TODO for AI
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Hermes Agent
By Marcell Havlik, founder of TODO for AI · Updated
Open-source self-improving personal agent from Nous Research: skills it writes itself, memory that persists, reachable from 20+ chat apps. Here is where each one wins, with numbers, and who should pick which.
| Fact | Hermes Agent | TODO for AI |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | Chat apps, CLI, desktop app | Web, desktop, mobile, CLI, IDE (Zed, JetBrains, VS Code), voice |
| Models | Any provider (BYOK or Nous Portal) | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok and other supported models |
| Source | Open | Edge + CLI public |
| Starts at | Free | Free |
Key takeaways
- Models. Hermes Agent model choice: Any provider (BYOK or Nous Portal). TODO for AI includes Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok on paid plans. Pick the model for each job; let another review the result.
- Benchmark. TODO for AI scored 91.0% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with Opus 5.5 (high) (own harness, 81/89 tasks, 2026-10-26; not an official leaderboard submission).
- Price. Hermes Agent pricing: MIT, self-hosted, pay providers per token. Nous Portal sells pooled credit plans at roughly $20, $100 and $200 a month; check their site for current credits. TODO for AI has a free plan (Claude Sonnet only), then Starter $20, Pro $100 or Ultra $200 a month with the supported multi-vendor catalog.
- Shared business work. TODO for AI: Your whole team and its AI agents, on one board. Shared company context, brand voice and memory. AI working in your connected tools, signed-in browser and machines.
- Included usage. One shared pool of credits, with the cloud VM and browser included. Personal session and weekly limits apply. Credit usage depends on the model; see the pricing page for plan details.
- Who should pick which. Pick Hermes Agent if you want MIT source and will host it on your own box or VPS. Pick TODO for AI if you want a list the agent works through, not a chat you scroll.
Hermes Agent
Any provider (BYOK or Nous Portal)
TODO for AI
Supported vendorsWhere our product fits
One board for the company’s work.
People decide. Agents do the work.
Your whole team and its AI agents, on one board. Shared company context, brand voice and memory. AI working in your connected tools, signed-in browser and machines.
Chase the invoice. Ship the website update. Prepare the report. Fix the code. Every task keeps its request, contributors and result together, ready for the next colleague or agent to pick up.
Keep Hermes Agent where it fits. Bring the rest of the company’s backlog here.
Plans and usage limitsWhat Hermes Agent is, and where it stops
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source personal agent and the current centre of gravity for the self-hosted crowd. It is MIT licensed, runs on a $5 VPS or your laptop, and talks to you from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email or the terminal. What sets it apart is the learning loop: it writes skills from tasks it has done, refines them on the next run, and keeps a layered memory of you across sessions. A cron scheduler and subagents cover unattended and parallel work, and it can drive a browser. It is positioned as the successor to OpenClaw and imports OpenClaw settings, skills and memories with one command.
The trade is the same as OpenClaw's. You are the operator: install, ports, updates, sandbox choice, and each provider bills you separately unless you buy Nous Portal credits. There is no hosted machine, so it is only as always-on as the box you keep running; browsers are local or a third-party cloud provider you set up. Work lives in chat threads and cron jobs rather than a list, so there is no board of what is open, done or waiting on you.
Technical users who want a self-hosted agent that learns them over time and lives in Telegram, Discord or the terminal.
Three reasons Hermes Agent users look elsewhere
Gateway, sandboxing, updates and key management are yours, on a machine you keep up. The install is one line; the operating is not.
Tasks are messages in a chat plus cron entries. There is no board of what is queued, running, blocked on you or finished, and nothing proposes the next one.
It can attach to a real Chrome profile over CDP or use a cloud browser provider, once you configure them. TODO for AI ships the extension and a cloud browser per account.
Six dimensions that decide it
Hermes Agent 20/30TODO for AI 28/30How does Hermes Agent compare to TODO for AI, feature by feature?
| Feature | Hermes Agent | TODO for AI |
|---|---|---|
Persistent cloud VM A hosted workspace with persistent files, separate from the machines you connect. | Self-hosted only | Yes |
Model choice | Any (BYOK / Portal) | Supported models across vendors |
Cross-vendor review Review GPT output with Claude, or the other way around. | No | Yes |
Drives your real browser Browser extension (Chrome, Firefox) plus cloud browsers. | CDP / real profile, self-configured | Yes |
Business tasks, not only code SEO, email, ads, social, CRM via CLI tools. | Yes | Yes |
Any CLI as an integration | Skills + MCP | Any binary |
Voice control | TTS/STT built in | Yes |
People and agents on one board Colleagues and agents work the same list. Items show who contributed and which agent ran them; filter the board by person. | No | Yes |
Many agents, each configured Each agent gets its own model, prompt, tools and permissions. Runs remain subject to usage limits. | Personas + skills | Configured per task |
Projects for the whole company Engineering, marketing, ops, finance: separate projects and agents, one team and one bill. | No | Unlimited, shared |
Team roles and usage Pooling is not exclusive to TODO for AI. A shared budget does not remove personal session or weekly limits. | Shared gateway, no roles | Shared credits, per-seat limits |
Tool permissions | Command approvals | Allow, approve, block |
Open runtime | Yes | Edge + CLI public |
Same ladder, different meter
Portal plans are credit pools across 200+ models; tier prices not verified by us. Self-hosted is per-token per provider.
One shared pool of credits, with the cloud VM and browser included. Personal session and weekly limits apply. Credit usage depends on the model; see the pricing page for plan details.