HERMES AGENT just showed what a real self evolving AI system looks like.

Built by Nous Research, open source, runs persistently in the cloud. It analyzes its own conversations, updates its own memory, and creates or refines its own skills without anyone telling it to.

Under the hood, model routing, multiple terminals, webhooks, cron jobs, and a curator process that stops skill quality from degrading over time.

The demo shows Hermes HQ, a pixel art command center with named agents, Hunter, Scout, Spark, Webby, each handling different tasks on their own.

This is not a chatbot with memory bolted on. This is closer to an operating system for agents that gets better the more it runs.

I wrote a full breakdown of this exact setup, worth reading if you want to actually understand how it works before trying to build your own.