# 🧠 Hermes Agent

> The agent that grows with you

Canonical HTML: https://shelldex.com/projects/hermes/
JSON: https://shelldex.com/api/projects/hermes.json

## Overview

Persistent personal AI agent by Nous Research with multi-level growing memory, self-authored skills, and multi-platform messaging. Learns your projects and builds reusable knowledge over time.

**Highlight:** Self-improving skill system — agent writes reusable SKILL.md docs as it solves problems, building a personal knowledge base over time

## Metadata

- GitHub: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
- Language: python
- Status: active
- Ecosystem role: alternative
- Categories: memory, self-hosted, multi-platform
- Platforms: server, messaging
- MCP support: yes
- Requires external LLM: yes
- Added to registry: 2026-02-28

## GitHub data

- Stars: 152k (151,659)
- Forks: 24,066
- Open issues: 11,409
- License: MIT
- Last commit: 2026-05-15T16:39:27Z
- Latest release: v2026.5.7 (2026-05-07T16:23:08Z)
- Star growth (7d): +15959

## Registry position

- Leaderboard rank: #2
- Health score: 70/100
- Days since last commit: 0
- Days since last release: 8