Hermes

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-hosted agent from Nous Research. It keeps persistent memory across sessions, builds reusable skills from the tasks it completes, and talks to you over Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, or the CLI through a single gateway.

An always-on agent needs an always-on home. Our exe.dev VMs are ideal places to run it, because they are isolated by default, with a protected, authenticated HTTPS endpoint by default.

To set it up, create a VM with ssh exe.dev new, SSH in, and run the one-line installer:

curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash

Then run hermes setup to pick a model provider and configure the messaging gateway, and hermes doctor to verify the install. Run hermes to start chatting.

Coming from Openclaw? hermes claw migrate imports your existing settings, memories, and skills.