--- title: Hermes Unlocks Self-Improving AI Agents, Powered by... description: Hermes Agent, developed by Nous Research, is an open source agentic AI framework that has gained 140,000 GitHub stars in under three months and is now the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hermes-unlocks-self-improving-ai-agents-powered-by-nvidia-rtx-pcs-and-dgx-spark-qbql2tn5x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hermes Unlocks Self-Improving AI Agents, Powered by NVIDIA RTX PCs and DGX Spark | daily.dev og:description: Hermes Agent, developed by Nous Research, is an open source agentic AI framework that has gained 140,000 GitHub stars in under three months and is now the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hermes-unlocks-self-improving-ai-agents-powered-by-nvidia-rtx-pcs-and-dgx-spark-qbql2tn5x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QbQL2Tn5X.png og:image:alt: Hermes Unlocks Self-Improving AI Agents, Powered by NVIDIA RTX PCs and DGX Spark og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hermes Unlocks Self-Improving AI Agents, Powered by NVIDIA RTX PCs and DGX Spark **[NVIDIA](https://daily.dev/sources/nvidia)** · 6 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hermes Agent, developed by Nous Research, is an open source agentic AI framework that has gained 140,000 GitHub stars in under three months and is now the most-used agent on OpenRouter. It stands out for self-evolving skills (writing and refining its own capabilities over time), contained sub-agents for cleaner task isolation, curated reliability, and consistently stronger results than competing frameworks on identical models. Hermes is optimized for local, always-on use on NVIDIA RTX PCs, RTX PRO workstations, and DGX Spark. The post also highlights Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B models, which match or exceed much larger predecessor models while fitting in far less memory, making them ideal for local agent workloads. Setup is straightforward via llama.cpp, LM Studio, or Ollama. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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