Features

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In this section

• Features Overview
• Tools & Toolsets

  Overview of Hermes Agent's tools — what's available, how toolsets work, and terminal backends

• Nous Tool Gateway

  Route web search, image generation, text-to-speech, and browser automation through your Nous subscription — no extra API keys needed

• Skills System

  On-demand knowledge documents — progressive disclosure, agent-managed skills, and the Skills Hub

• Persistent Memory

  How Hermes Agent remembers across sessions — MEMORY.md, USER.md, and session search

• MCP (Model Context Protocol)

  Connect Hermes Agent to external tool servers via MCP — and control exactly which MCP tools Hermes loads

• Memory Providers

  External memory provider plugins — Honcho, OpenViking, Mem0, Hindsight, Holographic, RetainDB, ByteRover, Supermemory

• Browser Automation

  Control browsers with multiple providers, local Chrome via CDP, or cloud browsers for web interaction, form filling, scraping, and more.

• Scheduled Tasks (Cron)

  Schedule automated tasks with natural language, manage them with one cron tool, and attach one or more skills

• Event Hooks

  Run custom code at key lifecycle points — log activity, send alerts, post to webhooks

• Image Generation

  Generate images via FAL.ai — 8 models including FLUX 2, GPT-Image, Nano Banana Pro, Ideogram, Recraft V4 Pro, and more, selectable via `hermes tools`.

• Provider Routing

  Configure OpenRouter provider preferences to optimize for cost, speed, or quality.

• Subagent Delegation

  Spawn isolated child agents for parallel workstreams with delegate_task

• Vision & Image Paste

  Paste images from your clipboard into the Hermes CLI for multimodal vision analysis.

• Code Execution

  Programmatic Python execution with RPC tool access — collapse multi-step workflows into a single turn

• Context Files

  Project context files — .hermes.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, global SOUL.md, and .cursorrules — automatically injected into every conversation

• Fallback Providers

  Configure automatic failover to backup LLM providers when your primary model is unavailable.

• Context References

  Inline @-syntax for attaching files, folders, git diffs, and URLs directly into your messages

• Credential Pools

  Pool multiple API keys or OAuth tokens per provider for automatic rotation and rate limit recovery.

• Personality & SOUL.md

  Customize Hermes Agent's personality with a global SOUL.md, built-in personalities, and custom persona definitions

• Voice & TTS

  Text-to-speech and voice message transcription across all platforms

• Skins & Themes

  Customize the Hermes CLI with built-in and user-defined skins

• Voice Mode

  Real-time voice conversations with Hermes Agent — CLI, Telegram, Discord (DMs, text channels, and voice channels)

• ACP Editor Integration

  Use Hermes Agent inside ACP-compatible editors such as VS Code, Zed, and JetBrains

• Plugins

  Extend Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and integrations via the plugin system

• Batch Processing

  Generate agent trajectories at scale — parallel processing, checkpointing, and toolset distributions

• RL Training

  Reinforcement learning on agent behaviors with Tinker-Atropos — environment discovery, training, and evaluation

• API Server

  Expose hermes-agent as an OpenAI-compatible API for any frontend

• Web Dashboard

  Browser-based dashboard for managing configuration, API keys, sessions, logs, analytics, cron jobs, and skills

• Dashboard Plugins

  Build custom tabs and extensions for the Hermes web dashboard

• Honcho Memory

  AI-native persistent memory via Honcho — dialectic reasoning, multi-agent user modeling, and deep personalization