Name: Hermes Agent Setup: A Free, Self-Improving AI CLI
Uploaded: 2026-09-03T21:33:37+00:00
Duration: 1 min 1 s
Description: Hermes Agent is a free, open-source AI agent from Nous Research that creates and improves its own skills as you use it, and it's trending on GitHub with more than 240,000 stars. Setup takes about 10 minutes: run one install command, connect a free Nous Portal login with no API key, then have your first real conversation.

Hermes Agent Setup: A Free, Self-Improving AI CLI.

Tutorials · 2026-09-04 · 61s

Hermes Agent is a free, open-source AI agent from Nous Research that creates and improves its own skills as you use it, and it's trending on GitHub with more than 240,000 stars. Setup takes about 10 minutes: run one install command, connect a free Nous Portal login with no API key, then have your first real conversation.

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This AI agent writes its own skills, remembers you across sessions, and lives in your terminal or your messaging apps. It just crossed two hundred forty thousand stars on GitHub. Let me set it up. It is called Hermes Agent, built by Nous Research, free and open source. One command installs everything it needs, Python, Node, even a portable Git, no manual setup. On Windows, just run the install script in PowerShell. Mac and Linux get the same one-liner with curl. Now the part that usually costs you five API keys. Hermes has a free login called Nous Portal. One command, one browser login, no keys to copy anywhere. Run the doctor command to check everything is wired up. Then open the terminal interface and ask it something real, like summarizing the repo you are sitting in. It replies, it uses tools, and it remembers the conversation next time you open it. Free, self-improving, and yours to run anywhere.