hermes-agent

Install command:
brew install hermes-agent

Self-improving AI agent that creates skills from experience

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com

License: MIT

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/hermes-agent.json

Formula code: hermes-agent.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.22.4
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

certifi 2026.10.23 Mozilla CA bundle for Python
cryptography 50.0.2 Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python
libheif 1.23.7 ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF file format decoder and encoder
node 26.13.0 Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
pillow 13.0.0 Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library)
pydantic 2.14.1 Data validation using Python type hints
python@3.14 3.14.10 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
ripgrep 15.2.0 Search tool like grep and The Silver Searcher
rpds-py 2026.9.1 Python bindings to Rust's persistent data structures
tirith 0.4.2 Detect terminal injection, homograph, and pipe-to-shell attacks

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
rust 1.99.1 Safe, concurrent, practical language

Binaries: hermes, hermes-acp, hermes-agent

Voice and TTS audio format conversion optionally uses ffmpeg:
    brew install ffmpeg

Analytics:

30 days90 days365 days
Installs3,3278,60515,859
Installs (--HEAD)2070207
Installs on Request3,3278,60515,856
Installs on Request (--HEAD)1464201
Build Errors (--HEAD)4
Build Errors1

Known vulnerabilities in the current version:

PYSEC-2024-38 (high)
GHSA-494j-54xm-rwp3 AIOHTTP: Secure attribute not enforced for shared cookie
GHSA-5wr8-gcqf-gqf3 aiohttp server lacks an initial request/header timeout
GHSA-6cjc-53gc-5rqm AIOHTTP: Connector pool exhaustion via Max-Age overflow
GHSA-9xw5-w5jj-pvcg AIOHTTP: File descriptor exhaustion in multipart requests
GHSA-f9xw-jh8m-3mwq AIOHTTP: Absolute-form request targets can spoof Request.scheme
GHSA-gx76-c99x-2c96 AIOHTTP: Cookie from subdomain can remove Host-Only Scope from existing cookies
GHSA-pqxq-w44r-73xw AIOHTTP: Pure-Python parser request smuggling
GHSA-3jp2-3mrg-2vxc (high) OAuthLib: Bearer token can be retrieved as long as client knows a valid client ID for device work...
GHSA-2g87-pp6c-29x5 aiohttp: Multiple instances of excessive or unbounded memory/CPU use

Data from Homebrew/advisory-database. Run brew vulns hermes-agent for a live check.