Agent skill · software engineering · nousresearch
hermes-agent
Use, configure, theme, extend, and orchestrate Hermes Agent.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific commands and configuration patterns for setting up and using Hermes Agent that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires python installed locally. About 9k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 226,679 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Hermes Agent Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research that runs in your terminal, a native desktop app, messaging platforms, and IDEs. It's in the same category as Claude Code (Anthropic), Codex (OpenAI), and OpenClaw — autonomous coding and task-execution agents that use tool calling to interact with your system. Hermes works with any LLM provider (OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, local models, and 20+ others) and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and WSL. What makes Hermes different: Self-improving through skills — Hermes learns from experience by saving reusable procedures as skills that load into future sessions. Persistent memory across sessions — remembers who you are, your preferences, environment details, and lessons learned. Pluggable memory backends. Multi-platform gateway — the same agent runs on Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Matrix, Teams, Email, and a dozen more platforms with full tool access, not just chat. Many surfaces — the same agent core drives the CLI, the Ink TUI, a native Electron desktop app, a web dashboard, and an ACP server for IDEs (VS Code / Zed / JetBrains). Provider-agnostic — swap models and providers mid-workflow; credential pools rotate across multiple API keys automatically. Profiles — run multiple independent Hermes instances with isolated configs, sessions, skills, and memory. Extensible & themeable — plugins, MCP servers, custom tools, webhook triggers, cron scheduling, skins that theme every surface, desktop UI plugins, TUI widgets, and pet mascots. This skill is a hub. The body covers identity, quick start, spawning/orchestration, and hard invariants. Everything else lives in reference files — load the matching reference (below) before answering; do not answer detail questions from the body alone. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills nousresearch/hermes-agent--c34cc0