Keep Hermes. Add a team that runs it.

Hermes pairs persistent memory with skills it writes from experience. If it works for you, keep it. Murage runs Hermes through its own ACP adapter and puts it beside Claude Code or Codex, under one Chief of Staff.

Murage runs this engine as a bot on your team. It’s a separate product, not a partnership.

The short answer

Love Hermes? Keep it. Murage runs it through Hermes’s own ACP adapter and puts it on a team with Claude Code and Codex.

Which should you choose?

Murage runs the team

Murage

Open source
On your computer
The AI you choose

Who does the work: A Chief of Staff and a team

Hermes Agent runs this bot

Hermes Agent

Open source
Desktop app, terminal and chat apps
Any model

Who does the work: One main agent with helpers

Download Murage

Checked October 2026 (October 9, 2026) against Nous Research’s Hermes site, docs and GitHub repository.

Murage sits above Hermes.

You talk to one Chief of Staff. It builds the team, and each bot runs the engine that suits its job, on the plan or key you already have. An engine is the AI that does a bot’s thinking. To run teams and use tools, pick a tool-capable one: the built-in Fuigo engine with a supported model, Claude Code, Codex or Hermes. A plain OpenAI-compatible endpoint works for chat and drafting only. Portraits made with Murage’s own avatar generator. See every engine

Hermes Agent runs inside Murage, as a bot’s engine

Love Hermes? Keep it. Murage makes it even better.

Pick Hermes as a bot’s engine (the AI that does its thinking) and Murage talks to it through Hermes’s own ACP adapter (ACP is a standard for running other agents). Your Chief of Staff can put it on the same team as Claude Code and Codex, each on the work that suits it.

What Murage adds on top

A Chief of Staff that takes the brief, plans the job and hands out the work
Teams of named bots, each with its own face, voice, personality and memory on your computer
1,600+ apps (Gmail, Slack, Notion, GitHub) through Flux Router credits or your own connected-apps key
Voice calls with any bot. Your Chief sends voice notes to Telegram, Slack, Discord and WhatsApp when you ask, and on WhatsApp it hears yours
Swap engines whenever you like. Your team, memory and approvals stay put

Why Murage is open source Every engine Murage runs

Here’s what came back this morning.

The brief

“Go through my inbox before I get in. Draft replies in my voice. Send nothing.”

What came back

Twelve emails came in. The team drafted eight replies, set four aside, and left two questions only the owner could answer. Nothing was sent.

Needs from you, in the team’s own report

Dana Brooks, Acme Studio · RenewalThe prior contract terms
Jordan Lee, Brightline Design · Pricing for 20 seatsThe per-seat price, and whether we offer a pilot
Priya S. · Export to PDF?Confirm the exact steps
Ben C. · Refund requestMoney. Check the billing record first

Replay of a real run on demo data. The company is made up. Engine: Flux Auto, worked 1m 41s. Watch the run

You know how this usually goes.

The agent says done. You go check. The wrong 10% looks exactly like the right 90%. Murage doesn’t promise better answers than the engine underneath. It changes what reaches you: drafts you check instead of messages sent, a source next to each claim in a research page, and a reviewer bot on any team you want one on. New bots start on Ask.

Keep Hermes. Murage runs it through Hermes’s own ACP adapter, and gives each bot a name, a job and a memory that lives in Murage. Change a bot’s engine next month and its job, notes and routines stay put. Hermes’s own chat history stays where it is; Murage doesn’t import it.

Try one job.

Pick something you know well: the weekly report, a research brief, a set of follow-up drafts. Brief the Chief once and check what comes back against what you asked for. If it isn’t for you, the team’s memory and files are stored on your computer in files you can open, and the code is AGPL-3.0.

See one job from brief to result What carries over when you switch Read the code on GitHub

At a glance.

Ten things buyers weigh up, including the ones where they’re ahead.

