Run a self-improving personal agent with Hermes Agent

Deploy Hermes Agent as a persistent personal agent that learns skills from experience, searches past sessions, schedules automations, and coordinates work across CLI and chat channels.

Prerequisites

Hermes Agent; model provider API key or compatible endpoint; optional Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp/Signal gateways

Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• <tr><td><b>Delegates and parallelizes</b></td><td>Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns.</td></tr>
• <tr><td><b>Runs anywhere, not just your laptop</b></td><td>Seven terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona, and Vercel Sandbox. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your agent's e...

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• 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 per...

• bash

• hermes # Interactive CLI — start a conversation

• Source: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

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

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange