Hermes
Open-weight instruction-tuned language models
Hermes is Nous Research's family of open-weight instruction-tuned language models.
Model Intelligence
Recent stories
A Hermes and Kimi hackathon build mapped a local filmmaking pipeline with prompt packets, browser workers, Syncthing handoff, image ranking, and taste memory. It matters because subscription-only tools can be folded into a reusable production loop, but the taste model is still early and creator-specific.
Cross-author demos showed Hermes using self-rewriting skill files, timeboxed subagents, and recurring brief workflows that improved over repeated runs. It matters because creators and vibe-coders can compound agent behavior across sessions, though the evidence still comes from user-run setups rather than a full official product brief.