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This tag rolls up the ~460 PRs merged since v0.21.4 into a...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.5 (v2026.9.24)\n\n**Release Date:** September 24, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~460 PRs merged since v0.21.4 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, Hermes Cloud, hosted deployments). Full curated notes for this window are deferred to v0.22.0.\n\n## About this release\n\nMeasured at commit `f97608f178d1ffeca59860195ab7da295f7c8e5f`, the window since v0.21.4 contains **1,610 non-merge commits** across **4,828 changed files** (+164,132 / −149,440), **460 merged PRs** and **475 closed issues**.\n\nAlso in the window, undocumented here on purpose: a Desktop plugin SDK wave (composer draft API, session-list and row-decoration slots, sidebar nav prefs, model-pill label providers, typed settings/skills/toolsets/profiles bridges, a sandboxed embed primitive, appearance-settings slot, and a public event bridge for plugin backends); a Simple/Advanced interface mode for Desktop; the Connectors page replacing the MCP tab, with \"Connect now\" for a freshly installed plugin's MCP servers and installed plugins' tools and skills going live in every open chat; onboarding that offers catalog plugins beside connectors; complete French, German and Spanish Desktop catalogs plus an RTL/LTR text direction setting; custom model entry from the composer and Settings pickers; function-key and dictation voice shortcuts; per-profile stop/start/restart under the host multiplexer and `gateway.standalone` to opt a profile out; the live dock showing the standing `/goal` and queued prompts in the CLI and TUI; a kanban design pass with a two-column ticket modal and markdown task text; webhook deliveries mirrored into the target chat session; Bot Screen on hosted `-desktop` images; GPT-6 Sol/Terra/Luna and Claude Opus 5.5 in the Nous and OpenRouter catalogs; an official Blender Lab integration and NVIDIA app/Broadcast plugins; a long run of hot-path performance work across config loading, the tool registry, gateway message handling and the model picker; and dozens of new community plugins in the catalog.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window ship with v0.22.0**, which will document everything from v0.21.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- `hermes update` (git installs), or re-run the installer one-liner.\n- Docker / Hermes Cloud: images build from this tag (`nousresearch/hermes-agent:v2026.9.24`).\n\n**Full changelog:** https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.9.21...v2026.9.24\n","publishedAt":"2026-09-24T10:09:38.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:24.635Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.9.24","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_4XYuCfB8RbOo7jUdGBa3F","version":"v2026.9.21","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.21.4 (v2026.9.21)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.4 (v2026.9.21)\n\n**Release Date:** September 21, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~1,800 PRs merged since v0.21.3 into...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.4 (v2026.9.21)\n\n**Release Date:** September 21, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~1,800 PRs merged since v0.21.3 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, Hermes Cloud, hosted deployments). Full curated notes for this window are deferred to v0.22.0.\n\n## About this release\n\nMeasured at commit `4b8a8134009a8727a289bcabeb0019fedd353128`, the window since v0.21.3 contains **5,071 non-merge commits** across **5,169 changed files** (+312,961 / −62,855), **1,812 merged PRs** and **2,116 closed issues**.\n\nAlso in the window, undocumented here on purpose: a host-wide gateway singleton lock with a rendezvous record, and Desktop attaching to the running host backend instead of spawning a second one; one backend-owned connector operation with a setup card on Desktop, TUI and CLI; `--format stream-json` structured JSONL output for the CLI; `skills.auto_load` pinning skills into every new session's prompt; a Desktop chat/UI font picker, one-click local engine updates, and plugin uninstall from the Plugins hub; a `decline` unauthorized-DM behavior for the gateway; a configurable MCP discovery connect cap (`mcp.discovery_concurrency`); `session_search` after/before bounds plus OR-relaxed recall retry; `hermes sessions set-journal-mode`; LTX 2.5 and Kling O3 in the video catalogs; a website page for every catalog plugin and author, with pinned-commit READMEs and added/updated sorting; a dozen new community plugins in the catalog (tailscale, ssh, shodan, terminal, rss, resetwatch, done-bell, kiwi, cognee, Octen); and a large run of profile/multiplex isolation, cron, kanban, Desktop and state.db fixes.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window ship with v0.22.0**, which will document everything from v0.21.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- `hermes update` (git installs), or re-run the installer one-liner.\n- Docker / Hermes Cloud: images build from this tag (`nousresearch/hermes-agent:v2026.9.21`).\n\n**Full changelog:** https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.9.14...v2026.9.21\n","publishedAt":"2026-09-21T18:10:55.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:24.635Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.9.21","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_Q8AUgNJibKt2oJriUqUAg","version":"v2026.9.14","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.21.3 (v2026.9.14)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.3 (v2026.9.14)\n\n**Release Date:** September 14, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~338 PRs merged since v0.21.2 into a...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.3 (v2026.9.14)\n\n**Release Date:** September 14, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~338 PRs merged since v0.21.2 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, Hermes Cloud, hosted deployments). It exists so the remote-gateway sign-in fixes below reach Cloud agents, which auto-update to the newest release tag.\n\n## What this patch ships for remote Desktop / Cloud users\n\n- **Remote dashboard sessions no longer expire on refresh bursts** (#110061, fixes #55712; salvage #71548 @Doud-FR, #55717 @liuhao1024). Both refresh paths on the gateway (cookie gate and the desktop's native bearer route) now coalesce concurrent requests carrying the same rotating refresh token, so a Desktop wake burst can no longer replay an already-rotated token into the Portal's reuse detection and revoke the whole session. Refresh also runs off the event loop, so a slow identity provider no longer freezes `/api/status`. Pairs with Portal-side NousResearch/hermes-portal#1209 (sliding 30-day idle horizon, 5-minute rotated-token grace).\n\n## Also requested for this tag\n\n- **Long-lived processes stop leaking duplicate state.db writer handles** (#110934, fixes #100896 #103339; salvage #107974 @kshitijk4poor, mapping @Rroven): gateway, dashboard/Desktop backend, ACP and CLI readers attach read-only and in-process writers share the registry handle, so the `N live SessionDB handles` precursor stops firing on a healthy topology.\n\n## About this release\n\nMeasured at commit `9b419a2d3c2657c192008e732149d61170b32c01`, the window since v0.21.2 contains **1,036 non-merge commits** across **2,642 changed files** (+131,690 / −37,096) and **338 merged PRs**.\n\nAlso in the window, undocumented here on purpose: server→client JSON-RPC requests and a Pydantic wire-contract registry with generated TS/OpenRPC for the TUI/Desktop gateway (#110521, #110522); reasoning-effort selection on every model picker, a composer pill and per-auxiliary control in Desktop; OpenRouter OAuth PKCE login; HEIF/HEIC/AVIF image decoding; the Honcho peer-model setup rework; MCP OAuth refresh tokens bound to their issuer; a daily MCP re-auth nudge in Desktop; Wan 3.0, Kling 3.0 / Kling Image v3, MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 and Meta Muse in the FAL catalogs; Slack pasted tables and the Agent Sessions API; multiplexed-profile isolation and gateway-liveness fixes; and the state.db WAL refusal on cross-VM filesystems.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window ship with v0.22.0**, which will document everything from v0.21.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- `hermes update` (git installs), or re-run the installer one-liner.\n- Docker / Hermes Cloud: images build from this tag (`nousresearch/hermes-agent:v2026.9.14`).\n\n**Full changelog:** https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.9.11...v2026.9.14\n","publishedAt":"2026-09-14T16:04:14.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:24.635Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.9.14","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_mtiqIiTw1Fnd8UmJ6JctG","version":"v2026.9.11","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.21.2 (v2026.9.11)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.2 (v2026.9.11) — The state.db Patch Release\n\n**Release Date:** September 11, 2026\n\n> Patch release. v0.21.0 shipped a large rewri...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.2 (v2026.9.11) — The state.db Patch Release\n\n**Release Date:** September 11, 2026\n\n> Patch release. v0.21.0 shipped a large rewrite of the session store's connection handling, and for some installs it made `state.db` fragile: second writers cancelling each other's locks, healthy databases reported as corrupt, one bad row killing `sessions list`. This release closes that class and rolls up everything else that landed on `main` in the four days since v0.21.1.\n\n## About this release\n\nMeasured at commit `04dd80a977f40b05e5b2054111747af07a61886a`, the window since v0.21.1 contains **947 non-merge commits** across **1,869 changed files** (+182,504 / −15,564) and **312 merged PRs**. **140 contributors** appear in commits, co-author trailers, or salvage credits.\n\n## ✨ Highlights\n\n### state.db reliability campaign (six PRs, 44 issues closed)\n\nIf your `state.db` broke after 0.21.0, this is the release for you. Six PRs fix the root causes rather than the symptoms:\n\n- **No more second writers.** Profile gateways wrote hosted-room state into the *root* `state.db` every 5 seconds; the dashboard opened a writable handle on startup; cron's lifecycle guard did a raw `open()` on a live database (which cancels the gateway's POSIX locks — the classic \"how to corrupt SQLite\" recipe); `doctor --fix` would checkpoint under a live holder. All four are gone: hosted rooms live in `shared-state.db`, the dashboard opens read-only first, the guard goes through the tracked connection registry, and `doctor --fix` refuses a checkpoint it can't prove is safe. (#108076 — salvage #103489 @RikETS, #102682 @JoaoMarcos44, #108012 @Halldrix, #105428 @TaoMasterCoder)\n- **Healthy WAL databases stop wedging.** OpenZFS `(deleted)` dentries and a `close()` racing an `append_message` both produced a sticky `DeletedWalGenerationError` on a perfectly good store; the read pool was handed out under an unconfirmed journal mode; a transient `disk I/O error` on WSL2 killed `get_session` on the first attempt; and a \"state.db locked\" banner was broadcast after the lock had already cleared. (#108082 — salvage #107411 @chelsealong, #105578 @ca-shrimp, #105711 @gaoanze888, #106958 @nikkoxgonzales; co-authored @QDung210, @fangliquanflq, @Sahilvishnaliya)\n- **FTS damage no longer kills your turn.** An error scoped to the full-text-search index was classified as whole-file corruption and fail-closed the conversation. It's now `fts_index`: search degrades, the index rebuilds later, the transcript store is untouched. Same PR: doctor names structural damage honestly instead of \"FTS write corruption\", the FTS write probe catches the stale-index shape that passed every check while every write failed, `.recover` output no longer fails startup on orphan FTS5 shadow tables, header-zeroed databases recover instead of being refused, and the dashboard analytics poller returns a 503 instead of 520K tracebacks a day. (#108130 — salvage #97843 @SulthanZahran1 + #97841 @Finn763, #88604 #56824 #103657 @liuhao1024, #106890 @nftpoetrist, #103321 @jangomango76, #91413 @leegunwoo98, #102808 @TaoMasterCoder)\n- **One corrupt row no longer kills `sessions list`, export, or insights.** A TEXT timestamp or a `1e30` epoch used to crash the whole listing; malformed marker JSON crashed `json_extract`; more than 999 ids crashed bulk delete/prune. One `coerce_epoch()` helper on every reader (bad rows render `?` with a WARNING naming the session), a `json_valid` guard, IN-list chunking, and batched export hydration. (#108086 — salvage #106071 @Xipong, #101726 @efe-arv, #94701 @liuhao1024, #102679 @mssteuer, #100658 @Mi55ed)\n- **Sessions never bind to or read another profile's database.** The Desktop launch backend could pin itself to the wrong profile's `state.db` under a HERMES_HOME override race; `session_search` by bare ID silently scanned every profile and returned someone else's transcript; recovery guidance pointed at the wrong file; profile delete kept a handle open (WinError 32). (#108074 — salvage #102534 @HexLab98, #106975 @Sora-bluesky)\n- **Opening state.db no longer takes the write lock when nothing needs writing.** A one-shot `hermes` process opening the store behind a busy gateway stalled 4–20 s and then failed with \"database is locked\". Now 0.01 s. (#108067 — salvage #106751 @kshitijk4poor, #101881 @jonpol01)\n\nAlso in the window from the same subsystem: a fresh `state.db` no longer publishes FTS tables before owning the rebuild lock (#106311), a handle that lost its WAL generation no longer checkpoints stale frames at shutdown (#106315, #106840), a clobbered first page is quarantined with its WAL instead of opened destructively (#106587), WAL setup leaves an unverifiable database untouched (#106568), and quarantined handles refuse VACUUM/FTS optimize (#106343, #106349). Most of these salvaged community diagnoses by @kshitijk4poor.\n\n### Multi-profile isolation hardening\n\nA cluster of fixes for installs running several profiles under one gateway (multiplex): secondary-profile bots no longer inherit the default profile's allow-lists (#107616), adapters no longer send credentials to the default profile's host (#107617), stdio MCP servers no longer receive the default profile's vault secrets (#107630), `MEDIA:` delivery can no longer attach another profile's `.env` / `auth.json` / `state.db` (#107609), Feishu drive callbacks and `/p/<profile>/` webhook replies stay on the routed profile (#107620, #107626), and secondary profiles no longer get a sibling's Nous bearer from per-process memos (#107611).\n\n### Desktop backend spawn storms are over\n\nBot Mode used to spawn or dial one backend per profile on launch and on every roster tick, hovering the Bots roster spawned a backend per row, and profile switches could spawn a duplicate primary. (#108069, #108107, #108118, #108134, #107969, #108112 — salvage #102512, #103634, #103399, #107997 and others by @kshitijk4poor)\n\n### Password-blind credential vault\n\nThe agent can now sign in, pay, and fill addresses from 1Password, Bitwarden, or the local Hermes vault without ever seeing a secret; two-factor codes come from a saved authenticator key or are asked for in the user's UI (#106480, #107585). Private git plugins install with the user's stored credentials (#106981).\n\n### Plugin catalog and one Plugins page\n\nA curated, SHA-pinned plugin index with CLI, admission CI, docs and dashboard (#69446); Desktop gets one Plugins page owning agent + desktop plugins, install, catalog and per-commit pinning (#107212, #107314, #107321); Radio ships as an opt-in SDK plugin (#107072).\n\n### Nous free tier and guided first launch\n\nFree inference and connectors out of the box with one command to sign in (#105258, #105260), `/login` from a chat (#105261), connector tools (Gmail, Linear, Notion, ...) searchable through `tool_search` (#106842), and a guided first launch behind `HERMES_GUEST_ONBOARDING=1` (#107697, #107958, #107985, #108211).\n\n## 🐛 Notable Bug Fixes\n\n**Gateway & platforms**\n- A bare `display:` key in config.yaml no longer crashes every gateway turn (#106305); a queued-lane final refused by the platform is recorded and redelivered (#106316); a stalled WebSocket send no longer blocks every later event (#106581); the first turn no longer waits on the Python toolchain probe (#106556).\n- Telegram bots must @mention when `bots_require_mention` is on, breaking bot-to-bot loops (#106534); Matrix renders LaTeX (#106515); Signal renders markdown tables (#106538); WhatsApp replies to view-once messages keep their quote (#106541); media-only replies report SUCCESS everywhere (#106557).\n\n**Providers & routing**\n- `/model` and auxiliary auto never bill a provider you didn't select (#107366); never auto-switch to a provider you have no credentials for (#107281); Bedrock Claude/Converse/Mantle models survive `/model`, fallback and restore (#107621, #107658); Bedrock Guardrails enforced (#107815).\n- Codex: patch-budget image 400 shrinks and retries (#106525); unentitled primary + fallback no longer oscillate (#106549); Azure Foundry replayed-reasoning rejection classified and pruned (#106718 @erosika). MCP OAuth refresh no longer erases the refresh token (#106185). Anthropic clients send exactly one credential (#107978).\n- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on Nous Portal and OpenRouter pickers (#107489); GPT Image 2.5 via OpenAI and FAL (#105988); Opus 5 / Fable 5.1 on the native Anthropic picker (#106636 @xxxigm).\n\n**Agent loop & compression**\n- One blocked periodic callback no longer stalls lease refresh (#106308); a mid-turn `/steer` is persisted as its own user row (#106317, #106344); local-inference memory-ceiling rejections back off instead of compressing history (#106307); context-overflow after partial streaming ends the turn (#106567); length continuation stops when the prompt filled the window (#106571); compression no longer times out silently on aux retries (#106866); `model_thresholds` keys can be provider-scoped (#108061).\n- Surface switch (Desktop↔TUI) no longer rebuilds the system prompt and busts the prompt cache (#105844); CLI keeps the `api_content` sidecar so the cache survives an early persist (#105842).\n\n**CLI, TUI & Desktop**\n- `hermes -z --resume` continues the session (#106313); Shift+letter and Cmd+Shift+Z work on extended-key terminals (#90674 @francip, #105493); `browser_exec` timeout kills the whole process tree (#106589); update checks poll the GitHub API once a day instead of git-fetching every 30 min (#107648); `hermes update` names the real cause and can't hang on a stalled fetch (#108053).\n- Desktop: UI language survives the update relaunch (#106476), expired OAuth grants get a one-click re-sign-in (#106965), HUD mode shows the transcript again and always gives the window back (#107491, #107423), the backend exits when its Desktop parent dies (#107977), Windows updates stop reporting false failures (#106175, #107183), WSLg renders on the Windows GPU (#106528), Telegram quick setup with QR ported from the dashboard (#107242), and ~60 more Desktop fixes largely from @OutThisLife and @kshitijk4poor.\n\n**Cron & Kanban**\n- An off-tick \"run now\" no longer cancels the next scheduled run (#106306); a killed manual run no longer blocks the next one for 5 minutes (#106733); a one-shot changed to recurring keeps firing (#106532); unpinned jobs run on their creation-snapshot model (#106499); `--clone-all` no longer copies cron jobs (#106478); `kanban promote` refuses undone parents (#106550); `kanban_request_review` rejects unknown reviewer profiles (#106547).\n\n**Tools & memory**\n- A stdio MCP server dying mid-call no longer replays the tool call (#106546); a skills-only background review can no longer delete memory entries (#106310); mem0 memory no longer drops long turns (#106542); `tool_search` returns nothing rather than five tools sharing one word (#106676); remote NOPASSWD sudo no longer prompts (#107939); RSS and Reddit reading no longer activate by default (#105873).\n\n**Housekeeping**\n- `config.yaml` backups live in one bounded `backups/config/` dir (#106388); `hermes backup` keeps the newest 3 zips (#106455); `hermes setup --reset` backs up the real config (#106453); `debug share` retention shrunk to 1 day on the dpaste fallback (#106531).\n\n## 👥 Contributors\n\nThank you to the **140 contributors** whose commits, co-author trailers, and salvaged PRs landed in this window.\n\n**state.db campaign — salvaged PR authors:** @RikETS, @JoaoMarcos44, @Halldrix, @TaoMasterCoder, @chelsealong, @ca-shrimp, @gaoanze888, @nikkoxgonzales, @QDung210, @fangliquanflq, @Sahilvishnaliya, @kshitijk4poor, @jonpol01, @HexLab98, @Sora-bluesky, @Xipong, @efe-arv, @liuhao1024, @mssteuer, @Mi55ed, @SulthanZahran1, @Finn763, @nftpoetrist, @jangomango76, @leegunwoo98, @ggoldani.\n\n**state.db campaign — issue reporters** (the forensics in these threads were often better than the fixes): @thedigitalcarpenterdad, @Rroven, @aoeman84, @StephanRosin, @rubensandrade-sketch, @wanliqin, @chenzheshushi-commits, @CarlosReyesPena, @revazone, @reservassai-art, @Cuttingwater, @soroush5, @e-shizz, @shobhit-87labs, @shivanathd, @hoelzl, @i8ei, @Ace-Kelly, @YinsenWANG, @zbabiarz, @Sravanjangam, @0gl20shk0sbt36, @RChina, @bronder, @ccwssy, @bottenbenny, and @Hitman117890 whose Discord report kicked the campaign off.\n\n**Everyone in the window (alphabetical):** @0genlab, @0xalydev, @100yenadmin, @1052326311, @686f6c61, @69k4xmdfm2-blip, @abundantbeing, @Adolanium, @Ahmett101, @albert748, @AlexxRussell, @alt-glitch, @auroracapital, @austinpickett, @babatorik, @Bartok9, @benbarclay, @bennybuoy, @brian717, @briandevans, @buihongduc132, @ca-shrimp, @cervantesh, @Cesar-Azeredo, @ChanPark03, @chelsealong, @ckomma, @ClintonEmok, @crazyief, @ctaylor86, @dalzio, @DavidMetcalfe, @Drexuxux, @edosulai, @efe-arv, @emozilla, @ericmaddox, @erosika, @ethernet8023, @everm1nd, @FalconOrtiz, @fangliquanflq, @Finn763, @FirmamentalSpring, @francip, @g3org3yo, @gaoanze888, @ggoldani, @Halldrix, @haydster7, @hbizi, @helix4u, @HexLab98, @huklaa, @IAvecilla, @infinitycrew39, @jahfaliabdulrahman-dev, @jangomango76, @JoaoMarcos44, @jonpol01, @jwilson411, @KeyArgo, @kokhlo, @KoNit-K, @kshitijk4poor, @kyssta-exe, @leegunwoo98, @lesterlxt, @liuhao1024, @Mabolla, @manuelschipper, @MaxFreedomPollard, @mearls0501, @mengyuyuan, @Mi55ed, @MiseHinoha, @mjshorty, @mkrb84, @moisesvalero, @moken627-hub, @mssteuer, @nateEc, @nftpoetrist, @nickseelert, @nikkoxgonzales, @notwitcheer, @onuraycicek, @outdog-hwh, @OutThisLife, @philmossman, @phuongvm, @pierrenode, @portavales, @PRATHAMESH75, @QDung210, @rewbs, @RikETS, @romanovzky, @ryantuc, @Sahilvishnaliya, @salch-cred, @sgarrand, @shannonsands, @simpolism, @Solitud1nem, @somewheresy, @Sora-bluesky, @sprmn24, @squevo, @StellarisW, @Stoltemberg, @SulthanZahran1, @Svector-anu, @szicely, @TaoMasterCoder, @teknium1, @ten82e, @thedavidweng, @tkaufmann, @Totoro-qaq, @Tranquil-Flow, @tuancookiez-hub, @TurgutKural, @ugoenyioha, @unsupportedpastels, @victor-kyriazakos, @webtecnica, @wliu-dev, @wukangcheng1994, @Xipong, @Xixiartemis, @xkam7ar, @xxxigm, @yavarb, @yoniebans, @Youssef, @yoyodine-industries, @yuanchenglu, @YuhGuan, @Zeus-Deus.\n\nAlso: Youssef.\n\n## Updating\n\n- Existing install: `hermes update`\n- Fresh install: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`\n- Managed deployments should update through their deployment tooling using the new tag.\n- If your `state.db` was already damaged by 0.21.0/0.21.1: run `hermes doctor` first; it now names structural vs index damage correctly and points at `hermes sessions recover --inspect-only` (profile-pinned) when a rebuild isn't enough.\n\n**Full Changelog:** [v2026.9.7...v2026.9.11](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.9.7...v2026.9.11)\n","publishedAt":"2026-09-11T19:20:31.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:24.635Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.9.11","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_3rwXizVJu9mhuD8FJP20i","version":"v2026.9.7","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.21.1 (v2026.9.7)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.1 (v2026.9.7)\n\n**Release Date:** September 7, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up current main since v0.21.0 for tagged depl...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.1 (v2026.9.7)\n\n**Release Date:** September 7, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up current main since v0.21.0 for tagged deployments and downstream consumers.\n\n## About this release\n\nMeasured at commit `6178e9f4eed8d99f4fc550add939d58c7bed6206`, the window since v0.21.0 contains **5,139 non-merge commits** across **4,364 changed files** (+601,014 / −768,419). GitHub reports **632 merged PRs** in the release window at preparation time. These figures exclude the release-version commit.\n\nThe rollup includes the codebase modularization, file-operation and startup performance work, provider and model updates, desktop session controls and browser annotations, MCP authorization improvements, cron scheduling and delivery fixes, and delegation reliability improvements. This patch does not attempt to enumerate or announce every feature in the window.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.22.0**, covering everything since v0.21.0, including the intervening patch releases, feature details, and complete contributor credits.\n\n## Updating\n\n- Existing install: `hermes update`\n- Fresh install: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`\n- Managed deployments should update through their deployment tooling using the new tag.\n\n**Full Changelog:** [v2026.8.31...v2026.9.7](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.8.31...v2026.9.7)\n","publishedAt":"2026-09-07T22:17:01.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:24.635Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.9.7","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_4EvIyI0dewFgEXCkyhtV4","version":"v2026.8.31","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.21.0 (v2026.8.31)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.0 (v2026.8.31)\n\n**Release Date:** August 31, 2026\n**Since v0.20.0:** ~5,800 commits · ~2,475 merged PRs · ~5,680 files changed · ...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.21.0 (v2026.8.31)\n\n**Release Date:** August 31, 2026\n**Since v0.20.0:** ~5,800 commits · ~2,475 merged PRs · ~5,680 files changed · ~869,000 insertions · ~135,000 deletions · **~2,100 issues closed** · 760+ contributors\n\n> **The Pantheon Release.** v0.20.0 made Hermes the herald — he spoke, and he carried word to other agents. In v0.21.0 the gods assemble. Bot Mode ships built into the desktop app: a society of named agents with their own faces and group chats, where your bots talk to each other — and to you — like a team, not a toolbox. Around that spine: cron jobs gained memory and continuity so scheduled agents actually learn between runs, subagents can be steered live mid-flight, the MCP surface became a real command center, and the agent can now drive the desktop's own browser. This release rolls up everything from the v0.20.1–v0.20.6 infrastructure patch tags — those windows are fully documented here.\n\n---\n\n## ✨ Highlights\n\n- **Bot Mode — your agents become a society, built in** — Bot Mode is now a bundled, default-on part of the desktop app: every agent profile gets a name, a deterministic avatar face (with randomize/lock controls), and a place in a shared roster. Create Discord-style group chats where multiple bots and you talk in one room, @-mention any bot from the composer, and give rooms names and pictures. Before, \"multi-agent\" meant plumbing; now it looks like a chat app full of coworkers. ([#87886](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87886), [#88243](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88243), [#89386](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89386), [#96726](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/96726) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife, @dokterdok)\n\n- **`hermes peer` — bot-to-bot DMs between your agents** — Any Hermes agent can now message any other by handle, across profiles and gateways, from the CLI or from inside a conversation. Ask your research bot to hand findings to your coding bot and get the reply back where you can read it. Replies land in each agent's canonical Bot Chat, so conversations between agents are durable and inspectable, not fire-and-forget. ([#88725](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88725), [#88178](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88178), [#91487](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/91487) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Cron jobs that remember** — Scheduled jobs stopped being goldfish. Cron agents now load and update persistent memory like every other agent, `continuity=true` carries each run's output into the next (so a monitor can dedupe against what it already reported), every job gets a durable notepad scratchpad, monitor-mode jobs skip the LLM entirely when nothing changed, and cron output can land in a bot's canonical Bot Chat — where the bot actually responds. Your 9am briefing job now knows what it told you yesterday. ([#91447](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/91447), [#80774](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80774), [#81139](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81139), [#81138](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81138), [#91487](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/91487) — @teknium1, @smwbev)\n\n- **Steer your subagents while they run** — `delegate_task` gained live orchestration: list running children, steer one mid-flight with a course correction, or stop it early and keep the partial result. Add optional JSON-schema validation on child outputs, per-delegation cost surfaced in results, and raised defaults (250 iterations, 10 concurrent children) — delegation went from fire-and-pray to actually managed parallel work. ([#85232](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85232), [#81144](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81144), [#81142](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81142), [#86506](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/86506), [#86745](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/86745) — @teknium1)\n\n- **The MCP command center** — MCP servers and the catalog merged into one coherent desktop page with drag-in \"paste anything\" import, background health checks that nudge you to re-auth before a tool call fails, a fleet cost/usage overlay showing schema token estimates and 30-day usage per server, and `hermes://` deep links that install an MCP server with explicit confirmation. Managing twenty MCP servers used to be config-file archaeology; now it's a dashboard. ([#87525](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87525), [#87572](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87572), [#87576](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87576), [#87579](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87579), [#87581](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87581) — @teknium1)\n\n- **A CLI power wave** — Ctrl+P opens a fuzzy command palette, the `/model` picker filters as you type, `/status` shows reasoning mode, pending approvals, and context usage, and the status bar can display live cache-hit %, latency, and tokens/sec with per-field toggles. Plus: a global emergency stop, session pin/unpin, rotating task-oriented composer placeholders — and Ghostty-level **terminal pets**, because a companion should have a companion. ([#90730](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/90730), [#90717](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/90717), [#90745](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/90745), [#98250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/98250), [#98282](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/98282), [#97666](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97666) — @teknium1, and salvaged community work)\n\n- **The agent drives the desktop's browser** — The in-app browser stopped being a window the agent could only look at: Hermes now navigates, clicks, and reads it directly, and pages can be popped out to your system browser with full link context menus. Ask it to walk a docs site or debug a web app and watch it happen inside your own app. ([#90197](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/90197), [#89366](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89366) — @OutThisLife, @ethernet8023)\n\n- **Six new providers and a model catalog wave** — Meta Model API (Muse Spark) arrives as a built-in provider, alongside CommandCode, Tencent TokenPlan, Nebius Token Factory, Ramp Router, and Actual Computer. The catalogs picked up GLM-5.3-Flash, qwen3.8-max/flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, MiniMax M3 free, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning — and `model_overrides` lets you patch any model's context window or pricing yourself without waiting on a release. ([#88565](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88565), [#88308](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88308), [#97917](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97917), [#97916](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97916), [#97915](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97915), [#85560](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85560) — @teknium1 and community)\n\n- **Security hardening across the board** — Protected agent-instruction files (AGENTS.md, skills, memory stores) now always require write approval so a prompt-injected agent can't quietly rewrite its own standing orders. A deep redaction sweep closed secret-leak gaps across terminal errors, `.env` file reads, checkpoints, and ACP logs; the approval system learned Windows destructive commands; and macOS permission grants finally survive updates via a stable TCC signing identity. ([#81152](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81152), [#80965](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80965), [#84428](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/84428), [#95091](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/95091) — @teknium1 and community)\n\n---\n\n## 🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture\n\n### Providers & Models\n- **New providers:** Actual Computer inference ([#79644](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/79644), salvage of #26491), CommandCode with GOAT/Pro/Max plans ([#88308](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88308), salvage of #32909), Meta Model API (Muse Spark) as a built-in provider plugin ([#88565](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88565)), Tencent TokenPlan ([#97917](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97917)), Nebius Token Factory ([#97916](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97916)), and Ramp Router ([#97915](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97915)).\n- **Model catalog wave:** qwen3.8-max and qwen3.8-flash ([#78024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/78024), [#96979](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/96979)), Gemini 3.7 Flash ([#85526](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85526)), GLM-5.3-Flash across OpenRouter/Nous/z.ai/OpenCode ([#95621](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/95621), [#96293](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/96293)), MiniMax M3 + Inkling free SKUs ([#96264](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/96264)), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ([#84645](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/84645)), Meta Muse Spark 1.2 ([#88600](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88600)).\n- **Per-model metadata overrides** via `model_overrides` config — patch context windows, pricing, or capabilities for any model without waiting on a release ([#85560](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85560)).\n- **Data-training-tier warnings** — a unified selection-guard registry warns you across every picker surface when a model trains on your data ([#85917](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85917)).\n- **Pip-installed model providers** discovered via entry points — third parties can ship providers as packages ([#85504](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85504), salvage #81419).\n- **Prompt caching engaged for LiteLLM Claude** on the OpenAI wire ([#87517](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87517) — @kshitijk4poor) and api.meta.ai routed through the Responses API for caching ([#88601](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88601)).\n- **Codex GPT context defaults** back to the verified 272K, with explicit -900k picker variants for the large window ([#92797](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/92797)).\n\n### Agent Loop & Reliability\n- **Stalled-provider recovery** — a stalled stream no longer leaves Desktop silent or burns the retry budget ([#87236](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87236) — @fangliquanflq).\n- **MoA hardening cluster** — the Mixture-of-Agents facade now survives client rebuilds, stream retries, provider rotation, and fallback/restore without leaking prepared requests to native clients ([#90212](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/90212) and siblings).\n- **Structured-output resilience** — auxiliary calls translate `response_format` for Anthropic wires and retry when a provider rejects structured output ([#89589](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89589) — @ethernet8023).\n- **Compression: lean tail mode** + a compaction recall eval harness to measure what compression actually preserves ([#87326](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87326)).\n- **Oversized tool results spill to cache** instead of being truncated in sandbox-less sessions ([#89028](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89028)).\n- **`clarify` asks multiple independent questions in one call** — one form instead of a chain of round-trips ([#89467](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89467) — @ethernet8023).\n- **Verify subsystem** (port from superagent-ai/grok-cli): run-recipe detection + environment manifest so \"it works\" claims are backed by detected build/test commands ([#80686](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80686)).\n\n### Sessions & State\n- **Resumed transcripts never re-append** — `_db_persisted` stamped at row load time ([#92539](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/92539) — @kshitijk4poor).\n- **SessionDB context-manager protocol** for leak-free DB lifecycles ([#88048](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88048) — @jackulau).\n- **Instant session naming** from the opening message, with sticky titles across resume ([#81985](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81985) — @OutThisLife).\n- **Session pin/unpin from the CLI** — durable keep flags ([#80761](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80761)).\n\n## 📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)\n\n- **Slack native live cards** — real streaming replies via chat.startStream plus opt-in plan/task cards for tool progress ([#85476](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85476)); outbound link-preview suppression across native and relay planes ([#95142](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/95142) — @benbarclay).\n- **Telegram inline picker** — every command and skill searchable via @botname, bypassing Telegram's command-menu cap ([#98317](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/98317)).\n- **Relay matured** — native static/dynamic plugin initialization ([#77915](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77915) — @bbednarski9), live-card ops with draft streaming + task cards ([#85796](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85796) — @victor-kyriazakos), session-span segmentation ([#85467](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85467)), voice-note STT restored over the relay lane ([#95274](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/95274) — @benbarclay), transport dedupe/fail-fast fixes ([#89584](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89584)).\n- **Gateway control socket** — fleet consumers query the gateway itself (identify/status), and updaters pause gateways gracefully instead of tree-killing them ([#92447](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/92447), [#95695](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/95695)).\n- **Selective multiplex profile serving** ([#83400](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83400)), per-profile MCP lifecycle RPCs ([#86473](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/86473)), roster previews showing the latest message ([#85905](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85905)), concise background-process notifications by default ([#85877](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85877)).\n- **Turn-reaper stack dumps** — when the watchdog fires, wedged worker stacks are captured for diagnosis ([#86248](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/86248)), with loop-watchdog tuning knobs wired end-to-end ([#92317](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/92317)).\n- **Split-delivery bug class closed** — swallowed finals and split deliveries fixed as a class ([#79669](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/79669) — @kshitijk4poor, salvages #78558).\n\n## 🖥️ Desktop App\n\n- **Bot Mode built in** — see Highlights. Full sub-catalog: attributed agent-to-agent message cards ([#85855](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85855)), sender-side delivery notices ([#85888](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85888)), paint-first hydration for instant wakes ([#89510](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89510)), editable group names and room pictures ([#89371](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89371)), Routines pane ([#88731](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88731)), rebuilt on the app design system ([#96726](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/96726) — @OutThisLife).\n- **In-app browser the agent can drive** — the agent uses the desktop's browser tab, not just looks at it ([#90197](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/90197) — @OutThisLife), with external-open + link context menus ([#89366](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89366)).\n- **Detached update hand-off on every OS** — quit → update → reopen with a single shim window; Windows desktop updates no longer park on \"Updating Hermes\" ([#83634](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83634), [#90937](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/90937), [#95897](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/95897)).\n- **Quality-of-life wave** — HUD snaps to cursor on ⌘⇧G ([#83130](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83130)), paste into the composer without focusing it ([#84955](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/84955)), per-turn duration badges ([#87245](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87245)), readable macOS window translucency ([#88744](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88744)), Linux launcher entry ([#76456](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76456)), Linux keychain auto-detection ([#84903](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/84903)), cron + blueprint recipes in the sidebar ([#85162](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85162)).\n- **Send Diagnostics** — error cards can upload a redacted debug bundle with a support handoff ([#92020](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/92020)).\n- **Seq-stamped event replay** — lossless desktop reconnect over WebSocket ([#94219](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/94219) — @kshitijk4poor).\n- **God-file decomposition** — the desktop codebase refactored into atomic modules ([#89611](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/89611) — @OutThisLife).\n\n## 🖥️ CLI & TUI\n\n- See Highlights for the power wave (command palette, fuzzy /model, richer /status, live status-bar metrics, pets).\n- **`hermes approval-check`** — dry-run approval verdicts for a command without running it ([#81137](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81137)).\n- **Session titles in status bars** ([#81947](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81947)); subagent model exposed in the auxiliary-models picker ([#80463](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80463)).\n- **Ctrl+C fixed** — stopped pushing the Kitty keyboard protocol that broke interrupts ([#87074](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87074)).\n\n## 🔧 Tool System & MCP\n\n- **MCP command center** — see Highlights ([#87525](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/87525) et al.).\n- **Interrupted commands no longer poison cwd** — the terminal won't adopt a stale working directory after an interrupt ([#85654](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85654) — @ethernet8023).\n- **Windows rename contention recovery** ([#84852](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/84852) — @OutThisLife); colon-bearing session IDs no longer break sandbox mounts ([#93488](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/93488), consolidated 6 PRs).\n- **Vision output uncapped** — aux vision calls stop clamping max_tokens ([#75253](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75253) — @adikpb).\n- **Subagent work protected** — delegate no longer deletes a child's uncommitted work when git inspection fails ([#88419](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88419) — @kshitijk4poor).\n\n## 🧩 Skills Ecosystem\n\n- **Productivity skill wave** (salvaged from @community proposals): document-to-action-items, meeting-action-items, email-inbox-triage, github-issue-to-pr, weekly-review-planning, competitor-news-monitor, product-price-monitor, social-media-content-calendar ([#81185](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81185), [#81749](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81749), [#81672](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81672), [#81708](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81708), [#81936](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81936), [#81945](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81945), [#81906](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81906), [#81942](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81942)).\n- **HAR-derived API clients** — watch a website once, then call its hidden API directly with no browser ([#70823](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70823)).\n- **publish-site** — versioned website publishing to GitHub/Cloudflare/Netlify Pages ([#72189](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72189)); **session-librarian** for prompt-driven session management ([#84917](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/84917)); **blocked-page-recovery** fallback ladder ([#84906](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/84906)); **merge-reconciler** for neutral multi-agent conflict resolution ([#83063](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83063)); Box productivity skill ([#85767](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85767)); ast-grep codemods ([#80892](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80892)); draw-your-font + simple-english optional skills ([#80814](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80814), [#80811](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80811)); plan-interrogation (evolved grill-me) ([#97831](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97831)).\n- **Advisory SKILL.md linter on create** ([#81896](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81896)); skills-hub live-repo fallback for missing optional skills ([#82780](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/82780)).\n\n## ⏰ Cron, Delegation & Multi-Agent\n\n- **Cron memory + continuity** — see Highlights ([#91447](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/91447), [#80774](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80774)).\n- **Monitor-mode jobs** with hash-suppressed change detection ([#81138](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81138)); per-job durable notepads ([#81139](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81139)); pre-dispatch config validation ([#81140](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81140)); acked failure signatures stop re-pinging ([#95017](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/95017)); per-job reasoning-effort pinning ([#91244](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/91244)); \"Trigger now\" executes immediately and safely ([#70638](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70638) — @smwbev); model-drift impact surfaced in Desktop ([#83266](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83266) — @ctaylor86).\n- **Live subagent orchestration** — see Highlights ([#85232](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85232)); structured-output schemas on delegate_task ([#81144](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81144)); batch-quality validation before spawning ([#81141](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81141)); truncation markers on capped children ([#86641](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/86641)).\n- **Kanban hardening** — collision-hotspot flagging ([#83428](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83428)), split-brain decision-ownership contract ([#83424](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83424)), memory-aware dispatch guard ([#88115](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88115)), notify/wake delivery modes ([#85487](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85487)).\n\n## 📊 Observability\n\n- **Model/provider usage reporting** and bounded tool-metrics aggregation land as an observability subsystem ([#68881](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68881), [#68882](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68882) — @afourniernv), with lifecycle ops bounded so a wedged pipeline can never block the agent ([#83514](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83514) — @victor-kyriazakos).\n\n## 🔒 Security & Reliability\n\n- **Protected instruction files** — writes to AGENTS.md/skills/memory always require approval ([#81152](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81152)).\n- **Redaction sweep** — emission gaps closed across env-name variants, control-splits, process(list), checkpoints ([#80965](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80965)); `.env` reads redacted via file-read detection ([#80964](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80964)); terminal exception results + ACP stderr ([#81675](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81675), [#81686](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81686)); SSH target logging ([#88232](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/88232)).\n- **Windows approval coverage** — destructive Windows commands and paths now trip the approval system ([#84428](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/84428)).\n- **Supply-chain response** — the Blender MCP catalog entry and skill were removed after an upstream compromise ([#83404](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83404)); plugin installs get Tier-1 security scanning ([#80728](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/80728)).\n- **macOS TCC identity** — permission grants survive every update via `hermes desktop --setup-tcc-identity` ([#95091](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/95091)).\n- **PKCE cookie fix** — SameSite=None over HTTPS with a matching clear path ([#83536](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83536) — @benbarclay).\n\n## 🏗️ Infrastructure, CI & Packaging\n\n- **Real-OS CI** — macOS and Windows CI lanes with tests gated by real host OS ([#77992](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77992) — @ethernet8023); work lanes on 32-core runners ([#92009](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/92009)); review comments + image builds moved out of the hot CI path ([#82668](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/82668)).\n- **Bootstrap installer** no longer waits on pipe EOF ([#90941](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/90941) — @OutThisLife).\n\n## 🐛 Notable Bug Fixes\n\n- Desktop session races (Stop→edit/resend, submit ownership) fixed as a cluster ([#86594](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/86594)); workspace-pane idle flicker ([#97513](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/97513)); assistant-ui boundary recovery ([#81232](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81232)).\n- Kanban schema re-creation when a cached DB path loses it ([#83619](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/83619) — @JoaoMarcos44).\n- Cron jobs no longer inherit a kanban worker's dispatcher identity ([#79657](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/79657) — @kshitijk4poor); relay-fronted Slack cron delivery ([#85340](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/85340) — @victor-kyriazakos).\n- Model-picker serves cached custom-provider catalogs on no-probe opens ([#81973](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81973) — @austinpickett).\n- Docker sandbox MEDIA attachments no longer silently drop ([#94509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/94509)); desktop binary attachments delivered into sandbox backends ([#81717](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/81717)).\n- Session-hygiene compaction cooldown escalates on repeat failures ([#79741](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/79741) — @kshitijk4poor).\n- Provider-injected parameter 400s retried instead of aborting the turn ([#91643](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/91643)).\n- …and roughly two thousand more closed issues' worth — this window averaged ~85 merged PRs per day.\n\n## ↩️ Reverted in this window (not shipping)\n\n- **Model Council mode (/council)** — landed then reverted; not in this release.\n- **DCP context engine** — landed then reverted; not in this release.\n- **WS-only gateway server (#94245)** — merged then reverted (#96118); FastAPI remains on the desktop boot path. The seq-stamped event replay (#94219) DID ship.\n- Electron rolled back to 40.10.2; TCC interpreter anchor removed (superseded by the signing-identity approach that shipped).\n\n## 👥 Contributors\n\n### Core Team (Nous Research)\n- **@teknium1** — release direction, Bot Mode, MCP command center, cron memory, and ~1,340 merged PRs\n- **@kshitijk4poor** (374 PRs) — gateway delivery classes, session persistence, event replay, MoA/caching fixes\n- **@OutThisLife** (209 PRs) — desktop architecture, Bot Mode UI, in-app browser, update hand-off\n- **@ethernet8023** (38 PRs) — OS-gated CI lanes, clarify multi-question, tool cwd safety, aux structured-output resilience\n- **@benbarclay** (17 PRs) — relay voice STT, Slack link previews, PKCE\n- **@victor-kyriazakos** (15 PRs) — relay live cards, observability bounding\n- **@rob-maron**, **@austinpickett**, **@jquesnelle**, **@shannonsands** — providers, dashboard, model catalogs, and more\n\n### Top Community Contributors (by merged PR count)\n- **@helix4u** (31 PRs) — wake-word capture, session UX, fix wave across desktop and gateway\n- **@fangliquanflq** (17 PRs) — stalled-provider recovery and agent-loop resilience\n- **@bbednarski9** — relay native plugin integration; **@HexLab98**, **@xxxigm**, **@afourniernv** (observability), **@liuhao1024**, **@Christopher-Schulze**, **@Adolanium**, **@webtecnica**, **@smwbev** (cron Trigger-now), **@ctaylor86** (cron drift in Desktop), **@JoaoMarcos44** (kanban schema recovery), **@jackulau** (SessionDB context manager), **@adikpb** (vision output caps), **@dokterdok** (Bot Mode unification), and many more.\n\n### All Contributors\nHuge thanks to every one of the 760+ people who contributed code, co-authored fixes, or had their work salvaged into this release:\n\n@03farren, @0xarkstar, @0xGr1mm, @0xWhiteMage, @100yenadmin, @1052326311, @29206394, @2ndNatureAI, @3Nya3,\n@3x3xX3N0N, @404Dealer, @4adwentures, @5Hyeons, @686f6c61, @69k4xmdfm2-blip, @6ylqq, @75day, @a-espinoza,\n@A-Snegin, @a-yeyang, @a0000001, @A2chitect, @abitme, @abundantbeing, @acewong7, @acgh213, @adamcap926,\n@addelh, @adikpb, @Adolanium, @adurham, @adybag14-cyber, @afourniernv, @ag9920, @ahmadalzaro1, @Ahmett101,\n@ai-ag2026, @AIalliAI, @aider4ryder, @Ailirag, @Aintworth, @airo7, @AiwendilInTheWoods, @akivavh, @AL-ZiLLA,\n@Al3xand3r1987, @albertodepaola, @aldoeliacim, @aleksclark, @AlexanderPrendota, @alexdev03, @AlexFucuson9,\n@AlexGabbia, @AlexMnrs, @algf, @Allecpu, @allin2, @alt-glitch, @amanning3390, @andrexibiza, @andyst-dev,\n@angel12, @angeon922-collab, @Angriff36, @aniruddhaadak80, @annguyenNous, @anuvratrastogi, @Aoshi-Dev,\n@appletechie, @arccat-114, @arcimun, @ArthurFranckPat, @aryaxo, @asdasdadhj, @ashah360, @AshuJoshi, @asimons81,\n@assimovt, @austinpickett, @AVW7, @Axmr1, @aydnOktay, @ayushnangia, @baihemax, @bananawalnut, @Bartok9,\n@bashrusakh, @bbednarski9, @BearHuddleston, @benbarclay, @benfrank241, @beplee, @bgrablin, @bka9, @BkashJEE,\n@BlackishGreen33, @BlakeB254, @blunkjamie-dev, @BobClawblaw, @bradmarshall987, @brian717, @briandevans,\n@BrianFranco, @BrinShadewater, @brucexu-eth, @BrunoBza, @buffpesos, @burak33bb, @C-EXCITE-STUDIO, @c-pompa,\n@cadezhou, @calvinnwq, @capt-marbles, @carbongotfound, @carlotestor, @Carry00, @cation98, @ccowan93,\n@cedricziel, @cervantesh, @cfdude, @Chadmc9889, @CharZhou, @chelsealong, @chesterXalan, @chillerno1,\n@Christopher-Schulze, @chukirk-svg, @cicav, @citizendev9c, @cj52973, @clarkvines, @ClintonEmok, @clyu168,\n@cmoiccool, @codexbt, @coe0718, @Cossackx, @coygeek, @crazyhulk, @CrazyWillBear, @criptogus, @cryptoyasenka,\n@ctaylor86, @cvillarroel2, @cxxCoolStar, @cycorld, @dagbs, @damadorPL, @DanBennettUK, @DanDo385,\n@DannyFengTianYu, @Dannyzen, @danspicytaco, @dante32683, @darko-mesaros, @daromaj, @david-bartos-phrase,\n@davidgut1982, @DavidMetcalfe, @davidneyravyr, @daxro, @dcdexhome, @deacon-botdoctor, @deadczarvc, @deaneeth,\n@DECRUX9812, @deepeet-git, @deniqlab, @DeseretSaint, @dhanesh, @Dhruv7201, @dhruvkej9, @digitalbase,\n@DmytroVolodymyrson, @dokterdok, @Dolverin, @dombejar, @doncazper, @dougatbuck, @douxy1994, @dpersek, @dplush,\n@Drexuxux, @drissman, @dromai, @dtownsel, @duclucky, @Dudeman456, @Dusk1e, @dvbaecker, @e-macgregor,\n@EAbaracus, @eaglezzz0522-cloud, @Eapwrk, @easyvibecoding, @echoes666, @egilewski, @ehz0ah, @ekinnee, @ekzhang,\n@elbukott1, @elisam0, @elphamale, @ElSnacko, @embwl0x, @emozilla, @EMT5320, @EndeavorYen, @Enough1122,\n@enwaiax, @epeterpanz, @EpicIsTheOne, @eric-senyao, @ernst-bablick, @Eros-ITA, @erosika, @ethernet8023,\n@etzelvon, @EvanProgramming, @EvenXieWF, @explainanalyze, @f-trycua, @fanfan343, @fangliquanflq, @fattchris,\n@felix-windsor, @Finn763, @flaviovargasbrandao, @Fly-onlyone, @flyingdoubleG, @forkercat,\n@francialisomlimoeiro, @francip, @frankmendes1979, @fred0m, @frendo, @frizikk, @frohsinnllc, @Frowtek,\n@fukutake1207, @fyzanshaik, @GarlicGo, @Gateton, @georgell-ceo, @gfriesen1, @gigabyte22, @gigashad, @gijoby,\n@gitong, @gkd2323c, @gnanirahulnutakki, @GodsBoy, @gokay-ai, @goktugvatandas, @golldyck, @goodchang77, @GottZ,\n@grahfmusic, @gregorustar-maker, @greyvito, @gsy324, @guanla-zz, @guilhermeartileshubsai, @guilhermeraiuga,\n@h-mascot, @h8hawk, @Haakam21, @Haik-G, @halaprix, @Halldrix, @handnewb, @Hangzian, @hanhvs, @hansai-art,\n@HAOWANG116, @HarishDarko, @hbentel, @helix4u, @HenryGHJ, @hermias1, @HexLab98, @hillimited, @Hjharris1,\n@hkfiberlaser-svg, @honor2030, @howdeploy, @hsearcy, @huklaa, @hustwkr, @hutao562, @hxwvaa, @IAvecilla,\n@icemeng, @infinitycrew39, @infocentr, @InphinitiZ, @insane66613, @Inspired-by-Atmosphere, @intelac,\n@intellectronica, @isak-ialogics, @ishanparihar, @isheng-eqi, @Ishman82, @iskysun96, @iso2kx, @itsflownium,\n@izumi0uu, @Jaaneek, @Jackal991, @jackijianxa, @jackoconner45, @jackulau, @jaimedhenriques, @james47kjv,\n@jbagdonas, @jcjc81, @jdgg777, @jeeves-assistant, @jeff-mettel, @Jefftree, @JElfferich, @jeremyrandria-debug,\n@JinUltimate1995, @jirathip-k, @jmmaloney4, @JoaoMarcos44, @joe-rodgers, @joe050860, @John-Lussier,\n@Johnny-xuan, @johnrazmus, @johnsonAyo, @jonpol01, @JonthanaHanh, @JoshPaulie, @Jreevo, @jtstothard,\n@Julientalbot, @justcarlosm, @justinbowes, @justinjohnson25600, @jwtor7, @k0rnacki, @kadiratesdev,\n@Kailigithub, @kaishi00, @KarateWilly, @kas-cor, @katie-lpd, @Kavyrocom, @KBANTH, @kchernev, @KeaneYan,\n@kernel-t1, @KeroZelvin, @kerpopule, @KHALIDagara, @KhanCold, @khanhngoo, @KIAgent01, @kim-miram, @kimyxx,\n@Kinkoolino-Hermes, @kinsolee, @kitsonk, @klaus765, @koltyj, @konsisumer, @kronexoi, @krunkosaurus,\n@kshitijk4poor, @kudapara, @kvnloo, @kweiner, @kyssta-exe, @Kyzcreig, @laithrw, @lakshyaag-tavily, @landaun,\n@laulopezreal, @laviesony, @lazy-idler, @LBeghini, @leeclouddragon, @Leegenux, @LemonSchneid, @LeonardoLGDS,\n@leonphull, @LeonSGP43, @lepetitprince716-prog, @Lesnak1, @lesterlxt, @lesyuk, @lEWFkRAD, @lextiz, @lgy1027,\n@Lidang-Jiang, @lilShawtty-byte, @lin-hongkuan, @liuhao1024, @liusencomic-cyber, @lkz-de, @loafoe, @locker95,\n@LordMelkor, @lorzl, @lost9999, @loulanyue, @LovePlayCode, @luckygreen, @lukeroberts, @luoxiao6645, @luxles,\n@m1k3s0, @Mabolla, @MagMueller, @magnus919, @magnuslundstedt, @MaheshBhushan, @MarcoFernstaedt, @mariobgsp,\n@marketing2981, @markmcd, @markmnl, @MarkVLK, @marzukia, @Mat-London, @matsvarn, @mattprusak, @MaximCrabbe,\n@maxmilian, @mehmetkr-31, @Mengchee118, @menhguin, @metamindedu, @michaelHMK, @michaelsam94, @milnerrad,\n@MindDragonLabs, @misterdas, @mjolley9, @mmcallister8, @mmcclean-aws, @mmchuangyt-ai, @moisesvalero, @mollusk,\n@monerostar, @Morad37, @mrkillbob, @mrmixx-max, @mrsucesso, @MrTheSoulz, @MustafaK99, @myk0la-b, @mzkarami,\n@n-leezy, @n1majne3, @NaMinhyeok, @nanami7777777, @nankingjing, @natebransc, @nateEc, @Navlem, @nbxuhk,\n@nductien, @Ne0teric, @NealZhouPanda, @necoweb3, @negroni334, @nftpoetrist, @nicochase, @Nicolas-Formenton,\n@nicolasdmolina, @nikitaBarkov, @NikolaRHristov, @noahingh, @nolanchic, @NorethSea, @notkisk, @notwitcheer,\n@NousResearch, @null-runner, @ojassharma7, @oliver-mee, @olympusbuildz, @OmarB97, @ooiuuii, @openclaww-xz,\n@opti-josh-holt, @osgeek90, @ousiaresearch, @OutThisLife, @Owen-narcissus, @paoloantinori, @Parker-Fawcett,\n@pasevin, @pasmud, @PaulBlackSwan, @paultaki, @peetteerr, @pefontana, @Per0-1, @pierrenode, @PINKIIILQWQ,\n@pittosporum-seu, @pju-hoge, @plcunha, @Pluviobyte, @pmos69, @pnascimento9596, @poisdahl, @potatosalad,\n@prashantjain25, @PRATHAMESH75, @professorpalmer, @projetsjsl, @protas-box, @qazasdsdqaza, @QDung210,\n@qixuancao, @QuarkAssistant, @quocanh261997, @ragingbulld, @rainbowgore, @rapsealk, @Raven26-VooDoo,\n@RaviTharuma, @RayCharlizard, @razultull, @re-ITRT, @Reksely, @RelaxJonh, @repfigit, @RGerrish, @RibatTRW,\n@RichardGuan1, @RichardHojunJang, @richardhowes, @RickyYii, @rikkarth, @rille111, @Ringo6107, @rjhilgefort,\n@rjvandeve, @rkfshakti, @rlaope, @Rmohid, @rob-maron, @rodrigogs, @royalaid, @royzhrxy-glitch, @rroverin,\n@rshi0212, @rsk-731, @rtcopenclawgh, @ruangraung, @rudrakshchahal, @ruochu88s, @rweddle, @ryankhart, @S-Claw,\n@Sahil-SS9, @salch-cred, @sam7894604, @samclams, @saralilyb, @sashmatash, @sasquatch9818, @satotakumi,\n@ScaleLeanChris, @SeashoreShi, @serefyarar, @shaase-ctrl, @shali10, @shannonsands, @shanthans-es, @ShaoRou459,\n@shaqalaka, @shauneccles, @Shedrackeze002, @SHL0MS, @ShonnQ, @Shotflame, @silence-de, @simonvanlaak,\n@SiteupAgencia, @sjungwon03, @skip-agent, @SLC-BTC, @Slobaka, @smarzola, @smause, @SmelterLabs, @smfworks,\n@smwbev, @sohomsahaun, @Soju06, @SolshineCode, @solyanviktor-star, @somewheresy, @SongotenU, @songshikang0111,\n@Sora-bluesky, @SouthpawIN, @spfcraze, @srojk34, @Starfie1d1272, @starship-s, @StellarisW, @steveonjava,\n@Stoltemberg, @strnadchristopher, @strzhao, @sujeet111, @suntech-wang, @supotato-ipj, @sweetcornna,\n@sycamoregroupltd, @sylbae, @tachyon-r, @tauros1983, @terry197913, @texasich, @th3sull1van, @thacid22,\n@thatssoheil, @TheAngryPit, @thebizfixer, @thejpanganiban, @thelonewander3r, @thenabbu, @TheophilusChinomona,\n@TheSmokeDev, @TheTom, @thomasbek3, @tigercraft4, @Tigrannnnnnn, @Tilly-YL, @tmchow, @tmielika, @tmingos,\n@TMShiroiko, @TomAce7, @tomatau, @Tomenatore, @Tommy00748, @TomSpoct, @toprakeker, @Tranquil-Flow,\n@tranquilflow, @trevornk, @trippyogi, @troyrowe-resource, @tt-a1i, @tuancookiez-hub, @tugrulguner,\n@TurgutKural, @tyfcontent, @Ufonik88, @UniversePeak, @unsupportedpastels, @uperLu, @uttkarsh-26,\n@V0v1kkkAssistant, @vadelma-agent, @vanniaxel06, @VBS2004, @verybigdog, @victor-kyriazakos, @victorftrdba,\n@victoronwuanaku, @victorv2i, @vignesh-oai, @vinayshah1998, @vinsew, @VIVAAN-DHAWAN, @vKongv, @vondelomlo,\n@vorburger, @wanglufei-567, @wangs1203, @wanquanY, @wdon, @web-wyf, @webdevtodayjason, @webtecnica,\n@webtoolbox, @weisiwu, @weismanfamily, @Wenfengcheng, @wesleysimplicio, @westkite1201, @whirmill, @whisky0809,\n@whoislikemiha, @will-lynas, @willfrombr, @wingkwong, @Wintle, @wiseconnex, @wo-o, @WolframRavenwolf,\n@WolftacDigital, @worlldz, @wz-heng, @x1051445024, @x7peeps, @xaviersudre, @XiaoZAZA, @xkam7ar, @xrwang8,\n@xthezealot, @xxxigm, @Yanir-R, @YappLeCunt, @yatesjalex, @yflmq001, @ygd58, @Yiipu, @yingliang-zhang, @yinkev,\n@Yishova, @yoniebans, @youtiaowei, @ypQQ1984, @yu-xin-c, @yukinomon, @yuric, @YusenZhang0601, @YuYigeng,\n@yuzilongleif-collab, @yy28, @zabih-sudo, @ZachariahChu, @zakame, @zapabob, @zccyman, @zcj1122-rgb,\n@zengzheqing, @Zeraphim, @Zeus-Deus, @zgqq, @zhangfei1231231-sketch, @zhao0112, @zhaomengfan, @ZHJay,\n@zhongwater123, @zhuermu, @zoidypuh, @zons-zhaozhy, @zuowen7, @zyz619963502zyz, @zzz163519\n\nAlso: @mkoistinen, @JoaoMarcos44, @StanleyStetson.\n\n---\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.8.3...v2026.8.31](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.8.3...v2026.8.31)\n\n*This release rolls up and fully documents the v0.20.1, v0.20.2, v0.20.3, v0.20.5, and v0.20.6 patch-tag windows (Aug 13–27), whose notes were deferred to this minor per the rollup-release policy.*\n","publishedAt":"2026-08-31T19:29:49.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.514Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.31","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_4pucyUnRKUmO7R0kmV8ou","version":"v2026.8.27","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.20.6 (v2026.8.27)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.6 (v2026.8.27)\n\n**Release Date:** August 27, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~525 PRs merged since v0.20.5 into a st...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.6 (v2026.8.27)\n\n**Release Date:** August 27, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~525 PRs merged since v0.20.5 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs).