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Hermes Agent is a free, open-source AI agent from Nous Research that you install on your own computer or server. You choose the AI model and pay that provider. It can search and browse the web, run scheduled jobs, chat with you on Telegram, Slack and other apps, and use skills, which are folders with a SKILL.md file.
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Hermes skills follow the agentskills.io standard. Save one in ~/.hermes/skills/ and it becomes a slash command with the skill's name. Hermes can also write and improve its own skills as it works.
Example: /meeting-recap Turn these notes into decisions and actions.
Ask in plain language or use /cron add to run a task on a schedule, such as every Monday at 9am. Each run starts a fresh session, so the job's instructions must be complete, and the result can go to a chat app such as Telegram.
Example: Every Monday at 9am, summarize last week's support requests and send me the summary on Telegram.
Web search works on a fresh install, and a browser tool reads pages that need the live page. The bundled Google Workspace skill connects Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets and Docs through your own Google Cloud project.
Example: Search the web for this company's latest news and list the sources with dates.
A recipe is a step-by-step setup you build in Hermes Agent yourself. Each one shows what you provide, what you get, and a setup prompt to copy. Examples are illustrative, not recorded results.
Keep your lead pipeline in a sheet from Gmail
Every day your agent reads Gmail, adds new leads to a Google Sheet and keeps each lead's last contact, follow-up date and next step current, then tells you who needs a reply and who has gone quiet.
Track job applicants in a sheet from Gmail
Every day your agent reads Gmail, logs each new job application in a Google Sheet and keeps reply dates current, then tells you which applicants are waiting for your answer.
Plan your LinkedIn outreach in a Google Sheet
Each morning your agent reads your prospect sheet and LinkedIn's emails in Gmail, drafts the invitations, first messages and follow-ups that are due, and tells you who to contact. You send them yourself.
Win back customers who have gone quiet
Every day your agent checks your customer sheet against Gmail, finds customers who have gone quiet and drafts a personal check-in for each one, then tells you who to contact. You send them yourself.
Track time off requests from Gmail in a sheet
Every day your agent reads Gmail, logs your team's time off requests and sick days in a Google Sheet, flags days when too many people are off, and lists the requests waiting for your decision.
Build a 13-week cash flow forecast from your bank balance, invoices and bills
Give today's bank balance, open invoices, bills, payroll and regular costs, and get a week-by-week cash table for the next 13 weeks, the weeks that dip below your cash buffer and what happens if customers pay late. Paste the figures each time, or keep them in a Google Sheet or folder for a weekly refresh. A planning aid, not advice.
Answer customer questions from your FAQ, prices and policies
Get a reply draft for each customer question that cites the FAQ, price list or policy it used, from questions you paste or new customer email in Gmail. Complaints, refunds and questions your documents don't cover go to a person with a hand-off note. Nothing is sent.
A skill is a folder of instructions that Hermes Agent can use for a specific task. Add it once, then ask for the task in your own words.
Turn call notes into a recap email that promises only what was agreed, proposed CRM changes and a task list with owners and dates.
Compare accounting records with a clear audit trail, separate uncertain matches, and explain remaining differences.
Combine supplied sources into a clear answer that preserves evidence, disagreement, and uncertainty.
Extract requested fields into a source-linked table without guessing missing or unreadable values.
Check a named company against your customer criteria and return a sourced fit brief.
Turn team notes into a repeatable process with clear owners, decisions, exceptions, and completion checks.
Prepare a focused sales-call brief from meeting notes and customer history, with evidence, questions, and a realistic next step.
Choose what to publish, improve or stop using audience evidence, existing content and production capacity.
Write page-specific website copy with a message map, supported claims and visible commercial terms.
Sort support tickets by evidence-based priority with draft first replies, and package cases that need another team into a clear handoff.
Turn a supplied dataset into a readable chart with reproducible steps and observations supported by the data.
Organize proposed product work into a roadmap that makes priorities, dependencies, and unanswered decisions clear.
We have not run these setups ourselves. Recipes are written from public Hermes Agent documentation, and their examples are illustrative.
| Hermes Agent | OpenClaw | Claude Code | n8n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Your own computer or server: Linux, Apple Silicon Mac, Windows or WSL2, through a terminal, desktop app or chat apps | Your own computer or server, with a terminal UI, a web dashboard and chat apps such as Telegram and Slack | Terminal, IDE extensions, Claude Desktop and the web | n8n Cloud or your own server |
| Connected apps | Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Sheets and Docs through the bundled Google Workspace skill; built-in web search and browser; Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp and other chat apps | Gmail, Google Calendar, Sheets, Docs and Drive search through the bundled gog skill; a built-in browser and web search; Slack, WhatsApp and other chat channels | Your project files, MCP connectors and skills | App nodes such as Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, HubSpot and Jira, plus HTTP requests |
| Scheduling | Built-in cron jobs, created in plain language, with /cron add or with hermes cron create; the gateway must be running | Built-in automations with cron times, intervals or one-time runs; the Gateway must be running for them to fire | Yes: routines in the cloud or desktop scheduled tasks | Yes: the Schedule Trigger, for published workflows |
| Plan | Free and open source (MIT); you pay only for model usage, through your own provider key or Nous Portal | Free and open source (MIT), with no hosted tier; you pay your model provider or reuse a Claude Code or Codex login | Claude subscription or Anthropic Console account | n8n Cloud plans or the free self-hosted Community edition, plus model costs |
| Countries | No country limits in the official docs; your model provider's terms apply | No country limits in the official docs; your model provider's terms apply | Where Claude is available | n8n Cloud terms apply; self-hosting runs where you host it |
Hermes Agent is free and open source under the MIT license. You pay only for the AI model it uses, through your own provider key or a Nous Portal account; local models cost nothing to run.
Yes. Hermes skills follow the agentskills.io standard, and our skills have the name and description it needs. Save the SKILL.md in ~/.hermes/skills/<skill-name>/, start a new chat and call it with / and the skill's name.
Yes, through the bundled Google Workspace skill. Ask Hermes to set up Google Workspace: you create a Google Cloud project and a Desktop app OAuth client, then approve access in your browser. For email only, the himalaya skill works with a Gmail app password.
Yes. Ask in plain language, such as every Monday at 9am, or use /cron add. Jobs run only while the gateway is running, and each run starts a fresh session.
Its approvals cover risky shell commands, and scheduled jobs deny them by default. The Google Workspace skill can still send email or edit Sheets, so the recipes here tell Hermes to prepare drafts only.
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