Learn Hermes Agent

What Learn Hermes Agent does

Every chapter has a reference implementation under agents/sNN_*.py and a written explanation under docs/en, with Chinese docs under docs/zh. The chapters fall into five stages: a single-agent core with persistence, then memory, skills and safety, then a multi-platform gateway with terminal backends and scheduling, then advanced capabilities such as MCP, browser, voice and vision, and finally self-improvement topics including skill creation, hooks, trajectories, plugins and evaluation.

The README states that it does not mirror every product detail of the Hermes Agent codebase and leaves out packaging, Nix flakes, billing wiring, telemetry and platform-specific API quirks. It concentrates on mechanisms such as the agent loop, tool registry and dispatch, SQLite session storage with FTS5, prompt assembly, context compression, a permission check for dangerous commands, and a gateway that listens on Telegram, Discord, Slack and WeChat. Readers are assumed to know basic Python, classes and async/await.

Key features

• 27 chapters in five stages, from a single-agent core to self-improvement
• Runnable reference code for each chapter under agents/
• English and Chinese documentation
• Covers the agent loop, tool dispatch, SQLite session storage with FTS5 and context compression
• Covers skills, MCP, a multi-platform gateway, terminal backends and scheduling

When to use it

• Learning how an agent harness such as Hermes Agent is put together before reading its source
• Rebuilding a minimal agent with memory, skills and a messaging gateway
• Teaching agent architecture to a team with a fixed reading order

Who it is for: Python developers who are new to agent systems and want to understand the mechanisms behind agents like Hermes Agent.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It is a teaching resource inspired by Hermes Agent that explains the same mechanisms, but it is a separate implementation and does not install into Hermes.

Requirements: Basic Python, including functions, classes and async/await

Note: It is an independent teaching implementation inspired by Hermes Agent, not a copy of the production code.

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