Hermes Agent Orange Book

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Hermes Agent 2.0: The Complete Guide

橙皮书 (Orange Book) Series · by HuaShu (花叔)

A hands-on guide to [Hermes Agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent), the open-source AI Agent framework by [Nous Research](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/) — the first agent that ships with its "reins" built in, and the reins grow themselves.

**This is a from-scratch rewrite.** The first edition was based on Hermes v0.7.0. Two months and nine releases later, the product had grown a whole new face — a native desktop app, a full browser dashboard, 23 messaging platforms — so the book is rebuilt around v0.16.0 ("The Surface Release").

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Errata

**The data-collection inference in §03 ("Why Nous Built It") is wrong.** Thanks to [@lishaogang](https://github.com/lishaogang) for pointing this out in [issue #7](https://github.com/alchaincyf/hermes-agent-orange-book/issues/7).

Under "Motive one," the book claims that "Hermes Agent isn't just a product, it's also a massive-scale harvester that collects real-world data for Nous's own models," and draws a chain from "users' real usage → tool-call trajectories → compressed into training data → next-gen models." That chain breaks at its very first link:

• The official [FAQ](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/re