Hermes Agent

Overview

Hermes is a self-hosted personal AI agent from Nous Research with a built-in learning loop: it turns experience into reusable skills, searches its own past conversations, and builds a persistent model of you across sessions. It runs a gateway that connects to the model providers you choose and gives the agent real tools, all from a single web dashboard. Your conversations, memory, and workspace files stay on your machine rather than in someone else's cloud.

Features

• Chat with an agent that has real tools: web search, browser automation, files, and multi-step workflows
• A learning loop that turns experience into reusable skills and remembers you across sessions
• Bring your own model provider: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (self-hosted vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, Groq, Together, and more)
• Reach the same agent from the messaging apps you already use: Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp
• All conversations, memory, and workspace files stay on your own server

Setting up

There is no sign-up or account to create. Hermes ships a single administrator account, and malmo generates its dashboard password for you at install. Sign in on the login screen with:

• Username: admin
• Password: generated at install, shown on this app's detail page under its credentials

Before the agent can answer, add at least one model provider: paste an API key for Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or OpenRouter in the dashboard's settings, or point the custom (OpenAI-compatible) provider at any compatible endpoint. Then start chatting.

Good to know

• The agent needs internet access and your own provider API key to answer. Adding a key is not required to install; you can add one in the dashboard afterward.
• Messaging channels that connect outbound (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp) work fully. Channels that instead need to receive calls at their own public address (Microsoft Teams, phone or SMS-style webhooks) are not available in this hosted form, because malmo routes one address to the dashboard.
• Tools and skills that download extra operating-system packages at runtime will not work. Anything built into the image, including the browser tool's bundled Chromium, does work.
• This build runs a single agent profile. The multi-profile gateway manager from upstream's own image is not exposed, and a crashed gateway is not auto-restarted inside the container (malmo restarts the whole app if its health check fails).