Deploy Self-Evolving Agents for Faster, More Secure Research with Hermes Agent and NVIDIA NemoClaw
Learn how to build self-improving AI agents that combine internal data with public sources while maintaining enterprise-grade security
AI agents are a powerful tool for synthesizing data to accelerate research, summarize information, and help teams make decisions faster. But combining internal data with public sources poses security challenges.
This post shares an open source example using Hermes Agent with NVIDIA NemoClaw for product research across Outlook, Slack, and GitHub. NVIDIA OpenShell enforces a security-approved runtime. The agent learns preferences and patterns, writing new memories and skills. The more users work with the agent, the better it gets.
While the integration points are specific to this use case (Slack, Outlook, and GitHub), the pattern of safely mixing public and private data in a self-improving agent is important for many use cases, including sales research, customer support, engineering triage, competitive analysis, and internal knowledge discovery.
What You Will Learn
- Bring up the open-source NemoClaw stack with one install command
- Wire the agent to two messaging channels (Slack and Outlook) and to community data (GitHub and the NVIDIA developer forums)
- Teach the agent a recurring report format directly from a chat conversation—no code changes or gateway restarts required
- Save the agent's learned state so it persists across deployments
Prerequisites
To follow along, you'll need:
- A host with a running Docker daemon. The example targets Ubuntu 24.04 but works on any distribution OpenShell supports
- A build.nvidia.com API key for inference. The default model is
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b - Credentials for at least one messaging integration:
- An Outlook tenant plus a registered Azure app, or
- A Slack workspace plus a Slack app
- A GitHub token for pulling data
Install and Bring Up Hermes
Clone the repository and install OpenShell:
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/nemoclaw-community.git
cd nemoclaw-community/examples/personal-community-sentiment-triage
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell/main/install.sh | OPENSHELL_VERSION=v0.0.38 sh