Hermes Life OS 🧠
March 15, 2026 · View on GitHub
The personal OS that grows with you.
Built for the NousResearch "Show us what Hermes Agent can do" hackathon.
Most productivity tools forget you the moment you close them. Hermes Life OS remembers everything - your mood, your meals, your sleep, your stress, your wins and your struggles - and gets smarter about you every single day.
What It Does
Tell it how you feel. Log what you ate. Track your sleep. Over time it starts connecting dots you haven't: energy crashes after poor sleep, mood dips on low-hydration days, focus drops when stress spikes. Every morning it briefs you. Every evening it reflects with you. Every week it tells you what the data says about your life.
The longer you use it, the more it knows. The more it knows, the more useful it becomes.
Architecture
flowchart TD
A([👤 You share something]) --> B
B[🧠 REMEMBER<br/>Mood · Sleep · Meals<br/>Stress · Focus · Habits] --> C
C[🔍 RECALL<br/>Search memory<br/>for context] --> D
D[📊 DETECT PATTERNS<br/>Correlations across<br/>all life dimensions] --> E
E[📋 BRIEF<br/>Personalized insight<br/>based on YOUR data] --> F
F([🌱 Hermes knows you<br/>a little better today])
G([⏰ Cron Schedule<br/>07:00 Morning<br/>12:00 Midday<br/>18:00 Evening<br/>23:00 Consolidate<br/>Mon 08:00 Weekly]) --> C
style A fill:#2980b9,color:#fff
style F fill:#27ae60,color:#fff
style G fill:#8e44ad,color:#fff
style D fill:#e67e22,color:#fff
Hermes Features Used
| Feature | How It's Used |
|---|---|
| Memory | Stores every mood, meal, sleep entry, workout, stress log - recalls before every response |
| Skills | Life OS playbook defines daily rhythm, pattern detection rules, and briefing format |
| Cron | Automated briefings at 07:00, 12:00, 18:00, 23:00, and weekly Monday reviews |
| Gateway | Delivers briefings via terminal - extensible to Telegram, email, SMS |
| Subagents | Pattern detection runs across all health dimensions in parallel |
| Atropos RL | Reward function trains Hermes to be more personal and memory-driven over time |
Tracking Capabilities
| Category | What Hermes Tracks |
|---|---|
| 🥗 Nutrition | Meals, calories, protein/carbs/fat, daily totals |
| 😴 Sleep | Duration, quality score, 7-day averages |
| 💧 Hydration | Daily water intake with progress bar |
| 💪 Fitness | Workouts, duration, intensity, weekly count |
| 🧘 Mental | Stress levels, meditation sessions, gratitude logs |
| 🎯 Focus | Deep work sessions, distractions, quality scores |
| ✅ Habits | Streaks, best streaks, completion tracking |
| 🎯 Goals | Progress percentages, milestones, notes |
| 😊 Mood & Energy | Daily scores, trend detection, dip alerts |
Pattern Detection
Hermes automatically detects and surfaces:
- Mood dips lasting 3+ consecutive days
- Sleep deprivation affecting focus and mood
- Energy crashes correlated with nutrition gaps
- Stress spikes and their triggers
- Habit streaks worth celebrating
- Goal stalls that need a nudge
- Hydration gaps on high-stress days
Reward Function
pie title Life OS Reward Components
"Briefing Sent - Delivered via send_briefing?" : 30
"Memory Used - Recalled AND remembered?" : 25
"Pattern Detected - Called detect_patterns?" : 20
"Personalization - Referenced real context?" : 15
"Tool Coverage - Used expected tools?" : 10
Quick Start
pip install openai rich
set OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-...
python demo/demo_life_os.py --mode onboard
python demo/demo_life_os.py --mode morning
python demo/demo_life_os.py --mode chat
All Demo Modes
| Mode | What Happens |
|---|---|
onboard | First-time setup - Hermes learns who you are |
morning | Daily briefing based on all your patterns |
checkin | Midday log - mood, habits, quick nudge |
evening | Evening reflection - wins, struggles, patterns |
weekly | Sunday review - what this week says about you |
nutrition | Log meals and get nutrition insights |
sleep | Log sleep and get sleep analysis |
fitness | Log workouts and track fitness patterns |
mental | Log stress, meditation, and gratitude |
focus | Log deep work sessions and productivity |
health | Full health dashboard - all data in one view |
dream | Dream journal - log dreams, detect patterns, sleep/stress correlation |
chat | Interactive conversation - type anything |
Chat Mode
python demo/demo_life_os.py --mode chat
Type naturally. Hermes responds using everything it knows about you.
Type exit to leave.
Example conversations:
- "I feel stressed today, any advice?"
- "Log my lunch - grilled chicken and rice, about 600 calories"
- "How has my sleep been this week?"
- "I just ran 5km, log it"
- "What patterns are you seeing in my data?"
Project Structure
graph LR
A[hermes-life-os] --> B[skills/]
A --> C[environments/]
A --> D[demo/]
A --> E[tests/]
A --> F[docs/]
B --> B1[life-os/SKILL.md<br/>Daily rhythm playbook]
C --> C1[life_os_env.py<br/>Atropos RL environment]
C --> C2[life_os_config.yaml<br/>Training config]
D --> D1[demo_life_os.py<br/>12-mode demo]
E --> E1[test_life_os_env.py<br/>Full test suite]
style B1 fill:#27ae60,color:#fff
style C1 fill:#8e44ad,color:#fff
style D1 fill:#2980b9,color:#fff
Voice Mode
python demo/demo_life_os.py --voice --model google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
Speak to Hermes directly. It listens via microphone, processes your input using everything it knows about you, and responds out loud via system TTS.
No extra API key needed - uses built-in Windows/Linux speech synthesis.
To stop: say or type exit
What's New
v1.3.0 - Dream Journal
- Dream logging mode with symbol, emotion, tone and vividness tracking
- Sleep/mood/stress/dream correlation detection
- Recurring symbol pattern detection across 30 days
- Morning briefing includes dream analysis
v1.2.0 - Voice & Performance
- Voice mode - speak to Hermes, hear responses via system TTS
- Concurrent tool execution - read-only tools run in parallel threads
- Microphone input via SpeechRecognition
v1.1.0 - Health & Wellness Expansion
- Nutrition, sleep, hydration, fitness, mental, focus tracking
- Full health dashboard and weekly health report
- Interactive chat mode
v1.0.0 - Initial Release
- 12 demo modes covering every life dimension
- Pattern detection across mood, sleep, nutrition, stress, focus
- Memory-driven briefings, Atropos RL environment
Running Tests
python -m pytest tests/ -v
python -c "from environments.life_os_env import smoke_test; smoke_test()"
Why This Is Different
Every other agent in this hackathon does something for you. Hermes Life OS becomes something with you.
It tracks nutrition, sleep, fitness, stress, focus, hydration, habits, and goals - and connects them all. Bad Monday? It checks if you slept poorly Sunday. Energy crash at 3pm? It looks at what you ate for lunch. Mood dip this week? It finds the pattern you missed.
That is not a tool. That is a presence that accumulates.