Harness · NousResearch/hermes-agent
Hermes Agent
A self-hosted, always-on general-purpose agent with persistent memory, a multi-channel gateway, and a self-improving skills system. Led OpenRouter's platform token board by daily volume as of mid-2026.
aeqi builds one of the harnesses measured here. This board is in method preview and pre-registration — no performance scores are published yet, and we lead with our own losses, not our wins. Read the method & charter →
Result: not yet measured
The facts
- Maintainer
- NousResearch
- License
- MIT
- Category
- Coding + general-purpose
- Headless run
- Yes — `--oneshot` + `--usage-file` (token/cost report for free)
- Native OpenRouter
- — can be pinned to one shared model
- Determinism notes
- Pin via git tag/commit. Ships memory + rules auto-injection — run `--safe-mode` for apples-to-apples.
Where it sits
Performance scores land here only with published traces, under the pre-registered method. Until then, this profile is the fair-run readiness check: can we start Hermes Agent headless and pin it to one shared model to isolate the scaffold?