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Hermes Agentby Nous ResearchRemove Hermes Agent from this comparisonAgent Nativeby Builder.ioRemove Agent Native from this comparison
Sets it apart
  • Only one with a CLI
  • Official Nous Research listing
  • Most skills (5)
  • Streams responses
  • Only one with an API
  • Only one with an MCP server
  • No auth required
  • Newest listing (added Sep 18, 2026)
What it isRuns a self-improving personal agent from a terminal TUI or a Telegram/Discord/Slack gateway, creating its own skills, searching past sessions, and scheduling unattended tasks.Provides a framework and thirteen MCP servers for building agentic apps, covering mail, calendar, chat, content, design, slides, forms, and analytics surfaces.
ProviderNous ResearchBuilder.io
Official vendorNous ResearchNot an official listing
VerifiedYesSame for all
AccessCLIAPI, MCP
AuthAPI KeyNone
MCP serverNo MCP serverIn its setup guide
CLI installInstall scriptcurl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bashNo CLI
API base URLNo APIIn its docs
SkillsAutonomous Skill Creation, Multi-Platform Messaging Gateway, Scheduled Automation Runs, Parallel Subagent Delegation, Cross-Session Memory SearchMCP Suite, Agent Brain, App Framework
StreamingYesNo
Push notificationsYesNo
CategoriesOrchestration, Communication & Messaging, Memory & StateOrchestration, Autonomous Agents, Code & DevTools
Tagsskill-autogeneration, messaging-gateway, telegram-bot, cron-scheduling, task-delegation, terminal-tui, model-routing, persistent-memoryagentic-framework, mcp-suite, react, typescript, app-scaffolding, multi-server, builder-io
Listed sinceAug 1, 2026Sep 18, 2026
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hermes-agentcliOnly one with a CLI; Official Nous Research listing; Most skills (5); Streams responsesagent-nativemcp+apiOnly one with an API; Only one with an MCP server; No auth required; Newest listing (added Sep 18, 2026)
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descriptionRuns a self-improving personal agent from a terminal TUI or a Telegram/Discord/Slack gateway, creating its own skills, searching past sessions, and scheduling unattended tasks. | Provides a framework and thirteen MCP servers for building agentic apps, covering mail, calendar, chat, content, design, slides, forms, and analytics surfaces.
providerNous Research | Builder.io
officialNous Research | Not an official listing
verified (same)Yes
accessCLI | API, MCP
authAPI Key | None
mcpNo MCP server | In its setup guide
cliInstall script: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash | No CLI
apiNo API | In its docs
skillsAutonomous Skill Creation, Multi-Platform Messaging Gateway, Scheduled Automation Runs, Parallel Subagent Delegation, Cross-Session Memory Search | MCP Suite, Agent Brain, App Framework
streamingYes | No
pushYes | No
categoriesOrchestration, Communication & Messaging, Memory & State | Orchestration, Autonomous Agents, Code & DevTools
tagsskill-autogeneration, messaging-gateway, telegram-bot, cron-scheduling, task-delegation, terminal-tui, model-routing, persistent-memory | agentic-framework, mcp-suite, react, typescript, app-scaffolding, multi-server, builder-io
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