What problem does it solve?
Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework that runs in terminals, messaging platforms, and IDEs, enabling you to configure, extend, and contribute to an evolving autonomous system with persistent context, multi-provider support, and pluggable memory and tooling.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Self-improving through skills: persist reusable procedures as skills that load into future sessions.
- Persistent memory across sessions: remember user preferences, environment details, and learned lessons with pluggable memory backends.
- Multi-platform gateway: run on terminal, gateways, and platforms with full tool access and policy enforcement.
- Provider-agnostic: swap models/providers mid-workflow without changing the rest of the setup.
- Profiles & extensibility: isolate configs, sessions, skills, memory, and support plugins, MCPs, webhooks, and cron.
- Use Case: Set up a development Hermes Agent with multiple skills and a shared memory backend across environments.
Quick Start
Install Hermes Agent and start a sample session to explore setup, skill loading, and basic spawning.