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An open-source AI assistant that runs on your own machine and works for you inside WhatsApp, Telegram and other chat apps.
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Nous Research
Nous Research's open-source agent that learns skills from experience and improves itself.
Hermes Agent has a built-in learning loop: it turns complex tasks into skills and refines them with use. It offers a TUI, desktop app and channels like Telegram and Slack, scheduled automations, parallel sub-agents and many runtime backends — with any model.
Recent reliable evidence supports use in Hong Kong.
Basis: official statement
The source code is hosted on GitHub (Hong Kong is not among GitHub's trade-control restricted regions) and can be downloaded and self-hosted for free. Note: if you connect it to model APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic or the Gemini API, each provider's regional policy still applies.
Verified on: 14 Nov 2026
Availability information is for reference only and is not legal advice. Terms can change at any time — rely on the provider's latest official statement. We do not provide ways to bypass regional restrictions.
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