The builders who care most about control over their agent stack keep landing on the same name. Hermes Agent is the open, neutrally aligned agent stack from Nous Research, built for builders who want full control over reasoning, tools, and orchestration without being locked into a frontier lab’s roadmap. The AI Capitol will host an intimate showcase walking through what Hermes actually is, how it behaves in the wild, and where it fits in the rapidly shifting agent landscape. The event features a live Hermes demo, architecture breakdown in plain language, concrete use cases across research, automation, and product workflows, and a candid take on how it compares to closed-source agent stacks. The session includes a talk by Benjamin Cheng, followed by open Q&A and casual networking.