Hermes Agent from Nous Research is a model-agnostic, tool-using assistant you run locally or on a VPS. Hermes does not lock you into one surface. You can use the classic hermes / hermes chat CLI, the full-screen hermes --tui session, a long-running hermes gateway for Telegram, Discord, Slack, and other messaging platforms, hermes dashboard for a local browser UI when the web extra is installed.
I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora