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Jigward and Hermes Agent
An assistant for one person, and a coworker for a team.
Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent from Nous Research. A person works with it from a terminal, its desktop app or a messaging app, and it learns their projects as it works.
Jigward is an AI engineering coworker your whole team hires.
A coworker, not another tool.
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It works where your team works
Mention it in Slack, assign it a Jira issue, ask it to review a pull request. It answers in the same place.
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It belongs to the whole team
Engineers, tech leads, QA engineers and analysts give work to the same coworker, and it keeps what the team settled.
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It brings work back, and leaves the decision
A report with its evidence, a draft pull request or a Jira issue. Merging and deploying stay with people.
Two ways to work
Self-improving AI agent
Hermes Agent
A person gives Hermes Agent work from a terminal, its desktop app or a chat app such as Telegram or Slack, with one memory across all of them. It runs on their own computer or a server, creates skills from experience and improves them as it works.
AI engineering coworker
Jigward
The team hands Jigward work where it already talks: a Slack thread, a Jira issue, a pull request. It comes back in the same place with a report, the evidence and a draft pull request, and it keeps what the team decided for the next task.
Side by side
| Question | Hermes Agent | Jigward |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A self-improving AI agent that creates skills from experience | An AI engineering coworker your team hires |
| Works for | Its user, whose preferences and habits it learns | The whole team: engineers, tech leads, QA engineers, analysts |
| Where you reach it | A terminal, its desktop app, Telegram, Discord, Slack and email | Slack, Jira and GitHub pull requests, where the team already works |
| What you hand it | Scheduled reports, backups, web search and browser automation | Code changes and the work around them: logs, browser checks, tickets, scheduled checks |
| What it remembers | Notes on its environment, a profile of its user, past sessions | The team's decisions, and its understanding of each repository |
| What comes back | A reply where it was asked, and the skills and memory entries it saved | A report with evidence where you asked, and draft pull requests people merge |
| Best for | One agent with one memory across a person's terminal and chats | Handing off the work a whole team shares |
When to choose which
Choose Hermes Agent when
- You want one agent with one memory across your terminal, a desktop app and your chat apps.
- The agent should write and refine its own skills, and learn how you work.
- The work should run on your own computer, a VPS or serverless infrastructure.
Choose Jigward when
- The whole team, from engineers to analysts, hands work to the same coworker.
- What it learns about each repository, and what the team decided, should stay with the team.
- You want code changes to come back as draft pull requests that people merge.
See Jigward on a familiar problem
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Every check is green on a column drop. Does anything still read it?
A cleanup pull request drops an old column and passes every check, but the checks cannot see the other repositories and the old instances that still read it.
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The same test keeps breaking main. Flaky, or a real bug?
The same test keeps turning main red, the team reruns it until it passes, and nobody finds out why it failed.
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The same review comment on every pull request. Will this one stick?
Reviewers repeat the same correction on pull request after pull request, because the convention lives only in their comments.
Questions
What is Hermes Agent?
Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. A person works with it from a terminal, its desktop app or messaging apps, and it creates skills from experience and keeps one memory across all of them.
How is Jigward different from Hermes Agent?
Hermes Agent is built around one person and an agent that grows with them. Jigward is built as a coworker the whole team hires. It works in the team's Slack, Jira and pull requests, takes on engineering work in the team's repositories, and keeps what the team decided for the next task.
Can we use both?
Yes. They do not connect to each other. A person can keep Hermes Agent for their own work while the team hands engineering work to Jigward in Slack, Jira and GitHub.
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Jigward is in closed testing. Accounts are created by hand; sending a request does not create one.