Nous Research

Hermes Agent

Nous Research’s open agent with a built-in learning loop, and terminal backends for local, Docker, SSH, and sandboxes. The local-desktop path when you want the agent on your own machine and you host the model.

Author: Nous Research
Last commit: 2026-09-27 · from the author's repository
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Hardware match: macOS (Apple silicon) or Linux. Runs against a hosted or local model; pair it with the GGUF cards when the weights stay on your machine.
Second source: Hermes Agent docs

Open source recipe

Official one-liner

curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash

Before you start

macOS Apple silicon or Linux
A model endpoint, hosted or local
Their installer, not a FitStack script

Steps live at the source. We don’t maintain the install script.

The agent, docs, and installer belong to Nous Research.

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