horo-next

An unofficial PyPI distribution of Hermes Agent by Nous Research.

Upstream no longer publishes Hermes Agent to PyPI. horo-next rebuilds each upstream release as a pip-installable wheel. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Nous Research.

pip install horo-next
hermes

The command is hermes and the data directory is ~/.hermes, as upstream. Do not install horo-next and hermes-agent into the same environment: both provide the same top-level modules.

What differs from upstream

Packaging only. Product behaviour is upstream's.

• Bundled skills and locales are packaged inside the wheel.
• The web dashboard and the terminal UI are prebuilt into the wheel, so they never run npm on your machine. hermes dashboard needs pip install "horo-next[web]"; hermes --tui needs a node binary on PATH.
• hermes update points to pip install -U horo-next.
• Direct dependencies with a published vulnerability fix are raised to the fixed version. Each release notes which.
• Python 3.11 is kept supported; the upper bound follows each upstream release.
• Dependencies only available from a URL (not on PyPI) are left out and must be installed separately.
• Only the extras that work on an air-gapped network are provided: web, mcp, acp, cron, pty, uvloop, and a new mattermost. Extras for cloud services and public messaging platforms are not.

Security review

Each release is checked to carry no known vulnerability (OSV) in any dependency. The wheel contains a CycloneDX SBOM (.dist-info/sboms/) naming every Python dependency and every npm package compiled into the dashboard and TUI, and the license texts of the latter. The GitHub release attaches the same SBOM, the audit report and a hashed requirements file. See SECURITY.md.

Versions

horo-next X.Y.Z is built from upstream Hermes Agent vX.Y.Z. A packaging-only fix on the same upstream release is published as X.Y.Z.postN.

Offline installation

Each release attaches requirements-X.Y.Z.txt, the full resolved dependency set. On a machine with internet access:

pip download horo-next==X.Y.Z -d wheelhouse

Then on the offline machine:

pip install --no-index --find-links wheelhouse horo-next

License

MIT. Hermes Agent is copyright Nous Research; bundled skills carry their own licenses.