\n\n---\n\n## About this release\n\nSince v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19, tagged August 21), this window landed **~1,313 commits** across **~1,557 files** (+177,113 / −21,682) — **~525 merged PRs** including consent-gated real-profile browsing (use your default Chromium profile for local browsing, with Windows close-with-approval flow); the desktop Browser getting its own OS window plus a managed SSH remote-update engine and fleet profile rail; a large remote MCP catalog expansion (50+ live-verified vendor-hosted servers incl. Cloudflare, Grafana Cloud, Better Stack, Railway); TTL result caching for web_search/web_extract; lean-tail compression as the default; multi-query tool_search with stemming; opt-in OS-keychain encryption for stored secrets (no more per-launch macOS Keychain prompts); updaters pausing gateways over the control socket instead of tree-killing them; image/package-managed installs refusing unsafe in-place updates (#91277 Phase 3); cron durable-incident acks and clearer code-skew failures; Slack link-unfurl controls; shared Docker container identities; pluggable terminal environment backends; and new models across the pickers (GLM-5.3-Flash, MiniMax M3 free, MiniMax H3 Max video).\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.21.0**, which will document everything from v0.20.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- `hermes update` from an existing install\n- Fresh install: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.8.19...v2026.8.27](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.8.19...v2026.8.27)\n","publishedAt":"2026-08-27T12:06:53.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.514Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.27","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_nc6T7uvC5qV-rLMk48DcX","version":"v2026.8.19","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19)\n\n**Release Date:** August 19, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~323 PRs merged since v0.20.4 into a st...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19)\n\n**Release Date:** August 19, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~323 PRs merged since v0.20.4 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs).\n\n---\n\n## About this release\n\nSince v0.20.4 (v2026.8.18, tagged August 18), this window landed **~746 commits** across **~1,250 files** (+111,500 / −20,701) — **~323 merged PRs** including Bot Mode group-room threads, foldable conversation summaries, blob-face avatars, and PDF/file attachments with drag & drop; the keyless web tier (5-vendor free rotation with ring failover, web search on fresh installs with zero keys); a CLI polish wave (fuzzy /model picker, Ctrl+P command palette, richer /status); execution-discipline and runtime stall guards from the Composio eval findings; `hermes update` receipts and fleet `--plan` verification; `hermes worktree list/prune`; the opencode-free zero-auth provider; multi-question clarify; desktop perf work (paint-first Bot Mode hydration, compositor spinners, React Compiler in both renderers); and cron jobs gaining persistent memory and per-job reasoning effort.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.21.0**, which will document everything from v0.20.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- `hermes update` from an existing install\n- Fresh install: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`\n\n**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.8.18...v2026.8.19\n","publishedAt":"2026-08-21T12:16:39.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.514Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.19","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_ieZrjRou5GRluPdPTW8Iu","version":"v2026.8.18","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.20.4 (2026.8.18)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.4 (v2026.8.18)\n\n**Release Date:** August 18, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~74 PRs merged since v0.20.3 into a sta...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.4 (v2026.8.18)\n\n**Release Date:** August 18, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~74 PRs merged since v0.20.3 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs).\n\n---\n\n## About this release\n\nSince v0.20.3 (v2026.8.16.2, tagged August 17), this window landed **~146 commits** across **~265 files** (+21,697 / −2,217) — **~74 merged PRs** including the desktop glass/translucency surface work (matte glass, frost picker, macOS pre-select), the tabbed SESSIONS|BOTS sidebar with per-bot hide/unhide, Bot Mode group-chat fixes (long-running member turns, Markdown rendering, cross-machine routing), NVIDIA SkillEvaluator Tier 1 advisory scanning on skill installs (license + security checks), cron media-send hardening (configurable timeout, manual-run attachments, missed-fire surfacing), SessionDB event-loop-thread and contention fixes, `hermes update` parked-branch honesty, and kanban native OS notifications.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.21.0**, which will document everything from v0.20.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- `hermes update` from an existing install\n- Fresh install: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`\n\n**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.8.16.2...v2026.8.18\n","publishedAt":"2026-08-18T07:26:46.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.514Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.18","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_pmTkYBPA7_uE13OFQz67D","version":"v2026.8.16.2","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.20.3 (2026.8.16.2)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.3 (v2026.8.16.2)\n\n**Release Date:** August 16, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~125 PRs merged since v0.20.2 into a ...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.3 (v2026.8.16.2)\n\n**Release Date:** August 16, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~125 PRs merged since v0.20.2 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs).\n\n---\n\n## About this release\n\nSince v0.20.2 (v2026.8.16, tagged earlier today), this window landed **~250 commits** across **~461 files** (+42,613 / −1,641) — **~125 merged PRs** including the MCP 2.x SDK migration and 2026-07-28 stateless protocol support, the bundled Bot Mode (hermes-bots) plugin with the core teammate protocol, the CommandCode provider plugin, subprocess Python runtime ownership hardening (PYTHONHOME/PYTHONPATH isolation), Cua Driver 0.20 runtime contracts for computer use, kanban worktree/dispatch fixes, cron continuity flags, desktop remote-gateway headers and connection self-healing, cron scheduler self-heal (EMFILE recovery, stale-claim reconciliation, wedged-job re-arm), session handoff data-loss fixes, plus a wave of ports from the ecosystem scout slate (plugin install security scanning, /worktree, /rollback hand-edit preservation, UTF-16 file reads, Gemini 3 tool-call ID preservation, and more).\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.21.0**, which will document everything from v0.20.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- `hermes update` from an existing install\n- Fresh install: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`\n\n**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.8.16...v2026.8.16.2\n","publishedAt":"2026-08-17T18:43:27.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.514Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.16.2","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_R8iULPS4QNW8mkdyYHSrp","version":"v2026.8.16","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.20.2 (2026.8.16)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.2 (v2026.8.16)\n\n**Release Date:** August 16, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~397 PRs merged since v0.20.1 into a st...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.2 (v2026.8.16)\n\n**Release Date:** August 16, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~397 PRs merged since v0.20.1 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs).\n\n---\n\n## About this release\n\nSince v0.20.1 (v2026.8.13, tagged August 13), this window landed **~967 commits** across **~1,279 files** (+128,522 / −7,622) — **~397 merged PRs** of fixes and improvements spanning the desktop app (multi-gateway Connections registry, profile-scoped refreshes, MCP health checks and deep links), the CLI (Windows update probes, Kitty keyboard protocol, chat `-c` hardening), the gateway (persisted model routes, /loop completion, Telegram DM topics), prompt caching for LiteLLM Claude on the OpenAI wire, cron hardening, auth resolution through profile scopes, and installer robustness on both Linux and Windows.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.21.0**, which will document everything from v0.20.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- `hermes update` from an existing install\n- Fresh install: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`\n\n**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.8.13...v2026.8.16\n","publishedAt":"2026-08-16T17:33:22.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.648Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.16","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_m7PioH0amb_n2WZH-lloZ","version":"v2026.8.13","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.20.1 (2026.8.13)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.1 (v2026.8.13)\n\n**Release Date:** August 13, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~656 PRs merged since v0.20.0 into a st...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.1 (v2026.8.13)\n\n**Release Date:** August 13, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~656 PRs merged since v0.20.0 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, and anyone installing from the latest tag).\n\n---\n\n## About this release\n\nSince v0.20.0 (August 3), this window landed **1,444 commits** across **~656 merged PRs**, touching **2,172 files** (+233,872 / −75,244), and closed **~481 issues**. It is a broad stabilization-and-fixes rollup spanning the desktop app, gateway platforms, installers, tool system, and provider catalogs.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.21.0**, which will document everything from v0.20.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n- Existing installs: `hermes update`\n- Fresh install: see the installer one-liner in the [README](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent#readme)\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.8.3...v2026.8.13](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.8.3...v2026.8.13)\n","publishedAt":"2026-08-13T20:37:37.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.648Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.13","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_fAENibt2-3pHPHD_ib-xP","version":"v2026.8.3","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (2026.8.3)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (v2026.8.3)\n\n\n**Release Date:** August 3, 2026\n**Since v0.19.0:** ~3,650 commits · ~1,400 merged PRs · ~5,200 files changed · ~...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (v2026.8.3)\n\n\n**Release Date:** August 3, 2026\n**Since v0.19.0:** ~3,650 commits · ~1,400 merged PRs · ~5,200 files changed · ~559,000 insertions · ~405,000 deletions · **~1,200 issues closed** · 650+ contributors\n\n> **The Herald Release.** Hermes is the herald of the gods, and this release makes him one in earnest: he **speaks** (real-time conversational voice with streaming TTS, barge-in, on-device wake words, and hands-free control across the CLI, desktop, and every audio-capable gateway platform), he **carries word to other agents** (A2A v1.0), he **announces events to your systems** (signed outbound webhooks), and he **cites his sources** (grounded research with verifiable citations and fact-checking). Around that spine: the desktop app became a platform (artifacts with live preview, a plugin SDK, quick-entry from anywhere, multiple windows), the CLI got a wave of power commands (`!` shell mode, `/init`, `/diff`, `/context`, `/focus`), compression got smarter and gentler, and the tools themselves now recover from their own failures instead of making the model guess. This release rolls up everything from the v0.19.1 infrastructure patch tag — that window is fully documented here.\n\n---\n\n## ✨ Highlights\n\n- **Talk to Hermes — streaming, conversational voice with barge-in** — Voice mode used to mean: speak, wait for the whole reply to generate, then listen to one long audio file. Now Hermes speaks clause-by-clause as the response streams, you can interrupt it mid-sentence by just talking (it stops, listens, and the model is told you cut in), and busy-aware silence detection means it doesn't talk over you. This works in CLI voice mode, on the desktop, and through gateway adapters. Talking to Hermes finally feels like a conversation, not a voicemail exchange. ([#69511](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69511), [#73862](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73862), [#74223](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74223), [#74000](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74000), [#69602](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69602) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n\n- **Wake words and hands-free control** — Say your own open-vocabulary wake phrase (\"hey Hermes\", or anything you pick) and Hermes starts listening — detection runs on-device, so no audio leaves your machine while it waits. Multi-profile voice routing means different wake words can reach different profiles, and saying \"stop\" ends the voice chat on every surface without touching the keyboard. Your terminal is now something you can talk to from across the room. ([#70509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70509), [#73106](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73106), [#73933](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73933) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Voice on every platform** — Send a voice note to Hermes on WhatsApp, Feishu, DingTalk, LINE, QQ, Photon, or Weixin and it's transcribed and answered; auto-TTS replies are delivered platform-aware (opus where platforms want opus, captions attached correctly). STT is now fully configurable — its own `hermes tools` category, GUI toggles, dashboard dropdowns, unified language resolution so transcripts stop coming back in the wrong language, and OpenAI's gpt-transcribe support. One unified spoken-text preprocessor cleans markdown, code, and URLs out of speech across all TTS providers. ([#73515](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73515), [#73508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73508), [#73910](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73910), [#73513](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73513), [#73067](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73067) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Research you can trust — grounded citations with fact-checking** — The new `grounded-citations` skill makes Hermes produce research where every claim is backed by a verifiable source: quotes are matched against the actual page text (not hallucinated), citations link to the exact evidence, and a fact-checking mode turns the same machinery on any document or claim you hand it — it tells you what checks out, what doesn't, and what couldn't be verified. If you use Hermes for research, this is the difference between \"sounds right\" and \"provably sourced.\" ([#71698](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71698), [#77104](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77104) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Outbound webhooks — Hermes pushes events to your systems** — Until now, integrating with Hermes meant polling or listening on a platform. Now Hermes pushes **signed lifecycle events** (session activity, turn completions, tool events) to any HTTP endpoint you register — with HMAC signatures so your receiver can verify authenticity. Wire Hermes into your CI, your home automation, your dashboards, or any service that speaks HTTP, with no polling loop. ([#69406](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69406) — @teknium1)\n\n- **The desktop app becomes a platform — artifacts, plugin SDK, quick entry** — Hermes desktop now renders **artifacts**: versioned cards with sandboxed live preview in a right-rail viewer, so generated HTML/apps run safely next to the chat. A real **plugin SDK** landed with Kanban as its founding plugin, `ctx.download` for handing users files, floating pane placement, and multiple GUI windows. A global-hotkey **quick-entry window** captures a thought into any session from anywhere in your OS. The desktop stopped being a chat client and started being a workbench. ([#72345](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72345), [#61173](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61173), [#74413](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74413), [#72315](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72315), [#68259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68259), [#73143](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73143) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n\n- **Hermes speaks Agent-to-Agent — A2A v1.0** — A new bundled plugin implements the Agent-to-Agent protocol, so Hermes can discover, talk to, and be driven by other A2A-compatible agents. This closes issue #514 — one of the oldest open feature requests in the repo. If you're building multi-agent systems with heterogeneous stacks, Hermes now has a standard wire protocol for joining them. ([#77109](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77109) — @teknium1)\n\n- **CLI power-user wave** — `!command` runs a shell command instantly without spending a model turn. `/init` scans your project and generates (or updates) an `AGENTS.md`. `/diff` shows staged/all/session changes from any surface, `/context` breaks down exactly what's filling your context window, `/focus` gives you a reduced-output view with hidden-line recovery, and Ctrl+S stashes a half-written prompt into a browsable panel. Plus `hermes import-agent` migrates your Claude Code or Codex CLI setup into Hermes in one command. ([#72257](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72257), [#72178](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72178), [#72240](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72240), [#72242](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72242), [#72302](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72302), [#72262](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72262), [#72190](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72190) — @teknium1, several salvaging long-standing community PRs)\n\n- **Correct the agent mid-turn — redirects** — If Hermes is heading the wrong way, you no longer have to `/stop` and re-explain. Type a correction while it works and the active turn is redirected: work in flight is preserved, the original prompt is kept, and the agent course-corrects with your new guidance. Paired with double-ESC draft discard and a composer undo stack, steering feels like editing, not restarting. ([#63104](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63104), [#72339](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72339), [#74736](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74736) — @OutThisLife)\n\n- **Tools that fix themselves** — A sweep of self-recovery upgrades means the agent wastes far fewer turns on tool friction: truncated terminal output spills to a file the agent can read back, `patch` detects already-applied edits and diagnoses whitespace mismatches, `write_file` verifies content on disk, searches that match nothing probe for near-misses and recover, and common failure classes come back with actionable hints. The default tool-calling iteration limit also jumped 90 → 500 — long autonomous runs stopped hitting an artificial wall. ([#77041](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77041), [#76998](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76998), [#77024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77024), [#77055](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77055), [#77011](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77011), [#76992](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76992), [#72176](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72176) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Compression that respects your conversation** — Context compression got a deep overhaul: proactive tool-result pruning for large-window models, per-turn micro-compaction that amortizes the cost instead of one giant pause, a guaranteed N-user-message tail so recent conversation always survives, progress-aware timeouts that stop punishing slow summary models, and ghost-skill defense so a pruned skill can never silently haunt a session. Thresholds are now configurable per-model and in absolute tokens. Long sessions stay coherent and stop stalling. ([#70254](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70254), [#75345](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75345), [#70250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70250), [#71508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71508), [#70275](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70275) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor, salvaging multiple community PRs)\n\n- **Smart approvals grow up** — `hermes approvals suggest` mines your approval history into allowlist proposals, operators can customize the smart-approval policy, a consecutive-denial circuit breaker stops a misbehaving loop cold, and desktop pairing approvals are profile-correct with a proper surface to answer them from. Plus a new approval gate for docker/podman daemon-redirect commands. Less clicking \"approve\", without giving an inch of control. ([#72259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72259), [#72186](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72186), [#72203](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72203), [#74446](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74446), [#71092](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71092) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n\n- **Faster everywhere, again** — Prompt caching now covers tool schemas on native Anthropic without history loss. `hermes -w` cold start dropped ~14s → ~1.8s, `hermes update` no-ops got 2–6s faster, heavy SDKs lazy-load off the import path, config reads stopped deep-copying (54× faster on the telemetry gate), and the desktop shipped a second 60fps wave — streaming cost independent of transcript length, drag at 60fps with five streaming tabs, idle CPU near zero in the background. ([#76032](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76032), [#71637](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71637), [#74218](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74218), [#74204](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74204), [#71835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71835), [#72346](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72346), [#75218](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75218) — @kshitijk4poor, @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n\n- **New places to run and be reached** — Buzz lands as a bundled gateway platform (Block's Nostr-based messenger, with native WebSocket transport and NIP-42 auth), the Vercel AI Gateway provider and Vercel Sandbox terminal backend return modernized, desktop gains an SSH remote-backend connection mode, and the Relay shipped four phases of parity — media, interactive prompts, thread lifecycle, typing indicators — plus HSP personal + org skill sync. ([#73610](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73610), [#73761](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73761), [#74518](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74518), [#68130](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68130), [#71300](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71300)–[#71624](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71624), [#66730](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66730) — @teknium1, @yoniebans, @benbarclay)\n\n---\n\n## 🎙️ Voice & Speech\n\n### Conversational voice\n- Streaming, conversational TTS with barge-in across all surfaces; clause-by-clause synthesis for CLI voice mode + gateway adapters ([#69511](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69511), [#73862](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73862) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Voice chat UX polish — busy-aware silence, stop hint, thinking sounds, barge-in fix; full-duplex turn listener (interrupt by voice during generation AND playback) ([#74000](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74000), [#74223](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74223) — @teknium1)\n- On-device wake words with open-vocabulary phrases + multi-profile voice routing; say \"stop\" to end voice chat hands-free on every surface ([#70509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70509), [#73106](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73106), [#73933](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73933) — @teknium1)\n- The model is told when the user interrupts its spoken reply; desktop speaks the whole turn and idle-flushes held narration ([#69602](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69602), [#69936](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69936) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- 15-item CLI/TUI voice-mode UX and environment fix wave ([#73520](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73520) — @teknium1)\n\n### TTS / STT infrastructure\n- Unified spoken-text preprocessing + speed/instructions/provider tool params; unified STT language resolution (fixes the wrong-language transcription class); global `stt.language` defaults to `en` ([#73513](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73513), [#73067](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73067), [#73100](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73100) — @teknium1)\n- Fully configurable STT — `hermes tools` category, GUI toggle/matrix, dashboard dropdowns, setup status; OpenAI gpt-transcribe support ([#73910](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73910), [#73853](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73853) — @teknium1)\n- Platform-aware auto-TTS voice delivery (opus platforms, streamed/global gap, captions); inbound voice classification/routing for Feishu, DingTalk, LINE, QQ, Photon, WhatsApp, Weixin ([#73508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73508), [#73515](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73515) — @teknium1)\n- Command TTS/STT provider hardening — idle timeouts, env scrubbing, no-shell, path guards ([#73514](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73514) — @teknium1)\n- Sync per-sentence TTS synthesis pipelined with playback — the next sentence renders while the current one speaks ([#77355](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77355) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- Discord voice PCM streams to ffmpeg stdin instead of a temp file ([#76970](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76970) — @kshitijk4poor)\n\n## 🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture\n\n### Compression & context\n- Proactive tool-result pruning for large-window models; per-turn micro-compaction; N-user tail guarantee (`compression.min_tail_user_messages`); bounded summarizer input with head+tail retention ([#70254](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70254), [#75345](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75345), [#70250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70250), [#70249](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70249) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Ghost-skill defense — `[SKILL_PRUNED]` markers, protected prune, deterministic survival; progress-aware timeouts; lock-contended compression soft-defers instead of exhausting ([#70275](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70275), [#71508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71508), [#70285](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70285) — @teknium1)\n- Per-model threshold overrides; absolute token threshold (`compression.threshold_tokens`); opt-in idle-triggered compaction; opt-in progress notices; structured local logging for compression attempts ([#69339](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69339), [#69335](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69335), [#69360](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69360), [#70457](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70457), [#69338](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69338) — @teknium1)\n- Context-engine ABC grows `select_context()` + `on_turn_complete()` verbs (salvage of @chaos-xxl's RFC work); engines can suppress or customize compaction status ([#70458](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70458), [#69859](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69859) — @teknium1)\n- Strict redaction applied at every compaction text boundary ([#69294](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69294) — @teknium1)\n\n### Prompt caching & hot-path performance\n- Tool schemas cached on native Anthropic without history loss + consolidated cache-plan internals ([#76032](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76032), [#76067](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76067) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- DeepSeek prompt caching on OpenCode gateways; per-API-call token accounting off the turn thread; OpenAI wire client reused across sequential LLM calls; send-path tool-call canonicalization memoized ([#75886](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75886), [#73359](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73359), [#73375](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73375), [#76880](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76880) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Readonly config loader at 29 call sites (28× cheaper reads); per-turn config deepcopies killed (telemetry gate 54×); one raw config.yaml parse per process; inter-tool delay removed ([#74322](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74322), [#74211](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74211), [#74228](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74228), [#64172](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64172) — @teknium1, @Soju06)\n- Lazy heavy-SDK imports (−8-10% import cost on top of the mcp/tool-discovery diet); streaming hot loop drops per-chunk repr() (~3× cheaper accounting); cursor/memo optimizations for per-iteration history walks ([#74204](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74204), [#74194](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74194), [#74221](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74221), [#74231](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74231) — @teknium1)\n- Cold-start ~14s GIL stall during backend init mitigated; turn flush batched into one SQLite transaction; provider-capability-gated prompt cache keys (implied for api.openai.com) ([#77814](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77814), [#77619](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77619), [#77609](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77609) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- AIAgent hot-path salvage — prompt-cache copy, reasoning-timeout precompute, lazy compressor init ([#57229](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57229) — @kshitijk4poor)\n\n### Approvals & the agent loop\n- `hermes approvals suggest` mines approval history into allowlist proposals; operator-customizable `approvals.smart_policy`; consecutive-denial circuit breaker; cross-surface approvals mode command ([#72259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72259), [#72186](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72186), [#72203](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72203), [#63517](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63517) — @teknium1)\n- Docker/podman daemon-redirect commands require approval; session-wide runaway-loop caps for web_search + delegate_task (Claude Code-inspired) ([#71092](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71092), [#66600](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66600) — @teknium1)\n- Mid-turn redirects — user corrections steer the active turn, preserving in-flight work and the original prompt ([#63104](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63104), [#72339](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72339) — @OutThisLife)\n- Delegation: structured timeout/stall metadata + live per-child status in `/agents`; subagents can use `execute_code`; redacted child tool history exposed in `subagent_stop`; public subagent lifecycle API for plugins ([#72300](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72300), [#69325](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69325), [#72403](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72403), [#72501](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72501) — @teknium1)\n- Single-owner refactors for backend identity + failure-scoped skips, empty-content wire repair, call_id/reasoning sanitization, model-switch parsing ([#72505](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72505), [#73071](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73071), [#74319](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74319), [#74229](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74229) — @teknium1)\n- Labeled