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Run a self-improving personal agent with Hermes Agent

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Run a self-improving personal agent with Hermes Agent

Deploy Hermes Agent as a persistent personal agent that learns skills from experience, searches past sessions, schedules automations, and coordinates work across CLI and chat channels.

Templates & WorkflowsMulti-Framework
Templates & Workflows Multi-Framework Security Reviewed
Tool match: hermes-agent ⭐ 177.6k GitHub stars
INSTALL WITH ANY AGENT
npx skills add agentskillexchange/skills --skill run-a-self-improving-personal-agent-with-hermes-agent Copy
Works best when you want a reusable capability, not another fragile one-off prompt.
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At a glance
Tools required
Hermes Agent; model provider API key or compatible endpoint; optional Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp/Signal gateways
Install & setup
Follow the Hermes Agent documentation to install the runtime, configure a model provider, and connect the CLI or desired messaging gateway before assigning persistent tasks, schedules, and skills.
Author
Nous Research
Publisher
Open Source
Last updated
Jun 3, 2026
Quick brief

Hermes Agent is a self-improving personal agent runtime with memory, skill creation, session search, scheduled automations, subagents, and multi-channel access through CLI and messaging gateways. Use this skill when an operator wants a persistent agent to handle recurring personal or operational tasks, retain context across sessions, and improve reusable skills rather than answering one-off prompts.

How it works

What this skill actually does

The workflow is to install and configure Hermes with a model provider, run it from the CLI or a connected chat channel, ask it to perform recurring or long-lived tasks, and let it store memories, create skills, schedule jobs, and spawn subagents as needed. The scope boundary is the persistent self-improving agent workflow; it is not a generic model frontend, chat bot, or MCP server listing.

Inputs and prerequisites: Hermes Agent; model provider API key or compatible endpoint; optional Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, or Signal gateways.

Install on Linux, macOS, WSL2, or Termux:

curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh
less install.sh
bash install.sh
source ~/.bashrc
hermes

Install on Windows PowerShell:

iex (irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.ps1)

Setup and operation:

hermes setup        # Run the full setup wizard
hermes model        # Choose the model provider and model
hermes tools        # Configure enabled tools
hermes gateway      # Start messaging gateway setup/runtime
hermes doctor       # Diagnose environment or configuration issues

Contributor setup from source:

git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git
cd hermes-agent
./setup-hermes.sh
./hermes

Source and verification boundary: use https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent and https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/ as canonical references before running the workflow; keep commands, API calls, CLI usage, and generated outputs reviewable against that upstream source.

Framework fit: publish this as a Multi-Framework workflow only when the operator can invoke the documented Hermes Agent toolchain directly, rather than treating the upstream project as a generic product listing.