# Hermes Co-Founder on Building an AI Agent That Improves Itself | Karan Malhotra

DevFeed: [Hermes Co-Founder on Building an AI Agent That Improves Itself | Karan Malhotra](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hermes-co-founder-on-building-an-ai-agent-that-improves-itself-karan-malhotra-34994.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://creatoreconomy.so/p/hermes-co-founder-on-building-an-ai-agent-that-improves-itself-karan-malhotra>)

Author: Peter Yang

Published: 2026-08-02T14:01:52Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Behind the Craft](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/behind-the-craft.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [builds](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/builds.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context.md>), [game](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/game.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/skills.md>), [sonic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sonic.md>)

## AI overview

An article about Hermes, an AI agent whose context remains portable across models and whose skills can be built and cleaned up autonomously. It also describes how Hermes helped Karan Malhotra modify a childhood Sonic game.

## Source excerpt

How Hermes keeps your context portable across models, builds and cleans up its own skills, and helped Karan modify his childhood Sonic game