Hermes Agent by nousresearch
The agent that grows with you
About Hermes Agent
From the project's README at github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop, it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop, talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM.
Use any model you want, Nous Portal, OpenRouter (200+ models), [NVIDIA NIM](https://build.nvid
Health score breakdown
6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.
Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 133k | github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent |
| GitHub forks | 20k | github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent |
| Docker Hub pulls | 880k | hub.docker.com / nousresearch |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 0.8 years | since Jul 2025 |
| Last commit | 2 days ago | May 5, 2026 |
| Releases shipped | 11 | last: 7 days ago |
| Security policy | SECURITY.md | declared by maintainers |
Self-hosting cost across providers
Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.
| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
What people say on Hacker News
Ready to self-host Hermes Agent?
Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.
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