Nous Research
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hermes-agent-self-evolution: Hermes Agent Self-Evolution: When an Agent Starts Rewriting Its Own Skills
A look at the GEPA loop, the Skill-as-Module abstraction, and the guardrails that keep self-improvement from turning into prompt bloat.
hermes-agent: Hermes Agent: The Open-Source Agent That Actually Remembers
A deep look at Nous Research’s persistent, multi-platform agent framework, where memory is writable, skills are durable, and the interface is no longer tied to one machine.
hermes-agent: Hermes Agent: The Open-Source Assistant That Learns What To Remember
A persistent, model-agnostic agent framework that turns conversations into memory, skills, and future training data across CLI, chat apps, and serverless infrastructure.
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Hermes-Bot-Mode
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Bot Mode for the Hermes desktop: a roster of named agents with their own chats, avatars, routines, and bot-to-bot messaging. Desktop plugin, no core patches.
hermes-plugin-claude-subscription-directsdk
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Hermes Agent model-provider plugin: Claude Pro/Max subscription through the official Claude Code CLI (experimental)
hermes-plugin-backsearch
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BackSearch plugin for Hermes Agent — point-in-time web search & fetch over a frozen news archive (General Reasoning)
hermes-memory-wiki
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Memory Wiki dashboard plugin for Hermes Agent: browsable session-history wiki + persistent-memory audit panel
hermes-plugin-snyk
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Hermes Agent plugin: Snyk code/dependency/container/IaC scanning via Snyk's first-party MCP server, with the snyk-security-scan skill bundled (Agent Plugins v1)
hermes-plugin-sprites
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Sprites terminal backend plugin for Hermes Agent — stateful Fly.io cloud sandboxes with checkpoint & restore
hermes-plugin-blender
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Hermes portable plugin for the official Blender Lab MCP server and workflow skill
hermes-plugin-honcho
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Handoff: standalone Hermes memory provider plugin (honcho). Honcho AI-native memory — cross-session user modeling with dialectic Q&A, semantic search, and persistent conc
hermes-plugin-supermemory
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Handoff: standalone Hermes memory provider plugin (supermemory). Supermemory semantic long-term memory with profile recall, semantic search, explicit memory tools, and per-tur
hermes-plugin-touchdesigner
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Hermes Agent plugin: drive TouchDesigner via the twozero MCP server, with the touchdesigner-mcp skill bundled (Agent Plugins v1)
hermes-plugin-openviking
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Handoff: standalone Hermes memory provider plugin (openviking). OpenViking context database — session-managed memory with automatic extraction, tiered retrieval, and filesyst
hermes-nvidia
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Hermes plugin: NVIDIA App and NVIDIA Broadcast MCP servers and skills (Windows). Portable Agent Plugin; gating under extensions["com.nousresearch.hermes"].
hermes-desktop-accent-picker
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OKLCH accent colour picker for the Hermes Desktop status bar — theme-authoring tool, retints the whole app live
hermes-plugin-tirith
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Archived prototype, not maintained. Hermes does not ship a tirith plugin.
hermes-homeassistant
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Home Assistant gateway platform and smart-home tools for Hermes Agent (official plugin)
hermes-plugin-retaindb
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Unmaintained — looking for an owner (leaves Hermes core Oct 15, 2026). Standalone copy of the Hermes Agent retaindb memory provider (RetainDB cloud memory API). Not maintained by Nous Research.
hermes-plugin-mem0
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Handoff: standalone Hermes memory provider plugin (mem0). Mem0 — server-side LLM fact extraction with semantic search, automatic deduplication, and opt-in reranking (pl
hermes-plugin-holographic
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Unmaintained — looking for an owner (leaves Hermes core Oct 15, 2026). Standalone copy of the Hermes Agent holographic memory provider (local SQLite fact store, HRR retrieval). Not maintained by Nous Research.
hermes-plugin-byterover
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Unmaintained — looking for an owner (leaves Hermes core Oct 15, 2026). Standalone copy of the Hermes Agent byterover memory provider (ByteRover knowledge tree via the brv CLI). Not maintained by Nous Research.