Hermes Agent
nousresearch/hermes-agent
Self-improving agent from Nous Research — learns skills from experience, remembers you across sessions, runs on a VPS or serverless.
GitHub repository
Overview
Hermes is an agent with a learning loop: it creates skills from hard tasks, improves them while using them, searches past chats, and can live on Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp — not only your laptop. Repo (copy/paste): https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent
Work with LimeDock
Using this skill? LimeDock can wire it into a durable automation you own.
Agents are a starting point. LimeDock turns the workflow into production automation your SaaS team owns — not another prompt library.
We sell owned automations for SaaS teams — live workflows that plug into Slack, CRM, and your internal platform — not just a skill list.
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Installation guide
Not installed into LimeDock.
1. Copy: https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent 2. Install: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash (or follow docs for your OS) 3. Run `hermes model` to pick Nous Portal / OpenRouter / OpenAI / your endpoint. 4. Optional: connect chat platforms + cron automations from the docs.
How to use it
**Simple example** You want an agent that gets better at *your* workflows over a month.
1. Install Hermes on a small VPS. 2. Talk to it from Telegram while it works on the server. 3. After a complex task, let it save a skill. 4. Next time, it reuses that skill instead of starting from zero.
Example prompts
- “Install Hermes and configure OpenRouter as the model provider.”
- “Set a daily 9am cron: summarize my GitHub notifications to Telegram.”
- “After this migration, save a reusable skill for the steps that worked.”
Use cases and examples
- Personal agent with long-term memory + skills
- Cron-style reports delivered to Slack/Telegram
- Delegating parallel subagents for research or chores
Prerequisites
- A place to run it (laptop, $5 VPS, or serverless backend)
- Model provider API key
- Clear boundaries for what it may automate unattended
Tips
- The learning loop is the point — review auto-created skills.
- Start with chat + one cron job before wiring every messenger.