reasoning excerpt surfaced at the empty-response terminal; tool_search probe-validates blind tool_call args ([#65144](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65144), [#59267](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59267) — @teknium1)\n\n### Tool self-recovery wave\n- Terminal: recoverable truncation (full output spilled + pre-truncation size), cwd echoed when a command changes directory, output-pattern failure hints ([#77041](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77041), [#77004](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77004), [#76992](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76992) — @teknium1)\n- Patch: already-applied edits return success no-op, whitespace-visualized no-match diagnosis, ambiguous-match locations listed ([#76998](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76998), [#77024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77024), [#77001](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77001) — @teknium1)\n- Search: zero-match probes + multi-path recovery, auto-multiline for newline patterns; read_file default limit 500 → 2000 lines; negative-result cache for read/search misses; write_file verifies on-disk content ([#77011](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77011), [#77102](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77102), [#76996](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76996), [#76945](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76945), [#77055](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77055) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- execute_code recovery hints; skill_view dedup stub for unchanged re-reads; terminal/execute_code schema prose trimmed ~40%; tiered tool disclosure scales with catalog size; default iteration limit 90 → 500 ([#77106](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77106), [#77095](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77095), [#77023](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77023), [#67034](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67034), [#72176](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72176) — @teknium1)\n\n### Providers & models\n- Vercel AI Gateway provider + Vercel Sandbox terminal backend return, modernized (SDK 0.7.2, telemetry off) ([#74518](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74518) — @teknium1)\n- Gemini 3.1 Pro + 3.6 Flash in catalogs; Gemini salvage cluster (3.6-flash aux default, Vertex catalog, direct cost tracking); claude-opus-5 in OpenRouter + Nous Portal; deepseek-v4-flash-0731 ([#73479](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73479), [#73516](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73516), [#70946](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70946), [#75501](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75501) — @teknium1)\n- Bedrock Converse API prompt caching (cachePoint) ([#70231](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70231) — @JoaoMarcos44)\n- OpenAI data-residency endpoints get declared transport + correct catalog; provider-aware API-server request routing; backend-acknowledged session model lock; Nous sticky routing via top-level session_id ([#74958](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74958), [#70853](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70853), [#70950](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70950), [#69253](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69253) — @victor-kyriazakos, @teknium1)\n- Model picker: curated defaults + collapsible providers + select-all; stale caches served instantly with background refresh; custom-endpoint probe capped at 1.5s; honcho OAuth device-code login ([#73172](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73172), [#76430](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76430), [#76922](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76922), [#61608](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61608) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor, @akattelu)\n- ACP: named custom providers in the model selector; authenticated cross-provider model choices; non-blocking startup via background MCP discovery ([#70082](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70082), [#70404](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70404), [#75985](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75985) — @israellot, @amanning3390, @kshitijk4poor)\n\n### Secrets & config\n- Command-helper secret source (composes with all vaults); one-command token rotation + actionable startup errors; opt-in encrypted break-glass cache for Bitwarden; vault-injected keys scoped per profile home; orchestrator preserve_existing + profile aliasing ([#69266](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69266), [#68605](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68605), [#69251](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69251), [#69250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69250), [#69058](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69058) — @teknium1)\n- `${env:VAR}` SecretRef parity between config.yaml and MCP config; secret-source env vars reach stdio MCP servers ([#69267](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69267), [#69053](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69053) — @teknium1)\n- Canonical config loaders for behavioral reads; table-driven config migration registry; DEFAULT_CONFIG extracted to config_defaults.py; auto-migration support floor at v12 ([#74237](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74237), [#74200](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74200), [#74182](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74182), [#74433](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74433) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🌐 Gateway, Relay & Fleet\n- Session activity heartbeats, stall watchdog, and bounded compression waits — re-landed hardened after an in-window revert cycle (originally #72424 by @fangliquanflq) ([#76354](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76354) — @teknium1)\n- SessionState consolidation (19 session-keyed dicts → one turn/conversation/persistent-scoped object); TurnContext/TurnRunner seam extraction; declarative busy_policy on CommandDef ([#74289](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74289), [#74353](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74353), [#74197](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74197) — @teknium1)\n- Relay parity waves: Phase 1 (supported_ops discovery, identity fields, /handoff aliasing), Phase 2 media, Phase 3 interactive prompts, Phase 4 thread lifecycle; egress typing indicators ([#71300](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71300), [#71363](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71363), [#71404](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71404), [#71624](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71624), [#69721](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69721) — @benbarclay)\n- HSP skill sync: personal client (M1) + org-skills client (M2) + org-skill namespace with token-gated discovery ([#66730](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66730), [#70024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70024), [#70459](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70459) — @benbarclay)\n- Buzz (Block/Nostr) platform adapter with native WebSocket inbound transport + NIP-42 auth ([#73610](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73610), [#73761](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73761) — @teknium1)\n- Photon: native polls, effects, clarify-as-poll, rich links (4-PR salvage) ([#73614](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73614) — @teknium1)\n- Slack: native Block Kit clarify buttons; opt-in reaction triggers; outbound payload sanitization; thread-context lifecycle fixes ([#69318](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69318), [#70195](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70195), [#69317](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69317), [#69320](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69320) — @teknium1)\n- Discord auto-thread sessions keyed on prospective_thread_id; reply references built from ids (no fetch_message); WhatsApp configurable inbound read receipts ([#76513](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76513), [#76875](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76875), [#73322](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73322) — @benbarclay, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Kanban wakes resume the creator's DM/thread session; kanban/delegate wake-ups reach api_server sessions; per-task model + thinking-depth from the board ([#72191](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72191), [#70171](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70171), [#69876](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69876), [#76417](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76417) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- Relay: Discord tool-progress routed into the auto-thread instead of the parent channel ([#77830](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77830) — @benbarclay)\n- Outbound webhooks — push signed lifecycle events to external endpoints; simplex channel enumeration in `hermes send --list` ([#69406](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69406), [#77110](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77110) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🖥️ Hermes Desktop App\n\n### The platform wave\n- **Artifacts** — versioned cards, sandboxed live preview, right-rail viewer ([#72345](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72345) — @teknium1)\n- **Plugin SDK** — Kanban as the founding desktop plugin; `ctx.download` hands the user a file; widget-app SDK (apps as state+reducer+render) with three reference apps; widget-grid layout engine + background-aware theme engine ([#61173](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61173), [#74413](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74413), [#68306](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68306), [#20379](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/20379) — @OutThisLife)\n- Quick-entry window (global hotkey → any session); multiple GUI windows; floating pane placement; pane toggles anywhere + hidden header; ⌘O open-folder-as-project ([#72315](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72315), [#68259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68259), [#73143](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73143), [#75848](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75848), [#74623](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74623) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- SSH remote-backend connection mode; event-driven live sync replaces always-on polls; remote profile routing/sessions/pool lifecycle repaired ([#68130](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68130), [#73673](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73673), [#72835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72835) — @yoniebans, @OutThisLife)\n- Let the agent drive the shell (preview pane + pane focus) AND inspect the desktop app it's developing; find-in-page (Ctrl+F); GUI terminal copy/paste + font picker ([#69519](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69519), [#73121](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73121), [#72235](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72235), [#73705](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73705), [#76395](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76395) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n\n### Composer & UX\n- Attach files/folders/links via picker; composer chips for @ paths and pasted links; composer undo stack; double-ESC discards draft; double-Enter sends the queued turn; type-to-focus ([#74668](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74668), [#73110](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73110), [#72201](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72201), [#72288](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72288), [#74736](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74736), [#73101](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73101), [#68918](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68918) — @OutThisLife)\n- 2-keypress model switching (⌘⇧M); YOLO in ⌘K with live toggle state; keyboard-first pickers; keyboard navigation for clarify choices; server-owned pins that follow you between apps ([#74545](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74545), [#74674](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74674), [#74602](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74602), [#69799](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69799), [#74234](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74234) — @OutThisLife)\n- Grouped, live-ticking tool-activity line; improved tool call detail views; @session links resolve to clickable titles; brand icons on known-domain links; iMessage-style emoji reactions (opt-in, two-way); double-click to heart ([#72893](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72893), [#69868](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69868), [#71162](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71162), [#73047](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73047), [#74533](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74533), [#74644](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74644) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Sidebar date dividers + pinned section + opt-in stale-session auto-archive; sessions stop lying about running state; credit-usage toasts; configurable attachment size limit; Cron Blueprints + Webhooks pages; searchable timezone picker ([#70822](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70822), [#72303](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72303), [#69828](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69828), [#73221](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73221), [#70066](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70066), [#69687](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69687), [#73505](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73505) — @OutThisLife, @austinpickett, @Adolanium, @teknium1)\n- RFC 8252 native desktop sign-in (system browser + PKCE, no webview cookies); \"Connect to existing Hermes\" in first-run onboarding; profile-correct pairing approvals with a desktop surface ([#67920](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67920), [#70907](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70907), [#74446](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74446) — @benbarclay, @OutThisLife)\n- Keep-computer-awake toggle + notch wake indicator; /battery status-bar toggle; UI zoom 90% default preset; status bar hideable ([#68140](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68140), [#76396](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76396), [#68860](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68860), [#73161](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73161), [#72960](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72960) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n\n### Desktop performance (60fps wave 2)\n- Streaming cost independent of transcript length; 60fps on real sessions (reflow-gated pins, adaptive flush); drag at 60fps with five streaming tabs; multitab streaming made fast ([#71835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71835), [#72504](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72504), [#72346](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72346), [#71780](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71780) — @OutThisLife)\n- Hidden-pane timers paused (agents view, cron sidebar, floating pet), scroll/status loops stopped in busy sessions ([#77651](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77651) — @kshitijk4poor); idle CPU near zero in the background; sidebar/overlay render churn killed; statusbar + transcript stop re-rendering per token/sash-drag/session-switch; ⌘K opens instantly; renderer cold start keeps shiki/mermaid off the boot path ([#75218](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75218), [#73698](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73698), [#72163](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72163), [#72245](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72245), [#72524](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72524), [#74665](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74665), [#73024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73024) — @OutThisLife)\n- State diagnostics (render + store churn counters) + a lint rule banning atom-mirrored refs so the stale-read bug class cannot return; Playwright E2E suite with visual regression diffs ([#71925](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71925), [#71560](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71560), [#65805](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65805) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1, @ethernet8023)\n\n## 🖥️ CLI, TUI & Dashboard\n- `!` shell mode; `/init` AGENTS.md generation; `/diff` (staged/all/session, cross-surface); `/context` breakdown; `/focus` reduced-output view; Ctrl+S prompt stash; persistent `/goal` indicator; multi-select clarify (checkboxes) across CLI/gateway/TUI ([#72257](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72257), [#72178](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72178), [#72240](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72240), [#72242](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72242), [#72302](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72302), [#72262](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72262), [#72244](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72244), [#72188](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72188) — @teknium1, salvaging @SHL0MS, @iRonin, @gigi206 + more)\n- `hermes import-agent` — one-command migration from Claude Code / Codex CLI setups ([#72190](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72190) — @teknium1)\n- Per-turn summary line + live token flow in the spinner; cross-surface theme SDK (one skin themes CLI, TUI, and desktop, live) ([#72246](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72246), [#68857](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68857) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- TUI: reach the model picker without wrecking your draft + mid-turn switching; slash menu leads with your most-used skills; attachments live in the composer; Arabic (ar) locale with RTL across desktop/dashboard/agent ([#74756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74756), [#75931](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75931), [#75210](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75210), [#70870](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70870) — @OutThisLife)\n- `hermes -w` startup ~14s → ~1.8s; global `--version` fast path; banner update-check 6× faster; dashboard lazy-loads routes + GROUP BY session stats; session filtering tabs (Chats/Automation/All) ([#71637](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71637), [#62096](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62096), [#74188](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74188), [#72294](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72294), [#73362](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73362), [#73865](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73865) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Runtime: Node 26 required across installers/heal/upgrade, managed Node/uv resolve before bare PATH, outdated managed trees heal to target major; brew + pip/PyPI wheel channels retired (shell installer / Docker / Nix are the supported channels) ([#76459](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76459), [#68217](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68217) — @ethernet8023)\n\n## 🧩 Skills, Plugins & MCP\n- **A2A v1.0** — Agent-to-Agent protocol plugin (closes #514) ([#77109](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77109) — @teknium1)\n- Curator: surface unmanaged skills + `curator adopt`; skill-description truncation surfaced to authors; grounded-citations skill (+ fact-checking mode); simplify-code v1.1; tldraw-offline scripting skill ([#71648](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71648), [#70519](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70519), [#71698](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71698), [#77104](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77104), [#70440](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70440), [#66896](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66896) — @teknium1)\n- Office skills bundled: docx, xlsx, pdf + refreshed powerpoint; skills-tree debloat continues (yuanbao, segment-anything, jupyter, heartmula, audiocraft → optional-skills; claude-marketplace source removed; hub restructure absorbing themes/desktop-plugins/tui-widgets) ([#68595](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68595), [#70452](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70452)–[#70456](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70456), [#73903](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73903) — @teknium1)\n- MCP: Comfy Cloud catalog entry with curated 20-tool default; hidden-whitespace warnings in MCP config; pinecone-research optional skill ([#66112](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66112), [#75736](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75736), [#70512](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70512) — @teknium1)\n- MCP lazy server startup from a fingerprint-keyed on-disk tool-schema cache — configured servers no longer all boot at session start (design from #56832) ([#77511](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77511) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- NeMo Relay observability integration — re-landed after an in-window revert, on stable NeMo Relay 0.6 ([#67607](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67607) — @afourniernv)\n- Gateway health & diagnostics OTLP export ([#64536](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64536) — @victor-kyriazakos)\n\n## 🔒 Security & Reliability\n- Iron-proxy credential-injection egress firewall re-landed ([#70848](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70848) — @teknium1)\n- DNS-pinned SSRF-safe fetches + Slack CDN allowlist; strict redaction at compaction boundaries; ReDoS eliminated in config-key redaction patterns; prose words embedding a secret keyword no longer masked ([#70193](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70193), [#69294](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69294), [#76083](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76083), [#67776](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67776) — @teknium1)\n- Tier-3 credential reads scoped (FAL/XAI/VERCEL/DAYTONA/GITHUB presence checks etc.); CVE dependency pins refreshed (cryptography, starlette, python-multipart); hindsight env file 0600; /model moved off the gateway event loop ([#75888](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75888), [#72362](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72362) — @teknium1)\n- Windows hardening wave: text-mode subprocess decode bug class closed repo-wide, console flashes hidden across daemons/env probes/LSP/installer paths, residual encoding gaps (MCP stdio, gateway update I/O, STT/TTS, desktop spawn) ([#70875](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70875), [#70205](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70205), [#70264](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70264), [#71014](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71014) — @teknium1, salvaging several community PRs)\n- State/session integrity: four session-state fixes (safe close tracking, flush-cursor class fix, row-retry, usage-PK healer); compact v23 FTS layout + `hermes sessions optimize` + CJK-bigram FTS; read-path split with per-thread read-only connections ([#75883](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75883), [#65798](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65798), [#69423](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69423), [#73344](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73344) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- OpenViking memory-provider hardening — fail closed on blocked endpoints, server verification before credentials are sent, config.yaml-first settings ([#77747](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77747) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- Credential pool: reset-aware primary restore (stay on fallback until the rate-limit window resets) + deferred-refresh locking fixes; FTS UPDATE triggers narrowed with fail-closed CJK migration ([#77631](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77631), [#77628](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77628) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- Config-driven memory allocator trim with telemetry; holographic memory vectors stored float32; loop-invariant HRR encodes hoisted ([#76905](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76905), [#76917](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76917), [#76881](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76881) — @kshitijk4poor)\n\n## 🐛 Notable Bug Fixes\n- Voice: full-duplex interruption during generation AND playback; whole-turn desktop speech; auto-TTS delivery gaps ([#74223](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74223), [#69936](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69936), [#73508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73508) — @teknium1)\n- Desktop: Stop parks the queue instead of firing the next queued prompt; branch-in-new-chat restart loss; false remote-gateway reauthentication; cross-session composer leaks ([#68725](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68725), [#71960](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71960), [#68250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68250), [#70986](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70986) — @SHL0MS, @alelpoan, @helix4u, @OutThisLife)\n- Gateway: session lists scoped before limiting; relay-backed home delivery after restart; timeline display events persisted ([#65509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65509), [#70102](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70102), [#69771](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69771) — @GodsBoy, @victor-kyriazakos, @ethernet8023)\n- Agent: context-length fallback logging + batch trajectory durability; Codex OAuth context windows revalidated against the live catalog ([#76027](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76027), [#68554](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68554) — @kshitijk4poor, @teknium1)\n- ...plus roughly 770 more `fix:` PRs across every subsystem this window.\n\n## 👥 Contributors\n\n**647 contributors** shipped this release (commit authors, co-authors, and salvaged-PR credits).\n\n### Core\n@teknium1, @OutThisLife (desktop, voice, perf), @kshitijk4poor (perf, caching, salvage), @ethernet8023 (runtime, E2E, desktop), @benbarclay (relay, HSP, auth)\n\n### All Contributors (alphabetical)\n@02356abc, @0301chris, @0xAlcibiades, @0xDevNinja, @0xLeathery, @0xprincess, @0xr00tf3rr3t, @100yenadmin,\n@2001Y, @3ssiri, @55nx954gn6-debug, @686f6c61, @87degrees, @aaronlab, @abundantbeing, @Adolanium,\n@adriansotomora, @adurham, @afourniernv, @afurm, @AgenticSpark, @ahmadashfq, @AhmetArif0, @ai-ag2026,\n@AIalliAI, @aider4ryder, @airclear, @ajzrva-sys, @akattelu, @AKAZIK-py, @akb4q, @akshan-main, @AlanBurningsuit,\n@alelpoan, @AlexFucuson9, @AlexxRussell, @AllardQuek, @alt-glitch, @aman-merchant, @amanning3390, @amathxbt,\n@aml1973, @amoreno16003, @AndrewMoryakov, @andrexibiza, @andynguyendk, @andyylin, @aneym, @angelos,\n@aniruddhaadak80, @AnnasMazhar, @annguyenNous, @anoopmehendale-cue, @AnthonyFrancis, @arcabotai, @ArcherQAQ,\n@Ares4Tech, @arimu1, @arnoldfrancisca, @asimons81, @asorry75, @AtakanGs, @ATran28, @austinpickett,\n@Automata-intelligentsia, @awain7, @aweiker, @aydnOktay, @ayushere, @b, @baau, @baauzi, @baenregod,\n@bakhtiersizhaev, @Baophan00, @baoyu0, @Bartok9, @basilalshukaili, @BB-light, @bbopen, @Beandon13,\n@beardedeagle, @bedirhancode, @benbarclay, @benegessarit, @benjamin2026-dot, @bennybuoy, @BenSheridanEdwards,\n@BKStock, @BlackishGreen33, @bnikanjam, @bounce12340, @Bounty13, @bpross, @briandevans, @bricelb, @brunopirz,\n@bryanneva, @byshubham, @camaleonidas, @canorionen, @carbongotfound, @carljborg, @carlotestor, @carrion256,\n@caseyanthony, @cat-thats-fat, @Cdddo, @ceverson70, @chancelu, @chaos-xxl, @CharlesMcquade, @chazmaniandinkle,\n@chefboyrdave21, @chelsealong, @Christopher-Schulze, @chuenchen309, @ciabata-git, @cifangyiquan, @cipry0200,\n@ckaznocha, @ckorhonen, @CleanDev-Fix, @CocaKova, @coffee-the-dev, @colingreig, @Commander, @connorblack,\n@CoreyNoDream, @Cossackx, @crayfish-ai, @criptogus, @ctaylor86, @cucurigoo, @cypres0099, @d31tcjg, @Da7-Tech,\n@damiankluk, @danielblankhh, @DanielMaly, @Dannou, @davesecops, @davidgut1982, @DavidMetcalfe, @davidrobertson,\n@ddifa86, @ddy4633, @deacon-botdoctor, @deaneeth, @deepjia, @deltaahead, @DESXIE, @devsart95, @dhruvkej9,\n@dhruvraajeev, @DI404N, @diegomarino, @diffen77, @dirtyren, @dnth, @DocAwk, @dolphin-creator, @Dolverin,\n@dombejar, @doncazper, @dongjiang1989, @DonutsDelivery, @dorukardahan, @Doud-FR, @drafish, @Drexuxux,\n@drleadflow, @dsitmilis, @dskwe, @dso2ng, @dstkwll, @Dusk1e, @dyreckt, @eagle-nyp, @Eapwrk, @eason2026,\n@eazye19, @egilewski, @ehz0ah, @elcocoel, @eliemada, @eloklam, @elphamale, @embwl0x, @emozilla, @Enough1122,\n@enzo2, @erick713006, @ErnestHysa, @Esther-Zhu023, @ethernet8023, @evgyur, @f-trycua, @faikwo, @falkoro,\n@fangliquanflq, @fazerluga-creator, @fcavalcantirj, @ferminquant, @fesalfayed, @FixItFoundry, @flag0x369,\n@floatingrain, @FlorianVal, @flyingdoubleG, @FraserHum, @frizikk, @frohsinnllc, @Frowtek, @FvanW, @fyzanshaik,\n@ganzziani, @gercamjr, @giggling-ginger, @gigi206, @giladbau, @glesperance, @gnanam1990, @GodsBoy, @golldyck,\n@gonzalofrancoceballos, @gshall, @gumclaw, @Guoen0, @Gurud25, @gvago, @HaisamAbbas, @hansai-art, @hanyu1212,\n@happy5318, @haran2001, @hariNEzuMI928, @harjothkhara, @harrisonmedmedmetrics, @Harshkamdar67, @hdd69,\n@heathley, @helix4u, @HeLLGURD, @hellofrommorgan, @hereicq, @hermz580, @HexLab98, @hinablue, @HOYALIM, @hrnbld,\n@huntsyea, @iamwongeeeee, @ianks, @ibaldr89, @Icather, @ijevin, @ildunari, @Imgaojp, @imgyf, @immuhammadfurqan,\n@iniak, @iRonin, @isheng-eqi, @iso2kx, @israellot, @itsflownium, @IvanMiao, @iveywest, @izumi0uu, @Jaaneek,\n@JabberELF, @jackjin1997, @jakelongvu-bot, @Janig88, @jasoisjaso, @jbbottoms, @jeeaay, @jeeves-assistant,\n@jeff-mettel, @JeffStone69, @JeliTron, @jethac, @jfmusa2024-cyber, @Jiahui-Gu, @jinglun010-cpu, @JoaoMarcos44,\n@joelbrilliant, @John-Lussier, @johnkattenhorn, @Johnny-xuan, @johnnykor82, @joncaldwell90, @JonthanaHanh,\n@jordanhubbard, @JorkeyLiu, @jquesnelle, @jrfbch, @juanmartitegui, @Julientalbot, @juniperbevensee, @justemu,\n@kael-odin, @kaishi00, @kaiyisg, @kamonspecial, @kandotrun, @KCAYAAI, @keepConcentration, @kelsia14, @Kenmege,\n@kerpopule, @Kev-fs, @Kewe63, @kharitonov-ivan, @Kingdomwarrior23, @kingrubic, @Kinkoolino-Hermes, @kjames2001,\n@knoal, @kohoj, @Kolektori, @konsisumer, @koshaji, @kronexoi, @kshitijk4poor, @kuangmi-bit, @kudi88, @kylezh,\n@kyssta-exe, @Kyzcreig, @lanyusea, @LauraGPT, @LavyaTandel, @LeonSGP43, @leoprodz, @LevSky22, @lEWFkRAD,\n@lewis4x4, @lexgenius, @LFDMcore, @LiangYang666, @lidises, @light-merlin-dark, @lihengming, @Linux2010,\n@LionGateOS, @liuhao1024, @liusencomic-cyber, @ljsdut, @lkevincc0, @LLQWQ, @locker95, @logical-and,\n@LordNikon1983, @lost9999, @Love-JourneY, @LunarNexus, @luxiaolu4827, @lxman, @m4r13y, @MaartenDMT,\n@MacroAnarchy, @maff-t2b, @MahdiHedhli, @mahdiwafy, @malaiwah, @mannnrachman, @mapu-og, @markoub, @matarbot,\n@materemias, @matt-strawbridge, @mattezell, @MattMaximo, @mattmillerai, @mattshapsss, @MaxFreedomPollard,\n@maxmilian, @McHermes, @mehmetkr-31, @menhguin, @metamon-p, @mijanx, @MLcogTech, @moeadham, @mollusk,\n@monerostar, @MorAlekss, @morolab, @motoblurr, @MrAbsaroka, @mrzlab630, @ms-alan, @muctobi, @MustafaK99,\n@mwbrooks, @myk0la-b, @mzkarami, @namredips, @nanami7777777, @nanckh, @natebransc, @nateEc, @navahc09,\n@Ne0teric, @necoweb3, @nftpoetrist, @nickkarhan, @Ninso112, @nkreadly07, @nnnet, @NPFernando, @nrmjeremy,\n@nu476, @null-runner, @nullptr0807, @NYTEMODEONLY, @obelisk-complex, @OfficialDelta, @okalentiev,\n@oliviaaaa7788, @OmarB97, @omid3098, @ooiuuii, @oppenheimor, @oreoluwa, @ousiaresearch, @OutThisLife,\n@panDing19, @paralegalia, @patp, @PavelTajdus, @peacockesq, @Pebrd, @peterw, @phantom-instruction-set,\n@pierrenode, @PINKIIILQWQ, @piyushbag, @plainOldCode, @pnascimento9596, @pooyan6, @pprism13, @praneshnikhar,\n@PRATHAMESH75, @Prontsevich, @quantumbyte1617, @QuarkAssistant, @Que0x, @Qwinty, @rayjerrywoo, @rayjun,\n@Reaper-Forge, @RedClaus, @redsol-llc, @reinbeumer, @RelaxJonh, @RemyFevry, @replygirl, @rerdi92, @rhylryan21,\n@RichardHojunJang, @richkapp, @rkfshakti, @rlaope, @rob-coco, @rob-maron, @robbyczgw-cla, @robgfl45,\n@robzolkos, @rod-nxtlevel, @rodboev, @Roger--Han, @rsayar, @rudironsoni, @ruizanthony, @rungmc357, @s00rz,\n@s905060, @Sahil-SS9, @sakhnenkoff, @salimhamed, @samrusani, @sbe27, @ScaleLeanChris, @schattenan, @sealca,\n@seamusmore, @sebaorrego-koronet, @seppegadeyne, @sergioperezcheco, @sethmills21, @sg-shag, @sgtworkman,\n@shady2k, @shannonsands, @shellybotmoyer, @sherman-yang, @shivasymbl, @Shizoqua, @SHL0MS, @simonmmafs,\n@skyer-flyyy, @Skywind5487, @sl4m3, @Slopez2023, @SmallNew2003, @smfworks, @Soju06, @Solitud1nem,\n@solyanviktor-star, @somewheresy, @Sora-bluesky, @sowork-skills, @soynchux, @sparkeros, @spfcraze,\n@spiky02plateau, @spro-work, @SquabbyZ, @srojk34, @StanleyStetson, @StartupBros-com, @StellarisW,\n@stephenschoettler, @Stoltemberg, @stremtec, @Studio729, @stwith, @subhoya, @sunwz1115, @suparious,\n@supplefrog, @sycamoregroupltd, @szzhoujiarui, @tachyon-r, @Tamaz-sujashvili, @tandixit95, @tank321, @tavva,\n@tcconnally, @temalo, @th3wingman, @the3asic, @TheAngryPit, @TheEpTic, @theone139344, @TheSmokeDev,\n@thirstycrow, @tianma-if, @Tianworld, @tinetwork, @to-na, @tom-channel, @tomqiaozc, @toomij99, @trac3r00,\n@Tranquil-Flow, @Trantor-develops, @trevorgordon981, @trevornk, @trippyogi, @trymhaak, @tsuk1nose, @tusharui,\n@TutkuEroglu, @tw0316, @twe-cloud, @tymrtn, @UltraInstinct0x, @umi008, @unixwzrd, @upicat, @vaibhavjnf, @valda,\n@Vansh5632, @Variable85, @vb3, @VerbalChainsaw, @vexclawx31, @victor-kyriazakos, @vigilancetech-com,\n@virtuadex, @Vissirexa, @VittoriaLanzo, @VIVAAN-DHAWAN, @wangyunyou, @waroffchange, @wayne1992127, @web3blind,\n@webtecnica, @WeiYusc, @wen0531, @wernerhp, @wesleysimplicio, @westkite1201, @wgd753, @wgu9,\n@wjj1872744570-source, @wjq990112, @WojtekMR3, @WOLIKIMCHENG, @Wpnx330, @wreed4, @wuli666, @WXBR, @wz-heng,\n@x7peeps, @xcompass, @xd-Neji, @xenodmc, @Xipong, @xrazai, @Xue-1997, @xxxigm, @y0shua1ee, @yaleman,\n@yemi-lagosinternationalmarket, @ygd58, @yingliang-zhang, @yinkev, @yitang, @YLChen-007, @yoniebans,\n@youzi-1122, @ypwcharles, @yuexiongHNU, @yungchentang, @yuzilongleif-collab, @yyzquwu, @z23, @ZachariahChu,\n@zakhounet, @zapabob, @Zavianx, @zehuaw1, @zengzheqing, @Zeraphim, @zgzczzw, @zhangyang-crazy-one,\n@Zhekinmaksim, @Zioywishing, @zmlgit, @zombopanda, @ZundamonnoVRChatkaisetu\nAlso: @kyssta-exe 25470058+kyssta-exe.