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What is Hermes
Hermes v0.16.0 is an open-source AI agent with persistent memory, tool orchestration, autonomous execution, a desktop app, subagents, and a built-in learning loop. It's not a chatbot — it's your digital assistant that learns, plans, and works 24/7.
The only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
Install Hermes on macOS or Windows with a single click. The desktop app gives you the full agent experience — command-line tools, gateway, and all — without needing to be a Linux expert. One installer, one OAuth, running in 60 seconds.
Available on
macOS · Windows · Linux
Why Hermes
For years, AI has been stuck in the chatbot loop — you prompt, it responds, you copy-paste the result somewhere else. Every interaction starts from zero. Every workflow requires a human in the loop. That's not automation. That's a fancy search bar.
Hermes changes the game. It's the only agent framework with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Combine persistent memory, tool orchestration, subagent delegation, and a desktop app that anyone can install. The result? An AI agent that actually works like a human employee — learning your business, handling complex tasks, and improving over time.
This isn't incremental improvement. It's a paradigm shift. Businesses using Hermes agents report going from 6-hour response times to under 5 minutes, saving 18+ staff hours per week, and never missing a lead again. That's the power of real AI automation.
Core capabilities
Hermes remembers everything — past conversations, user preferences, learned patterns, project context. Unlike chatbots that forget after every message, Hermes builds context over time and gets smarter with every interaction.
Hermes doesn't just call tools — it chains them intelligently. Browse the web, read files, send emails, query databases, run code — all in a single autonomous workflow. One agent, unlimited capabilities.
30 cron jobs running on its own. Hermes runs 24/7 without supervision. Lead capture at 3 AM. Reports before dawn. Your agent works while you sleep — no human-in-the-loop required.
No black boxes. No vendor lock-in. Hermes is fully open-source (MIT license) — you own the code, the config, and the data. Run it on your infrastructure, your rules.
Hermes creates skills from experience and improves them during use. Skills are on-demand knowledge documents that follow the agentskills.io open standard — minimizing token usage while maximizing capability.
Break complex work into parallel subagents — each with their own conversation, terminal, and context. Zero-context-cost pipelines that multiply your agent's output without multiplying your effort.
The shift
Chatbots that forget everything after each message
Manual tool calls — you prompt, it responds, you copy-paste
Cloud-dependent — your data lives on someone else's server
Single-task — one prompt, one response, one action
Supervised — a human must approve every action
One agent doing one thing at a time
Hermes agents with persistent memory that learn and improve over time
Autonomous tool orchestration — Hermes chains actions end-to-end
Local-first — Hermes runs on your machine, your data stays yours
Multi-step workflows — complex business processes automated autonomously
Autonomous — 30 cron jobs running 24/7, handling tasks without intervention
Subagents working in parallel — multiply output without multiplying effort
The stack
Hermes is the core. These are the tools we pair it with to build production-grade agent systems.
We design, train, and deploy custom Hermes agents for your business — from discovery to production in 7–14 days. No PhD required.
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