Hermes Agent Study

What Hermes Agent Study does

The series has 39 articles (32 body chapters plus an upgrade topic), 97 architecture diagrams and more than 13,000 lines of research text. Part I covers usage and principles in 11 chapters, from design philosophy and startup flow to configuration, cron, skills, the gateway, MCP, system prompt assembly, providers, memory, the self-evolution engine and profile isolation. Part II has 14 chapters of source analysis on context compression, session persistence, the tool system, terminal sandboxes, browser automation, MCP, sub-agent delegation and the gateway.

Part III has seven chapters comparing Hermes with related projects, and the series also covers the controversy around EvoMap's claims about Hermes' self-evolve feature and the AutoResearch topic. The study was based on Hermes Agent v0.9.0 and was updated in May 2026 with an article on the v0.10 to v0.14 releases, which it lists as bringing the Transport ABC, an Ink TUI, an autonomous Curator, a multi-agent Kanban, the /goal loop, a PyPI package and native Windows support.

Key features

• 39 articles with 97 architecture diagrams
• Part I: usage, configuration and principles in 11 chapters
• Part II: source analysis in 14 chapters
• Part III: comparison with OpenClaw and other related projects
• Upgrade article covering Hermes v0.10 to v0.14
• Per-chapter upgrade addenda

When to use it

• Learning how the Hermes agent loop, memory and skill system are built
• Comparing Hermes with OpenClaw and similar agent harnesses
• Catching up on what changed between Hermes v0.9 and v0.14

Who it is for: Chinese-reading developers and researchers who want a source-level understanding of Hermes Agent.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

A study of Hermes Agent itself, so it explains the project rather than extending it.

Note: It is written in Chinese and was originally based on Hermes Agent v0.9.0, with later releases covered in an upgrade article and addenda.

FAQ