Build a local multi-agent travel planner with Hermes Agent and Ollama: a coordinator and three specialist agents that research destinations, suggest stays, and generate real Google Flights search links.
I wanted an AI agent that could actually help me plan a trip, research a destination, suggest where to stay, and find a real flight — without a subscription, without sending every question to a cloud provider, and without a monthly bill creeping up the more I used it. That search led me to two tools worth knowing: Hermes Agent and Ollama. This article is the real project that came out of pairing them: a working, tested, multi-agent travel research team running entirely on my own hardware.
Before the build, though, it's worth actually understanding the two tools doing the work, since most of what makes this project possible traces back to what each one is specifically good at.
Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent built by Nous Research, released under the permissive MIT license and currently at version 0.21.1 as of this writing. It ships in two ways: a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a terminal-first CLI. Both give you the same underlying agent, not a stripped-down version.
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