\n\nThank you to every one of the 647 people who contributed code, co-authored fixes, filed the ~1,200 issues this release closes, and had their PRs salvaged into main. Hermes ships this fast because of you.\n\n---\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.7.20...v2026.8.3](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.7.20...v2026.8.3)\n","publishedAt":"2026-08-03T16:57:52.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.648Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.3","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_iFWj3jBAsuxXTxBoUJA-K","version":"v2026.7.30","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.19.1 (v2026.7.30)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.19.1 (v2026.7.30)\n\n**Release Date:** July 30, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~1,000+ PRs merged since v0.19.0 into a s...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.19.1 (v2026.7.30)\n\n**Release Date:** July 30, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~1,000+ PRs merged since v0.19.0 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs).\n\n---\n\n## About this release\n\nSince v2026.7.20 (v0.19.0, July 20): **~2,789 commits · ~4,748 files changed · ~442,000 insertions · ~392,300 deletions** on `main`. This window is dominated by bug-fix and salvage waves across the gateway, voice subsystem, desktop app, and installer, plus continued platform work (Buzz/Nostr channel, FLUX3 video generation and delivery, Telegram media reliability, voice-mode regressions).\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.20.0**, which will document everything from v0.19.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.\n\n## Updating\n\n```bash\nhermes update\n# or fresh install:\ncurl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash\n```\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.7.20...v2026.7.30](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.7.20...v2026.7.30)\n","publishedAt":"2026-07-30T23:45:37.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.648Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.30","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_nT65fp0lvVvpK91gyn3aT","version":"v2026.7.20","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (2026.7.20) — The Quicksilver Release","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (v2026.7.20)\n\n\n**Release Date:** July 20, 2026\n**Since v0.18.0:** ~2,245 commits · ~1,065 merged PRs · ~2,465 files changed · ~...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (v2026.7.20)\n\n\n**Release Date:** July 20, 2026\n**Since v0.18.0:** ~2,245 commits · ~1,065 merged PRs · ~2,465 files changed · ~300,000 insertions · ~36,000 deletions · **~3,300 issues closed** · **450+ community contributors**\n\n> **The Quicksilver Release.** Hermes is the messenger god, and this window we made him move like it. First-turn time-to-first-token dropped **~80% on every platform**, reasoning streams live by default, the desktop app got a ~20-PR speed overhaul (14× faster streaming markdown, virtualized diffs, snappy session switching), and the TUI renders markdown incrementally. Around that speed spine: you can now **manage your Nous subscription without leaving the terminal**, plug **Bitwarden and 1Password** straight into Hermes, let **smart approvals** judge flagged commands for you by default, **watch your subagents work live**, and trust that a finished response **survives a gateway crash** thanks to a durable delivery ledger. This release also rolls up everything from the v0.18.1 and v0.18.2 infrastructure patch tags — those windows are fully documented here.\n\n---\n\n## ✨ Highlights\n\n- **Hermes got dramatically faster — first token in a fraction of the time** — Cold-start \"Initializing agent...\" used to eat ~4.3 seconds before your first turn even reached the model; it's now ~0.9s, an ~80% cut that applies to the CLI, gateway, TUI, desktop, and cron alike. Round 2 attacked what you *see* while waiting: reasoning models now stream their thinking live by default (no more staring at a spinner for 30 seconds), and the response box paints per token instead of per line. If Hermes ever felt like it took a deep breath before answering, that breath is gone. ([#59332](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59332), [#59389](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59389) — @teknium1)\n\n- **The desktop app speed wave — 20+ targeted perf PRs** — Long replies used to cost 14× more CPU in the markdown splitter than they do now; giant diffs froze the review pane until we virtualized it; switching sessions thrashes layout no more. Streaming no longer re-renders the sidebar and every tool row per token, profile backends pre-warm on hover intent, and boot-hidden panes mount at idle instead of on the cold-start critical path. The net effect: the desktop app feels like a native app under load, even with huge transcripts and busy agents. ([#67154](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67154), [#67818](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67818), [#65898](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65898), [#66033](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66033), [#66747](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66747), [#67742](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67742) and more — @OutThisLife)\n\n- **Manage your Nous plan from the terminal — `/subscription` and `/topup`** — Changing your subscription used to mean a trip to the billing website. Now `/subscription` opens a full flow right in the TUI or classic CLI: see your plan and remaining allowance, preview exactly what an upgrade costs (\"Pay $46.30 & upgrade now\") or when a downgrade takes effect, and apply it — with scheduled-change banners and undo. The desktop app got a matching billing settings tab. Your wallet never has to leave the keyboard. ([#51639](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51639), [#61054](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61054), [#61067](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61067) — @alt-glitch)\n\n- **Smart approvals are now the default** — When Hermes wants to run a flagged command, an LLM reviewer now assesses it independently instead of asking you to approve every single one — and each verdict covers only that exact command, so a later command matching the same pattern gets its own review. Combined with the new **user-defined deny rules** (which block commands even under yolo mode) and `/deny <reason>` (which tells the agent *why* you refused so it course-corrects), day-to-day approval fatigue drops sharply without giving up control. ([#62661](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62661), [#59164](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59164), [#54518](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54518) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Plug your password manager into Hermes — Bitwarden & 1Password secret sources** — API keys no longer have to live in a plaintext `.env`. A new pluggable `SecretSource` interface lets Hermes fetch secrets from Bitwarden and 1Password (`op://` references) at load time, with multiple vaults enabled simultaneously, deterministic precedence, conflict warnings, and per-variable provenance. This consolidated eleven competing community PRs into one orchestrated interface — future vault providers drop in as plugins. ([#59498](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59498) — @teknium1, 1Password provider salvaged from @hwrdprkns)\n\n- **Watch your subagents work — live transcripts + durable background delegation** — `delegate_task` dispatches now return live transcript files you can `tail -f` the moment the subagents launch: every tool call, result, and streamed reply, one human-readable log per child. And background delegation completions are now **durable** — if the process restarts mid-run, results are restored and delivered through an ownership-checked ledger instead of vanishing. Fan out a fleet, watch any worker live, and never lose the results. ([#67479](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67479), [#63494](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63494) — @teknium1)\n\n- **A finished answer can no longer be lost — the delivery-obligation ledger** — If the gateway died between generating your response and confirming the platform actually delivered it, that answer used to be silently gone (and you'd paid for the turn). Final responses are now recorded in a durable ledger in `state.db` around the platform send and **redelivered on the next boot** — closing a P1 silent-loss window for Telegram, Discord, Slack, and every other channel. ([#67181](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67181) — @teknium1)\n\n- **One gateway, many profiles — profile-based message routing** — A single multiplexed gateway sharing one bot token can now route specific guilds, channels, or threads to different profiles — each with fully isolated config, skills, memory, and secrets. Point your work Discord server at the `work` profile and your hobby server at `personal`, from one bot. A second multiplex hardening wave means one misconfigured profile can no longer take down the whole gateway. ([#64835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64835) salvaging @Burgunthy, [#65700](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65700), [#60589](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60589) — @teknium1, @benbarclay + six salvaged contributors)\n\n- **New providers and the newest frontier models** — Fireworks AI and DeepInfra land as first-class providers (Fireworks with cost estimation and a #2 slot in the provider picker), Upstage Solar joins via salvage, and the model catalogs picked up **GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna + Pro variants, wired end-to-end across every route)**, **grok-4.5 (GA)**, **moonshotai/kimi-k3**, **claude-fable-5 / claude-sonnet-5**, and GA **tencent/hy3** — plus LM Studio JIT model loading for local setups. ([#62593](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62593), [#63969](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63969), [#61616](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61616) — @kshitijk4poor completing @rob-maron's #61578, [#60887](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60887), [#65913](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65913), [#64541](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64541), [#65472](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65472))\n\n- **Crank the thinking to max — new reasoning effort tiers and per-model control** — Reasoning effort gained `max` and `ultra` levels (GPT-5.6 and Codex's top tiers), selectable everywhere from the CLI to the desktop, with sane clamping on providers with smaller scales. You can now also pin **per-model reasoning-effort overrides** in config, set **per-slot effort in MoA presets** (your advisors think hard, your synthesizer stays fast), and per-task effort for auxiliary models. Thinking depth is now a dial, not a global switch. ([#62650](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62650), [#64458](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64458), [#64631](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64631), [#64597](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64597) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Your sessions, your data — export everything** — `hermes sessions export` now writes Markdown, Quarto, HTML, prompt-only, and even Hugging Face-ready trace formats, with the full filter surface (age, workspace, platform), an opt-in `--redact` secret-scrubbing pass, and compacted-session lineage stitched into one logical export. Pair with the new prune filters and bulk archive to keep your session store tidy. Your conversation history is a real dataset now, not a black box. ([#60186](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60186) salvaging @web3blind, [#60492](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60492), [#60507](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60507), [#59327](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59327) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Security hardening round** — This window closed a long list of credential-surface gaps: Vertex credentials scoped away from subprocess env and through profile secret scopes, media/vision/image-gen local-file reads routed through one shared credential-read guard, a webhook body-size-cap sweep across every aiohttp server, bot-token redaction in Telegram transport errors, Fireworks token prefixes added to the redactor, six P1 browser/MEDIA/.env hardening PRs salvaged in one pass, and CI hardened against untrusted-ref interpolation. ([#57660](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57660), [#58709](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58709), [#59215](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59215), [#56582](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56582), [#57842](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57842) — @teknium1, @srojk34, @kshitijk4poor, @jquesnelle)\n\n---\n\n## ⚡ Performance — the speed spine\n\n### First-turn latency (all platforms)\n- **~80% TTFT cut** — Discord capability detection off the critical path (token-keyed 24h disk cache + background refresh), Ollama probe skipped for known non-Ollama providers, agent-init blocking work removed; cold submit→dispatch ~4.3s → ~0.9s ([#59332](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59332) — @teknium1)\n- **Perceived-latency round 2** — `display.show_reasoning` default ON (watch the model think instead of a spinner), per-token response-box painting with width-aware force-flush, prompt-build caching, mtime-cached timezone resolution ([#59389](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59389) — @teknium1)\n- Segment mixed tool batches to recover lost concurrency; drop per-call base64 re-serialization from request-size estimates ([#64460](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64460), [#67788](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67788) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n\n### Desktop speed wave\n- 14× less splitter CPU via incremental block lexing for streaming markdown; virtualized review-pane diffs (no more full-Shiki freeze); snappy session switching on large transcripts; killed the layout-thrash cascade on session switch ([#67154](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67154), [#67818](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67818), [#65898](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65898), [#66033](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66033) — @OutThisLife)\n- Cut startup serialization + per-turn REST amplification; pre-warm profile backends and gateway sockets on hover intent; idle-mount boot-hidden panes; fast model picker + dialogs ([#66747](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66747), [#66347](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66347), [#67857](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67857), [#66470](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66470) — @OutThisLife)\n- Stop per-token sidebar + tool-row re-renders during streaming; stop eager JSON.stringify of every tool's args/result; scope tool-diff subscriptions; batch sidebar session slices into one profile-DB pass; targeted file-tree revalidation; rAF-coalesced sash resizes ([#67742](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67742), [#67842](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67842), [#67195](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67195), [#67245](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67245), [#67824](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67824), [#67838](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67838), [#67844](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67844) — @OutThisLife)\n- Systematized perf benchmark harness with trustworthy cold-start + first-token measurement, replacing 12 one-off scripts ([#67466](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67466), [#67697](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67697) — @OutThisLife)\n\n### Everywhere else\n- TUI renders streamed markdown incrementally per block ([#67236](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67236) — @OutThisLife)\n- Skill discovery cached by scan signature; snapshot manifest builds ~5× faster; text prefilter before AST parse in tool discovery ([#61414](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61414), [#61131](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61131), [#63941](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63941) — @kshitijk4poor, @ethernet8023)\n- Copy-on-write message prep instead of full deepcopy; model-metadata probe-cache cluster; gateway `session.resume` model + display history from one SELECT ([#61133](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61133), [#61368](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61368), [#67247](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67247) — @kshitijk4poor, @OutThisLife)\n- `hermes update` skips npm install when Node manifests are unchanged; dashboard session-list payloads trimmed + messages paginated ([#61580](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61580), [#60883](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60883) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- Byte-stable gateway system prompts — pinned session-context render keeps the prompt cache alive across turns ([#67403](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67403) — @kshitijk4poor)\n\n## 🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture\n\n### Providers & models\n- **Fireworks AI provider** with cost estimation + cached picker price columns, promoted to #2 in provider pickers ([#62593](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62593), [#65476](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65476), [#65214](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65214) — @teknium1)\n- **DeepInfra** hardened integration; **Upstage Solar** provider (#42231 salvage) ([#63969](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63969), [#64541](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64541) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- **GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna + Pro) end-to-end** — context lengths, native/Codex catalogs, pricing, compaction caps across every route ([#61616](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61616) — @kshitijk4poor, building on @rob-maron)\n- grok-4.5 (GA) catalog + reasoning allowlist; kimi-k3 on Nous Portal + OpenRouter (kimi-k2.x retired) + K3 discovery on the Kimi Coding endpoint; claude-fable-5 / claude-sonnet-5 / fugu-ultra curated; GA tencent/hy3 ([#60887](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60887), [#65913](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65913), [#65922](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65922), [#56617](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56617), [#60943](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60943) — @teknium1)\n- Catalog-labeled silent default (GLM-5.2) + bare-provider `/model` cost-safe routing; LM Studio JIT load mode; adaptive thinking for Kimi-family Anthropic endpoints ([#64771](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64771), [#65472](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65472), [#67606](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67606) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- GLM-5.2 native reasoning_effort controls; Gemini request-context improvements; extra HTTP headers for LLM API calls; per-client model routing on the API server ([#58884](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58884), [#61873](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61873) — @vishal-dharm, [#57038](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57038), [#57028](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57028) — @teknium1)\n- **Claude Sonnet 5 fully wired** — curated lists, intro pricing, and metadata across every route ([#67932](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67932) — @teknium1)\n- **Hide providers you don't use** — `enabled: false` per-provider flag + `excluded_providers` config scrub unwanted providers from `/model` pickers and built-in resolution ([#67971](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67971) — @teknium1)\n- Bedrock catalog wave: real context-window probing from the live endpoint, 1M-context rows for current-gen Claude + Fable, geo-prefix parity, versioned profile-ID pricing, Opus 4.8/4.7 rows ([#68007](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68007), [#67977](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67977), [#68005](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68005), [#67976](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67976) — @teknium1)\n- kimi-k3 rollout completed across Kimi-direct catalog surfaces with 1M context on canonical Kimi Coding endpoints ([#68108](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68108) — @teknium1)\n- Provider pickers: Qwen providers folded into one group row; collapsible provider groups in the desktop model picker; friendlier TUI model display grouping same-endpoint providers ([#67758](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67758), [#67904](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67904), [#67908](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67908) — @teknium1)\n\n### Reasoning & MoA\n- `max` + `ultra` effort levels across every surface and route ([#62650](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62650) — @teknium1)\n- Per-model reasoning_effort overrides via a unified resolution chokepoint; per-task auxiliary effort; per-slot MoA preset effort; session-scoped `/reasoning` in the CLI ([#64458](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64458), [#64597](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64597), [#64631](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64631), [#67946](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67946) — @teknium1)\n- MoA: `reference_max_tokens` to cap advisor output and cut latency; per-preset fanout cadence (`user_turn` runs advisors once per user turn); stale presets surfaced without retries; half-filled preset saves rejected at the API boundary; aggregator resolves reasoning like an acting model ([#56756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56756), [#57591](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57591), [#64756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64756) — @teknium1)\n\n### Delegation, approvals & the agent loop\n- Live subagent transcripts + durable background completions (see Highlights) ([#67479](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67479), [#63494](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63494) — @teknium1)\n- Smart approvals default; user-defined deny rules (block even under yolo); `/deny <reason>` relays the denial reason; plugin `pre_tool_call` approve action escalates to a human gate (re-landed with rule keys) ([#62661](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62661), [#59164](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59164), [#54518](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54518), [#60504](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60504) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Unified delegation concurrency caps (`max_async_children` deprecated); explain long provider waits on the live status line; deterministic tool-output risk exposure ([#56955](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56955), [#64775](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64775), [#61793](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61793) — @teknium1)\n- Codex: live TUI/desktop tool cards for the app-server runtime, commentary streamed as visible interim messages, compaction routed through `thread/compact/start`, max-output truncation recovery, oversized message ids dropped on replay, banked usage-limit resets via `/usage reset` ([#66514](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66514), [#66115](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66115), [#60114](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60114), [#58155](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58155), [#62225](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62225) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor, @JoaoMarcos44, [#64280](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64280) — @teknium1)\n- Hooks: oversized hook-injected context spills to disk ([#20468](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/20468) — @teknium1)\n- Vibe reactions — floating hearts on affection across CLI/TUI/desktop, token-free core detection ([#62016](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62016) — @OutThisLife)\n\n### Secrets & config\n- Pluggable `SecretSource` interface + Bitwarden & 1Password providers (see Highlights) ([#59498](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59498) — @teknium1, @hwrdprkns)\n- `hermes config get` / `unset`; warn on unknown root config keys + doctor deprecated-key reporting; `display.timestamp_format` ([#65540](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65540), [#67370](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67370), [#40622](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40622) — @teknium1)\n- Auxiliary model usage recorded per task in session accounting; conversation-scoped Nous Portal usage tags across aux/MoA/delegate calls; `--usage-file` JSON report for `hermes -z` ([#65537](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65537), [#65468](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65468), [#59615](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59615) — @teknium1)\n\n### Sessions & compression\n- Sessions export: Markdown/QMD/HTML/prompt-only/trace formats, HF upload, `--redact`, unified filters; full prune filter surface + bulk archive; CLI workspace filter + restore-cwd-on-resume ([#60186](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60186), [#60492](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60492), [#60507](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60507), [#59327](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59327), [#63091](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63091) — @teknium1, @web3blind)\n- Compression: preserve human intent and durable handoffs; retain prompt cache when memory is unchanged; flatten multimodal content for the summarizer keeping image handles; gateway compression routing integrity ([#67275](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67275), [#67916](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67916), [#65046](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65046), [#56868](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56868) — @kshitijk4poor, @teknium1)\n- Gateway session metadata consolidated into state.db; routing index moved to state.db (sessions.json now an optional legacy mirror); exact API bytes persisted in an `api_content` sidecar ([#58899](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58899), [#59203](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59203), [#67274](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67274) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n\n## 🌐 Gateway, Fleet & Relay\n- **Durable delivery-obligation ledger** for final responses (see Highlights) ([#67181](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67181) — @teknium1)\n- **Profile-based routing for inbound messages** + multiplex hardening wave 2 + `GATEWAY_MULTIPLEX_PROFILES` override (see Highlights) ([#64835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64835), [#65700](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65700), [#60589](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60589) — @teknium1, @benbarclay + salvaged contributors)\n- Per-session turn lease + conversation-scope funnel; unified session reset boundaries (reset sessions stay reset); truthful runtime readiness checks; per-channel model and system prompt overrides; per-session `/model` overrides persist across restarts ([#67401](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67401), [#65783](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65783), [#62645](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62645), [#56967](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56967), [#57030](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57030) — @teknium1)\n- Session auto-reset default off; `/sessions search <query>`; webhook payload filters + route scripts; platform HTTP event callback routing; configurable long-running status phrases ([#60194](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60194), [#57685](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57685), [#60944](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60944), [#65702](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65702), [#58872](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58872) — @teknium1)\n- Relay: generic OIDC client-credentials provisioning (NAS-free), routed profile carried from the connector wire source, channel context consumed from the connector; Nous auth forensics + `nous_session_valid` on `/api/status` for hosted self-heal; Docker re-seeds a terminally-dead Nous bootstrap session on boot ([#60730](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60730), [#60586](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60586), [#64649](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64649), [#59976](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59976), [#59969](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59969), [#59983](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59983) — @benbarclay)\n\n## 📱 Messaging Platforms\n- **Inline choice pickers** for `/reasoning` and `/fast` on Telegram, Discord, and Matrix — one-tap native buttons instead of typing ([#65799](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65799) — @teknium1)\n- WhatsApp: native Baileys polls (clarify renders as a poll), locations, rich inbound metadata; dashboard pairing flow ([#58865](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58865), [#60571](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60571) — @teknium1)\n- Discord: recover messages missed during reconnect; auto-created threads renamed to generated session titles; configurable interactive view timeout; opt-in owner mentions on exec-approval prompts; optional admin-only gate for approval buttons ([#66149](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66149), [#60187](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60187), [#60230](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60230), [#60493](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60493), [#51751](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51751) — @teknium1)\n- Slack: live per-tool status line ([#67080](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67080) — @teknium1, salvaging #62007)\n- Telegram: per-topic free-response allowlist; Google Chat clarify prompts rendered as cards ([#65543](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65543), [#65546](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65546) — @teknium1)\n- Voice: `stt.echo_transcripts` toggle; MEDIA: captions attached to the media bubble on standalone sends; `display.tool_progress: