The AI Agent That Remembers What It Learned
Hermes Agent remembers past conversations, learns from mistakes, and connects to Slack, Discord and Telegram. Free, self-hosted, built by Nous Research.
An assistant with a memory
Most AI tools start from scratch every time you use them. You ask something, they answer, and tomorrow they've forgotten everything. Hermes Agent works differently.
When it figures out how to solve something tricky — say, pulling a weekly sales report together from three different places — it writes itself a little note about how it did it. Next time that task comes up, it doesn't have to think from zero. It already knows.
Over time, it becomes your assistant, shaped by your work.
It lives where your team already talks
You can chat with it through Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, or Discord — whichever you already use. No new app to install, no new habit to form. It can also run tasks on a schedule, in plain language. Things like "send me a summary of this week's bookings every Friday at 6pm" just... work.
Why it matters for a business owner
You own your data. It runs on your own server, shares nothing with anyone, and costs nothing beyond the hosting. It's not a subscription that disappears if the startup behind it folds.
This is the kind of tool worth watching — not because it's shiny, but because the idea of an assistant that genuinely learns your business is quietly one of the most useful things happening in AI right now.
Words worth knowing
Self-hosted — the software runs on a computer you control, not on someone else's cloud. Your data stays yours.
Persistent memory — instead of forgetting everything after each conversation, the agent keeps what it's learned and builds on it over time.
Cron job — a task set to run automatically at a specific time, like a recurring alarm for your software. "Every Monday at 9am, do this."
MIT license — a type of open-source permission that means you can use, modify, and run the software freely, even for commercial purposes.
If you use Telegram or Slack with your team already, it's worth imagining what a persistent assistant living inside those chats could eventually know about how your business works.
Try it
Linux, macOS, WSL2, or Termux on Android. Takes about three minutes.
- Run the install script:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash - Reload your shell:
source ~/.zshrc(or~/.bashrc) - Start chatting:
hermes - Add the API key for the model you want it to use when it asks
- Optionally connect Slack, Discord, or Telegram from the menu