Ryan Teknium, known online as Teknium, is a co-founder of Nous Research. His work includes open language models, training datasets and Hermes Agent, a terminal-based personal and coding agent.[1][3]
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Links
GitHub 
X Hugging Face Co-founder · Nous Research
Career
Teknium is first-listed co-author of the Hermes4 report, covering the model family’s reasoning and instruction-following data, training and evaluation.[2]
Contributions
His current GitHub biography identifies Hermes Agent as a focus. The system connects a terminal-native agent to tools, persistent memory, reusable skills and messaging gateways. Its learning loop can turn experience into skills that remain available across sessions. This is a harness around language models and tools; the project supports several model providers rather than requiring one proprietary model.[1][3]
Ideas
Hermes Agent surrounds a language model with tools, memory and an execution environment. This makes the runtime’s contribution distinct from the model’s learned behavior.[3]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
Start here
Hermes Agentgithub.comA terminal-native coding and personal agent with tools, persistent memory, reusable skills and messaging gateways.
Begin with the repository’s quick start and the distinction between memory and reusable skills. Running it requires a supported model-provider account or local-model setup.
Writing, research & talks
- Hermes4 Technical Reportarxiv.org
Training and evaluation methods for an open family of reasoning and instruction-following models.
First-listed co-author[2]