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.
17 workflows use Hermes Agent
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.