Hermes Agent
Self-hosted, self-improving open-source AI agent by Nous Research (MIT): persistent memory, chat gateways (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal), six terminal backends (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona), and a skills system that authors reusable SKILL.md skills from a source via /learn, following the agentskills.io open standard. Every saved skill becomes a slash command.
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18 workflows use Hermes Agent
Hermes MoA: stack frontier models into one virtual model for hard turns
Configure a Mixture-of-Agents preset in Hermes so several models answer in parallel and an aggregator writes the final response, and validate the preset before you spend double the tokens on it.
Hermes Kanban: The Research-to-Draft Relay
Two researchers work in parallel, then a writer's card unblocks once both finish.
Hermes Kanban: The Idempotent Nightly Review
A task that files itself onto the board every night and never double-books.
Hermes Kanban: The Swarm
Fan a goal out to N parallel workers, gate a verifier on all of them, then a synthesizer on the verifier.
Hermes on MiMo-V2.5: a 1M-context agent for pennies
Set MiMo-V2.5 as your everyday Hermes model: 1M context at $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens, with tool-use enforcement on for a non-GPT model.
Wire GLM-5.2 into Hermes: valid route, 64k-context check, no key in config
Validate a Hermes Agent config that runs GLM-5.2 through a real provider route (direct Z.AI or OpenRouter), clears Hermes's 64k minimum context, and keeps the API key out of config.yaml, before you start a session.
Buzz + Hermes over ACP: prove channel scope bounds what an agent reads, because signing is provenance not authorization
Run Hermes as an ACP channel member inside Block's Buzz workspace without giving it your whole workspace to read, by proving that Buzz's signed event log is complete provenance yet not authorization, so only scoping the agent to one narrow channel bounds what it can read.
Hermes + DeepSeek V4 Flash: a one-line reasoning-effort throttle
Run one model from cheap-and-fast to deep-and-careful with a single reasoning_effort setting, so you don't pay for deep thinking on easy turns.
Text your own AI assistant on WhatsApp: Hermes wired to FreeLLMAPI
Point Hermes Agent at a FreeLLMAPI backend and connect it to WhatsApp, so a memory-keeping assistant runs 24/7 on a free always-on server and costs nothing per message, with the wiring validated before you link a number.
Hermes /learn: author a reusable skill from a source, not by hand
Use Hermes Agent's /learn to turn a doc, a repo, or a workflow you just performed into a standards-compliant SKILL.md (and an automatic slash command), instead of hand-writing a skill file that drifts from the real docs.
Hermes: offload background jobs to MiMo-V2-Flash and cut your main bill
Route Hermes' cheap, high-volume auxiliary work (compression, vision, web-extract) to MiMo-V2-Flash so your expensive main model only handles real reasoning.
Hermes: a scheduled agentic briefing on Hy3-preview
Schedule a hands-off tool-using job (search, summarize, deliver) on the cheap, agentic Hy3-preview model, validated cron + config.
Hermes + Mnemosyne: give the cheap agent a local memory
Wire Mnemosyne into Hermes as an MCP server so a budget model stops re-stuffing the same context every session, validated config + a real remember→recall round-trip.
Self-Hosted Self-Improving Agent with Hermes
Stand up a Hermes agent that remembers and improves over time on your own VPS.
Hermes + NotebookLM "Second Brain"
Pair Hermes with NotebookLM to build a self-researching, self-teaching knowledge system.
Obsidian Vault as the Core of Your Agent Harness
Use an Obsidian vault as the shared memory and control surface for your agents.
Hermes + OKF: a knowledge folder your agent reads before it answers
Wire an OKF knowledge bundle into Hermes so the agent reads knowledge/index.md first, validated bundle conformance + a SOUL.md house rule that points at it.
Run GLM-5.2 fully local on a Mac Studio and drive it with Hermes
Serve GLM-5.2's 2-bit GGUF on a Mac Studio over an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, point Hermes at it as a custom provider, and hand it long hands-off agentic jobs.