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It's a sovereign alternative to proprietary cloud AI agents: no dollar subscription, no memory of your exchanges stored with a third party.",[17,18,19,20,21,22],"Self-learning agent: creates and refines its skills from experience","Persistent memory: remembers your exchanges from one session to the next","Searches its past conversations to respond better","LLM provider of your choice, local models possible","Lightweight: runs on an entry-level VPS","Open source (MIT), by Nous Research",[24,27,30],{"title":25,"body":26},"An assistant that knows you","An agent that retains your preferences, your projects and your context over the weeks, instead of starting from scratch with each conversation.",{"title":28,"body":29},"Automation that improves","Hermes learns from every completed task and builds reusable skills, gaining autonomy over time.",{"title":31,"body":32},"Sovereign and private AI","Memory and learning stay on your VPS; no agent data is entrusted to a proprietary cloud service.",[34,37,40,43,46],{"title":35,"body":36},"Order the VPS","Choose a ServOrbit Cloud VPS (4 GB RAM recommended for the build and execution) running Ubuntu 22.04.",{"title":38,"body":39},"Install from source","Hermes Agent is built from the official repository: the script clones the project, builds the Docker image and launches the stack (`docker compose up -d`).",{"title":41,"body":42},"Configure the LLM provider","Fill in the `.env` file (copied from `.env.example`) with the provider and the key of the model you want to use.",{"title":44,"body":45},"Access the dashboard","The Hermes dashboard runs locally on the VPS; place an Nginx or Caddy reverse proxy with SSL in front to access it from your domain over HTTPS.",{"title":47,"body":48},"Let the agent learn","Over the course of your exchanges, Hermes enriches its memory and its skills (`~\u002F.hermes` volume) — back up this volume to preserve the learning.",[50,53,56,59,62],{"q":51,"a":52},"What is Hermes Agent?","Hermes Agent is an open-source (MIT) AI agent developed by Nous Research. Self-hostable, it stands out for its continuous learning: it creates skills from experience and remembers your exchanges from one session to the next.",{"q":54,"a":55},"Is Hermes Agent open source?","Yes, Hermes Agent is released under the MIT license by Nous Research. You can freely self-host it on your own VPS.",{"q":57,"a":58},"What's the difference from a cloud AI assistant?","Unlike a proprietary cloud assistant, Hermes runs on your own infrastructure: its memory and learning stay within your VPS (`~\u002F.hermes` volume), with no dollar subscription and no data entrusted to a third party.",{"q":60,"a":61},"What VPS configuration does Hermes Agent need?","Plan for 4 GB of RAM to build the image and comfortably run the agent and its dashboard. The project is known to be lightweight and works on small configurations once installed.",{"q":63,"a":64},"How do I preserve what the agent has learned?","All of Hermes's memory and skills are stored in the `~\u002F.hermes` volume. 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