Hermes is the open-source, self-improving agent runtime from Nous Research. It hosts Claude Sonnet 4.6 on a $5 VPS with persistent memory, 47 built-in tools, messaging gateways, and skills that outlive the chat window.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bashSimple Preference Optimization for LLM alignment. Reference-free alternative to DPO with better performance (+6.4 points on AlpacaEval 2.0). No reference model needed, more efficient than DPO. Use for
Hermes Agent is created by Nous Research. MIT License. v0.10.0 on PyPI. Docs at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com.
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