What Hermes is, and why it is different
Most AI agents you have seen are task tools. You give them a job, they do it, they forget you. Hermes Agent, from Nous Research, is built on a different idea: an agent that is yours, that remembers you, and that gets better the longer you use it.
Three things make it stand out:
It has a persona. A single file, SOUL.md, defines how it talks. Edit it and the agent changes character on the next message.
It remembers. Conversations, facts, and context persist across sessions in a local memory, so it is a companion, not a one-shot.
