Hermes Agent - Ollama

Hermes Agent is a self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It features automatic skill creation, cross-session memory, and 70+ skills that it ships with by default.

Quick start

bash

ollama launch hermes

Ollama handles everything automatically:

Install — If Hermes isn't installed, Ollama prompts to install it via the Nous Research install script
Model — Pick a model from the selector (local or cloud)
Onboarding — Ollama configures the Ollama provider, points Hermes at http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1, and sets your model as the primary
Gateway — Optionally connects a messaging platform (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Email) and launches the Hermes chat

<Note>Hermes on Windows requires WSL2. Install it with wsl --install and re-run from inside the WSL shell.</Note>

Recommended models

Cloud models:

kimi-k2.5:cloud — Multimodal reasoning with subagents
glm-5.1:cloud — Reasoning and code generation
qwen3.5:cloud — Reasoning, coding, and agentic tool use with vision
minimax-m2.7:cloud — Fast, efficient coding and real-world productivity

Local models:

gemma4 — Reasoning and code generation locally (~16 GB VRAM)
qwen3.6 — Reasoning, coding, and visual understanding locally (~24 GB VRAM)

More models at ollama.com/search.

Connect messaging apps

Link Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, or Email to chat with your models from anywhere:

bash

hermes gateway setup

Reconfigure

Re-run the full setup wizard at any time:

bash

hermes setup

Manual setup

If you'd rather drive Hermes's own wizard instead of ollama launch hermes, install it directly:

bash

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Hermes launches the setup wizard automatically. Choose Quick setup:

How would you like to set up Hermes?

 →  Quick setup — provider, model & messaging (recommended)
    Full setup — configure everything

Connect to Ollama

Select More providers...
Select Custom endpoint (enter URL manually)

Set the API base URL to the Ollama OpenAI-compatible endpoint:

API base URL [e.g. https://api.example.com/v1]: http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1

Leave the API key blank (not required for local Ollama):
```
API key [optional]:
```

Hermes auto-detects downloaded models, confirm the one you want:

Verified endpoint via http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1/models (1 model(s) visible)
  Detected model: kimi-k2.5:cloud
  Use this model? [Y/n]:

Leave context length blank to auto-detect:

Context length in tokens [leave blank for auto-detect]:

Connect messaging

Optionally connect a messaging platform during setup:

Connect a messaging platform? (Telegram, Discord, etc.)

 →  Set up messaging now (recommended)
    Skip — set up later with 'hermes setup gateway'

Launch

Launch hermes chat now? [Y/n]: Y