Hermes Cleans Its Own Skills
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In Peter Yang’s interview, Nous Research co-founder Karan Malhotra explains that Hermes not only creates its own skills, but maintains them through Hermes Curator, a scheduled background process that reviews memories and skills for bloat, redundancy, and inefficiency. Because the system is open source, users can define “slop” themselves and rewrite the cleanup loop around their own standards.
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One of the biggest benefits of Hermes is that it builds its own skills to help you get work done. But I had to ask @karan4d, @NousResearch co-founder: “How does Hermes avoid slop while doing this?” Here’s his response: “Hermes Curator [a background task] runs inside your agent and cleans up your skills and memory on a schedule, asking: Where’s the slop, and where can I make it more efficient? And because it’s open source, you can hand it your own definition of slop and it rewrites its own cleanup loop your way.” 📌 Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/UWjh5Z4s8jY
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“We believe in intelligence as a public good before everything else.” Here’s my new episode with @karan4d, who co-founded @NousResearch and helped build Hermes, the #1 personal agent and AI app on OpenRouter. Karan is the most down-to-earth AI founder I’ve interviewed. We had a Show more
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