Agent by Nous Research
Hermes Agent, always on.
On hardware you own.
The fastest-growing AI agent of 2026, pre-installed on a near-silent box that lives on your desk. Hardened by default, patched automatically, and yours outright — no cloud tenancy, no monthly seat.
Why a box, and why Hermes
Hermes is the fastest-growing personal agent of 2026 — and the #1 ranked app on OpenRouter. But upstream it ships as a command-line tool you have to babysit. We turn it into an appliance.
Hermes on a rented VPS is a liability — an always-on agent with your credentials, on someone else's machine, exposed to the internet. Hermes on a ClawBox is an appliance: it sits on your LAN, holds its own keys, and takes its updates from a release we pinned and tested rather than from whatever upstream pushed last night.
The hardware for Hermes, from the people who make hardware
Hermes Agent is built by Nous Research and released open-source under MIT. We didn't write it, and we don't fork it — we do the part they deliberately left to you: the box it lives on, the service that keeps it alive, and the hardening that keeps it yours.
Hermes Agent © Nous Research, MIT-licensed.
ClawBox Hermes Edition is an independent hardware product.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Nous Research.
The same box our owners already run
Hermes Edition is the ClawBox hardware you've seen reviewed — the difference is the runtime we flash on it.
What you get out of the box
Plug in, pair, done
Phone-only setup wizard — WiFi, provider, Telegram. No keyboard, no monitor, no Docker.
Hardened before it ships
Zero exposed ports, curated skills only, firewalled by default. Every unit flashed and tested in the EU.
It maintains itself
Pinned releases and automatic security patches, tested on the same hardware you own before they reach your box.
What people actually run on it
An agent that never sleeps is only useful if it's doing something. Here's what owners put theirs to work on.
- Runs on a schedule or on a message from you
- Keeps its own long-term memory between runs
- Asks before anything irreversible
- Pair by QR in the setup wizard
- Voice notes in, spoken answers back
- Approvals and alerts land in the same chat
- Local inference on 67 TOPS of Jetson silicon
- Your keys live on your box, not our servers
- Full root and SSH access — it's your computer
Built to order. On your desk in days, not months.
We don't drop-ship from a warehouse. When your order lands, we flash the Hermes image, run the full test suite on your actual unit, and hand it to the courier — within 1–3 working days, from Bulgaria.
Set up in five minutes, from your phone
No terminal. No glibc versions. No YAML. Plug it in and follow five screens.
Hermes or OpenClaw — honestly
We sell both. They're different tools, and the right answer depends on what you want the box to do. Here's the version we'd give a friend.
| Hermes Edition | OpenClaw Edition | |
|---|---|---|
| Momentum in 2026 | Fastest-growing agent of the year; #1 on OpenRouter | Larger installed base, growth plateaued |
| Provider risk | Cross-provider by design — survives one vendor changing its terms | Hit hard when subscription auth was withdrawn in April 2026 |
| Ecosystem maturity | Younger; smaller skill library | Bigger app store, more integrations, more polish |
| Security track record | Less battle-tested — no large-scale incident yet, and no proof either way | Stress-tested the hard way; hardening is well understood |
| Best for | Heavier autonomous workloads, provider flexibility | Breadth of integrations and a settled ecosystem |
Same hardware, same warranty, same support either way — the runtime is a choice, not a different product. Dual-runtime on one box is on the roadmap.
What's inside
The same NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super platform we ship in every ClawBox.
One price. One box. Yours.
No seats, no tenancy, no mandatory subscription. Bring your own AI provider — or run local models and pay nothing at all.
- ClawBox hardware, flashed with Hermes Edition
- Built to order and shipped within 1–3 working days
- Hardened image — no exposed ports, curated skills
- Over-the-air updates, with security fixes fast-tracked
- Two-year warranty · 30-day money-back
Secure checkout · ships worldwide from the EU · Klarna available