What Is Hermes Agent? The Self-Improving AI Assistant

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's not just a chatbot that answers one prompt at a time. Hermes is designed to keep running, remember what matters, create reusable skills, connect to real tools, and become genuinely more helpful the longer you use it. That difference matters. Most AI tools feel clever in the moment but forget everything when the tab closes. Hermes Agent works from a different idea: an AI assistant that lives on your machine or se