Vibe Hermes Agent
Nous Research's self-improving terminal agent for coding and other tasks, with persistent memory, agent-made skills and a messaging gateway.
- Maker
- Nous Research
- Kind
- coding agent
- Interface
- CLI, desktop, messaging, SDK
- Open source
- Open source · Licence: MIT · GitHub
- GitHub stars
- 254,611 (GitHub API, 2026-10-17)
- Models
- Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint · Bring your own model
- Pricing
- —
- MCP support
- Yes
- Subagents
- Yes
- Headless / scripted mode
- Yes hermes chat -q / --query with --output-format stream-json; hermes -z for one-shot runs.
- Sandboxing
- Yes Container isolation via Docker, Singularity or Modal terminal backends, plus an optional write sandbox.
- Note
- It's a general-purpose agent, not only a coding tool. The docs index calls it 'a terminal-native autonomous coding and task agent'. Models can come through an optional Nous Portal subscription (price not read).
- Official site
- https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
- Sources
- hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/ · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/llms.txt · github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent · api.github.com/repos/NousResearch/hermes-agent · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/mcp · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/deleg · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/reference/cli-commands · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/security (docs checked 2026-10-17)
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