Your AI agent. Always improving.
The only agent with a built-in learning loop. It creates skills from experience, improves them during use, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
A community-maintained desktop companion for Hermes Agent by Nous Research
Not just a chat app
Hermes Agent learns, delegates, schedules, and runs anywhere. Hermes Desktop puts the full power in a native app, no CLI required.
Closed Learning Loop
Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. The only agent with a true built-in learning loop.
Lives Where You Do
Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI, all from a single gateway. Voice memo transcription and cross-platform conversation continuity.
Deep Memory
FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard.
Scheduled Automations
Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits, all in natural language, running unattended.
Delegates & Parallelizes
Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns.
Runs Anywhere
Seven terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona, and Vercel Sandbox. Run on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. Costs nearly nothing when idle.
Any Model, No Lock-in
Nous Portal, OpenRouter (300+ models), OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, NVIDIA NIM, Hugging Face, Ollama, LM Studio, or your own endpoint. Switch with one command.
14 Toolsets
Web search, browser automation, terminal, file ops, code execution, vision, image gen, TTS, memory, session search, delegation, MoA, and task planning.
Research-Ready
Batch trajectory generation and compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models. Built by Nous Research.
Up and running in minutes
Hermes Desktop walks you through the full setup on first launch. No terminal needed.
Download & open
Install for your OS. Choose local mode (installs Hermes Agent to ~/.hermes) or connect to a remote Hermes API server.
Pick a provider
One-click setup for OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any compatible local/remote endpoints.
Your agent is live
Chat with slash commands, schedule automations, connect Telegram or Discord, and watch your agent create and improve its own skills.
Prefer the terminal?
Install Hermes Agent directly with a single command. No desktop app needed. Works on macOS, Linux, WSL2, and Windows.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bashsource ~/.bashrc && hermesOn Windows (PowerShell)? iex (irm …install.ps1)
Handles everything: Python 3.11, Node.js, ripgrep, ffmpeg, and more. No admin required.