Hermes Agent
by Nous Research · Self-hosted personal agent
What it does on its own
Memory-first autonomous agent on your server that writes its own skills and runs scheduled tasks.
Third-party price note: Free self-hosted; Portal $0/$20/$100/$200 (guardiansofagents)
Jobs you can hire it for
- Memory-first autonomous agent on your server that writes its own skills
- Runs scheduled tasks
How to start
- Read the getting-started guide on hermes-agent.nousresearch.com. This one is for developers or self-hosting.
- Install or sign up as the guide describes (Self-host, CLI, chat apps), and add the model or API key it asks for.
- Run the example task from the guide first to check your setup works.
- Then try it on one small task of your own, and keep an eye on usage costs.
Based on the official docs: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs. Steps can change, so check there for the latest.
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