Hermes Agent: open agent that grows its own skills

Try it in 60 seconds

curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

Model-agnostic agent with cross-session memory that writes new skills from finished tasks.

The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to you…

Use any model you want — Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, your own endpoint, and many others. Switch with hermes model — no code changes, no lock-in.

Quoted from the README of NousResearch/hermes-agent.

Inside the repo

Step by step

1. Install per README.
2. Connect a model.
3. Give it a recurring task.

Docs, demos & materials

Sources & credit

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