What matters

Murage

Hermes Agent

The app needs no extra subscription
It runs on the AI plan or key you already have
Yes
Open source desktop app; Murage Cloud is optional and paid
Source
Yes
$0, MIT; Nous Portal credits are optional
Source
You choose which AI company does the work
Per bot or per task, from different vendors
Yes
Per bot: Fuigo, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, a local model and more
Yes
Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI or your own endpoint
Source
Named agents that keep their memory
A standing team that lasts beyond one task
Yes
Named bots, each with its own memory, kept on your computer
Partly
Subagents inside a task
Source
Asks before acting outside, by default
Messaging someone new, posting, paying, deleting
Yes
New bots start on Ask; on Full access the stop line judges what each engine asks
Source
Partly
Command approvals and container isolation; defaults for messaging and payments not stated
Source
Memory stored on your computer
Not in a vendor’s cloud
Yes
Memory, files and chats on your computer
Yes
Persistent memory on the machine or server you run it on
Source
Open source
A license you can read
Yes
AGPL-3.0
Source
Yes
MIT
Source
Reach it from your phone
Briefs and approvals away from the desk
Yes
An iPhone and Android app, plus your Chief in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp
Yes
Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal and email
Source
Keeps working with your computer off, today
Hosted or on a server
Yes
On any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will run one for you
Partly
On a server you run, or Nous Portal’s optional cloud
Source
Native phone app
An iOS or Android app, not a web app or chat bot
Yes
iPhone and Android
No
Runs on Android through Termux, not a store app
Source
SOC 2 report
What a procurement team will ask for
No
No SOC 2 report
Not stated
Not stated in its docs
Source

Each of Hermes Agent’s marks links the page it comes from, checked October 9, 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it on the page named, not that it’s missing.

Both apps are open source. AI usage and any hosting or optional services are separate. Nous Portal credits for Hermes are optional.

See one job from brief to result

Where your work lives.

Murage

Your computer

MemoryFilesChats

Your memory, files and chats are stored on your computer. What a bot sends to your AI, and to any app or service you connect, goes to them.

Hermes Agent

A machine you host

MemoryConfig

A desktop app on Mac and Windows, a terminal install on Linux, or a server you run; optional cloud hosting through Nous Portal.

Who does the work.

You brief one Chief of Staff. It builds a team of specialists for the job, and the team keeps its memory for next time. You can put a reviewer on any team to check work before it reaches you. Portraits made with Murage’s own avatar generator.

Hermes Agent

One main agent that hands parts of a task to helpers.

What Murage adds for a Hermes Agent user.

Hermes runs inside Murage

Pick Hermes as a bot’s engine. Murage connects through Hermes’s ACP adapter, so you keep what you like about Hermes and add a team around it.

A Chief of Staff and a team

Brief one Chief of Staff. It builds a team where Hermes works next to Fuigo, Claude Code, Codex or Grok Build, each on the job that suits it.

One window for the whole team

Approvals, memory, voice calls and every bot in a desktop app, with a menu-bar count of what needs you.

Ask mode and a stop line by default

New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. On Claude Code and Codex, the stop line also covers tools from MCP servers you add. On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.

Where Hermes Agent is ahead.

Fair’s fair. If one of these matters most to you, it may be the better choice today.

1
More chat apps
WhatsApp, Signal and email as well as Telegram, Discord and Slack.
2
Writes its own skills
Hermes turns experience into skills as it goes. Murage bots learn from your corrections too, as lessons you can see, edit and undo.
3
Runs wherever you host it
Desktop apps for Mac and Windows, a terminal install for Linux, plus servers and Nous Portal’s optional cloud, so it can run around the clock today.
4
Voice with wake words
Voice mode with barge-in and wake words.

Which should you choose?

Love Hermes? Keep it. Murage runs it through Hermes’s own ACP adapter and puts it on a team with Claude Code and Codex.

Choose Murage if

You want Hermes on the same team as Claude Code and Codex, run by a Chief of Staff
You want new bots on Ask with a stop line, and approvals for the whole team in one window
You want 1,600+ apps without wiring each one yourself

Download Murage

Choose Hermes Agent if

You want WhatsApp, Signal and email as well as Telegram, Discord and Slack
You want one agent that writes its own skills from experience as it works, today (Murage bots learn lessons from your corrections, which you can see, edit and undo)
You want a single agent you run on your own server, or on Nous’s optional cloud, around the clock, today

Still deciding? Read how we check that a job is finished, then try one of your own.

