Winners Announced!
If you've been watching the space, Hermes Agent probably needs no introduction. For everyone else, this is the open source agentic system that's been quietly turning heads as an option worth knowing. Built to run on your own infrastructure, Hermes Agent is capable of planning, tool use, and multi-step reasoning across complex tasks.
Running through May 31, the Hermes Agent Challenge is your chance to dig in firsthand. Whether you're already running Hermes Agent locally or you're curious what the buzz is about, this is the moment to build something real and show the community what's possible.
Whether you love to build or love to write, there's a prompt for you and $1,000 prizes up for grabs!
Let's get to it!
Our Prompts
Judging Criteria
Build With Hermes Agent submissions will be evaluated for:
- Effective use of Hermes Agent's agentic capabilities
- Technical implementation and code quality
- Creativity and originality
- Usability and user experience
Write About Hermes Agent submissions will be evaluated for:
- Clarity and depth of explanation
- Originality of perspective or insight
- Practical value to the community
- Quality of writing
Prizes
We’ll select four winners from each prompt.
Eight prompt winners will each receive:
- $125 USD
- DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge.
Getting Started With Hermes Agent 🚀
Head to the Hermes Agent site to get started. From there you can explore the documentation, learn about its agentic capabilities, and find everything you need to hit the ground running.
GitHub Repo
NousResearch
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hermes-agent
The agent that grows with you
Hermes Agent ☤
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop — talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM.
Use any model you want — Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, your own endpoint, and many others. Switch with hermes model — no code changes, no lock-in.
A real terminal interface
Full TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output.
Lives where you do
Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and
Helpful Links
Important Dates
- May 15: Hermes Agent Challenge begins!
- May 31: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
- June 18: Winners Announced
Questions about the challenge? Drop them in the comments below.
Good luck and happy coding!!