A personal agent from Nous Research, focused on ongoing use and reusable skills.
Visit official siteSkills expose a directory first and load detailed instructions or references only when needed. The documentation also covers installation and /learn. Skill files remain editable; review their source and execution permissions before using them.
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The official quickstart covers installation, model providers and troubleshooting. Verify an ordinary conversation first, then connect a messaging gateway and add skills, automation or routing incrementally so configuration problems stay easier to diagnose.
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Persistent files and the snapshot injected at session start are different. New entries generally become visible in the next session. The guide recommends fresh sessions at natural task boundaries and checking that a write occurred instead of trusting an acknowledgement.
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The security guide explains approvals, deny rules and timeouts. Shell-command matching is not a complete OS sandbox: containment also requires suitable permissions, restricted mounts and scoped credentials. A single deny rule cannot guarantee that a capability is unreachable.
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This stable tag collects changes since 0.21.4 for deployments including Docker and Hermes Cloud. The notes mention the desktop plugin SDK, connectors and performance improvements, while a fuller feature write-up is deferred to 0.22.0. Review the changelog for your deployment.
# Hermes Agent v0.21.4 (v2026.9.21) **Release Date:** September 21, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~1,800 PRs merged since v0.21.3 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, Hermes Cloud, hosted deplo
# Hermes Agent v0.21.3 (v2026.9.14) **Release Date:** September 14, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~338 PRs merged since v0.21.2 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, Hermes Cloud, hosted deploym
# Hermes Agent v0.21.2 (v2026.9.11) — The state.db Patch Release **Release Date:** September 11, 2026 > Patch release. v0.21.0 shipped a large rewrite of the session store's connection handling, and for some installs it made `state.db` frag
# Hermes Agent v0.21.1 (v2026.9.7) **Release Date:** September 7, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up current main since v0.21.0 for tagged deployments and downstream consumers. ## About this release Measured at commit `6178e9f4eed8d99f
# Hermes Agent v0.21.0 (v2026.8.31) **Release Date:** August 31, 2026 **Since v0.20.0:** ~5,800 commits · ~2,475 merged PRs · ~5,680 files changed · ~869,000 insertions · ~135,000 deletions · **~2,100 issues closed** · 760+ contributors > *
# Hermes Agent v0.20.6 (v2026.8.27) **Release Date:** August 27, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~525 PRs merged since v0.20.5 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh insta
# Hermes Agent v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19) **Release Date:** August 19, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~323 PRs merged since v0.20.4 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh insta
Saurabh Das describes a Raspberry Pi agent connected to Telegram and cloud models for market, weather, astronomy and chess alerts. He reports easier maintenance and lower token overhead after moving from OpenClaw, without reproducible comparative measurements. Treat this as personal experience.
# Hermes Agent v0.20.4 (v2026.8.18) **Release Date:** August 18, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~74 PRs merged since v0.20.3 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh instal
# Hermes Agent v0.20.3 (v2026.8.16.2) **Release Date:** August 16, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~125 PRs merged since v0.20.2 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh ins
# Hermes Agent v0.20.2 (v2026.8.16) **Release Date:** August 16, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~397 PRs merged since v0.20.1 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh insta
# Hermes Agent v0.20.1 (v2026.8.13) **Release Date:** August 13, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~656 PRs merged since v0.20.0 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, and anyone
# Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (v2026.8.3) **Release Date:** August 3, 2026 **Since v0.19.0:** ~3,650 commits · ~1,400 merged PRs · ~5,200 files changed · ~559,000 insertions · ~405,000 deletions · **~1,200 issues closed** · 650+ contributors > **T
# Hermes Agent v0.19.1 (v2026.7.30) **Release Date:** July 30, 2026 > Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~1,000+ PRs merged since v0.19.0 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh inst
# Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (v2026.7.20) **Release Date:** July 20, 2026 **Since v0.18.0:** ~2,245 commits · ~1,065 merged PRs · ~2,465 files changed · ~300,000 insertions · ~36,000 deletions · **~3,300 issues closed** · **450+ community contrib