The most popular Python project you've probably never heard of has 252,000 GitHub stars and merged over 1,800 pull requests in a single week. It's Hermes, a self-hosted AI agent you program just by talking to it. And it never clocks out. It runs 24/7 on a box in your house, wakes up every 15 minutes, keeps your YouTube channel in sync, and has your morning briefing ready before you're up. Mine started as a few config files. A few months later, it's 16,000 files of skills, memories, and tools it built for itself, all while I wasn't watching. Jeff Triplett joins me to explore this honestly weird but kind of amazing world. And yes, Hermes has a few words for you, too. 
 
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Hermes: <a href="https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >github.com</a> 
Ollama cloud models: <a href="https://ollama.com/search?c=cloud&featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >ollama.com</a> 
https\://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com: <a href="https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >hermes-agent.nousresearch.com</a> 
Hermes Web UI: <a href="https://get-hermes.ai/setup/?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >get-hermes.ai</a> 
built my own UI: <a href="https://blobs.talkpython.fm/hermes-iris-example.webp?cache_id=a338c4" target="_blank" >blobs.talkpython.fm</a> 
the Hermes Dashboard: <a href="https://blobs.talkpython.fm/hermes-dashboard.png?cache_id=931bf5" target="_blank" >blobs.talkpython.fm</a> 
the audio from the chat example: <a href="https://blobs.talkpython.fm/hermes-greets-talk-python-listeners.mp3?cache_id=9c1669" target="_blank" >blobs.talkpython.fm</a> 
the CLI: <a href="https://blobs.talkpython.fm/hermes-cli.webp?cache_id=4f8b2c" target="_blank" >blobs.talkpython.fm</a> 
Tailscale: <a href="https://tailscale.com?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >tailscale.com</a> 
Hindsight: <a href="https://hindsight.vectorize.io?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >hindsight.vectorize.io</a> 
trmnl display: <a href="https://trmnl.com?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >trmnl.com</a> 
JEV: <a href="https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >typesafe.ai</a> 
Home Assistant Green: <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/green/?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >www.home-assistant.io</a> 
QMD - Query Markup Documents: <a href="https://github.com/tobi/qmd?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >github.com</a> 
OrangePi: <a href="http://www.orangepi.org?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >www.orangepi.org</a> 
 
Watch this episode on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfV5G5EsJa8" target="_blank" >youtube.com</a> 
Episode #567 deep-dive: <a href="https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/567/personal-ai-agents-for-pythonistas#takeaways-anchor" target="_blank" >talkpython.fm/567</a> 
Episode transcripts: <a href="https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/567/personal-ai-agents-for-pythonistas" target="_blank" >talkpython.fm</a> 
 
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