An agent operating system solves the single biggest productivity tax in AI today: the scattered-agent problem, where five different AI tabs share zero memory and you re-explain your business in every window. The fix is one self-hosted runtime that gives every AI surface — chat, voice, task board, scheduled jobs, and background workers — a single agent, single memory, and one set of skills behind one dashboard. The best open-source implementation in 2026 is Hermes Agent by Nous Research: MI...