Every detail.

Getting in

Price to start
MurageOpen source desktop app; Murage Cloud is an optional paid hosted service
Hermes Agent$0 (MIT). Optional Nous Portal plans: Free, then $20, $100 or $200 a month with monthly credits
Install
MurageDownload Murage. Pick Hermes for a bot and Murage opens Nous Research’s one-line install in Terminal for you to paste
Hermes AgentA one-line install on Linux, macOS and WSL2, a PowerShell line on Windows, or Termux on Android; desktop apps for Mac and Windows
Bring your Hermes profiles
MurageNew bot, then Import from Hermes brings your Hermes profiles straight in
Hermes AgentYour setup lives in ~/.hermes

Where it runs

Runs on
MurageOn your computer
Hermes AgentA desktop app, or a CLI and one gateway process on your machine or server
Keeps working with your laptop closed
MurageYes, on any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will look after one for you
Hermes AgentYes, on a server you run or in Nous Portal’s optional cloud; it has a built-in cron scheduler
Terminal backends
MurageYour computer, in your folders
Hermes AgentSeven: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona and Vercel Sandbox
Platforms
MurageMac, Windows and Linux, plus an iPhone app and an Android app; Telegram on your phone
Hermes AgentLinux, macOS, WSL2, native Windows and Android through Termux

Brains

Engines
MurageThe engine you choose for each bot: Fuigo (built in), Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, Grok Build, OpenCode, local models or your own API keys
Hermes AgentAny model you choose: Nous Portal (200+ models), OpenRouter, OpenAI or your own endpoint
Mix engines on one team
MurageYes: Hermes beside Claude Code, Codex or a local model, each on the job that suits it
Hermes AgentHermes is the agent; you pick the model underneath
Models for a Hermes bot in Murage
MurageHermes brings no cloud model list of its own: give it models from Flux Router, your saved keys or a local server. Pick a local model and Murage adds that provider to your Hermes config.yaml
Hermes AgentSet in config.yaml or Nous Portal
Usage
MurageNothing from us. Your AI provider bills as usual. Flux Router, Ferrox Labs’ optional credit-billed service, covers AI models, connected apps, voice, images and web search if you use it; your own keys work instead
Hermes AgentYour model bill only, or Portal credits

The team

Who leads
MurageEmber, your Chief of Staff, takes the brief and builds the team for each job
Hermes AgentYou, with Hermes spawning isolated subagents for parallel workstreams
Helpers that last
MurageNamed bots with faces, voices and memory, still there tomorrow and on routines
Hermes AgentOne agent with one memory across every surface
Writes its own skills
MurageBots keep lessons from your corrections, shown where you can edit or undo them; skills they suggest wait for your Enable click
Hermes AgentCreates skills on its own after complex tasks and refines them as it works
Projects with boards
MurageYes: a lead splits the goal into cards on a board and you sign off when it’s done
Hermes AgentNot described in the docs checked

Hands

Apps
Murage1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key, plus any public API and any MCP
Hermes AgentSkills in the agentskills.io format, a browser and tool use; scripts that call tools
Your own signed-in browser
MurageMurage for Chrome works in your own signed-in Chrome, in the tabs you share
Hermes AgentBrowsing and tools through its terminal backend and gateway
Work beyond code
Murage79 ready-made teams for sales, ops, research and more, each bot with its own role
Hermes AgentGeneral-purpose agent with scheduled jobs delivered to any platform
Memory
MurageDesktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds
Hermes AgentAgent-curated memory with full-text search across past sessions, plus a user model built over time

Control

Asks before acting
MurageNew bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off for your own chats; routines still stop at it.
Hermes AgentSmart approvals by default, where a helper model judges risk and uncertain commands go to you; manual and off modes too. A hardline blocklist holds in every mode
On a Hermes bot inside Murage
MurageOn Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.
Hermes AgentA command with no reply in 300 seconds is denied
Isolation
MurageBots work in your folders on your computer
Hermes AgentContainer backends run with capabilities dropped; the container is the boundary, so command checks are skipped there
Open source
MurageYes, AGPL-3.0
Hermes AgentYes, MIT

