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Hermes Agent: The Self-Improving AI Agent

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πŸ€– Hermes Agent: The AI Agent That Grows With You

Nous Research launched Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent with something that sets it apart from the rest: a built-in learning loop.

🧠 What makes it unique:

πŸ”„ Self-learning β€” Creates skills from complex tasks and improves them during use. Recalls past conversations through FTS5 search with LLM-generated summaries.

πŸ‘€ User modeling β€” Builds a profile of you across sessions using Honcho. The more you use it, the better it knows you.

πŸ“± Lives where you are β€” CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal. One instance, all platforms.

🌐 Works with any model β€” OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, OpenRouter (200+ models), or your own endpoint. Zero lock-in.

⏰ Scheduled automations β€” Built-in cron in natural language: daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits.

πŸ–₯️ Runs anywhere β€” $5 VPS, GPU cluster, Docker, SSH, Modal (serverless). Not tied to your laptop.

πŸ’‘ Explanation in a nutshell
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An AI agent is a program that can make decisions and execute tasks on its own. Hermes goes further: it learns from each conversation, remembers what you’ve done before, and creates reusable “skills” β€” like an assistant that gets more capable the more you use it. Best of all: it’s open source and you can run it on your own infrastructure.

More information at the link πŸ‘‡

Also published on LinkedIn.
Juan Pedro Bretti Mandarano
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