The Self- Improving Agent.
smarter
every run
Not a copilot. Not a wrapper. An autonomous agent with a closed learning loop — it compounds.
It learns like you do.
The only agent that ships with a closed learning loop. Experience becomes memory, memory becomes skill, skill becomes instinct — every single session.
- Curates its own memory, nudges itself on a schedule
- Writes new skills autonomously after solving something hard
- Patches skills mid-use the moment they misfire
- Full-text recall across every past session
- Dialectic user modeling via Honcho
Lives on your terms. Not your laptop's.
Six terminal backends. A five-dollar VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless cloud that hibernates when idle and costs nearly nothing.
- Local · Docker · SSH · Daytona · Singularity · Modal
- Serverless persistence — wakes on demand, sleeps for free
- Chat on Telegram while it works on a VM you never SSH into
One gateway. Every app you already use.
21+ messaging platforms, one agent. It follows you — not the other way around.
- Telegram · Discord · Slack · WhatsApp · Signal · Matrix
- Email · SMS · Teams · Google Chat · Mattermost · IRC
- WeChat ecosystem — DingTalk · Feishu · WeCom · Weixin · QQ · Yuanbao
- iMessage via BlueBubbles · Home Assistant + plugin extras
Sixty-plus tools. Zero ceiling.
Search, browse, see, speak, build, ship — out of the box. Then plug in any MCP server and the belt keeps growing.
- Web search & extraction · browser automation with vision
- Image generation · text-to-speech · speech-to-text
- Cron · sandboxed code execution · computer use
- Programmatic Tool Calling — whole pipelines in one inference call
Skills that write themselves.
Hard-won experience gets distilled into reusable playbooks — then improved every time they're used. A background Curator prunes what goes stale.
- Autonomous creation after novel solves
- Self-patching when steps fail in the wild
- Curator: usage tracking, staleness review, archival
- Open standard at agentskills.io — portable, shareable, community hub
Memory that compounds.
Not a context window. A model of you that deepens over months — and shapes every future conversation.
- MEMORY.md + USER.md, curated and always injected
- Full-text search over every session ever
- Provider plugins: Honcho · Mem0 · Supermemory + more
- Context files — SOUL.md, AGENTS.md — shape behavior globally
Hire a team, not a chatbot.
Bot Mode spins up named specialists — each with its own model, memory, skills, avatar. They coordinate without you.
- Per-bot chat, role, model, memory & skill stack
- Routines, shared group chats, @mention handoffs
- Parallel subagents for isolated workstreams
It talks. It sees. It ships files.
Answers are the floor. Deliverables are the point — finished artifacts land straight in your chat.
- Real-time voice mode in CLI, Telegram, Discord & VC
- Vision: screenshots, photos, documents
- Deliverable Mode: charts, PDFs, spreadsheets as native attachments
- Built-in image generation + video-gen providers
Set it once. It runs forever.
Built-in cron delivers anywhere you live. No babysitting required.
- Cron to any platform · recurring loops · session heartbeats
- Webhook subscriptions for event-driven runs
- Schedule from dashboard, CLI, TUI or messenger
Autonomous, never unaccountable.
You hold the keys — always.
- Approval gates before dangerous commands
- Checkpoints & rollback for destructive ops
- Container isolation · scoped secrets · egress proxy
Stop reading.
Start running.
$ curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
$ hermes setup --portal