Checked August 2026
Hermes Agent architecture laboratory
How Hermes Agent assembles prompts, tools, backends, memory, and learned skills
Hermes Agent is AIAgent and learning-loop-first. Multiple entry points converge on one orchestration core that resolves providers, assembles tiered prompts, manages budgets and compression, invokes toolsets, and selects among local or isolated execution backends.
Change the entry point and backend, load or remove a skill, retrieve bounded memory, and delegate a child task. The simulator shows which mechanisms enter context and which ones create execution authority.
- Trace
- Entry · AIAgent · prompt tiers · tools · backend · learning state
- Manipulate
- Backend · skills · memory · delegation · approval
- Center of gravity
- AIAgent plus a learning loop
AIAgent
Provider resolution, retries, budgets, compression, and orchestration
- Skill loading
- On-demand procedure is in the stable prompt tier
- Delegation
- Work remains in the parent context
- Dangerous calls
- Approval guard enabled; isolation still matters
Primary research
Inspect the mechanism at its source.
Project architecture and terminology were checked against official documentation on August 10, 2026. Research papers are linked to their original publication records.