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Categories/AI Orchestration & MLOps/Nous Research
Nous Research

Nous Research

Founded by Jeffrey Quesnelle in 2023

Run an open-source autonomous agent locally on your desktop or terminal

Pricing model

Free

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Hermes Agent to run an autonomous agent directly on your computer through a terminal interface or desktop application. The system learns from your interactions, builds new skills from experience, and retains knowledge across different sessions. It allows you to run open-source language models locally on your hardware or connect to external reasoning models. You can automate programming workflows, execute terminal commands, test agentic benchmarks, and integrate custom tools to handle repetitive computing tasks directly on your local operating system without remote servers.

What Nous Research does

Install the Hermes terminal application via command lineRun local agent workflows on desktop hardwareCreate persistent skills from practical executionExecute terminal commands using natural languageConnect local image generation pipelines in ComfyUITrack agent reasoning performance on local benchmarksBuilt-in learning loop that creates new skills from experiencePersistent memory that retains user context across sessionsTerminal user interface for command-line executionDesktop application available for Mac, Windows, and LinuxSupport for local model execution without cloud dependenciesIntegration with ComfyUI and MuseTree for creative generationOne-click installation via the Microsoft Store

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free

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