Verdict: Hermes Agent is a free, open-source (MIT-licensed) AI agent from Nous Research, and the gap between installing it and actually using it is almost entirely about which tools you plug in. The five setups below cover the jobs it does best today: rendering videos from HTML, delegating work to a Kanban-based agent team, turning your documents into podcasts and videos, building websites and small apps, and tying all of it into one self-hosted dashboard. Every component listed is free at the ...