Run a Powerful AI Agent Locally — Hermes Agent + Ollama (No API Key Required)

In this video, I show you how to set up NousResearch's Hermes Agent — an open-source, self-improving AI agent — and connect it to a local Ollama model so you can run it completely free, offline, and private. No OpenAI key. No OpenRouter. Just your machine. What you'll learn: → What Hermes Agent is and why it's different → Installing Hermes Agent on Linux / macOS / WSL2 → Setting up Ollama and pulling a local model → Pointing Hermes at your local Ollama endpoint → Running your first local AI agent session Commands used in this video: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/h…