NousResearch/hermes-agent
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The agent that grows with you
What hermes-agent is
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop — talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM.
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26 Jun 2026 — 95% of AI Agents Forget Everything - This One Learns, Remembers, and Improves #Shorts
ChatGPT Plus costs $20 a month. Hermes Agent does it free. You get an assistant that learns your preferences, works for you on Telegram, Discord, or Slack, and picks up where you left off every time you return. Access any AI model you want without being trapped in one ecosystem. Run it on a $5 VPS so it costs nearly nothing between conversations. Fully yours—no monthly fees, no corporate gatekeepers. Would you ditch ChatGPT for this? Comment below.
07 Jun 2026 — crewAI Replaces ChatGPT Team With Free AI Agents #Shorts
Devin charges $500 a month for autonomous coding. Hermes Agent gives you the same capabilities free. This AI assistant runs in the cloud and learns from every conversation, becoming more useful the longer you use it. Message from Telegram while it works for you in the background, remembering your preferences and building new skills automatically. Stop paying for AI agents that forget who you are. Hermes grows with you, backed by 197,000 GitHub stars. Would you trust a free AI with your coding tasks?