log` option ([#58859](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58859), [#61415](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61415), [#57014](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57014) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n\n## 🖥️ Hermes Desktop App\n- **Contribution-driven shell on a layout-tree model** — panes, zones, and layouts as data; plugin-scoped i18n locale bundles followed ([#60638](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60638), [#67303](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67303) — @OutThisLife)\n- **Capabilities page** — Skills/Tools/MCP + Hub in one place, with responsive overlay nav; CLI/dashboard parity for skills hub, MCP test/toggle/catalog, maintenance ops, log filters; five UX fixes from live testing ([#57590](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57590), [#57441](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57441), [#67482](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67482) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- **Hermes Cloud connection mode** (salvage of #55402); soft gateway switch + gateway-settings polish; terminal execution backend picker with health probes ([#61912](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61912), [#61916](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61916), [#67203](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67203) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Keybind hint tooltips + keybinds settings tab + unified worktree dialog; base-branch picker for new worktrees; green unread dot for background-finished sessions; background-task sidebar indicators; grouped tool calls across text-less messages; auto-scrolling window for long tool-call runs ([#65204](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65204), [#62243](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62243), [#65109](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65109), [#65174](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65174), [#61147](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61147), [#57913](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57913) — @ethernet8023, @OutThisLife)\n- Session + project color system (inherit from project, per-session override, shared across sidebar/tabs); unified active-project identity in chat status; workspace path status action ([#67469](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67469), [#67681](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67681), [#67282](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67282), [#63086](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63086) — @OutThisLife)\n- Declarative memory-provider panel + full-config modal; config-defined TTS/STT providers + xAI TTS params; custom endpoint settings; per-job cron model picker; profile-aware approval mode control; UI scale setting; Ctrl/Cmd+wheel zoom; chat backdrop toggle; `/journey` opens the memory graph overlay ([#67206](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67206) salvaging @erosika, [#67209](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67209), [#67759](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67759) — @austinpickett, [#67472](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67472), [#63520](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63520), [#60457](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60457), [#67029](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67029), [#64598](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64598), [#57267](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57267) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- Full TypeScript conversion of the desktop tree ([#57855](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57855) — @ethernet8023)\n\n## 📊 Web Dashboard\n- Memory provider switching; safe session import flow; WhatsApp pairing; Discord-specific toolsets editable from the web UI; clarified manual Telegram bot setup ([#60569](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60569), [#63699](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63699), [#60571](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60571), [#65361](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65361), [#64636](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64636) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor, @shannonsands)\n- Terminal keep-alive + reattach for dashboard chat sessions; heavy turns isolated in a compute host; paste/drop images into Chat; `browser.headed` schema toggle; profile + gateway topology on `/api/status`; mobile/hosted OpenAI OAuth login ([#60515](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60515), [#65895](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65895), [#61929](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61929), [#67046](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67046), [#60537](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60537), [#61330](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61330) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife, @benbarclay)\n- `hermes serve` is a true headless backend (no web UI build/mount) ([#55923](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55923) — @OutThisLife)\n\n## 🧰 CLI & TUI\n- `/subscription` + `/topup` terminal billing (see Highlights) ([#51639](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51639) — @alt-glitch)\n- **`/model --once`** — one-turn model override that reverts automatically ([#67113](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67113) — @teknium1, salvaging #29923)\n- **Stacked slash-skill invocations** — `/skill-a /skill-b do XYZ` loads both skills in order (Claude Code port), with autocomplete + ghost text ([#57987](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57987), [#58763](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58763) — @teknium1)\n- `--safe-mode` troubleshooting flag; uninstall dry-run; TLS failures fail fast with fix hints; `/compact` alias + preview flags; pip/Homebrew installs warned unsupported ([#45300](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45300), [#60111](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60111), [#57992](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57992), [#57029](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57029), [#57225](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57225) — @teknium1, @ethernet8023)\n- TUI: model picker refresh support; custom skill bundles dispatched as agent turns; banner sizes skills display to terminal width ([#59782](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59782) — @helix4u, [#62859](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62859) — @Adolanium, [#40624](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40624) — @teknium1)\n- Hermes Console REPL + perf follow-ups; `hermes curator usage` all-skills view; entry-point plugins surfaced in `hermes plugins list` ([#57781](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57781) — @kshitijk4poor, [#36727](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36727), [#40623](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40623) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🔧 Tool System, Skills & MCP\n- MCP: `mcp__server__tool` naming convention; server log notifications surfaced in agent.log; hosted OAuth completed across Dashboard + Desktop; configurable `redirect_uri`/`redirect_host` for proxied/WAF setups; OAuth callback port races closed; Blender added to the MCP catalog with a curated 4-tool default ([#52750](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52750), [#57416](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57416), [#66151](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66151), [#65610](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65610), [#65622](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65622), [#64463](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64463) — @teknium1, @benbarclay)\n- Skills: `security/unbroker` (autonomous data-broker removal) + blind opt-out hardening; `unreal-mcp` companion skill; blender-mcp reworked around the catalog entry; humanizer pattern expansion; `mcp-oauth-remote-gateway` optional skill ([#57438](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57438), [#57902](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57902), [#65989](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65989), [#64715](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64715) — @SHL0MS, [#65066](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65066), [#65486](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65486) — @teknium1)\n- Browser: full snapshots stored on truncation, eval denylist opt-in; computer_use follows cua-driver's verify→escalate ladder ([#65923](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65923), [#67123](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67123) — @teknium1)\n- Kanban: modal create-task dialog + editable board project directory; Done-card results made obvious; grab-to-pan board scrolling; attachment toolset + CLI with SSRF-guarded URL fetch; project directory captured at board creation ([#66333](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66333), [#63638](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63638), [#60226](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60226), [#65698](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65698), [#63249](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63249) — @teknium1)\n- Cron: durable execution audit history; one-shot stale-removal race fixed; run-claim TTL derived from HERMES_CRON_TIMEOUT ([#61791](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61791) — @teknium1, [#62014](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62014) — @PRATHAMESH75, [#59567](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59567))\n- mem0: self-hosted dashboard backend + recall tuning + setup-wizard mode ([#56943](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56943), [#60494](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60494) — @kshitijk4poor, @teknium1)\n- Image gen: Codex image inputs; unsupported Codex image accounts classified; tool args recursively normalized by schema (cline port) ([#57017](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57017), [#63627](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63627), [#52220](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52220) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n\n## 🔒 Security & Reliability\n- Vertex: credential/project/region resolution through the profile secret scope; `VERTEX_CREDENTIALS_PATH`/`GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS` stripped from subprocess env ([#56680](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56680), [#56582](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56582) — @srojk34)\n- Six P1 hardening PRs salvaged in one pass — browser guards, MEDIA anchoring, .env lockdown, delegate ACP transport ([#57660](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57660) — @teknium1)\n- Media/vision/image-gen local-file reads routed through the shared credential-read guard; native image routing guarded by file-safety policy; unified image-source resolver + terminal-backend confinement ([#58709](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58709), [#58752](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58752), [#57890](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57890) — @teknium1)\n- Webhook body-cap sweep: explicit `client_max_size` on 3 uncapped aiohttp servers + completion sweep; Raft chunked-request body limit; timestamp-bound V2 webhook signatures ([#59180](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59180), [#59215](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59215), [#58902](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58902), [#58508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58508) — @teknium1, @srojk34)\n- Redaction: Fireworks token prefixes + Telegram transport errors; env-lookup false positives fixed for KEY=value and JSON/YAML config fields; bot tokens scrubbed from Telegram connect/send errors ([#58501](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58501), [#58534](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58534), [#58915](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58915), [#58893](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58893) — @teknium1)\n- computer-use: subprocess env sanitized across all five cua-driver spawn sites ([#58889](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58889), [#59165](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59165) — @teknium1)\n- Dashboard: managed-files credential guard widened past .env + dir-tree gap closed; OAuth token TOCTOU closed with atomic 0o600 writes; stale dashboards can't recreate deleted profiles ([#58222](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58222) — @kshitijk4poor, [#60236](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60236) — @teknium1, [#49435](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49435) — @LeonSGP43)\n- CI: untrusted refs passed through env, not `run:` interpolation; JS/TS tests wired into CI with source-regex tests banned; js-autofix pushes via PR instead of direct-to-main ([#57842](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57842) — @jquesnelle, [#60707](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60707), [#65186](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65186) — @ethernet8023)\n- Docker: terminal network toggle with full-path coverage; Git Bash Mandatory-ASLR install failures detected; Windows updater console hidden during handoff ([#59149](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59149) — @teknium1, [#64651](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64651), [#66040](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66040) — @helix4u)\n- Anthropic: request-local clients so the stale/interrupt watchdog never corrupts SQLite; per-profile OAuth file; OAuth login 429 fixed (UA must not be claude-code/) ([#67238](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67238) — @OutThisLife, [#59339](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59339), [#58178](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58178) — @teknium1)\n- Gateway/agent: tool_call_id deduplicated across pre-API sanitizers; background review inherits parent reasoning_config for Anthropic cache parity; `/new` memory extraction moved off the command path ([#58350](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58350), [#64379](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64379), [#61139](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61139) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n\n## 🔁 Reverted in this window (for the record)\n- iron-proxy credential-injection egress firewall (#30179 → reverted in [#58489](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/58489)) — not shipping in this release\n- dynamic-workflow orchestration skill (landed, then reverted) — not shipping\n- memory provider-actions extension point (landed, then reverted) — not shipping\n- Note: the plugin `pre_tool_call` approve escalation was reverted mid-window but **re-landed** in [#60504](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60504) and ships in this release.\n\n## 👥 Contributors\n\n**450+ people** contributed to this release (via commits, co-author trailers, and salvaged PRs) — the biggest contributor window yet. Thank you, all of you.\n\n### Core team\n- @teknium1 — release lead; TTFT perf wave, delivery + delegation durability, smart approvals, SecretSource, gateway multiplex + profile routing, sessions export, security round, and a ~290-PR community salvage burn\n- @OutThisLife — desktop app (the speed wave, layout-tree shell, Capabilities page, session colors, vibe reactions, TUI incremental markdown, perf harness)\n- @kshitijk4poor — GPT-5.6 end-to-end, DeepInfra + Upstage Solar providers, perf cluster, compression integrity, mem0, dashboard guards\n- @ethernet8023 — CI overhaul (JS/TS tests wired in, autofix-via-PR, python speedups), desktop keybinds/worktrees/status indicators, full desktop TypeScript conversion\n- @benbarclay — relay OIDC provisioning, gateway multiplex override, Nous auth self-heal, hosted MCP OAuth groundwork\n- @alt-glitch — terminal billing (`/subscription`, `/topup`), desktop billing tab\n- @helix4u — desktop provider/model UX, TUI model picker refresh, Windows install/updater hardening\n- @austinpickett — desktop custom endpoint settings\n- @SHL0MS — unbroker + unreal-mcp skills, humanizer expansion\n\n### Top community contributors\n- @srojk34 — security hardening: Vertex credential/project/region scoping through the profile secret scope, subprocess env stripping, Raft chunked-request body limits\n- @HexLab98 — 11 fixes across MCP capability gating, Windows installer PATH, desktop cron editing, gateway systemd warnings\n- @UnathiCodex — desktop stability: zoom across display moves, LaTeX rendering, resume-stall and runtime-readiness fixes\n- @xxxigm — `<think>` leak fix after thinking-only retry flush, dashboard auth/theme/PTY fixes\n- @erosika — desktop declarative memory-provider panel + honcho recall/timeout correctness\n- @Frowtek — credential security: master stores never mounted into skill sandboxes, live-transcript redaction, dashboard api_key precedence\n- @necoweb3 — browser private-page CDP guard, cron one-shot liveness, gateway compression fail-closed\n- @DavidMetcalfe — desktop updater version pill, Local/custom endpoint exposure, sidebar collapse behavior\n- @shannonsands — dashboard: mobile channel setup, Discord toolsets from web UI, Telegram setup clarity\n- @vishal-dharm — Gemini request-context improvements\n- @PRATHAMESH75 — cron one-shot stale-removal race, dashboard multiplex port-binding guard\n- @alelpoan, @embwl0x, @Adolanium, @giggling-ginger, @Drexuxux, @frizikk, @JoaoMarcos44, @wesleysimplici, @LeonSGP43, @pierrenode, @simpolism, @MorAlekss, @r266-tech, @WadydX, @nv-kasikritc — targeted fixes across desktop, TUI, gateway, cron, webhook, nix, and browser surfaces\n- Salvaged-work authors whose PRs were cherry-picked with credit this window: @Burgunthy (profile routing), @web3blind (sessions export), @hwrdprkns (1Password), @Christopher-Schulze, @Ahmett101, @sjiangtao2024, and many more — see the salvage PR bodies for full attribution\n\n### All contributors\n\n@0-CYBERDYNE-SYSTEMS-0, @0disoft, @0xbyt4, @100yenadmin, @17324393074, @2751738943, @8294, @abhibansal-sg,\n@adambiggs, @Adolanium, @aeyeopsdev, @aguung, @AhmetArif0, @Ahmett101, @ai-ag2026, @AIalliAI, @ajzrva-sys,\n@alastraz, @alelpoan, @alex-fireworks, @alex-heritier, @alex107ivanov, @AlexFucuson9, @Alix-007,\n@allenliang2022, @Almurat123, @AlsayedHoota, @alt-glitch, @alvarosanchez, @amanning3390, @AmAzing129,\n@AndreasHiltner, @andrewhomeyer, @annguyenNous, @ansel-f, @antydizajn, @arminanton, @arnispiekus, @asimons81,\n@asscan, @ats3v, @austinlaw076, @austinpickett, @avifenesh, @aydnOktay, @Bartok9, @bautrey, @bbednarski9,\n@bbopen, @benbarclay, @bigstar0920, @binhnt92, @bird, @Black0Fox0, @BlackishGreen33, @bo.fu, @brendandebeasi,\n@briandevans, @BROCCOLO1D, @Bruce-anle, @brunz-me, @Burgunthy, @bytesnail, @catbearlove1-lang, @Cdddo,\n@cgarwood82, @CharmingGroot, @chouqin, @Christopher-Schulze, @claudlos, @CocaKova, @Code-suphub, @CodeForgeNet,\n@craigdfrench, @CrazyBoyM, @crazywriter1, @cresslank, @cruzanstx, @cyrkstudios, @danilofalcao,\n@datachainsystems, @DatTheMaster, @davidb73-hub, @davidgut1982, @DavidMetcalfe, @davidrobertson,\n@deacon-botdoctor, @DECK6, @deepujain, @derek2000139, @designnotdrum, @deusyu, @devatnull, @devorun,\n@dexhunter, @dfein38347g, @Dhravya, @DictatorBacon, @digitalbase, @dlkakbs, @dmabry, @DNAlec, @dodo-reach,\n@doncazper, @dorokuma, @doxe0x, @Drexuxux, @dschnurbusch, @Dusk1e, @EdderTalmor, @egilewski, @elashera,\n@Elektrofussel, @eliteworkstation94-ai, @embwl0x, @emo-eth, @emozilla, @enzo-adami, @Epoxidex, @ErnestHysa,\n@Erosika, @esthonjr, @ethernet8023, @evefromwayback, @evelynburger, @F4TB0Yz, @falkoro, @fanyangCS, @firefly,\n@fjlaowan1983, @flewe, @flo1t, @flow-digital-ny, @floze-the-genius, @frizikk, @Frowtek, @FuryMartin,\n@fyzanshaik, @gauravsaxena1997, @geoffreybutler94, @georgedrury, @gigakun3030, @giggling-ginger,\n@Git-on-my-level, @gitcommit90, @githubespresso407, @gnodet, @GottZ, @Gridzilla, @grimmjoww578, @gumclaw,\n@Gutslabs, @HaiderSultanArc, @harjothkhara, @heathley, @hejuntt1014, @helix4u, @HeLLGURD, @hellno,\n@herbalizer404, @HexLab98, @hmirin, @Hopfensaft, @Hotragn, @hsy5571616, @huanshan5195, @HumphreySun98,\n@hwrdprkns, @hydracoco7, @hydraxman, @iamlukethedev, @iborazzi, @IgorGanapolsky, @iizotov, @ildunari,\n@infinitycrew39, @IpastorSan, @irresi, @isfttr, @isheng-eqi, @itsflownium, @izumi0uu, @Jaaneek, @JacketPants,\n@jaisup, @jakelongvu-bot, @jakepresent, @jaketracey, @JAlmanzarMint, @JasonFang1993, @jbbottoms, @jcjc81,\n@JiaDe-Wu, @Jiahui-Gu, @Jigoooo, @jingsong-liu, @jneeee, @JoaoMarcos44, @joelbrilliant, @John-Lussier, @jplew,\n@jtstothard, @juniperbevensee, @Jupiter363, @justinschille, @k4z4n0v4, @kaishi00, @karfly, @kartik-mem0,\n@kavioavio, @KCAYAAI, @kenyonxu, @keslerm, @kevinrajaram, @knoal, @kocaemre, @kohoj, @konsisumer, @krowd3v,\n@kshitijk4poor, @kuangmi-bit, @kubolko, @kyssta-exe, @Kyzcreig, @l0h1nth, @labsobsidian, @laurinaitis,\n@LavyaTandel, @lawyer112, @lemonwan, @LeonSGP43, @lEWFkRAD, @linfeng961, @liuhao1024, @liuwei666888, @ljy-2000,\n@loes5050, @logical-and, @LoicHmh, @loongfay, @lord-dubious, @lost9999, @lucasfdale, @lucaskvasirr,\n@luxuguang-leo, @ly-wang19, @m0n5t3r, @m1qaweb, @M1racleShih, @MaartenDMT, @mahdiwafy, @MaheshBhushan,\n@ManniBr, @marcelohildebrand, @marcolivierlavoie, @markoub, @MarkVLK, @Marxb85, @matantsevs,\n@maxpetrusenkoagent, @mbac, @mdc2122, @mguttmann, @Mibayy, @michaelHMK, @mijanx, @minchang, @momomojo,\n@MorAlekss, @morluto, @msh01, @mssteuer, @mvanhorn, @nanami7777777, @nankingjing, @necoweb3, @neo-claw-bot,\n@neoguyverx, @nicha16, @nikshepsvn, @nima20002000, @nnnet, @NousResearch, @nullptr0807, @nv-kasikritc,\n@okisdev, @OmarB97, @ooiuuii, @ooovenenoso, @oppih, @Osraka, @ostravajih, @otsune, @OutThisLife, @OYLFLMH,\n@patrick-muller, @pdmartins, @pedrommaiaa, @Peterskaronis, @petrichor-op, @pgregg88, @pierrenode, @pixel4039,\n@plcunha, @pnascimento9596, @Polyhistor, @PRATHAMESH75, @professorpalmer, @Punyko8, @Que0x, @Qwinty,\n@r0gersm1th, @r266-tech, @rabadaki, @ragingbulld, @RainbowAndSun, @rainbowgore, @randimt, @rarf, @rasitakyol,\n@rayjun, @raymondyan-zhijie, @re-ITRT, @RenoMG, @Rival, @RKelln, @rlaehddus302, @rob-maron, @rodboev,\n@roryford, @rungmc357, @ruslanvasylev, @s0xn1ck, @s905060, @s96919, @sahibzada-allahyar, @sahil-shubham,\n@Sahil-SS9, @SahilRakhaiya05, @sam7894604, @SAMBAS123, @samrusani, @sanidhyasin, @sasquatch9818, @sberan,\n@ScotterMonk, @seagpt, @sebastianlutycz, @SemonCat, @setclock, @shannonsands, @sharziki, @shashwatgokhe,\n@SHL0MS, @shuangxinniao, @SilentKnight87, @simplast, @simpolism, @SiteupAgencia, @sjiangtao2024, @sk-holmes,\n@slow4cyl, @smtony, @soddy022, @Soju06, @solyanviktor-star, @SongotenU, @spiky02plateau, @sprmn24, @SquabbyZ,\n@srojk34, @ssiweifnag, @stantheman0128, @StellarisW, @stephenschoettler, @suninrain086, @superposition,\n@Supersynergy, @sweetcornna, @szafranski, @tanmayxchoudhary, @tarunravi, @tcconnally, @terry197913, @Thatgfsj,\n@thegoodguysla, @thestudionorth, @TheTom, @TinkerOfThings, @tjboudreaux, @tjp2021, @Tortugasaur, @Tosko4,\n@Tranquil-Flow, @trevorgordon981, @trismegistus-wanderer, @tt-a1i, @tuancookiez-hub, @TurgutKural, @Umi4Life,\n@UnathiCodex, @unsupportedpastels, @uzaylisak, @valda, @vampyren, @veradim, @victor-kyriazakos, @virtualex-itv,\n@vishal-dharm, @Vissirexa, @vizi0uz, @vkkong, @vKongv, @VolodymyrBg, @vortexopenclaw, @VrtxOmega, @WadydX,\n@waroffchange, @waseemshahwan, @web3blind, @webtecnica, @wesleion, @wesleysimplicio, @williamumu,\n@WilsonKinyua, @wxy-nlp, @wyuebei-cloud, @x7peeps, @x9x9x9x9x9x91, @xuezhaolan, @xxxigm, @ya-nsh, @yatesjalex,\n@ygd58, @yingliang-zhang, @yinkev, @YLChen-007, @yu-xin-c, @yungchentang, @zapabob, @zccyman, @zeapsu,\n@ziliangpeng, @zwcf5200, @zzpigpinggai\n\nAlso: bo.fu, Paulo Henrique, kyssta-exe 25470058+kyssta-exe.fu, Paulo Henrique, kyssta-exe 25470058+kyssta-exe.\n\n---\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.7.1...v2026.7.20](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.7.1...v2026.7.20)\n","publishedAt":"2026-07-20T18:35:55.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.648Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.20","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_A9YBoTbueQl27wo7NCSXb","version":"v2026.7.7.2","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.18.2 (2026.7.7.2)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.18.2 (v2026.7.7.2)\n\n**Release Date:** July 7, 2026\n\n> Same-day patch on top of v0.18.1, picking up the WhatsApp Baileys dependency f...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.18.2 (v2026.7.7.2)\n\n**Release Date:** July 7, 2026\n\n> Same-day patch on top of v0.18.1, picking up the WhatsApp Baileys dependency fix needed for tagged-release Docker builds.\n\n---\n\n## What's in this patch\n\n- **fix(whatsapp): unpin Baileys from git commit, use published 7.0.0-rc13** ([#60643](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/60643)) — the WhatsApp bridge dependency now installs from the published npm release instead of a pinned git commit, making installs and Docker image builds reliable.\n\nFull curated release notes for the entire post-v0.18.0 window ship with v0.19.0.\n\n## Updating\n\n```bash\nhermes update        # existing installs\npip install -U hermes-agent\n```\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.7.7...v2026.7.7.2](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.7.7...v2026.7.7.2)\n","publishedAt":"2026-07-08T03:11:22.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.808Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.7.2","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_JO3FjbloMNpHRBTuYVdTn","version":"v2026.7.7","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.18.1 (2026.7.7)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.18.1 (v2026.7.7)\n\n**Release Date:** July 7, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~660 PRs merged since v0.18.0 (July 1) — bu...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.18.1 (v2026.7.7)\n\n**Release Date:** July 7, 2026\n\n> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~660 PRs merged since v0.18.0 (July 1) — bug fixes, hardening, and in-progress feature work — into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, PyPI installs).\n\n---\n\n## About this release\n\nThis is an infrastructure-driven patch tag rather than a fully curated release. Since v0.18.0 shipped six days ago, main has accumulated roughly **667 commits across ~990 files (+89.5k/−10.4k lines)**, including installer/updater self-healing on Windows, dashboard and gateway fixes, WhatsApp dashboard pairing, MCP and provider fixes, and a large volume of stability work.\n\n**Full curated release notes for this window will ship with v0.19.0**, which will document everything from v0.18.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped; it's documented in the next minor release.\n\n## Updating\n\n```bash\nhermes update        # existing installs\npip install -U hermes-agent\n```\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.7.1...v2026.7.7](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.7.1...v2026.7.7)\n","publishedAt":"2026-07-08T01:15:00.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.808Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.7","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_YXD3RJe1nvi8PjlDz-aDv","version":"v2026.7.1","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.18.0 (2026.7.1) — The Judgment Release","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.18.0 (v2026.7.1)\n\n**Release Date:** July 1, 2026\n**Since v0.17.0:** ~1,720 commits · 998 merged PRs · 2,215 files changed · ~251,000...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.18.0 (v2026.7.1)\n\n**Release Date:** July 1, 2026\n**Since v0.17.0:** ~1,720 commits · 998 merged PRs · 2,215 files changed · ~251,000 insertions · ~41,000 deletions · **949 issues closed** · **370+ community contributors**\n\n> **The Judgment Release.** Over the last week and a half the team put nearly all of its effort into one goal: resolve **every P0 and P1 issue and PR in the entire Hermes Agent repo** — and as of this release, **100% of them are closed.** Zero open P0s. Zero open P1s. That's **~700 highest-priority items** cleared as part of **~1,950 total issues and PRs closed** this window. We intend to keep P0/P1 at zero from here on.\n>\n> On top of that clean-sweep, v0.18.0 is about how *well* Hermes thinks and how it *knows when its work is actually done*. Mixture-of-Agents became a first-class citizen — named ensembles of models you can pick like any other model, with every reference model's reasoning shown to you and the aggregator's answer streamed live. The agent learned to verify its own work against evidence instead of vibes, `/goal` gained completion contracts, and `/learn` + `/journey` turned self-improvement into something you can see and steer. Underneath, the gateway became genuinely deployable-at-scale (scale-to-zero, drain coordination), the desktop grew first-class coding projects and a playable memory graph, and subagents can now fan out in the background.\n\n## 🎯 The P0/P1 Clean Sweep — 100% resolved\n\nThis is the release headline. For a week and a half the team hammered the priority backlog day and night, and every single P0 and P1 across the whole repo is now closed:\n\n| Priority | Issues closed | PRs merged |\n|---|---|---|\n| **P0** (critical) | 3 | 8 |\n| **P1** (high) | 493 | 188 |\n| **Total** | **496** | **196** |\n\nThat's **~692 highest-priority items resolved** in twelve days — and at the moment the sweep completed, the open P0/P1 count hit **0 across the entire repo.** The final cluster to fall was the interrupt-protected-compression sibling-fork bug (issue #56391) and its fix (#56416), closed on an all-nighter right before this release cut.\n\nSpecial shoutout to **@kshitijk4poor**, who burned through the priority backlog day and night alongside the core team — the cron reliability wave, the compression-fork fix, the credential-exfil hardening, and a huge share of the P1 closures are his.\n\nWe're keeping P0/P1 at **0** from here forward. 🫡\n\n## ✨ Highlights\n\n- **Mixture-of-Agents is now a first-class model you can pick** — MoA used to be a mode you toggled; now every named MoA preset shows up as a selectable model under a `moa` provider, right alongside Claude, GPT, and Grok in every model picker (CLI, TUI, desktop, gateway). Pick \"my-council\" the same way you'd pick any model, and Hermes routes your prompt through that ensemble automatically. An ensemble of frontier models deliberating on your hardest questions is now one selection away, on every surface. ([#46081](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46081), [#53548](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53548), [#53561](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53561) — @teknium1)\n\n- **See every model's reasoning, then watch the answer stream in** — When a MoA ensemble runs, each reference model's full output now renders as its own labelled block — you can read what GPT-5 thought, what Claude thought, and what Grok thought, before the aggregator synthesizes them into one answer. And that final answer now streams to you live instead of appearing all at once after a long silence. This works in the CLI, the TUI, and the desktop app. You get to watch the committee deliberate, not just read the verdict. ([#53793](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53793), [#53855](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53855), [#55625](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55625), [#56101](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56101) — @teknium1)\n\n- **The agent verifies its own work — \"done\" means proven, not claimed** — Hermes now records verification evidence for coding work and can decide it's finished by actually running your project's checks, not by asserting success. `/goal` gained **completion contracts**: you state what \"done\" looks like, and the standing-goal loop judges completion against that evidence instead of stopping when the model feels like it. There's a `pre_verify` hook for wiring in custom checks and a one-time migration that tunes the defaults sensibly. The difference between \"I think I fixed it\" and \"the tests pass, here's proof.