Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source AI agent that learns as it works. It writes its own skills, remembers how it solved a problem, and runs on a laptop, a server or a cloud sandbox.
CopilotKit Soar gives your company self-hosted AI coworkers that run on your own servers and connect to the tools you already use. It's fully customizable, works with any agent harness and any model, and keeps learning from how your teams work. Our engineers set it up under your brand.
Both run on your own infrastructure, and both learn. For a business, the difference comes down to how your people sign in and get access, how every action is checked and recorded, and who approves what the agent learns.
Hermes Agent is MIT licensed and sends no telemetry by default. It runs locally, in Docker, over SSH or in cloud sandboxes, and one gateway connects it to 20+ chat apps, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram and WhatsApp. A web dashboard with OIDC sign-in manages the profiles, memory, skills and sessions on each machine, and built-in commands back up, export and uninstall everything.
Nous also sells Hermes Business, a team tier with admin roles and a shared skill library, and Hermes Enterprise, a self-hosted edition with "tailored deployment, SSO, SLAs, and white-glove onboarding."
Over the past few months, we open-sourced our own versions of the big AI coworker products: OpenBot (Grok Bot), OpenMuse (Meta Muse), OpenDots (OpenAI dots) and OpenTag (Claude Tag). CopilotKit Soar turns that core into one business-ready product for companies that want AI coworkers on their own terms.
Your teams share AI coworkers that use your apps, finish real work and get better the more they're used. Each coworker can get its own computer and follows the rules your IT team writes. Coworkers show up in the Soar app on web, desktop and mobile, and in Slack and Microsoft Teams.
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Both run on your own servers, reach your team in Slack and Microsoft Teams, and get better as they work. The differences show up in sign-in, how every action is checked and recorded, and who approves what the agent learns.
SKILL.md file you can download with the CLIHermes Agent writes its own skills and keeps its memory with one profile on one machine. In Soar, everything a coworker learns is visible and reviewable, and a person approves every skill first. All of it runs on CopilotKit Intelligence, which you can self-host or use in our cloud.
With User Memories, each coworker keeps your people's preferences and project context across conversations, for one user or shared across a project. Your team can list, update or remove any memory.
With CLiF, your team can show a coworker a task once in the browser, and Soar learns and repeats it. Admins manage learning centrally, and each coworker learns in its own container.
With Automatic Learning, Soar also reads your coworkers' finished threads, finds the patterns and proposes each insight as a skill. Every skill is a SKILL.md your team reviews, and it reaches your coworkers only after a person approves it.
Hermes Agent fits developers and small teams who want a free agent that learns, in the chat apps they already use. Nous's Business and Enterprise tiers extend it to larger teams.
CopilotKit Soar fits companies that:
1. What's the difference between CopilotKit Soar and Hermes Agent?
Both run on your own infrastructure, and both learn. Hermes Agent writes its own skills for each profile. CopilotKit Soar gives teams shared AI coworkers with company sign-in, one gateway that checks and records every action, and a person approving every skill.
2. Is CopilotKit Soar open source?
Soar runs on OpenBot, our open-source engine under the MIT license. CopilotKit Intelligence, which powers threads and learning, is a separate product you can self-host or use in our cloud.
3. Does CopilotKit Soar support SSO and SCIM?
Yes. Soar includes Google, Microsoft, Okta, SAML and OIDC sign-in, plus SCIM 2.0. Hermes Agent's dashboard supports OIDC sign-in, and Hermes Enterprise lists SSO.
4. Who approves what CopilotKit Soar learns?
Your team does. A person approves every skill before any coworker uses it. Hermes Agent writes its own skills by default, with an optional approval step.
5. Does CopilotKit Soar keep an audit trail of every action?
Yes. Soar records every action, allowed or refused, with who started it, and streams the trail to your SIEM over OpenTelemetry. Hermes Agent logs dashboard sign-ins and exports traces through plugins.
6. How do I get CopilotKit Soar?
Soar is in early access. Book a meeting at copilotkit.ai/soar and our engineers will build your first AI coworker with you.
CopilotKit Soar brings self-hosted AI coworkers to every team, on your servers and under your rules. To see everything it can do, refer to the CopilotKit Soar product page.
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If you want to see Soar in action, we suggest booking a demo. Our engineering team will build your first AI coworker with you and provide dedicated support as your team grows.
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