# fathah/hermes-desktop

Desktop Companion for Hermes Agent

Repository: https://github.com/fathah/hermes-desktop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hermes-desktop
Homepage: https://hermesone.org
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai, ai-agent, autonomous-agents, chatbot, hermes, llm
Last push: 2026-08-24T05:23:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 94, longevity 10
- inputs: {"age_days": 153, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 42, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 36}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 14044, forks 1591 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:05.380705+00:00)

## What it is
Hermes One is a community-maintained native desktop app (Electron + React + TypeScript) for installing, configuring, and chatting with the Hermes Agent, a self-improving AI assistant with tool use and a closed learning loop. It provides a GUI for chat, sessions, memory, skills, scheduling, and messaging gateways across Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and Signal without requiring the CLI.

## Use cases
- install and configure hermes agent without the cli
- chat with an ai agent that remembers me across sessions
- schedule daily reports and automations in natural language
- connect one ai assistant to telegram discord and whatsapp
- run an ai agent with any llm provider including local models
- delegate parallel tasks to subagents
- create reusable skills from past agent tasks

## When to choose
- you want a GUI wrapper for the Hermes Agent instead of managing the CLI
- you need persistent memory, skill creation, and scheduled automations in one desktop app
- you want multi-platform messaging gateways from a single agent
- you want provider flexibility with local models or 300+ hosted models

## When to avoid
- you need a fully stable, production-hardened product - the project is in active development and features may break
- you want a lightweight CLI-only agent without a desktop app
- you don't want to depend on the separate Hermes Agent backend
- you need a web or mobile interface rather than a native desktop app

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, chatbot, chat-interface, llm-inference, scheduling, gui, developer-tools
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, chatbots, cross-platform, self-hosted
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: ai-agent, electron-app, hermes-agent, self-improving-agent, multi-platform-messaging, memory, skills, no-lock-in, local-first, ai-agents, automation, macos, linux, desktop, electron

## Member repositories
- fathah/hermes-desktop (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:05.380705+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:12:51.340811+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fathah/hermes-desktop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:05.380705+00:00, sha 98d6a0ded007)
  - homepage: https://hermesone.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:07:03.425050+00:00, sha 97578136b9d5)
  - site_page: https://hermesone.org/features (fetched 2026-08-29T08:07:03.434763+00:00, sha de638eb7b8bb)
  - site_page: https://hermesone.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:07:03.436881+00:00, sha 81d401d523fb)
  - site_page: https://hermesone.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:07:03.438819+00:00, sha cf4e0ee88437)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.