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Decision brief
Hermes-agent is an AI agent tool that facilitates interaction with various LLM providers and allows for extensive configuration through a CLI.
Good fit when
- When you need a tool that can be configured to work with multiple LLM providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and others.
- If you prefer a command-line interface for setting up and managing your AI agent configurations.
Avoid when
- If you require a graphical user interface for managing your AI agent configurations, as Hermes-agent primarily operates through a CLI.
- When you are working exclusively with a single LLM provider and do not need the flexibility to switch between different providers.
- Pricing:
- freemium - The tool is free to use under the MIT license, but additional services or features may incur costs.
- Requirements:
- Min 2 GB RAM; The tool requires the GitHub CLI to be installed, which can be installed via winget.
Observed Sep 18, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Adoption
Package downloads where a registry match exists. GitHub stars (246,684) are secondary evidence.
- Docker Hub pulls (30d)
- 11,253,665·Docker Hub API·Sep 18, 2026
Maintenance and security
Full trust report- Maintenance
- Very active (0d since push)
- As of Sep 18, 2026
- Provenance
- Not a fork · Organization account
- As of Sep 18, 2026
- Security (OSV)
- No lockfile
- As of Sep 18, 2026
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Install
pip install hermes-agentHow it fits your stack(54)
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Overview
Hermes-agent is an AI agent tool that allows users to interact with various LLM providers and configure tools and settings through a CLI.
Capability facts
- Deploy
- Self-host
Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Sep 18, 2026
- Docker
- Dockerfile present
Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Sep 18, 2026
- CLI
- CLI entrypoint
Source: pyproject.toml:[project.scripts] · Sep 18, 2026
- MCP server
- No MCP server detected
Source: repo_scan · Sep 18, 2026
- Languages
- python, javascript
Source: github.language+package.json+pyproject.toml · Sep 18, 2026
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README
Install GitHub CLI if needed winget install id GitHub.cli Getting Started 📖 Full documentation → License MIT — see LICENSE. Built by Nous Research.
For agents
This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.