Official Hermes Agent repositories from Nous Research
These repositories are published by Nous Research, the team that builds Hermes Agent. Start here for the agent itself, the official sandbox images and the first-party tools that the rest of the ecosystem builds on.
Top 12 official by GitHub stars
Open-source self-improving AI agent from Nous Research with a terminal UI and a messaging gateway
NousResearch Hermes Agent Self-EvolutionOptimizes Hermes Agent skills with DSPy and GEPA through API calls, with no GPU training required
NousResearch Hermes Paperclip AdapterAdapter that runs Hermes Agent as a managed employee inside a Paperclip company
NousResearch autonovelAutonomous pipeline that writes, revises, typesets, illustrates and narrates a complete novel
NousResearch Hermes Function CallingReference code for Hermes Pro models to run function calling and JSON mode against a tool schema
NousResearch AtroposArchived Nous Research framework of RL environments for collecting and evaluating LLM trajectories
NousResearch Hermes Bot ModeArchived plugin that turns Hermes profiles into named bots; now bundled in Hermes Desktop
NousResearch AutoreasonPaper and experiment code for a self-refinement method that treats doing nothing as a valid option
NousResearch pokemon-agentHeadless Pokemon emulator with a REST API and live dashboard that lets Hermes Agent or any LLM agent play
NousResearch Claude Subscription DirectSDK (Experimental)Official Hermes plugin that drives the Claude Code CLI as a model provider
NousResearch hermes-plugin-backsearchHermes Agent plugin for point-in-time web search and fetch over a frozen news archive
NousResearch Kanban Video PipelineHermes Kanban demo where four agent profiles make a video explaining Hermes Kanban from one command
All 23 official repos
Click a column to sort| NousResearch/hermes-agentOpen-source self-improving AI agent from Nous Research with a terminal UI and a messaging gateway | Python | 252,327 | Oct 10, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-agent-self-evolutionOptimizes Hermes Agent skills with DSPy and GEPA through API calls, with no GPU training required | Python | 5,481 | Jun 17, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-paperclip-adapterAdapter that runs Hermes Agent as a managed employee inside a Paperclip company | TypeScript | 1,955 | Apr 4, 2026 |
| NousResearch/autonovelAutonomous pipeline that writes, revises, typesets, illustrates and narrates a complete novel | Python | 1,614 | Mar 20, 2026 |
| NousResearch/Hermes-Function-CallingReference code for Hermes Pro models to run function calling and JSON mode against a tool schema | Jupyter Notebook | 1,482 | Dec 22, 2025 |
| NousResearch/atroposArchived Nous Research framework of RL environments for collecting and evaluating LLM trajectories | Python | 1,355 | Jul 4, 2026 |
| NousResearch/Hermes-Bot-ModeArchived plugin that turns Hermes profiles into named bots; now bundled in Hermes Desktop | JavaScript | 670 | Aug 17, 2026 |
| NousResearch/autoreasonPaper and experiment code for a self-refinement method that treats doing nothing as a valid option | TeX | 607 | Apr 12, 2026 |
| NousResearch/pokemon-agentHeadless Pokemon emulator with a REST API and live dashboard that lets Hermes Agent or any LLM agent play | Python | 182 | Jun 2, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-plugin-claude-subscription-directsdkOfficial Hermes plugin that drives the Claude Code CLI as a model provider | Python | 113 | Oct 7, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-plugin-backsearchHermes Agent plugin for point-in-time web search and fetch over a frozen news archive | Python | 63 | Aug 30, 2026 |
| NousResearch/kanban-video-pipelineHermes Kanban demo where four agent profiles make a video explaining Hermes Kanban from one command | Python | 60 | May 2, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-telegram-businessTelegram Business Mode secretary-bot plugin where every drafted reply needs owner approval | Python | 43 | Aug 15, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-example-pluginsReference plugins from Nous Research showing each Hermes Agent plugin surface in minimal code | Python | 42 | Oct 5, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-memory-wikiHermes dashboard plugin with a browsable session-history wiki and a read-only memory audit panel | Python | 34 | Sep 15, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-compression-evalOffline probe-based evaluation harness for the Hermes Agent ContextCompressor | Python | 21 | May 16, 2026 |
| NousResearch/forge-api-demoNous Research demo CLI for Forge API reasoning completions, with Hermes-3-70b as orchestrator | Python | 18 | Nov 12, 2024 |
| NousResearch/hermes-plugin-snykHermes Agent plugin that runs Snyk code, dependency, container and IaC scans through Snyk's MCP server | — | 10 | Sep 12, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-plugin-touchdesignerHermes plugin from Nous Research that drives TouchDesigner through the twozero MCP server | Shell | 6 | Sep 12, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-plugin-supermemoryStandalone Supermemory memory provider for Hermes Agent with profile recall and semantic search | Python | 6 | Sep 17, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-homeassistantOfficial Hermes Agent plugin adding a Home Assistant gateway platform and four smart-home tools | Python | 4 | Oct 3, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-nvidiaHermes plugins for the NVIDIA App and NVIDIA Broadcast MCP servers and skills on Windows | — | 4 | Sep 30, 2026 |
| NousResearch/hermes-desktop-accent-pickerOKLCH accent colour picker in the Hermes Desktop status bar for theme authors | TypeScript | 3 | Sep 10, 2026 |
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The main project is NousResearch/hermes-agent on GitHub. It contains the agent, the terminal interface, the messaging gateway and the installers for Linux, macOS, WSL2 and native Windows.
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