Hermes Agent

What Hermes Agent is

Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source, general-purpose agent for people who want more than a disposable chat. Its learning loop can turn successful work into reusable skills, improve those skills over time, keep curated memory across sessions, and search past conversations. Hermes combines that continuity with a broad tool system for files, terminals, browsers, web research, code execution, scheduled jobs, delegation, media, messaging, and MCP servers.

You can use Hermes in its terminal interface, desktop app, web dashboard, an editor through ACP, or through a gateway that connects Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, email, and many other channels. It supports multiple model providers and local models, and independent profiles can keep each agent's configuration, credentials, memory, sessions, skills, schedules, and gateway state separate.

That flexibility also means Hermes is infrastructure you operate. You still need to choose model access, protect credentials, review skills and tool permissions, keep the runtime updated, and provide a machine or cloud environment that stays available when work should continue.

Why run Hermes on AI Agent Store Agent Teams?

Agent Teams hosting adds a managed operating layer around the native Hermes runtime. Hermes keeps its own reasoning loop, tools, skills, memory, schedules, model access, and ability to delegate; the hosting layer supplies an isolated cloud server, persistent workspace and browser state, health monitoring, encrypted checkpoints, recovery controls, and runtime updates with rollback. The practical benefit is that long research, coding, monitoring, and scheduled work can continue while your laptop is closed, without turning Hermes into a limited chat wrapper.

Manage several agents without losing the thread

The Chat Wall command center places as many as eight live Hermes or OpenClaw conversations in one view. Each panel keeps its own history, loading state, attachments, and native execution. This is useful when separate agents own research, engineering, content, operations, or customer work: you can compare progress and redirect the right specialist without opening eight terminals or messaging accounts.

The voice-first manager is designed for the same multi-agent problem. You can dictate a quick instruction, discuss and refine a request before sending it, or talk to a realtime manager that reads recent Chat Wall context and consults up to eight native agents in parallel. Voice is especially valuable when the bottleneck is supervising many agents rather than typing to one: ask for a cross-team status, interrupt, narrow the question, and receive one synthesized answer while each Hermes agent retains its specialist context.

Give browser agents the right network identity

Per-agent network routing lets a team use direct datacenter access, a static residential IP in an available country, or rotating residential routes. A static IP gives an agent a steadier network identity for approved social-media, marketplace, and account workflows where repeated country or IP changes can trigger extra verification. Rotating routes are better suited to permitted web research, price monitoring, or scraping workloads that need requests distributed across addresses; sticky or per-request rotation lets you match the route to the job. Protected routing can also stop traffic instead of silently falling back to the server's datacenter IP if a proxy becomes unavailable. These controls do not override a site's rules—users remain responsible for permissions, terms, rate limits, and applicable law.

Keep human control and model choice

Live desktop, browser, terminal, and file views let you inspect what Hermes is doing, complete sign-ins or other human-only steps, and take over when judgment is required. Model access options include platform credits, your own API keys, supported subscriptions, and configurable priorities or fallbacks, so a team can balance capability, quotas, and cost instead of binding every agent to one provider.

Create a hosted Hermes agent when you want Hermes's native autonomy with an always-available workspace and a control surface built for operating several agents at once.