Guide · AGENT
How to set up Hermes Agent, an AI assistant that learns how you work
By Ben Lane
Art: Nous Research, from the Hermes Agent site
Most of us explain the same job to AI every single time: who we are, what the business does, how we like the answer laid out. Hermes Agent remembers. It is a free, open-source assistant from Nous Research that keeps a short profile of you between conversations, writes down how it did a job so it can do it again, and can send you the result on your phone at a time you choose. It has more than 254,000 stars on GitHub, and this month Nous Research raised $90 million to build a version for businesses. This guide takes you from nothing to an assistant that knows how you like things done and sends you a report you taught it, every Monday at 8am, with what it costs to run and what to keep it away from while you learn to trust it.
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