+| 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 CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity. |
+| A closed learning loop | Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. |
+| Scheduled automations | Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language, running unattended. |
+| Delegates and parallelizes | Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns. |
+| Runs anywhere, not just your laptop | Six terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, and Daytona. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your agent's environment hibernates when idle and wakes on demand, costing nearly nothing between sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. |
+| Research-ready | Batch trajectory generation, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models. |
+
+
+---
+
+## Quick Install
+
+### Linux, macOS, WSL2, Termux
+
+```bash
+curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
+```
+
+### Windows (native, PowerShell)
+
+> **Heads up:** Native Windows runs Hermes without WSL — CLI, gateway, TUI, and tools all work natively. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux/macOS one-liner above works there too. Found a bug? Please [file issues](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues).
+
+Run this in PowerShell:
+
+```powershell
+iex (irm https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.ps1)
+```
+
+The installer handles everything: uv, Python 3.11, Node.js, ripgrep, ffmpeg, **and a portable Git Bash** (MinGit, unpacked to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git` — no admin required, completely isolated from any system Git install). Hermes uses this bundled Git Bash to run shell commands.
+
+If you already have Git installed, the installer detects it and uses that instead. Otherwise a ~45MB MinGit download is all you need — it won't touch or interfere with any system Git.
+
+> **Android / Termux:** The tested manual path is documented in the [Termux guide](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/getting-started/termux). On Termux, Hermes installs a curated `.[termux]` extra because the full `.[all]` extra currently pulls Android-incompatible voice dependencies.
+>
+> **Windows:** Native Windows is fully supported — the PowerShell one-liner above installs everything. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux command works there too. Native Windows install lives under `%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes`; WSL2 installs under `~/.hermes` as on Linux.
+
+After installation:
+
+```bash
+source ~/.bashrc # reload shell (or: source ~/.zshrc)
+hermes # start chatting!
+```
+
+### Troubleshooting
+
+#### Windows Defender or antivirus flags `uv.exe` as malware
+
+If your antivirus (Bitdefender, Windows Defender, etc.) quarantines `uv.exe` from the Hermes `bin` folder (`%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\bin\uv.exe`), this is a **false positive**. The file is Astral's `uv` — the Rust Python package manager Hermes bundles to manage its Python environment. ML-based antivirus engines commonly flag unsigned Rust binaries that download and install packages.
+
+**To verify your copy is authentic:**
+
+```powershell
+# Install GitHub CLI if needed
+winget install --id GitHub.cli
+
+# Login to GitHub
+gh auth login
+
+# Run verification
+$uv = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\hermes\bin\uv.exe"
+$ver = (& $uv --version).Split(' ')[1]
+[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
+$zip = "$env:TEMP\uv.zip"
+Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/$ver/uv-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -OutFile $zip -UseBasicParsing
+gh attestation verify $zip --repo astral-sh/uv
+Expand-Archive $zip "$env:TEMP\uv_x" -Force
+(Get-FileHash "$env:TEMP\uv_x\uv.exe").Hash -eq (Get-FileHash $uv).Hash
+```
+
+If attestation says "Verification succeeded" and the last line prints `True`, you're good.
+
+**To whitelist Hermes:**
+- **Windows Defender:** Run PowerShell as Admin → `Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\hermes\bin"`
+- **Bitdefender:** Add an exception in the Bitdefender console (Protection > Antivirus > Settings > Manage Exceptions)
+- Whitelist the **folder**, not the file hash — Hermes updates `uv` and the hash changes every version
+
+For more context, see the upstream Astral reports: [astral-sh/uv#13553](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/13553), [astral-sh/uv#15011](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/15011), [astral-sh/uv#10079](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/10079).
+
+---
+
+## Getting Started
+
+```bash
+hermes # Interactive CLI — start a conversation
+hermes model # Choose your LLM provider and model
+hermes tools # Configure which tools are enabled
+hermes config set # Set individual config values
+hermes gateway # Start the messaging gateway (Telegram, Discord, etc.)
+hermes setup # Run the full setup wizard (configures everything at once)
+hermes claw migrate # Migrate from OpenClaw (if coming from OpenClaw)
+hermes update # Update to the latest version
+hermes doctor # Diagnose any issues
+```
+
+📖 **[Full documentation →](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/)**
+
+---
+
+## Skip the API-key collection — Nous Portal
+
+Hermes works with whatever provider you want — that's not changing. But if you'd rather not collect five separate API keys for the model, web search, image generation, TTS, and a cloud browser, **[Nous Portal](https://portal.nousresearch.com)** covers all of them under one subscription:
+
+- **300+ models** — pick any of them with `/model 
+
