Comparison

humux vs.
Hermes

How humux compares to Hermes — the Nous Research personal AI agent with plugins, browser automation, and self-evolving skills.

Nous Research — 207k ★ — Python — MIT

Feature humux Hermes
Self-hosted
Single container deploy
Messaging channels 3 ~5
Telegram (per-agent bots) Single bot
WhatsApp
CLI channel
Email (IMAP/SMTP)
Calendar (CalDAV)
Contacts (CardDAV)
Persistent memory
Voice (STT + TTS)
Markdown skills
Subagents
Scheduled tasks / cron
Web search
Browser automation
Encrypted secrets vault
Granular permissions
Admin web UI
LLM providers 6 ~15

Info gathered from public repos and docs. Products evolve — check each project for current state.

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Where Hermes wins

  • Larger plugin and skills ecosystem with community contributions
  • More LLM providers (~15 vs humux's 6)
  • Self-evolution: optimizes its own skills via DSPy
  • MCP server support for tool interoperability
  • Backed by Nous Research with a large, active community
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Where humux wins

  • Built-in email, calendar, and contacts — not available in Hermes at all
  • Per-agent Telegram bots (Hermes runs a single bot for all agents)
  • Encrypted two-tier secrets vault (Hermes stores credentials in config)
  • WhatsApp and CLI channels (absent in Hermes)
  • Four-tier memory with importance-based forgetting and deduplication

The bottom line

Choose Hermes if you want a large plugin ecosystem, MCP support, and self-evolving skills. Choose humux if you want built-in email, calendar, and contacts, per-agent Telegram bots, and an encrypted secrets vault.

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