Your data

Where memory lives
MurageDesktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds
Hermes AgentOn the machine or server where Hermes runs
Who can reach it
MurageNothing is shared unless you export a team, and logins never travel
Hermes AgentUnknown senders get a one-hour pairing code the owner approves, with rate limits and lockouts

Reach

Chat apps
MurageMessage your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp
Hermes AgentTelegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal and email from one gateway
Voice
MurageCall any bot in the app and just talk; bots leave voice notes. Ask your Chief for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, and on WhatsApp send it one of your own
Hermes AgentVoice mode with barge-in, wake words such as “hey hermes”, spoken replies in Telegram and Discord, and a full-duplex mode in the desktop app
Phone
MurageiPhone and Android app that opens your workspace: approvals, questions and calls with your team
Hermes AgentAndroid through Termux; chat apps on any phone
For your staff
MurageEach person runs Murage on their own computer; export a team and everyone imports it, with no Murage seat fees
Hermes AgentA gateway you host, with allowlists for who may message it

Question	Murage	Hermes Agent
Getting in
Price to start	Open source desktop app; Murage Cloud is an optional paid hosted service	$0 (MIT). Optional Nous Portal plans: Free, then $20, $100 or $200 a month with monthly credits
Install	Download Murage. Pick Hermes for a bot and Murage opens Nous Research’s one-line install in Terminal for you to paste	A one-line install on Linux, macOS and WSL2, a PowerShell line on Windows, or Termux on Android; desktop apps for Mac and Windows
Bring your Hermes profiles	New bot, then Import from Hermes brings your Hermes profiles straight in	Your setup lives in ~/.hermes
Where it runs
Runs on	On your computer	A desktop app, or a CLI and one gateway process on your machine or server
Keeps working with your laptop closed	Yes, on any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will look after one for you	Yes, on a server you run or in Nous Portal’s optional cloud; it has a built-in cron scheduler
Terminal backends	Your computer, in your folders	Seven: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona and Vercel Sandbox
Platforms	Mac, Windows and Linux, plus an iPhone app and an Android app; Telegram on your phone	Linux, macOS, WSL2, native Windows and Android through Termux
Brains
Engines	The engine you choose for each bot: Fuigo (built in), Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, Grok Build, OpenCode, local models or your own API keys	Any model you choose: Nous Portal (200+ models), OpenRouter, OpenAI or your own endpoint
Mix engines on one team	Yes: Hermes beside Claude Code, Codex or a local model, each on the job that suits it	Hermes is the agent; you pick the model underneath
Models for a Hermes bot in Murage	Hermes brings no cloud model list of its own: give it models from Flux Router, your saved keys or a local server. Pick a local model and Murage adds that provider to your Hermes config.yaml	Set in config.yaml or Nous Portal
Usage	Nothing from us. Your AI provider bills as usual. Flux Router, Ferrox Labs’ optional credit-billed service, covers AI models, connected apps, voice, images and web search if you use it; your own keys work instead	Your model bill only, or Portal credits
The team
Who leads	Ember, your Chief of Staff, takes the brief and builds the team for each job	You, with Hermes spawning isolated subagents for parallel workstreams
Helpers that last	Named bots with faces, voices and memory, still there tomorrow and on routines	One agent with one memory across every surface
Writes its own skills	Bots keep lessons from your corrections, shown where you can edit or undo them; skills they suggest wait for your Enable click	Creates skills on its own after complex tasks and refines them as it works
Projects with boards	Yes: a lead splits the goal into cards on a board and you sign off when it’s done	Not described in the docs checked
Hands
Apps	1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key, plus any public API and any MCP	Skills in the agentskills.io format, a browser and tool use; scripts that call tools
Your own signed-in browser	Murage for Chrome works in your own signed-in Chrome, in the tabs you share	Browsing and tools through its terminal backend and gateway
Work beyond code	79 ready-made teams for sales, ops, research and more, each bot with its own role	General-purpose agent with scheduled jobs delivered to any platform
Memory	Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds	Agent-curated memory with full-text search across past sessions, plus a user model built over time
Control
Asks before acting	New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off for your own chats; routines still stop at it.	Smart approvals by default, where a helper model judges risk and uncertain commands go to you; manual and off modes too. A hardline blocklist holds in every mode
On a Hermes bot inside Murage	On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.	A command with no reply in 300 seconds is denied
Isolation	Bots work in your folders on your computer	Container backends run with capabilities dropped; the container is the boundary, so command checks are skipped there
Open source	Yes, AGPL-3.0	Yes, MIT
Your data
Where memory lives	Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds	On the machine or server where Hermes runs
Who can reach it	Nothing is shared unless you export a team, and logins never travel	Unknown senders get a one-hour pairing code the owner approves, with rate limits and lockouts
Reach
Chat apps	Message your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp	Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal and email from one gateway
Voice	Call any bot in the app and just talk; bots leave voice notes. Ask your Chief for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, and on WhatsApp send it one of your own	Voice mode with barge-in, wake words such as “hey hermes”, spoken replies in Telegram and Discord, and a full-duplex mode in the desktop app
Phone	iPhone and Android app that opens your workspace: approvals, questions and calls with your team	Android through Termux; chat apps on any phone
For your staff	Each person runs Murage on their own computer; export a team and everyone imports it, with no Murage seat fees	A gateway you host, with allowlists for who may message it

Same job, both ways.

Five real jobs, walked through with Murage and with Hermes Agent.

1
Have Hermes teach itself a recurring task
With Murage
Keep Hermes on one bot. Correct it once and the lesson shows up where you can edit or undo it; Ember can put other bots on the steps Hermes doesn’t need to do.
With Hermes Agent
Hermes writes a skill after a complex task and refines it each time it runs.
2
Research three competitors and write a brief
With Murage
Ember builds a small team: a researcher per competitor and a writer. They share a project board, and the brief lands as a file in your folder.
With Hermes Agent
One Hermes agent researches and writes, or it spawns subagents for parallel threads.
3
Run a report every morning
With Murage
Set a routine on a bot and it runs while your computer is on. Murage Cloud (coming soon) runs your team with your computer off.
With Hermes Agent
Describe the schedule in plain language; the cron scheduler delivers results to any platform, from a server or Nous Portal’s cloud.
4
Put Hermes, Claude Code and Codex on one job
With Murage
Hermes drafts, a Claude Code bot builds and a Codex bot reviews, on one project board under Ember. Hermes bots ask Murage before every tool except reads, searches and their own memory.
With Hermes Agent
Hermes runs the job on the model you set. The docs checked describe no built-in way to hand parts of it to Claude Code or Codex.
5
Approve something while you’re away
With Murage
A bot pauses at the stop line, the iPhone or Android app shows the ask, and you answer yes or no.
With Hermes Agent
Hermes asks before dangerous commands; with no reply in 300 seconds the command is denied.

Already using Hermes: your first day with Murage

Keep Hermes installed and signed in. Murage runs it through Hermes’s own ACP adapter, so you start next to it and move jobs over one at a time.

1
Install Murage on your Mac, Windows or Linux computer.
2
Choose New bot, then Import from Hermes, to bring your Hermes profiles in. A Hermes bot can start on the model your Hermes is already set to.
3
Meet Ember, your Chief of Staff, and describe a job you run on Hermes today.
4
Put Claude Code or Codex on the bots that build, and keep Hermes on the jobs it does best.
5
Let the first run ask before it acts, then correct what you want changed and watch the lesson appear.

Questions about Murage and Hermes Agent.

Can Murage run Hermes?

Yes. Hermes is one of the engines a Murage bot can use, through Hermes’s ACP adapter. Install Hermes, pick it for a bot, and the rest of the team can use other engines.

Do I still need Hermes if I use Murage?

Only if you want Hermes as an engine. Murage bots can run Fuigo, Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, OpenCode, local models, an API key and more instead.

Can I switch engines later?

Yes. A bot’s engine is a setting you can change at any time. Its memory, skills, routines and approvals live in Murage, not in the engine, so they stay put when you switch.

Switching from OpenClaw or Hermes?

What carries over, what doesn’t and a first week: Switching to Murage.

Can my staff use it too?

Yes. Each person runs Murage on their own computer, with their own AI sign-in. Build a team once, export it, and everyone imports the same bots, skills and routines; logins never travel. Bots can post drafts to your team’s Slack channels through connected apps, with your approval. Shared workspaces for teams are coming soon to Murage Cloud.

Is Murage made by Nous Research?

No. Murage is an independent open-source project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nous Research.

Sources, checked October 9, 2026

Murage is made by Ferrox Labs, a small team. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.

Hermes, Hermes Agent and Nous Research are trademarks of their respective owners. Murage is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nous Research; the names and logos are used only to identify the products compared.

Get started in four steps

1
Download Murage
For Mac, Windows and Linux.
2
Pick Hermes
Choose it as a bot’s engine; Murage opens the install line if Hermes isn’t there yet.
3
Meet Ember
Your Chief of Staff, who builds the team around it.
4
Give it the first job
Start small. New bots ask before they act.

Download Murage All downloads and install notes

Give your first job to Murage.

Download the app, connect the AI you already pay for, and tell your Chief of Staff what needs doing. Plan on about ten minutes from install to a working team.

Download Murage

No account needed · Runs on the AI plan you already pay for

Keep Hermes. Add a team that runs it.

Murage runs this engine as a bot on your team. It’s a separate product, not a partnership.

The short answer

Love Hermes? Keep it. Murage runs it through Hermes’s own ACP adapter and puts it on a team with Claude Code and Codex.

Which should you choose?

Murage runs the team

Murage

Open source
On your computer
The AI you choose

Who does the work: A Chief of Staff and a team

Hermes Agent runs this bot

Hermes Agent

Open source
Desktop app, terminal and chat apps
Any model

Who does the work: One main agent with helpers

Download Murage

Checked October 2026 (October 9, 2026) against Nous Research’s Hermes site, docs and GitHub repository.

Question	Murage	Hermes Agent
Getting in
Price to start	Open source desktop app; Murage Cloud is an optional paid hosted service	$0 (MIT). Optional Nous Portal plans: Free, then $20, $100 or $200 a month with monthly credits
Install	Download Murage. Pick Hermes for a bot and Murage opens Nous Research’s one-line install in Terminal for you to paste	A one-line install on Linux, macOS and WSL2, a PowerShell line on Windows, or Termux on Android; desktop apps for Mac and Windows
Bring your Hermes profiles	New bot, then Import from Hermes brings your Hermes profiles straight in	Your setup lives in ~/.hermes
Where it runs
Runs on	On your computer	A desktop app, or a CLI and one gateway process on your machine or server
Keeps working with your laptop closed	Yes, on any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will look after one for you	Yes, on a server you run or in Nous Portal’s optional cloud; it has a built-in cron scheduler
Terminal backends	Your computer, in your folders	Seven: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona and Vercel Sandbox
Platforms	Mac, Windows and Linux, plus an iPhone app and an Android app; Telegram on your phone	Linux, macOS, WSL2, native Windows and Android through Termux
Brains
Engines	The engine you choose for each bot: Fuigo (built in), Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, Grok Build, OpenCode, local models or your own API keys	Any model you choose: Nous Portal (200+ models), OpenRouter, OpenAI or your own endpoint
Mix engines on one team	Yes: Hermes beside Claude Code, Codex or a local model, each on the job that suits it	Hermes is the agent; you pick the model underneath
Models for a Hermes bot in Murage	Hermes brings no cloud model list of its own: give it models from Flux Router, your saved keys or a local server. Pick a local model and Murage adds that provider to your Hermes config.yaml	Set in config.yaml or Nous Portal
Usage	Nothing from us. Your AI provider bills as usual. Flux Router, Ferrox Labs’ optional credit-billed service, covers AI models, connected apps, voice, images and web search if you use it; your own keys work instead	Your model bill only, or Portal credits
The team
Who leads	Ember, your Chief of Staff, takes the brief and builds the team for each job	You, with Hermes spawning isolated subagents for parallel workstreams
Helpers that last	Named bots with faces, voices and memory, still there tomorrow and on routines	One agent with one memory across every surface
Writes its own skills	Bots keep lessons from your corrections, shown where you can edit or undo them; skills they suggest wait for your Enable click	Creates skills on its own after complex tasks and refines them as it works
Projects with boards	Yes: a lead splits the goal into cards on a board and you sign off when it’s done	Not described in the docs checked
Hands
Apps	1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key, plus any public API and any MCP	Skills in the agentskills.io format, a browser and tool use; scripts that call tools
Your own signed-in browser	Murage for Chrome works in your own signed-in Chrome, in the tabs you share	Browsing and tools through its terminal backend and gateway
Work beyond code	79 ready-made teams for sales, ops, research and more, each bot with its own role	General-purpose agent with scheduled jobs delivered to any platform
Memory	Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds	Agent-curated memory with full-text search across past sessions, plus a user model built over time
Control
Asks before acting	New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off for your own chats; routines still stop at it.	Smart approvals by default, where a helper model judges risk and uncertain commands go to you; manual and off modes too. A hardline blocklist holds in every mode
On a Hermes bot inside Murage	On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.	A command with no reply in 300 seconds is denied
Isolation	Bots work in your folders on your computer	Container backends run with capabilities dropped; the container is the boundary, so command checks are skipped there
Open source	Yes, AGPL-3.0	Yes, MIT
Your data
Where memory lives	Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds	On the machine or server where Hermes runs
Who can reach it	Nothing is shared unless you export a team, and logins never travel	Unknown senders get a one-hour pairing code the owner approves, with rate limits and lockouts
Reach
Chat apps	Message your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp	Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal and email from one gateway
Voice	Call any bot in the app and just talk; bots leave voice notes. Ask your Chief for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, and on WhatsApp send it one of your own	Voice mode with barge-in, wake words such as “hey hermes”, spoken replies in Telegram and Discord, and a full-duplex mode in the desktop app
Phone	iPhone and Android app that opens your workspace: approvals, questions and calls with your team	Android through Termux; chat apps on any phone
For your staff	Each person runs Murage on their own computer; export a team and everyone imports it, with no Murage seat fees	A gateway you host, with allowlists for who may message it