\" ([#50501](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50501), [#52285](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52285), [#55413](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55413), [#53552](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53552) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n\n- **`/learn` — turn anything into a reusable skill by describing it** — Run `/learn <anything>` and Hermes distills a reusable skill out of whatever you point it at — a directory, a URL, or just the workflow you walked it through five minutes ago. It writes the skill to the standards in your CONTRIBUTING.md automatically. The next time you need that workflow, it's already there. Teaching Hermes a new trick is now a single command, not a manual skill-authoring session. ([#51506](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51506), [#52372](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52372) — @teknium1)\n\n- **`/journey` — a playable timeline of everything Hermes has learned about you** — The CLI and TUI gained `/journey`, a learning timeline that shows the memories and skills Hermes has accumulated over time — and you can edit or delete any of them right from the view. Pair it with the desktop's new **memory graph** (a top-down, playable radial timeline of memories and skills) and for the first time you can actually *see* what your agent knows, watch it grow, and prune what's wrong. Your agent's memory stops being a black box. ([#55555](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55555), [#55859](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55859), [#55226](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55226) — @OutThisLife)\n\n- **Delegate a pile of work and keep going — background fan-out** — `delegate_task` can now fan out multiple subagents that all run in the **background**: your chat is never blocked, and when every subagent finishes, their results come back as a single consolidated turn. Kick off \"research these five competitors in parallel\" or \"audit these three modules,\" then carry on with something else while a small fleet works. When it's all done, you get one clean summary instead of babysitting each one. ([#49734](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49734) — @teknium1)\n\n- **First-class coding Projects in the desktop app** — The desktop app gained real, per-profile **Projects** — a sidebar of your codebases, a coding rail, a review pane, git worktree management, and agent-facing project tools, all backed by a proper `project → repo → lane` model. Instead of scattered chat sessions, your coding work is organized into projects the agent understands and can act on. It's the desktop turning into an actual coding cockpit. ([#49037](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49037), [#54385](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54385), [#54517](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54517) — @OutThisLife)\n\n- **Run Hermes at scale — scale-to-zero and drain coordination** — The gateway can now go **dormant when idle** and quiesce cleanly before a restart, migration, or auto-update — without dropping in-flight conversations. A hosted or relay-only Hermes can scale to zero when nobody's talking to it and wake back up on demand, and disruptive lifecycle actions coordinate an external drain so nobody gets cut off mid-turn. Running Hermes for a team or as a hosted service just got a lot more production-grade. ([#52243](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52243), [#52937](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52937), [#54824](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54824) — @teknium1, @benbarclay)\n\n- **Cheaper self-improvement — smarter background review** — The post-turn self-improvement fork (the one that decides whether to save a memory or skill) now routes to an auxiliary model, digests context instead of replaying the whole conversation, and adapts its cadence — so the \"learn from what just happened\" loop that runs after your turns costs a fraction of what it used to. You keep the self-improvement, you stop paying full main-model price for it. ([#49252](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49252) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Compose your next prompt in your editor — `/prompt`** — `/prompt` opens your `$EDITOR` so you can hand-write a long, multi-line prompt in real markdown instead of fighting a one-line input box. Draft a detailed spec, a structured question, or a big paste, save, and it's queued as your next message. Small thing, huge quality-of-life win for anyone who writes Hermes more than a sentence at a time. ([#50509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50509) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Google Vertex AI — Gemini through your GCP service account, no static key** — Vertex AI is now a first-class provider for Gemini models over Vertex's OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The reason a plain custom-provider setup always died mid-session is that Vertex has no static API key — every request needs a short-lived OAuth2 access token (~1h TTL) minted from a service-account JSON or Application Default Credentials. Hermes now mints and auto-refreshes those tokens for you, so if your org runs Gemini through Google Cloud, you point Hermes at your service account and it just works — no token-pasting, no mid-session expiry. ([#56363](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56363) — @teknium1, @slawt)\n\n- **Security round** — This window hardened several surfaces: MCP-config persistence attack surface locked down, cron `base_url` overrides that could exfiltrate provider credentials blocked, a non-reusable sentinel for prefix secrets in file reads, Slack app-level (`xapp-`) token redaction, a browser cloud-metadata floor enforced on every backend, and an `aiohttp` CVE floor across the lazy messaging paths. Fewer ways for a prompt-injected or misconfigured session to leak a credential. ([#50476](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50476), [#56196](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56196), [#54166](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54166), [#56227](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56227), [#52349](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52349), [#56237](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56237) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor, @claudlos)\n\n\n---\n\n## 🧠 Mixture-of-Agents (MoA)\n\nMoA graduated from a mode to a first-class part of the model system this window.\n\n- **Presets as selectable virtual models** — each named MoA preset appears as a model under provider `moa`; pick it in any model picker and Hermes routes through the ensemble ([#46081](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46081), [#53561](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53561), [#53775](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53775) — @teknium1)\n- **`/moa` is now one-shot sugar** — runs a single prompt through the default preset and restores your model afterward; persistent switching goes through the model picker ([#53548](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53548) — @teknium1)\n- **Reference-model output shown as labelled blocks** in CLI, TUI, and desktop — read each model's reasoning before the aggregator's synthesis ([#53793](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53793), [#53855](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53855) — @teknium1)\n- **Aggregator response streams live** instead of appearing whole after a silence ([#55625](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55625) — @teknium1)\n- **References see full tool state and fire on every user/tool response**; advisory references end on a user turn and get a reference-role system prompt ([#54016](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54016), [#54007](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54007) — @teknium1)\n- **Opt-in full-turn trace persistence to JSONL** (`moa.save_traces`) for debugging and eval ([#56101](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56101) — @teknium1)\n- Reliability: reference + aggregator models called through their provider's real route; context window resolved from the aggregator (not the 256K default); auxiliary tasks resolve to the aggregator; virtual provider blocked as a reference/aggregator slot; tolerant of hand-edited preset config ([#53580](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53580), [#53780](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53780), [#53827](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53827), [#53281](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53281), [#53275](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53275), [#53556](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53556) — @teknium1)\n- MoA slot provider-identity unified on the single `call_llm` chokepoint; HermesBench results documented ([#55991](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55991), [#53206](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53206) — @teknium1)\n\n## ✅ Verification & Goals — the agent proves its work\n\n- **Completion contracts for `/goal`** — state what \"done\" looks like; the standing-goal loop judges against evidence, not the model's say-so ([#50501](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50501) — @teknium1)\n- **`/goal wait <pid>`** — park the standing-goal loop on a background process instead of re-poking the agent ([#50503](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50503) — @teknium1)\n- **Coding verification evidence ledger** — profile-scoped record of canonical project checks detected by `agent.coding_context`; gateway exposes verification status ([#52285](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52285), [#52286](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52286) — @OutThisLife)\n- **`pre_verify` hook + coding guidance config**; verification stop loop + ad-hoc verification scripts ([#55413](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55413), [#52296](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52296), [#52297](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52297) — @OutThisLife)\n- **verify-on-stop defaults OFF** with a one-time v32 migration; skips doc-only edits; surface-aware \"auto\" default restored; gated off for messaging surfaces ([#53552](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53552), [#54740](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54740), [#55449](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55449), [#52412](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52412) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife, @GodsBoy)\n\n## 🎓 Self-Improvement (Learn / Journey)\n\n- **`/learn <anything>`** — distill a reusable skill from a directory, URL, or a workflow you just walked through; honors CONTRIBUTING.md skill standards and mixed requirements ([#51506](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51506), [#52372](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52372), [#55956](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55956) — @teknium1)\n- **`/journey`** — CLI + TUI learning timeline of accumulated memories and skills, with in-place edit/delete ([#55555](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55555), [#55859](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55859) — @OutThisLife)\n- **Cheaper background review** — aux-model routing + context digest + adaptive cadence for the post-turn self-improvement fork ([#49252](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49252) — @teknium1)\n- **`memory` graph** in the desktop — playable radial timeline of memories + skills over time ([#55226](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55226) — @OutThisLife)\n\n## 🖥️ Hermes Desktop App\n\n### Coding cockpit\n- **First-class Projects** — per-profile sidebar, coding rail, review pane, agent project tools (`project → repo → lane`); remote-gateway-aware folder picker + git cockpit (status, review, worktrees) ([#49037](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49037), [#54385](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54385) — @OutThisLife)\n- **Multi-terminal panel** with read-only agent terminals; persist & restore terminal tabs + scrollback across relaunch ([#54517](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54517), [#54585](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54585) — @OutThisLife)\n- **PR-style file diffs in chat**; in-app spot editor for the file preview pane; inline rich embeds, diagrams & alerts in assistant markdown ([#50731](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50731), [#52772](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52772), [#52935](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52935) — @OutThisLife)\n\n### UX & surfaces\n- Conversation timeline rail for long threads; context-usage breakdown popover; read-only spectator transcript for subagent watch windows; pop the composer into a draggable floating window ([#51094](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51094), [#54907](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54907), [#55033](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55033), [#49488](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49488) — @OutThisLife, @austinpickett)\n- Read replies aloud (auto-TTS) composer toggle; remember window size/position/maximized across launches; redesigned clarify prompt; shared overlay Panel primitive for cron/profiles/agents ([#55154](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55154), [#52086](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52086), [#52993](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52993), [#54558](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54558) — @OutThisLife)\n- Backup import/create/download from the web UI; add context-usage popover; flag already-installed themes in install pickers; config-driven Electron launch flags + GPU policy ([#54611](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54611), [#55410](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55410), [#53991](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53991) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- **Pets** — roaming pet (opt-in), calmer/realistic roam, Alt+wheel scaling never cropped, frame-perfect hatch flow + CPU-safe chroma, pop-out overlay + notifications ([#55114](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55114), [#55400](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55400), [#52877](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52877), [#47959](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47959), [#52303](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52303) — @OutThisLife)\n\n### Refactor wave (composer / god-file de-entangle)\n- Decomposed the composer into isolated engine hooks; extracted branch/esc/url/placeholder/popout engines; split `thread.tsx`, `sidebar/index.tsx`, onboarding overlay, and `use-prompt-actions` god files into focused modules; shared WebSocket layer decoupling desktop from dashboard (`hermes serve`) ([#55500](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55500), [#55842](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55842), [#55451](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55451), [#55453](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55453), [#55807](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55807), [#55504](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55504), [#54568](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54568) — @OutThisLife)\n- perf: bound tool-result rendering so big `/learn` runs don't freeze; fast session switching under load ([#52273](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52273), [#52620](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52620) — @OutThisLife)\n\n## 📊 Web Dashboard\n- Auto-initiate portal SSO redirect on unauthenticated load; interactive auth setup on no-provider non-loopback bind; confidential-client (`client_secret`) support in self-hosted OIDC ([#54846](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54846), [#50551](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50551), [#55344](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55344) — @teknium1, @benbarclay)\n- Catalogue all memory-provider API keys in `OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS`; list & add arbitrary custom `.env` keys on the Keys page; expose cron job execution fields; backup import/create/download ([#54546](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54546), [#54552](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54552), [#53551](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53551), [#54611](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54611) — @benbarclay, @teknium1)\n- Offload PTY spawn/close off the event loop; exclude non-interactive providers from interactive login surfaces ([#53227](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53227), [#53239](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53239) — @IAvecilla)\n\n\n## 🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture\n\n### Delegation & subagents\n- **Background fan-out** — parallel subagents run in the background, one consolidated return when all finish; calm \"will resume\" affordance for background `delegate_task` ([#49734](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49734), [#52756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52756) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- Track background subagents in the CLI + TUI status bar ([#51441](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51441), [#51485](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51485) — @teknium1)\n\n### Agent loop, tools & coding context\n- One-shot LLM helper + `llm.oneshot` gateway RPC; expose coding-context project facts (`project.facts` RPC) ([#51261](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51261), [#51259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51259) — @OutThisLife)\n- `web_extract` truncate-and-store instead of LLM summarization; concurrent @-reference expansion ([#54843](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54843), [#55207](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55207) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Friendly human-phrased tool labels for built-in tools; `/reasoning full` (uncapped thinking); `/timestamps` + timestamps in `/history`; `/prompt` composes in `$EDITOR` ([#55166](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55166), [#50499](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50499), [#50506](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50506), [#50509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50509) — @teknium1)\n- Per-reasoning-model stale-timeout floor in stream + non-stream detectors; escalate SIGTERM→SIGKILL on host-pid termination after grace ([#52845](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52845), [#50489](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50489) — @teknium1)\n- Multiple `HERMES_WRITE_SAFE_ROOT` dirs; opt-in HTTP/WS body capture to an isolated, share-excluded `gui_bodies.log` ([#53292](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53292), [#49044](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49044) — @kshitijk4poor)\n\n### Compression & sessions\n- In-place compaction option (single session id); flip `in_place` default to True with a guard fix ([#49739](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49739), [#52658](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52658) — @teknium1)\n- Backup includes `projects.db` and kanban boards in the pre-update snapshot ([#52990](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52990) — @kshitijk4poor)\n\n### Providers & models\n- **Google Vertex AI** first-class provider for Gemini over the OpenAI-compatible endpoint — auto-mints and refreshes short-lived OAuth2 tokens from a service-account JSON / ADC (no static key); salvages & modernizes #8427 by @slawt ([#56363](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56363) — @teknium1, @slawt)\n- Krea via managed Nous Subscription gateway; Z.AI endpoint picker (Global/China/Coding Plan); Ollama-cloud reasoning_effort wiring; remove google-gemini-cli + google-antigravity OAuth providers ([#52647](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52647), [#52364](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52364), [#51494](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51494), [#50492](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50492) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Honor `NOUS_INFERENCE_BASE_URL` env override for Nous OAuth; keep Nous auth fresh for idle dashboard/gateway agents ([#52270](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52270), [#50567](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50567) — @benbarclay, @teknium1)\n\n## 🌐 Gateway, Fleet & Relay\n\n### Scale-to-zero & drain\n- **Scale-to-zero idle detection + dormant-quiesce (Phase 0)**; hardened dormancy guards; fixed arm-gate counting disabled placeholder platforms ([#52243](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52243), [#52359](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52359), [#52831](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52831) — @teknium1, @benbarclay)\n- **External drain coordination (safe-shutdown Phase 2)**; suppress home-channel shutdown broadcast on flagged drains; persist in-flight transcript on restart/shutdown drain timeout; busy/idle readout for safe lifecycle actions ([#52937](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52937), [#54824](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54824), [#50312](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50312), [#50131](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50131) — @teknium1, @benbarclay, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Default `restart_drain_timeout` to 0 to kill a systemd crash loop; self-heal a gateway stranded in draining/degraded ([#54066](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54066), [#55397](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55397) — @teknium1)\n\n### Relay (Phase 5 / 6)\n- Wake primitive (gateway side); going-idle / buffered-flip primitive; `passthrough_forward` over WS; multi-platform-per-agent identity + per-frame egress; forward stable instance id at self-provision; declare relevance policy to the connector ([#51595](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51595), [#51572](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51572), [#50702](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50702), [#52830](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52830), [#50772](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50772), [#51248](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51248) — @benbarclay)\n- Authorize relay-delivered events by delivery, not `source.platform`; adopt `scope_id` wire key; purge platform-specific scope terminology ([#52306](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52306), [#55289](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55289), [#56016](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56016) — @benbarclay)\n\n### Gateway core & rendering\n- Typed send-error classification (`SendResult.error_kind`); per-platform `typing_indicator` toggle; per-category context breakdown in `/usage` ([#50342](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50342), [#55394](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55394), [#55204](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55204) — @teknium1)\n- API server: configurable concurrent-run cap to prevent DoS; scope run approvals by run id ([#50007](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50007), [#56129](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56129) — @teknium1)\n\n## 📱 Messaging Platforms\n- **Cron continuations** — continuable cron jobs (thread-preferred continuation with DM-mirror fallback); flat in-channel continuable cron delivery for Slack; warn when gateway not running on cron create/list ([#52250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52250), [#56254](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56254), [#51696](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51696) — @teknium1)\n- Telegram: configurable command menu + raised default cap so skills stay visible; gate rich draft previews separately; drain general send pool on pool timeout before retry ([#51716](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51716), [#52088](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52088), [#54121](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54121) — @teknium1, @helix4u)\n- Slack: opt-in Block Kit rendering for agent messages; `--no-assistant` flag for manifest generation ([#56102](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56102), [#51487](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51487) — @teknium1)\n- Discord: render reasoning as `-#` subtext via `display.reasoning_style` ([#51168](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51168) — @teknium1)\n- Native WhatsApp media delivery via the Baileys bridge; Teams native `send_video`/`send_voice`/`send_document`; photon sidecar upgraded to spectrum-ts v8 with tapback correlation; Raft gateway setup wizard ([#53598](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53598), [#49308](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49308), [#53451](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53451), [#56230](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56230) — @teknium1)\n- Signal: AAC voice-note remux + shared markdown formatting ([#49530](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49530) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- Migrate slack/dingtalk/whatsapp/matrix/feishu/telegram/wecom/email/sms adapters to bundled ([#49408](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49408) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🔧 Tool System, Skills & MCP\n- Blank Slate setup mode — minimal agent, opt in to everything ([#36733](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36733) — @teknium1)\n- MCP: config persistence attack surface hardened; block base_url exfil; keepalive for short-TTL sessions (see Security) — plus catalog & UX carried from v0.17.0\n- Skills: `/learn` distillation (see Self-Improvement); `cloudflare-temporary-deploy` optional skill; creative-ideation v2.1.0 method library ([#50849](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50849), [#42402](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42402) — @teknium1, @SHL0MS)\n- Kanban: task lifecycle plugin hooks (claimed/completed/blocked); typed block reasons + unblock-loop breaker; handoff freshness stamping ([#50349](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50349), [#52848](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52848), [#53973](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53973) — @teknium1)\n- Plugins: `ctx.profile_name` for session-agnostic profile access ([#50346](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50346) — @teknium1)\n- LSP: PowerShellEditorServices language server; mem0 v3 API + OSS mode + update/delete tools ([#55930](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/55930), [#15624](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/15624) — @teknium1, @kartik-mem0)\n\n## ⚡ Performance\n- Cold start: lazy-load gateway platform adapters; parse config + plugin manifests with libyaml `CSafeLoader` ([#54448](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54448), [#54486](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54486) — @teknium1)\n- State: merge FTS5 segments + `handoff_state` index to curb write-lock contention; single-pass `list_profiles` alias map + skill-count cache + event-loop offload ([#54752](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54752), [#54770](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54770) — @kshitijk4poor, @teknium1)\n\n## 🔒 Security & Reliability\n- Harden MCP-config persistence attack surface; block cron `base_url` overrides that exfiltrate provider credentials; non-reusable sentinel for prefix secrets in file reads ([#50476](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50476), [#56196](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56196), [#54166](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/54166) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Redact Slack App-Level (`xapp-`) tokens; browser cloud-metadata floor on all backends (CDP non-local); re-check private-network guard after `browser_back` navigation; scope `/resume` and `/sessions` to caller origin (IDOR); `aiohttp` 3.14.1 CVE floor across lazy messaging paths + pin-drift guard ([#56227](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56227), [#52349](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52349), [#56526](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56526), [#56378](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56378), [#56237](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56237) — @teknium1, @claudlos, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Cron reliability wave: fail closed when an unpinned job's provider drifts; run missed-grace jobs once instead of deferring forever; keep the ticker alive on `BaseException` + heartbeat-aware status; layer enabled MCP servers onto per-job toolsets; guard cron model-tool path + auto-resume loop breaker ([#51051](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51051), [#50062](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50062), [#50016](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50016), [#50117](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50117), [#56240](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56240) — @kshitijk4poor, @teknium1)\n- Windows: suppress console flashes + harden gateway restarts; prefer cmd npm shim on PATH fallback; respawn gateway windowless after GUI update; prefer managed node for whatsapp/desktop ([#52340](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52340), [#50398](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/50398), [#52239](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52239) — @helix4u, @teknium1)\n\n## 🔁 Reverts (in-window, for the record)\n- cron job storage returned to per-profile (reverts #32117 + #50993); don't clone `auth.json` (duplicating OAuth grant causes sibling revocation); windows terminal-popup PRs rolled back; `prompt_caching.enabled` toggle backed out for re-evaluation ([#51116](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51116), [#51732](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/51732), [#53853](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/53853), [#56126](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/56126) — @teknium1)\n\n## 👥 Contributors\n\n**381 people** contributed to this release (via commits, co-author trailers, and salvaged PRs). Thank you, all of you.\n\n### Core\n- @teknium1 — release lead; MoA first-class, verification/goals, `/learn`, background review, security round, providers, the P0/P1 clean-sweep\n- @OutThisLife — desktop app (projects, memory graph, `/journey`, multi-terminal, composer refactor wave, pets, verification UX)\n\n### Top community contributors\n- @kshitijk4poor — the P0/P1 backlog burn: cron reliability wave, state perf, security (cron credential-exfil), gateway/signal, TUI config — a huge share of the priority closures\n- @benbarclay — relay Phase 5/6, scale-to-zero / drain coordination, dashboard auth/keys, gateway hardening\n- @ethernet8023 — CI/docker (unified jobs, faster builds, timings report)\n- @helix4u — Windows hardening (console flashes, npm shim, gateway restarts)\n\n### All contributors\n\n@0xbyt4, @0xDevNinja, @0xsir0000, @1RB, @595650661, @aaronlab, @abchiaravalle, @adammatski1972, @AetherAgents,\n@Afnath-max, @agt-user, @ahmadashfq, @AhmetArif0, @AIalliAI, @aieng-abdullah, @ailang323, @ailthrim, @aj-nt,\n@alelpoan, @alloevil, @amathxbt, @ambition0802, @anderskev, @andressommerhoff, @angelos, @annguyenNous,\n@Antimatter543, @arminanton, @arthurzhang, @asimons81, @austinpickett, @baolingao, @Bartok9, @basilalshukaili,\n@BBCrypto-web, @bbopen, @Beandon13, @beardthelion, @benbarclay, @benbenlijie, @binhnt92, @bitcryptic-gw,\n@Blaryxoff, @bogerman1, @bradhallett, @brett539, @briandevans, @buihongduc132, @bykim0119, @catapreta,\n@chaithanyak42, @charleneleong-ai, @CharlieKerfoot, @chazmaniandinkle, @chrispersico, @Christopher-Schulze,\n@chriswesley4, @claudlos, @clovericbot, @cmcejas, @codexGW, @Cossackx, @counterposition, @coygeek, @CRWuTJ,\n@cyb0rgk1tty, @cyb3rwr3n, @cypctlinux, @cypres0099, @dalenguyen, @Danamove, @DanAsBjorn, @DataAdvisory,\n@davidgut1982, @DavidMetcalfe, @davidvv, @de1tydev, @denisqq, @devorun, @devsart95, @DhivinX, @DiamondEyesFox,\n@difujia, @Disaster-Terminator, @djimit, @djstunami, @dodo-reach, @donovan-yohan, @Dr1985, @DrZM007, @Dusk1e,\n@egilewski, @ehz0ah, @Eji4h, @EloquentBrush0x, @Elshayib, @emozilla, @entropy-0x, @Erosika, @EtherAura,\n@etherman-os, @ethernet8023, @f-trycua, @fayenix, @fesalfayed, @firefly, @flamiinngo, @flobo3, @francescomucio,\n@franksong2702, @friendshipisover, @fsaad1984, @fyzanshaik, @GauravPatil2515, @gdeyoung, @georgex8001,\n@GodsBoy, @graphanov, @Gromykoss, @gustavosmendes, @Gutslabs, @H2KFORGIVEN, @haileymarshall, @hakanpak,\n@happy5318, @haran2001, @harjothkhara, @heathley, @hehehe0803, @helix4u, @herbalizer404, @HexLab98,\n@HiddenPuppy, @Hinotoi-agent, @HODLCLONE, @houko, @huangsen365, @huangxudong663-sys, @huangxun375-stack,\n@HwangJohn, @iaji, @iamlukethedev, @IamSanchoPanza, @IAvecilla, @Icather, @iizotov, @indigokarasu,\n@infinitycrew39, @ipriyaaanshu, @isair, @islam666, @itenev, @itsflownium, @izumi0uu, @Jaaneek, @JabberELF,\n@jackjin1997, @jackroofan, @janrenz, @jasnoorgill, @jasonQin6, @jcjc81, @jearnest11, @jeeves-assistant,\n@Jeffgithub0029, @jeffrobodie-glitch, @JezzaHehn, @jimmyjohansson84, @jmmaloney4, @jnibarger01, @JoaoMarcos44,\n@jplew, @Junass1, @justemu, @justin-cyhuang, @JustinOhms, @jvradahellys24-art, @Kailigithub, @kaishi00,\n@kangsoo-bit, @kartik-mem0, @keiravoss94, @kenyonxu, @kernel-t1, @Kewe63, @KeyArgo, @KiruyaMomochi, @kn8-codes,\n@Kolektori, @konsisumer, @kshitijk4poor, @kyssta-exe, @Kyzcreig, @Lazymonter, @LehaoLin, @LeonSGP43, @lEWFkRAD,\n@libre-7, @LIC99, @LifeJiggy, @linyubin, @liuhao1024, @lkevincc0, @lkz-de, @loes5050, @londo161, @lubosxyz,\n@m24927605, @MaheshtheDev, @manus-use, @marco0158, @MarioYounger, @martinramos002-bot, @MattKotsenas,\n@max-chen, @MaxFreedomPollard, @maxmilian, @maxpetrusenko, @memosr, @Mibayy, @Minksgo, @mintybasil, @mkslzk,\n@mohamedorigami-jpg, @MorAlekss, @mrparker0980, @ms-alan, @namredips, @nankingjing, @natehale, @necoweb3,\n@neo-2026, @Nickperillo, @nightq, @nikshepsvn, @nnnet, @nocturnum91, @nodejun, @NousResearch, @nycomar,\n@OmarB97, @orbisai0security, @oreoluwa, @outsourc-e, @OutThisLife, @p-andhika, @panghuer023, @Paperclip,\n@peetwan, @pefontana, @petrichor-op, @pinguarmy, @PINKIIILQWQ, @pmos69, @PolyphonyRequiem, @pprism13,\n@PRATHAMESH75, @professorpalmer, @pyxl-dev, @Que0x, @qWaitCrypto, @r266-tech, @RafaelMiMi, @Railway9784,\n@randomuser2026x, @rayjun, @rc-int, @rebel0789, @redactdeveloper, @riyas22, @rlaope, @rob-maron, @rodboev,\n@rodrigoeqnit, @rratmansky, @rrevenanttt, @ruangraung, @Ruzzgar, @ryo-solo, @s010mn, @Sahil-SS9,\n@SahilRakhaiya05, @SandroHub013, @Sanjays2402, @sasquatch9818, @ScotterMonk, @season179, @sgabel, @sgaofen,\n@sgtworkman, @shandian64, @shannonsands, @shashwatgokhe, @shawchanshek, @sherman-yang, @SHL0MS, @SidUParis,\n@SimoKiihamaki, @simpolism, @sjh9714, @skabartem, @skyc1e, @slawt, @soynchux, @spiky02plateau, @spjoes,\n@sprmn24, @srojk34, @stepanov1975, @steveonjava, @Subway2023, @sweetcornna, @swissly, @Sworntech-dev,\n@syahidfrd, @synapsesx, @szzhoujiarui-sketch, @talmax1124, @telos-oc, @testingbuddies24, @texhy, @tgmerritt,\n@theAgenticBuilder, @thestral123, @tkwong, @Tortugasaur, @Tranquil-Flow, @trevorgordon981, @truenorth-lj,\n@tt-a1i, @tuancookiez-hub, @TutkuEroglu, @tymrtn, @udatny, @UgwujaGeorge, @underthestars-zhy, @uperLu,\n@uzunkuyruk, @valenteff, @valentt, @vanthinh6886, @Versun, @victor-kyriazakos, @virtuadex, @vKongv,\n@w31rdm4ch1nZ, @weidzhou, @wgu9, @whoislikemiha, @wnuuee1, @woaini30050, @WuKongAI-CMU, @WuTianyi123, @WXBR,\n@x7peeps, @x9x9x9x9x9x91, @Xowiek, @xxchan, @xxxigm, @xydigit-zt, @yapsrubricsz0, @yashiels, @yeyitech, @ygd58,\n@YLChen-007, @yong2bba, @yoniebans, @ypwcharles, @yu-xin-c, @yungchentang, @yusekiotacode, @YuShu, @yyzquwu,\n@zapabob, @zccyman, @zeapsu, @zmlgit, @znding04, @Zyxxx-xxxyZ\n\nAlso: Lucas Nicolas.