misc/hermes-agent 0.21.5 DragonFly

AI agent with built-in learning loop

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: MIT
Categories: misc, python
Package size: 15747.9 KiB, 58483.6 KiB installed

Description

Hermes is a self-improving AI agent that creates skills from experience and improves them during use. It runs as a CLI on a developer's machine and supports a pluggable toolset system, multiple LLM backends (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Bedrock, ...), web search and crawling integrations, voice / TTS / messaging connectors, and an agent-control protocol (ACP) adapter.

This port installs the core CLI plus the optional [web] dashboard backend (FastAPI + Uvicorn). The dashboard's static frontend assets (hermes_cli/web_dist/) are produced by an upstream npm pipeline that is not run in the ports build environment. Other upstream extras such as Modal, Daytona, Vercel, faster-whisper, Telegram, Discord, Slack and the [rl] training loop are not packaged.

Because Hermes ships top-level Python packages with generic names (tools, agent, gateway, plugins, ...), the source tree is installed under ${PREFIX}/lib/hermes-agent/ rather than site-packages, matching upstream's own Docker / Nix / Homebrew packaging. The wrappers in ${PREFIX}/bin prepend that directory to sys.path before invoking each entry point.

The skills/ and optional-skills/ template directories ship under ${DATADIR}/. Hermes reads its working set from ${HOME}/.hermes/.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.23.0, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

misc/hermes-agent

0.21.5 behind since 2026-10-27

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

misc/hermes-agent

0.23.0_1 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-11-07

HardenedBSD

misc/hermes-agent

0.21.5 behind since 2026-10-27

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

misc/hermes-agent

0.22.5 behind since 2026-11-06

no data

[email protected]

Version history 1

0.21.5 2026-11-11

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install hermes-agent

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/misc/hermes-agent && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["misc/hermes-agent"]
  me --> d0["audio/py-edge-tts"]
  me --> d1["devel/py-Jinja2"]
  me --> d2["devel/py-fire"]
  me --> d3["devel/py-packaging"]
  me --> d4["devel/py-pathspec"]
  me --> d5["devel/py-prompt-toolkit"]
  me --> d6["devel/py-pydantic2"]
  me --> d7["devel/py-pyyaml"]
  me -.-> dmore(["33 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

Hermes stores its working set under ${HOME}/.hermes/.  Before the first
run, bootstrap that directory and configure API keys with:

  hermes setup

The bundled skill templates live under /usr/local/share/hermes-agent/skills/ and
/usr/local/share/hermes-agent/optional-skills/; Hermes copies the ones it needs into
${HOME}/.hermes/skills/ on demand.

To run Hermes as a service, enable one or both of the rc(8) scripts:

sysrc hermes_gateway_enable="YES"
sysrc hermes_gateway_user="<account whose ~/.hermes is used>"

sysrc hermes_dashboard_enable="YES"
sysrc hermes_dashboard_user="<account whose ~/.hermes is used>"

See /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hermes_gateway and hermes_dashboard for all
tunables (host, port, profile, extra flags).