\n| A real terminal interface | Full TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output. |
\n| Lives where you do | Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity. |
\n| A closed learning loop | Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. |
\n| Scheduled automations | Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language, running unattended. |
\n| Delegates and parallelizes | Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns. |
\n| Runs anywhere, not just your laptop | Seven terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona, and Vercel Sandbox. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your agent's environment hibernates when idle and wakes on demand, costing nearly nothing between sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. |
\n| Research-ready | Batch trajectory generation, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models. |
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\n\n---\n\n## Quick Install\n\n### Linux, macOS, WSL2, Termux\n\n```bash\ncurl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash\n```\n\n### Windows (native, PowerShell)\n\n> **Heads up:** Native Windows runs Hermes without WSL — CLI, gateway, TUI, and tools all work natively. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux/macOS one-liner above works there too. Found a bug? Please [file issues](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues).\n\nRun this in PowerShell:\n\n```powershell\niex (irm https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.ps1)\n```\n\nThe installer handles everything: uv, Python 3.11, Node.js, ripgrep, ffmpeg, **and a portable Git Bash** (MinGit, unpacked to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\\hermes\\git` — no admin required, completely isolated from any system Git install). Hermes uses this bundled Git Bash to run shell commands.\n\nIf you already have Git installed, the installer detects it and uses that instead. Otherwise a ~45MB MinGit download is all you need — it won't touch or interfere with any system Git.\n\n> **Android / Termux:** The tested manual path is documented in the [Termux guide](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/getting-started/termux). On Termux, Hermes installs a curated `.[termux]` extra because the full `.[all]` extra currently pulls Android-incompatible voice dependencies.\n>\n> **Windows:** Native Windows is fully supported — the PowerShell one-liner above installs everything. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux command works there too. Native Windows install lives under `%LOCALAPPDATA%\\hermes`; WSL2 installs under `~/.hermes` as on Linux.\n\nAfter installation:\n\n```bash\nsource ~/.bashrc # reload shell (or: source ~/.zshrc)\nhermes # start chatting!\n```\n\n### Troubleshooting\n\n#### Windows Defender or antivirus flags `uv.exe` as malware\n\nIf your antivirus (Bitdefender, Windows Defender, etc.) quarantines `uv.exe` from the Hermes `bin` folder (`%LOCALAPPDATA%\\hermes\\bin\\uv.exe`), this is a **false positive**. The file is Astral's `uv` — the Rust Python package manager Hermes bundles to manage its Python environment. ML-based antivirus engines commonly flag unsigned Rust binaries that download and install packages.\n\n**To verify your copy is authentic:**\n\n```powershell\n# Install GitHub CLI if needed\nwinget install --id GitHub.cli\n\n# Login to GitHub\ngh auth login\n\n# Run verification\n$uv = \"$env:LOCALAPPDATA\\hermes\\bin\\uv.exe\"\n$ver = (& $uv --version).Split(' ')[1]\n[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12\n$zip = \"$env:TEMP\\uv.zip\"\nInvoke-WebRequest \"https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/$ver/uv-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip\" -OutFile $zip -UseBasicParsing\ngh attestation verify $zip --repo astral-sh/uv\nExpand-Archive $zip \"$env:TEMP\\uv_x\" -Force\n(Get-FileHash \"$env:TEMP\\uv_x\\uv.exe\").Hash -eq (Get-FileHash $uv).Hash\n```\n\nIf attestation says \"Verification succeeded\" and the last line prints `True`, you're good.\n\n**To whitelist Hermes:**\n- **Windows Defender:** Run PowerShell as Admin → `Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath \"$env:LOCALAPPDATA\\hermes\\bin\"`\n- **Bitdefender:** Add an exception in the Bitdefender console (Protection > Antivirus > Settings > Manage Exceptions)\n- Whitelist the **folder**, not the file hash — Hermes updates `uv` and the hash changes every version\n\nFor more context, see the upstream Astral reports: [astral-sh/uv#13553](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/13553), [astral-sh/uv#15011](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/15011), [astral-sh/uv#10079](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/10079).\n\n---\n\n## Getting Started\n\n```bash\nhermes # Interactive CLI — start a conversation\nhermes model # Choose your LLM provider and model\nhermes tools # Configure which tools are enabled\nhermes config set # Set individual config values\nhermes config get # Print individual config values\nhermes gateway # Start the messaging gateway (Telegram, Discord, etc.)\nhermes setup # Run the full setup wizard (configures everything at once)\nhermes claw migrate # Migrate from OpenClaw (if coming from OpenClaw)\nhermes update # Update to the latest version\nhermes doctor # Diagnose any issues\n```\n\n📖 **[Full documentation →](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/)**\n\n---\n\n## Skip the API-key collection — Nous Portal\n\nHermes works with whatever provider you want — that's not changing. But if you'd rather not collect five separate API keys for the model, web search, image generation, TTS, and a cloud browser, **[Nous Portal](https://portal.nousresearch.com)** covers all of them under one subscription:\n\n- **300+ models** — pick any of them with `/model ![\"Hermes](\"assets/banner.png\")
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