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Nous Hermes Agent
Assistant · Open-sourceConfirmed
The self-improving open-source agent from Nous Research: a built-in learning loop that creates skills from experience, remembers across sessions and runs on any model. MIT-licensed, a CLI plus a messaging gateway into Telegram, Discord, Slack and more.
Verified against github.com · 2026-07-11
Spec sheet
FoundationModel-agnostic (Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, custom endpoint)
Topologyrecursive
Typeagent
Deploymentself-host · cloud
Interfacecli · chat
ContextModel-dependent · persistent cross-session memory
PricingOpen source (MIT) · bring-your-own model
ScaleMIT open source · CLI/TUI + messaging gateway
Tools40+ built-in tools · MCP · agentskills.io
OrchestrationSelf-improving skill loop · subagent delegation
CountryUS
Verified2026-07-11
Sources
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https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent The corpus does not rewrite vendor documentation. Where copy is quoted verbatim it is marked as such and attributed to its source.