---
name: "Run a self-improving personal agent with Hermes Agent"
slug: "run-a-self-improving-personal-agent-with-hermes-agent"
description: "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."
github_stars: 135226
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent"
author: "Nous Research"
publisher_type: "open_source"
category: "Templates & Workflows"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "NousResearch/hermes-agent"
  github_stars: 135226
---

# 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.

## Prerequisites

Hermes Agent; model provider API key or compatible endpoint; optional Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp/Signal gateways

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- <tr><td><b>Delegates and parallelizes</b></td><td>Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns.</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>Runs anywhere, not just your laptop</b></td><td>Seven terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona, and Vercel Sandbox. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your agent's e...

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- **The self-improving AI agent built by [Nous Research](https://nousresearch.com).** It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to per...
- bash
- hermes # Interactive CLI — start a conversation

- Source: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/run-a-self-improving-personal-agent-with-hermes-agent/)