NousResearch/hermes-agent
The agent that grows with you
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 395 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #1 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 5, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fully open-source autonomous AI agent that runs persistently on your server, learning and growing its capabilities over time.
- Enables seamless integration with multiple messaging platforms and supports any LLM model without code changes, ensuring flexibility and user control.
- Use for creating a personal AI assistant that manages tasks, schedules, and conversations across Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp.
- Use for securely running AI-driven automation and scripts in sandboxed environments like Docker, SSH, or cloud backends to isolate execution.
- Use for research and development involving batch data generation and reinforcement learning environments to train and evaluate AI agents.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
The fully open-source AI agent that grows with you. Install it on a machine, give it your messaging accounts, and it becomes a persistent personal agent — learning your projects, building its own skills, running tasks on a schedule, and reaching you wherever you are. An autonomous agent that lives on your server, remembers what it learns, and gets more capable the longer it runs.
Use any model you want — log in with a Nous Portal subscription for zero-config access, connect an OpenRouter key for 200+ models, or point it at your own VLLM/SGLang endpoint. Switch with
hermes model— no code changes, no lock-in.Built by Nous Research. Under the hood, the same architecture powers batch data generation and RL training environments for training the next generation of tool-calling models.
The installer (
hermes setup) walks you through selecting a provider and model. Once that's done:This lets you switch between Nous Portal (subscription), OpenRouter (200+ models, pay-per-use), or a custom endpoint (VLLM, SGLang, any OpenAI-compatible API) at any time.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+31,486 stars over 87 days across 20 snapshot days; best day +710 on Sep 3.
Forks
58.0K+12.5K
Open issues
53.6K+21.9K
Compared with peers in AI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 101.1K | +6.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 115.8K | +4.7K | 75 | today |
| heygen-com/hyperframes | 82.3K | +4.0K | 75 | today |
| harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo | 142.0K | +3.8K | 75 | 3 days ago |
| github/spec-kit | 149.2K | +2.6K | 75 | today |
| NousResearch/hermes-agent | 261.5K | — | 60 | 2 days ago |
| Category median | 115.8K | +4.0K | 75 | — |
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