Alternatives to Hermes Desktop

Open-source library of 817 structured cybersecurity skills that AI coding agents load on demand, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and free under Apache 2.0.

Imbue is an open AI lab publishing modular, open-source coding-agent tools you run and inspect yourself.

Open-source SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates inside a persistent Docker sandbox — MIT licensed and self-hosted.

Fully local, open-source AI assistant that browses, codes, and plans tasks — no cloud, no API keys, no subscriptions.

Free GitBook reference that takes OpenClaw apart subsystem by subsystem, with source-traced deep dives from chapter 11 onward

Open-source multi-agent framework that assigns PM, architect, engineer and QA roles to LLMs for structured software tasks

Open-source, self-hosted AI agent that plans tasks, runs tools, and grows its own memory.

Open-source AI agent loop that iterates a task list in Docker Sandboxes and commits the results.

Open-source LLM from UC Berkeley that turns natural language into API calls and tool-using agent actions.

Godcoder is a local-first, open-source AI coding agent desktop app that writes its own harness and keeps your code on your machine.

Open-source desktop AI assistant for Windows, macOS, and Linux with chat, vision, voice, agents, and media generation

Open-source framework and desktop app for fine-tuning and running LLMs locally with custom CUDA kernels — 2x faster training and less VRAM on your own GPU.

Open-source dev platform that combines no-code, full-code, and AI with reusable full-stack MicroApps.

CopilotKit is the open-source React framework for adding agent chat, generative UI, and shared state to any AG-UI backend.

Microsoft's open-source framework for building conversational and event-driven AI agents in Python and .NET.

Open-source TypeScript framework for building durable AI agents and workflows, with a hosted platform for observability and cloud deployment.

Open-source Python framework for building distributed multi-agent AI systems with debate, routing, handoffs, and pipelines.

Free open-source desktop AI workbench that runs 300+ cloud and local models in one app

Open-source agentic data assistant: your LLM connects to databases, writes SQL and code, and runs analysis in sandboxes

Microsoft's open-source SDK for building AI agents and copilots with plugins, memory, and multi-agent orchestration.

Microsoft's open-source, code-first Python framework for building stateful, data-intensive conversational AI agents.

MIT-licensed, self-hosted AI agent with persistent memory that connects to 20+ chat platforms and builds its own reusable skills.

Open-source, self-hosted AI agent whose SquillaRouter routes each step to cheap or flagship models to cut token cost.

Eino is an open-source Go framework from ByteDance for building LLM apps, agents, and graphs in your existing Go backend.

Open-source, local-first desktop AI client that connects to multiple model providers and keeps your data on your machine.

Open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant with code completion, answer engine, inline chat, and the Pochi autonomous agent.

Open-source 27B model for agentic coding and multimodal reasoning, self-hosted under Apache 2.0.

TalkCody is a free, open-source AI coding agent with four-level parallel execution and any-model support.

CodeLoom is a free, open-source desktop app that runs multiple local LLMs side by side as separate coding threads on your own machine.

Open-source, local-first terminal assistant that turns plain English into shell commands and runs fully offline through Ollama.