For developers who want a self-hosted AI assistant instead of a SaaS bot, Hermes Agent is an open-source agent runtime that keeps one memory across Telegram, Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp, and writes new skills for itself as it completes tasks.
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Hermes Agent is working to be a self-hosted, persistent agent runtime that carries its memory, skills, and model choice across a user's working surfaces. Its presence is rising in conversations about solo-founder leverage, agent-harness comparisons, model selection, and practical setup. Practitioner walkthroughs focus on installation, configuring an agent profile, and delegating recurring research or operational work. Recent product updates center on named desktop bots with separate roles, memories, skills, and models, alongside a release cadence for the open-source runtime.
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Business Profile
Hermes Agent is an open-source project built by Nous Research, with distribution expanding from a self-hosted runtime into desktop applications and the Microsoft Store. Nous Research announced a $90M Series B on October 7, 2026, with plans that include a Hermes mobile app. The financing belongs to Nous Research. Hermes combines an open-source release model with its developer's broader model research and hosted services, giving users local installation and cloud options.
Agent Readiness
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Hermes Agent ships a public API server, MCP support, and a CLI around a runtime designed for persistent, tool-using agents. Its product surface includes shared memory across messaging and desktop interfaces, scheduled work, isolated subagents, and skills generated from prior tasks. The current build-out connects those capabilities to configurable models and self-hosted or optional cloud deployment.
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