native desktop applications for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is built around persistence: memory carries what worked in past sessions into new ones, natural-language scheduling automates recurring work, and subagents take on delegated tasks in parallel. Hermes reaches you across Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, and the CLI rather than living in a single window, and it can browse the web with vision and generate images.
Execution is sandboxed, with a choice of local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, or Modal backends. The code is MIT licensed; usage is free to start, with Plus, Super, and Ultra tiers adding monthly credits across 300+ models.
Pricing model: Freemium
Features
- Reachable from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, and the CLI
- Persistent memory that carries past solutions into new sessions
- Natural-language scheduling for recurring and automated tasks
- Delegates work to subagents and browses the web with vision and image generation
- Sandboxed execution across local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, and Modal backends
- MIT licensed, with native apps for macOS 12+, Windows 10/11, and Linux
FAQs
Common questions about Hermes Agent
Is Hermes Agent free?
The code is open source under the MIT license and there is a free tier. Paid Plus, Super, and Ultra tiers add monthly credits for model access across 300+ models.
Which platforms does it run on?
Native desktop apps for macOS 12+ and Windows 10/11, plus a terminal install for Linux: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
Where can I talk to it?
Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, and the CLI — the same agent, with the same memory, across all of them.
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