> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Nous Research

<Tip>
  **Discover Nous Research Hermes models for advanced reasoning and instruction following**
</Tip>

<Info>
  You can get an API key from the [Nous Research Portal](https://portal.nousresearch.com/).
</Info>

## Available Models

| Model                     | Context Length | Description                                        |
| ------------------------- | -------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| `Hermes-4.3-36B`          | 128k           | Compact reasoning model with thinking capabilities |
| `Hermes-4-70B`            | 128k           | Large reasoning model with 128k context            |
| `Hermes-4-405B`           | 128k           | Flagship reasoning model                           |
| `Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B`  | 32k            | Instruction-tuned on Llama 3.1 70B                 |
| `Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B` | 32k            | Instruction-tuned on Llama 3.1 405B                |

## Configuration

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="YAML">
    ```yaml title="config.yaml" theme={null}
    name: My Config
    version: 0.0.1
    schema: v1

    models:
      - name: Hermes 4.3 36B
        provider: nous
        model: Hermes-4.3-36B
        apiKey: <YOUR_NOUS_API_KEY>
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="JSON">
    ```json title="config.json" theme={null}
    {
      "models": [
        {
          "title": "Hermes 4.3 36B",
          "provider": "nous",
          "model": "Hermes-4.3-36B",
          "apiKey": "<YOUR_NOUS_API_KEY>"
        }
      ]
    }
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Reasoning Mode

Hermes 4 and DeepHermes models support reasoning with chain-of-thought. To enable reasoning, use the following system prompt:

```
You are a deep thinking AI, you may use extremely long chains of thought to deeply consider the problem and deliberate with yourself via systematic reasoning processes to help come to a correct solution prior to answering. You should enclose your thoughts and internal monologue inside <think> </think> tags, and then provide your solution or response to the problem.
```

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="YAML">
    ```yaml title="config.yaml" theme={null}
    name: My Config
    version: 0.0.1
    schema: v1

    models:
      - name: Hermes 4.3 36B (Reasoning)
        provider: nous
        model: Hermes-4.3-36B
        apiKey: <YOUR_NOUS_API_KEY>
        systemMessage: |
          You are a deep thinking AI, you may use extremely long chains of thought to deeply consider the problem and deliberate with yourself via systematic reasoning processes to help come to a correct solution prior to answering. You should enclose your thoughts and internal monologue inside <think> </think> tags, and then provide your solution or response to the problem.
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="JSON">
    ```json title="config.json" theme={null}
    {
      "models": [
        {
          "title": "Hermes 4.3 36B (Reasoning)",
          "provider": "nous",
          "model": "Hermes-4.3-36B",
          "apiKey": "<YOUR_NOUS_API_KEY>",
          "systemMessage": "You are a deep thinking AI, you may use extremely long chains of thought to deeply consider the problem and deliberate with yourself via systematic reasoning processes to help come to a correct solution prior to answering. You should enclose your thoughts and internal monologue inside <think> </think> tags, and then provide your solution or response to the problem."
        }
      ]
    }
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>