The agent that grows with you
Market Signal
Why It Has Market Pull
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source self-improving AI agent and may be the highest-starred agent platform on GitHub today. The repo crossed 181k stars and 31k forks since its February 2026 release, ships a built-in learning loop (creates skills from experience, improves them in use), supports Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp/Signal/CLI and 40+ tools, and gets pushed by an established research lab — a rare combination of academic backing and mainstream developer adoption.
- 181k GitHub stars and 31k forks — one of the most-adopted open-source AI agents in the ecosystem.
- Built by Nous Research, the same lab behind the Hermes model family — credible institutional stewardship.
- Most recent release v0.15.2 (May 29, 2026) added a streaming-tool-output desktop front end.
- Built-in learning loop and persistent memory plus skills hub at agentskills.io.
- MIT-licensed; supports model swapping across providers without code changes.
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What People Are Saying
"I've been using the NousResearch Hermes agent for the past couple of weeks"HN comment
"NousResearch/hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you"HN post
"I actually did run it the other day, locally in LM Studio"HN comment
"I'm using Hermes. The same applies to all agents, don't give it free reign over..."HN comment
"Hermes Agent: Zero to Personal AI Assistant (1 Hour Course)"YouTube — Nate Herk | AI Automation
"Hermes Agent is insane… 100,000+ github stars"YouTube — David Ondrej
"Hermes Agent + TinyFish: Auto-Fill Any Spreadsheet With Live Web Data"YouTube — Derek Cheung | AI Agents Automation






















