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🏛️ Hermes Agent

📅 Created 2026-06-06 🏷️ Type: entity
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Overview

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research. It runs in the terminal, messaging platforms, and IDEs. Belongs to the same category as Claude Code (Anthropic), Codex (OpenAI), and OpenClaw — autonomous coding and task-execution agents that use tool calling to interact with the system.

Docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/

Key Capabilities

  • Self-improving through skills — learns from experience by saving reusable procedures as skills
  • Persistent memory across sessions — remembers user preferences, environment, lessons learned
  • Multi-platform gateway — Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Email, Matrix, 10+ more
  • Provider-agnostic — swap models and providers mid-workflow; 20+ providers supported
  • Profiles — multiple independent instances with isolated configs and sessions
  • Extensible — plugins, MCP servers, custom tools, cron scheduling, webhooks

Current Configuration

  • Profile: default (~/.hermes/)
  • Model (initial): stepfun/step-3.7-flash:free via nous provider
  • Model (later): nemotron-3-ultra-free via opencode-zen provider
  • Current: deepseek-v4-flash-free via opencode-zen provider
  • Personality: Larry (sentient supercomputer from The Bones of Makaidos)
  • Home channel: Discord DM with Mysticwolf6

Skills Installed

69 skills in ~/.hermes/skills/ covering: data science, research, software development, GitHub, media, creative, productivity, smart home, email, MLOps, note-taking, social media, red teaming, Yuanbao, and more.

  • mysticwolf6 user
  • larry persona
  • opencode-zen provider
  • nextcloud storage
  • memory-wiki-architecture concept
  • personality-profiles concept