Notice

NOTICE
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This product is a derivative work of **Hermes Agent** by Nous Research,
used under the MIT Licence. The original copyright notice and licence text are
retained in full in the `LICENSE` file, as that licence requires.

    Hermes Agent — Copyright (c) 2025 Nous Research
    https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Modifications and additions in this repository are Copyright (c) 2026 Arman Khan.


What the MIT licence does and does not grant
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The MIT licence covers the **code**. It permits use, modification, commercial
distribution and sublicensing, including as part of a closed-source or paid
product, provided the copyright notice and licence text travel with it.

It does **not** grant any right to the trademarks, service marks, product names,
logos or trade dress of Nous Research — including the names "Nous Research",
"Hermes", "Hermes Agent" and "Nous Portal". Those remain the property of their
owner and are not licensed by MIT.

Accordingly this fork:

  * retains `LICENSE` verbatim, and this attribution;
  * removes Nous Research branding from all user-visible surfaces;
  * does not present itself as Hermes Agent, nor as endorsed by or affiliated
    with Nous Research;
  * does not use Nous Portal or any Nous-operated service.

Where upstream names survive in internal identifiers — module paths, config
keys, environment variables, skill frontmatter namespaces — they are technical
artefacts of the fork, not branding. See `docs/BRANDING.md` for the distinction
and for how the user-visible layer is applied.


Third-party dependencies
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This work carries the dependencies of the upstream project, each under its own
licence. The authoritative list is the `dependencies` table in `pyproject.toml`,
where every direct dependency is exact-pinned; run `pip show <name>` for the
licence of any one of them.