Hermes Agent memory/learning - I don't get it

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 3/26/2026

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Key Points

  • The author is skeptical about Hermes Agent’s advertised “self-improving” memory/learning, arguing that it feels more like marketing than real autonomous learning.
  • They report that available documentation requires the user to explicitly instruct Hermes to remember information and then explicitly turn that remembered content into a new or improved skill.
  • The post questions how Hermes is fundamentally different from alternatives like Gemini CLI, which they say can be used in a similar workflow with OpenCode.
  • Overall, the discussion frames Hermes’s claimed differentiation as unclear to users trying to replicate the same functionality with other agent tools.

Heremes comes with a lot of skills and the cron capability out of the box is nice, but the "self-improving" seems like hype.

Maybe I'm missing something, but all docs and tutorials I could find say you have to tell Hermes to remember something and tell it to make a skill out of some complicated thing you just did.

How is this any different than say gemini cli? I've been doing exactly this same thing with gemini and opencode. I don't get it. What's so special or different about Hermes?

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