Hermes alternative from Germany | Agent Orchestrator

Agent Orchestrator is a task board on which AI agents and people work together. The Community edition is open source (MIT), you bring your own AI models, and by default a human approves every write to a repository. Built and operated in Germany, legally owned by Simplifier AG.

What is Hermes Agent?

An open-source, self-improving AI agent from Nous Research.
A built-in learning loop: it creates skills from experience, improves them during use and searches past conversations.
Skills follow the open agentskills.io standard; a built-in cron scheduler delivers to platforms such as Telegram.
Runs on a cloud machine instead of your own laptop and can be addressed, for example, through Telegram.
Model-agnostic: Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI or your own endpoint, among others.

Sources (as of 14 Oct 2026): github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent · Hermes Agent Documentation

Comparison

Agent Orchestrator compared

Statements about the other product come from its public sources (linked below), as of 14 Oct 2026. A “—” means: we make no statement.

	Agent Orchestrator	Hermes
Focus	Platform for teams: board, agents, squads, approvals	A single, self-improving personal agent
Learning from experience	Skills are published by people; agents can create drafts	Built-in learning loop, skills created automatically
Bring your own AI models	Yes, daemon inside your own network	Yes, any endpoint
Schedules	Recurring tasks	Cron scheduler
Address the agent through chat services (e.g. Telegram)	No	Yes
Task management for teams	Yes: board, assignees, due dates, dependencies	Not the focus (single agent)
Human approval before repository writes	Default	—
Hosted in Germany	Yes, Nuremberg (Hetzner), in Early Access	—
Roles and audit log	Roles; audit log (Business)	—

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⚠ When you should stay with Hermes

You want a personal agent that learns from your work and creates skills itself
You want to talk to your agent through Telegram or similar services
You don't need team management, just a single lightweight agent

If several people and agents work together and results should be approved, Agent Orchestrator fits. Tell us what you need: Early Access with a wish list.

Open source

MIT license. You don't have to trust us – you can read it.

Your own AI models

The agent daemon runs inside your network and uses only the models you approve.

Built and operated in Germany

Hosted in Nuremberg (Hetzner). Legal owner: Simplifier AG – Trust Portal.

The Hermes alternative
from Germany.