Murage

Hermes Agent

Getting in

Price to start

Open source desktop app; Murage Cloud is an optional paid hosted service

$0 (MIT). Optional Nous Portal plans: Free, then $20, $100 or $200 a month with monthly credits

Install

Download Murage. Pick Hermes for a bot and Murage opens Nous Research’s one-line install in Terminal for you to paste

A one-line install on Linux, macOS and WSL2, a PowerShell line on Windows, or Termux on Android; desktop apps for Mac and Windows

Bring your Hermes profiles

New bot, then Import from Hermes brings your Hermes profiles straight in

Your setup lives in ~/.hermes

Where it runs

Runs on

On your computer

A desktop app, or a CLI and one gateway process on your machine or server

Keeps working with your laptop closed

Yes, on any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will look after one for you

Yes, on a server you run or in Nous Portal’s optional cloud; it has a built-in cron scheduler

Terminal backends

Your computer, in your folders

Seven: local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, Daytona and Vercel Sandbox

Platforms

Mac, Windows and Linux, plus an iPhone app and an Android app; Telegram on your phone

Linux, macOS, WSL2, native Windows and Android through Termux

Brains

Engines

The engine you choose for each bot: Fuigo (built in), Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, Grok Build, OpenCode, local models or your own API keys

Any model you choose: Nous Portal (200+ models), OpenRouter, OpenAI or your own endpoint

Mix engines on one team

Yes: Hermes beside Claude Code, Codex or a local model, each on the job that suits it

Hermes is the agent; you pick the model underneath

Models for a Hermes bot in Murage

Hermes brings no cloud model list of its own: give it models from Flux Router, your saved keys or a local server. Pick a local model and Murage adds that provider to your Hermes config.yaml

Set in config.yaml or Nous Portal

Usage

Nothing from us. Your AI provider bills as usual. Flux Router, Ferrox Labs’ optional credit-billed service, covers AI models, connected apps, voice, images and web search if you use it; your own keys work instead

Your model bill only, or Portal credits

The team

Who leads

Ember, your Chief of Staff, takes the brief and builds the team for each job

You, with Hermes spawning isolated subagents for parallel workstreams

Helpers that last

Named bots with faces, voices and memory, still there tomorrow and on routines

One agent with one memory across every surface

Writes its own skills

Bots keep lessons from your corrections, shown where you can edit or undo them; skills they suggest wait for your Enable click

