Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is built around persistent memory: instead of starting fresh each session like a chatbot, it retains what it learns across restarts and accumulates context over weeks and months. The longer it runs against your workflows, the more capable it becomes — closer to an employee who learns your preferences than a tool you re-explain things to every time.

It runs as a single gateway process on infrastructure you control — anything from a $5 VPS to a GPU workstation — and connects to Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email and other messaging platforms, so you interact with it wherever you already are rather than in a dedicated app. Because it is fully self-hosted under the MIT license with zero telemetry, no conversation data leaves your server.

Its most distinctive feature is self-improvement: when Hermes notices a repeated task pattern, it writes its own skill file to automate that workflow, generated from your actual usage rather than a preset library. You bring your own model API key (or a local model), so the only running cost is inference — there is no subscription or per-seat fee.