Hermes Desktop

Hermes One is a community maintained desktop companion for Hermes Agent, the open source AI agent from Nous Research. It wraps the agent in a native app for macOS, Windows and Linux so people can set it up and use it without touching a command line. On first launch it walks through installing Hermes Agent locally or connecting to a remote Hermes API server, then lets you pick a model provider with one click setup for OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic or any compatible local or remote endpoint. The agent itself is built around a learning loop. It keeps curated memory, creates skills after complex tasks and improves those skills as they are used, while searching past sessions for recall across conversations. A single gateway connects it to Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal and the CLI, and a built in scheduler runs natural language automations such as daily reports or nightly backups and delivers results to any connected platform. It can spawn isolated subagents for parallel work and offers 14 toolsets covering web search, browser automation, terminal, file operations, code execution, vision, image generation and speech. It suits developers and power users who want a self directed agent on their own hardware, from a small VPS to a GPU cluster, with terminal backends including local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona and Vercel Sandbox. Model choice is open, with more than 300 models reachable through OpenRouter alongside direct providers and local runtimes such as Ollama and LM Studio. The site describes the app as free and open source. No pricing page is published, and any model usage costs depend on the provider you connect. Terminal users can alternatively install Hermes Agent directly without the desktop app.