Hermes Agent
By Nous Research
MIT-licensed personal agent from Nous Research, around 246,000 GitHub stars, that you reach from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, or a terminal, and that keeps memory across projects, schedules recurring work described in plain language, and delegates to subagents with their own terminals inside a sandbox you pick from local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, or Modal.
Best for
- running one agent you can reach from the chat app you already use
- recurring jobs such as reports and backups described in plain language
- keeping project context between sessions instead of re-explaining it
- self-hosting an agent on free models before paying for anything
- handing long tasks to subagents with isolated terminals
- Sep 16, 2026Added to the automation category: Nous Research open-source personal agent, roughly 246,000 GitHub stars, reachable from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, or a CLI, with persistent project memory, natural-language scheduling, and subagents in a local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, or Modal sandbox. Distinct from OpenClaw in the catalogue, which is a separate foundation-run project with its own repo and plugin ecosystem; Hermes Agent ships its own hosted tiers on top of the MIT core.
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