Hermes Agent: Teach a Local LLM to Write Its Own Skills

Teach a Local Model to Write Its Own Skills with Hermes Agent

Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent, an open-source agent harness that has become hard to ignore. It crossed 140,000 GitHub stars in under three months and, according to OpenRouter usage, briefly became the single most-used agent in the world. The pitch that made it spread: it is built to get real work done on open-weight, local models, not just frontier APIs, and it improves itself by writing reusable skills from the tasks you give it.