Hermes Desktop

What Hermes Desktop does

Hermes Desktop is a community project that bundles chat, tools, memory and skills into one portable Windows build. The README lists more than 27 tools (file operations, shell, web fetch and search, code sandbox, browser automation, vision and TTS), parallel execution of read-only tools, runtime model switching between providers such as Claude, GPT, Ollama, Qwen and DeepSeek, sub-agent spawning with five profiles, and 94 skills in 28 categories.

Identity and memory follow Hermes conventions: SOUL.md, USER.md and AGENTS.md files, 12 soul templates, and an Obsidian-compatible markdown wiki with SQLite FTS5 search. Data lives in a hermes folder under %LOCALAPPDATA%. The app can reach Telegram and Discord, loads MCP servers from mcp.json, and has eight pages: Dashboard, Chat, Agent, Skills, Memory, Buddy, Integrations and Settings. It runs on Windows 10 (1809 or later) and Windows 11.

Key features

• 27+ built-in tools with permission gating for mutating actions
• Runtime model switching across Claude, GPT, Ollama, Qwen, DeepSeek and others
• SOUL.md and USER.md identity files with 12 soul templates
• Markdown wiki knowledge base with SQLite FTS5 full-text search
• MCP host that loads servers from mcp.json
• Telegram and Discord integrations

When to use it

• Using a Hermes-style agent natively on Windows without a terminal
• Switching between cloud and local models in the middle of a conversation
• Keeping persona files and a personal wiki that the agent reads every session

Who it is for: Windows users who want a desktop app built around Hermes-style agent concepts instead of a terminal setup.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

A community Windows app that adopts Hermes Agent concepts such as SOUL.md, USER.md, skills and a hermes configuration folder, while describing its own in-process runtime written in C#.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1809+) or Windows 11, and an API key for a model provider set in config.yaml

Note: The repository has no license file, and the README says there is no in-app auto-updater yet.

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