Nous Research Releases Hermes Agent v0.9.0: Skill-Compounding Provider-Agnostic CLI

Nous Research has released Hermes Agent v0.9.0, an MIT-licensed open-source provider-agnostic CLI agent (~7K GitHub stars, ~300 contributors) that records every session as a reusable skill trajectory.

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Nous Research Releases Hermes Agent v0.9.0: Skill-Compounding Provider-Agnostic CLI

Nous Research has released Hermes Agent v0.9.0 (MIT license, ~7K GitHub stars, ~300 contributors), a provider-agnostic CLI agent built on the same harness Nous uses internally to generate training data. Every session is recorded as a trajectory, extractable as a reusable skill — meaning a 3-month-old installation outperforms a fresh install as skills accumulate. It supports Claude, GPT, Grok, Kimi, Ollama, and OpenRouter, runs on macOS/Linux/Windows-WSL2, and exposes 16 messaging platform integrations via a gateway mode.

Why It Matters

Positions as the first model-lab-native open agent harness with compounding institutional memory — a meaningful differentiator against stateless chat UIs and a direct competitor to Claude Code's skills system.

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