Creates skills on its own after complex tasks and refines them as it works

Projects with boards

Yes: a lead splits the goal into cards on a board and you sign off when it’s done

Not described in the docs checked

Hands

Apps

1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key, plus any public API and any MCP

Skills in the agentskills.io format, a browser and tool use; scripts that call tools

Your own signed-in browser

Murage for Chrome works in your own signed-in Chrome, in the tabs you share

Browsing and tools through its terminal backend and gateway

Work beyond code

79 ready-made teams for sales, ops, research and more, each bot with its own role

General-purpose agent with scheduled jobs delivered to any platform

Memory

Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds

Agent-curated memory with full-text search across past sessions, plus a user model built over time

Control

Asks before acting

New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off for your own chats; routines still stop at it.

Smart approvals by default, where a helper model judges risk and uncertain commands go to you; manual and off modes too. A hardline blocklist holds in every mode

On a Hermes bot inside Murage

On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.

A command with no reply in 300 seconds is denied

Isolation

Bots work in your folders on your computer

Container backends run with capabilities dropped; the container is the boundary, so command checks are skipped there

Open source

Yes, AGPL-3.0

Yes, MIT

Your data

Where memory lives

Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds

On the machine or server where Hermes runs

Who can reach it

Nothing is shared unless you export a team, and logins never travel

Unknown senders get a one-hour pairing code the owner approves, with rate limits and lockouts

Reach

Chat apps

Message your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp

Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal and email from one gateway

Voice

Call any bot in the app and just talk; bots leave voice notes. Ask your Chief for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, and on WhatsApp send it one of your own

Voice mode with barge-in, wake words such as “hey hermes”, spoken replies in Telegram and Discord, and a full-duplex mode in the desktop app

Phone

iPhone and Android app that opens your workspace: approvals, questions and calls with your team

Android through Termux; chat apps on any phone

For your staff

Each person runs Murage on their own computer; export a team and everyone imports it, with no Murage seat fees

A gateway you host, with allowlists for who may message it

Keep Hermes. Add a team that runs it.

Murage sits above Hermes.

Love Hermes? Keep it. Murage makes it even better.

Here’s what came back this morning.

You know how this usually goes.

Try one job.

At a glance.

Where your work lives.

Who does the work.

What Murage adds for a Hermes Agent user.

Hermes runs inside Murage

A Chief of Staff and a team

One window for the whole team

Ask mode and a stop line by default

Where Hermes Agent is ahead.

Which should you choose?

Choose Murage if

Choose Hermes Agent if

Every detail.

Getting in

Where it runs

Brains

The team

Hands

Control

Your data

Reach

Same job, both ways.

Have Hermes teach itself a recurring task

Research three competitors and write a brief

Run a report every morning

Put Hermes, Claude Code and Codex on one job

Approve something while you’re away

Already using Hermes: your first day with Murage

Questions about Murage and Hermes Agent.

Get started in four steps

Download Murage

Pick Hermes

Meet Ember

Give it the first job

Read next.

Give your first job to Murage.

Search murage.ai

Keep Hermes. Add a team that runs it.

Murage sits above Hermes.

Love Hermes? Keep it. Murage makes it even better.

Here’s what came back this morning.

You know how this usually goes.

Try one job.

At a glance.

Where your work lives.

Who does the work.

What Murage adds for a Hermes Agent user.

Hermes runs inside Murage

A Chief of Staff and a team

One window for the whole team

Ask mode and a stop line by default

Where Hermes Agent is ahead.

Which should you choose?

Choose Murage if

Choose Hermes Agent if

Every detail.

Getting in

Where it runs

Brains

The team

Hands

Control

Your data

Reach

Same job, both ways.

Have Hermes teach itself a recurring task

Research three competitors and write a brief

Run a report every morning

Put Hermes, Claude Code and Codex on one job

Approve something while you’re away

Already using Hermes: your first day with Murage

Questions about Murage and Hermes Agent.

Get started in four steps

Download Murage