\n\n---\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.6.19...v2026.7.1](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.6.19...v2026.7.1)\n","publishedAt":"2026-07-01T20:08:06.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.808Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.1","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_UkmXW68sxnldRbUo0-0sh","version":"v2026.6.19","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19)","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19)\n\n**Release Date:** June 19, 2026\n**Since v0.16.0:** ~1,475 commits · ~800 merged PRs · 1,693 files changed · 235,3...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.17.0 (v2026.6.19)\n\n**Release Date:** June 19, 2026\n**Since v0.16.0:** ~1,475 commits · ~800 merged PRs · 1,693 files changed · 235,390 insertions · 50,730 deletions · 300+ issues closed · 245 community contributors\n\n> **The Reach Release.** v0.16.0 put Hermes on your desktop. v0.17.0 is about how far that reach extends — across new places to talk to it, deeper into the tools you already use, and out to the people running Hermes for a team. Hermes reached two new channels (iMessage via Photon, and the Raft agent network), the desktop app gained substantial new capability, subagents can now run in the background, image generation learned to edit, and Cursor's Composer model is reachable through an xAI Grok subscription. The dashboard got a full profile builder and secure login, the Skills Hub browser was rehauled, the `memory` tool got a major upgrade, and the curator stopped spending aux-model budget on every routine run. 300+ issues closed ride along, plus a security round.\n\n## ✨ Highlights\n\n- **Hermes reaches iMessage — Photon Spectrum, no Mac relay required** — There's now an iMessage platform plugin built on Photon's managed line pool. Run `hermes photon login`, authenticate with a device code, and Hermes can send and receive iMessage — no Mac sitting in a closet running a relay, no BlueBubbles bridge to babysit. It's positioned as the successor to BlueBubbles: free to start, nothing to self-host. If your friends and family live in the blue bubbles, Hermes lives there now too. ([#32348](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/32348), [#42582](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42582), [#44713](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44713) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Raft — Hermes joins the Raft agent network as a gateway channel** — A new bundled Raft platform adapter lets Hermes connect to [Raft](https://raft.build) as an external agent through a wake-channel bridge. Set `RAFT_PROFILE`, run the bridge, and Raft can wake Hermes to handle messages — with a privacy-by-contract design where wake payloads carry only metadata (event IDs, timestamps), never message bodies. Another surface where Hermes can show up and do work. ([#48210](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48210) — @xxchan, @teknium1)\n\n- **A substantially more capable desktop app** — v0.16.0 shipped the desktop app; v0.17.0 deepened it across dozens of PRs. Rebindable keyboard shortcuts, native OS notifications with per-type toggles, live subagent **watch-windows** that stream a delegated agent's activity into its own pane, a composer model selector with per-model presets, automatic RTL/bidi text direction, a resizable VS Code-themed terminal pane, per-thread composer drafts, and the ability to install **any VS Code Marketplace theme** directly into the app. The desktop is now a serious daily driver, not a preview. ([#45866](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45866), [#40660](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40660), [#47060](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47060), [#46959](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46959), [#43292](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43292), [#44596](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44596) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n\n- **Background / async subagents — delegate work and keep going** — `delegate_task(background=true)` now dispatches a subagent that runs in the background and returns a handle immediately. You and the model keep working while it churns, and the full result re-enters the conversation as a new turn the moment it finishes. Kick off a long research dive or a multi-step build, then carry on with something else instead of sitting blocked waiting on it. ([#40946](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40946), [#46968](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46968) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Edit images, not just generate them — image-to-image in `image_generate`** — `image_generate` can now edit and transform a source image, not only create one from scratch. Pass an existing image and a prompt and it routes to the backend's edit endpoint (same tool, same pattern as `video_generate`), across every supported image provider. \"Make this logo blue,\" \"remove the background,\" \"turn this sketch into a render\" — all from the tool you already use. ([#48705](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48705) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Automation Blueprints — schedule things without learning cron** — Pick an automation by name and Hermes asks you for what it needs — no cron syntax, no `slot=value` typing. One blueprint definition renders natively on every surface: a form in the dashboard, a slash command in the CLI/TUI/messenger, a conversation with the agent, an entry in the docs catalog. \"Daily news briefing at 8am\" becomes a thing you set up by answering questions, not by memorizing `0 8 * * *`. ([#41309](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41309) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Cursor's Composer model, through your xAI Grok subscription** — `grok-composer-2.5-fast` is now in the xAI OAuth model picker, with its context window reconciled to the full 200k. Composer is the fast coding model behind Cursor — and if you have an xAI Grok subscription, you can now point Hermes at it directly over OAuth, no separate API key. Your Grok plan, Hermes's agent loop, Composer's coding speed. ([#47908](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47908), [#6f89e17](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47371) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Full profile builder in the dashboard** — Build a complete Hermes profile from the browser — pick its model, choose its skills, attach its MCP servers — without hand-editing `config.yaml`. The dashboard also unified multi-profile management into one machine-wide view with a global profile switcher, so you manage every profile from a single place. ([#39084](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39084), [#44007](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44007) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Skills Hub browser rehaul** — The dashboard's Skills Hub got a ground-up rework: connected hubs, a Featured section, full skill previews before you install, and a security scan on each skill. Browsing and installing skills from the trusted taps (OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, NVIDIA) is now a real browsing experience, not a flat list. ([#40384](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40384), [#43398](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43398) — @teknium1)\n\n- **The `memory` tool got a major upgrade — atomic batch operations** — The `memory` tool gained an `operations` array that applies a batch of add/replace/remove edits **atomically against the final character budget**. The model can free up space and add new entries in a single call — even when an add alone would overflow the budget — collapsing what used to be a fragile multi-turn dance into one reliable operation. Memory updates are now faster and far less likely to fail mid-edit. ([#48507](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48507) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Secure dashboard login** — The dashboard's authentication was hardened: every token-required endpoint now correctly returns 401 behind the OAuth gate, websocket auth uses the served dashboard token, and a warning fires when a `public_url` override is silently rejected. Exposing your dashboard to the network is safer by default. ([#42578](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42578), [#42578](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43214) — @benbarclay, @teknium1)\n\n- **Official WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter** — Alongside the existing Baileys bridge, Hermes now speaks the **official** WhatsApp Business Cloud API — Meta's first-party, hosted, no-bridge-process path. Point it at your Business API credentials and Hermes talks WhatsApp through the supported channel, with no QR-scanning bridge process to keep alive. ([#44331](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44331), [#43921](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43921) — @jquesnelle, @teknium1)\n\n- **Rich text for Telegram — Bot API 10.1 rich messages** — Telegram replies now render as proper rich messages via Bot API 10.1: better formatting, cleaner long-message handling, native markup instead of flattened text. It's on by default with an opt-out, so your Telegram conversations look the way they should without any configuration. ([#44829](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44829), [#45584](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45584), [#45953](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45953) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Curator cost optimization — no aux-model spend on routine runs** — The skill curator now prunes stale skills by default but no longer runs its LLM-powered consolidation pass unless you opt in (`curator.consolidate: true` or `hermes curator run --consolidate`). The deterministic inactivity sweep keeps running for free; the opinionated, aux-model-spending \"build umbrella skills\" fork is now off by default. Routine background curation costs you **zero tokens**. ([#47840](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47840) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🖥️ Hermes Desktop App\n\n### New surfaces & UX\n- Rebindable keyboard shortcuts panel; native OS notifications with per-type toggles; curated turn-completion cue + dismissable error banners ([#40660](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40660), [#45866](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45866), [#42480](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42480), [#47985](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47985) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Live subagent **watch-windows** — stream a delegated agent's activity into its own pane; composer status stack + editable prompts; open any chat in its own window; new-session-in-compact-window hotkey ([#47060](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47060), [#44630](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44630), [#43219](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43219), [#46951](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46951) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Composer model selector + per-model presets + external-provider disconnect; surface every provider/model from `hermes model` in the GUI; unify provider list to one source; warn when a main-model switch leaves auxiliary tasks pinned elsewhere ([#46959](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46959), [#40563](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40563), [#49080](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49080), [#40286](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40286) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- Install **any VS Code Marketplace theme**; assignable themes per profile; window translucency slider; unified overlay design system + BrandMark + onboarding redesign ([#43292](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43292), [#42286](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42286), [#45086](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45086), [#40708](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40708) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- Resizable VS Code-themed terminal pane + palette polish; auto-detect RTL/bidi text direction in chat; Mac-style session switcher (^Tab / ^1-9); worktree-aware sidebar grouping; hover-reveal collapsed sidebars; messaging source folders in sidebar ([#42521](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42521), [#44596](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44596), [#43111](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43111), [#45273](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45273), [#41670](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41670), [#41751](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41751) — @OutThisLife)\n- Arrow-key history + queue editing in composer; expand full command inline from the approval bar; follow-streaming-at-bottom + jump-to-bottom button; first-class cron jobs in the sidebar + dashboard scheduler ([#40234](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40234), [#44864](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44864), [#45263](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45263), [#40684](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40684) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Desktop pets — pop-out overlay + notifications ([#47938](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47938) — @teknium1)\n- Full tool-backend config (pickers + per-backend settings) in Settings; run tool-backend post-setup installs from the GUI; uninstall the Chat GUI without removing the agent; Shift+click status-bar zap to toggle YOLO globally; `/browser connect` on a local gateway ([#41232](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41232), [#40559](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40559), [#40355](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40355), [#41666](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41666), [#47245](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47245) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- Japanese + Traditional Chinese language switching ([#40114](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40114))\n- \"Restart gateway\" action (renamed from \"Restart messaging\") surfaced in the statusbar + on messaging save/toggle toasts; rendered logs are selectable/copyable ([#49094](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49094) — @OutThisLife)\n\n### Remote-gateway & multi-profile\n- **Remote media relay** — attach images/PDFs and display agent-written images over the network for the first time; remote-gateway file attachments via `file.attach` ([#41336](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41336), [#42634](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42634) — @teknium1)\n- Client + backend version buttons + remote-backend update flow; browse remote backend files; route global-remote profile REST calls; recover chat after sleep/wake by revalidating a stale remote backend ([#42181](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42181), [#44326](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44326), [#47011](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47011), [#41350](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41350) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Multi-profile fallout cleanup — WS auth + cross-profile session reads; release profile backends before delete; scope session list/model switch/timer per session ([#44529](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44529), [#42613](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42613), [#41103](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41103), [#41120](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41120), [#41182](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41182) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Stream subagent activity into watch windows; keep streaming painting in unfocused secondary chat windows; recover stranded session windows ([#47060](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47060), [#47919](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47919), [#47655](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47655) — @OutThisLife)\n\n## 📊 Web Dashboard\n- Full-featured profile builder (model + skills + MCPs); unify multi-profile management — one machine dashboard + global profile switcher; profile-scoped skills & toolsets; session switcher panel on the Chat tab ([#39084](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39084), [#44007](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44007), [#43808](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43808), [#49077](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49077) — @teknium1)\n- Skills hub browser rehaul — connected hubs, featured, preview + security scan; SKILL.md editor on Skills page + attach-skill selector in cron modals; full per-MCP catalog detail; full tool-backend config in the GUI ([#40384](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40384), [#44231](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44231), [#48520](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48520), [#40418](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40418) — @teknium1)\n- Enable webhooks from the Webhooks page; idempotent `hermes dashboard register`; auto-restart gateway after Telegram QR onboarding; file browser; change UI font from the theme picker; reasoning-effort picker in the chat sidebar ([#44021](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44021), [#42455](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42455), [#43424](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43424), [#43512](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43512), [#41145](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41145), [#49141](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49141) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture\n\n### God-file refactor wave (run_agent.py / cli.py / gateway/run.py)\n- **`cli.py` main() 3297 → 954 lines** — extracted 28 subcommand parsers into `hermes_cli/subcommands/`, then promoted 9 closure handlers; 32 slash-command handlers → `CLICommandsMixin`; 18 model-flow wizard functions → `model_setup_flows`; agent-construction cluster → `CLIAgentSetupMixin` ([#41798](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41798), [#41835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41835), [#41942](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41942), [#42174](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42174), [#42153](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42153) — @teknium1)\n- **`gateway/run.py` 19157 → 15870 lines** — 42 slash-command handlers → `GatewaySlashCommandsMixin`; authorization cluster → `GatewayAuthorizationMixin`; kanban watcher loops → `GatewayKanbanWatchersMixin` ([#41886](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41886), [#42159](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42159), [#41849](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41849) — @teknium1)\n- **`run_agent.py` turn loop** — extracted prologue into `TurnContext`, post-loop tail into `finalize_turn`, consolidated inner-retry-loop recovery flags into `TurnRetryState` ([#41778](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41778), [#42169](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42169), [#41828](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41828) — @teknium1)\n\n### Agent loop, prompt & tools\n- **`memory` batch operations** — atomic add/replace/remove array against the final char budget, so a single call can free space and add entries ([#48507](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48507) — @teknium1)\n- **`search_files` lossless densification** — headroom evaluation report + the one densification improvement worth shipping (fewer tokens per result, same matches) ([#47866](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47866) — @teknium1)\n- Removed the agent-callable `send_message` tool; coding-context posture across CLI/TUI/desktop/ACP; `read_file` extracts `.ipynb`/`.docx`/`.xlsx` to text ([#47856](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47856), [#43316](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43316), [#37082](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37082) — @teknium1)\n- Context-file handling: configurable truncation limit + warnings; scale context-file cap to model window + point agent at the truncated file ([#47251](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47251), [#47846](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47846) — @teknium1)\n- Compression: temporal anchoring in compaction summaries; raise compaction trigger to 85% for gpt-5.5 on Codex OAuth ([#41102](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41102), [#40957](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40957) — @teknium1)\n- Adaptive middleware (consumed by NeMo-Relay observer telemetry); usable mid-turn steer — desktop affordance + trusted injection ([#29724](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/29724), [#40240](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40240) — @teknium1)\n\n### Provider & model support\n- New models: `z-ai/glm-5.2` (verified 1M context, OpenRouter + Nous), `anthropic/claude-fable-5`, `laguna-m.1` + `nemotron-3-ultra`, xAI Composer 2.5 in the OAuth picker; default xAI to `grok-build-0.1` ([#47391](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47391), [#45695](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45695), [#42979](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42979), [#42629](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42629), [#47908](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47908), [#47371](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47371) — @teknium1)\n- Model picker: Refresh-Models control to bust stale cache; persist Nous recommended-models to disk + fall back on Portal failure; seed catalog disk cache from checkout on update; MiniMax-M3 reports true 1M context ([#48691](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48691), [#42628](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42628), [#42614](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42614), [#43338](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43338) — @teknium1)\n- Anthropic adaptive models: default to modern thinking contract; never send `reasoning` field; route `reasoning_effort` to verbosity; require confirmation for very expensive selections ([#42991](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42991), [#43012](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43012), [#43436](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43436), [#43391](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43391) — @teknium1)\n- Auth: auto-detect OpenRouter credential from the pool; keep Codex OAuth pool accounts distinct on add/re-auth; resolve xAI OAuth across profiles + write rotated tokens back to root; honor `model.default_headers` for custom OpenAI-compatible providers ([#42263](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42263), [#42316](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42316), [#46614](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46614), [#41096](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41096) — @teknium1)\n- Bedrock falls back to non-streaming `InvokeModel` when IAM denies the streaming variant; Ollama default `max_tokens=65536`; surface model refusals as `content_filter` ([#44293](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44293), [#41694](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41694), [#46013](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46013) — @teknium1)\n\n### Sessions, state & multi-agent\n- Optional **max session cap**; drop empty sessions on CLI exit and rotation; ACP session-provenance metadata for compression rotation ([#42389](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42389), [#43855](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43855), [#41724](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41724) — @teknium1)\n- Delegation: resolve custom-endpoint subagent pools by endpoint identity; remove the default subagent wall-clock timeout; stop subagent completion lines leaking into parent CLI display ([#41730](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41730), [#45149](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45149), [#44223](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44223) — @teknium1)\n- Kanban: config-gated auto-subscribe on `kanban_create`; machine-global singleton lock for the embedded dispatcher; pin assigned profile toolsets for workers; hold reclaim while worker still alive ([#48635](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48635), [#49068](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49068), [#45590](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45590), [#49064](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49064) — @teknium1)\n- Memory: configurable Hindsight retain observation scopes; OpenViking setup UX; Honcho gateway-gated identity tree; Supermemory session-level ingest ([#46611](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46611), [#48262](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48262), [#44431](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44431), [#38756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38756) — @teknium1, @alt-glitch)\n\n## 📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)\n\n### New channels\n- **iMessage via Photon Spectrum** — `hermes photon login` (device-code OAuth), gRPC-native channel (no webhook), markdown rendering, emoji reactions, outbound media via spectrum-ts ([#32348](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/32348), [#42582](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42582), [#44713](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44713), [#42397](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42397) — @teknium1)\n- **WhatsApp Business Cloud API** adapter (official, no bridge process) ([#44331](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44331), [#43921](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43921) — @jquesnelle, @teknium1)\n- **SimpleX** — groups, native attachments, text batching, auto-accept; **Raft** bundled platform plugin with activity hooks ([#42584](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42584), [#48210](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48210) — @teknium1)\n\n### Gateway core & rendering\n- Render terminal tool calls as native bash code blocks on markdown platforms; bare fenced code blocks in chat; optional message timestamps for LLM context; configurable `tool_progress_grouping` ([#41215](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41215), [#42576](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42576), [#47253](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47253), [#47228](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47228) — @teknium1)\n- Telegram: Bot API 10.1 rich messages (now always-on with opt-out); opt-in Online/Offline bot status indicator; stop cutting long streamed responses; MarkdownV2 on progress edits; gate oversized voice/audio before download ([#44829](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44829), [#45584](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45584), [#49134](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49134), [#43761](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43761), [#44245](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44245) — @teknium1)\n- Discord: propagate `role_authorized` so `DISCORD_ALLOWED_ROLES` works end-to-end; recover from runtime gateway task exits; cancel `_bot_task` on connect failure; stop typing after replies ([#43327](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43327), [#44383](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44383), [#44432](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44432), [#44836](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44836) — @teknium1)\n- Slack: scope top-level channel messages when `reply_in_thread=false`; thread approval UX (block-size overflow + typed-prefix); make video attachments available to agents; `register_slack_action_handler` plugin API ([#41703](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41703), [#43444](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43444), [#45512](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45512), [#44664](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44664) — @teknium1)\n- Replied-to media attachments included; document attachments classified as DOCUMENT on Signal/Email/SimpleX/Teams; WhatsApp restarts stale bridge processes; Matrix room-context isolation; QQbot CPU-spin fix; Weixin rate-limit circuit breaker ([#46107](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46107), [#44695](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44695), [#44205](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44205), [#18505](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/18505), [#40574](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40574), [#41718](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41718) — @teknium1, @banditburai)\n\n## 🖥️ CLI, TUI & Setup\n- `/version` slash command; `/billing` interactive terminal billing (TUI + CLI); show time since last final agent response on the status bar; persist resolved approval/clarify prompts in scrollback ([#40214](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40214), [#45449](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45449), [#44265](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44265), [#44702](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44702) — @teknium1)\n- Lock hermes worktrees so concurrent processes can't clobber them; display custom profile alias names in list/show; clone profiles from any source ([#48699](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48699), [#40371](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40371), [#45630](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45630) — @teknium1)\n- Opt-in structured profile-build path on first contact; configurable per-platform system-prompt hints; configurable background memory/skill notifications ([#41114](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41114), [#48630](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48630), [#47226](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47226) — @teknium1)\n- TUI: interactive Plugins Hub enable/disable overlay; session name in the terminal titlebar; paint approval/clarify/sudo/secret modals directly (not via throttle); wrap long approval commands instead of truncating ([#42965](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42965), [#43188](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43188), [#41155](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41155), [#44691](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44691) — @teknium1)\n- TTS: Gemini persona prompts + audio tags; xAI auto speech tags + speed/streaming knobs; Piper speaker_id; OGG for Telegram auto-TTS ([#43442](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43442), [#49061](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49061), [#49062](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49062), [#49060](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49060), [#41644](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41644) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🔧 Tool System, Skills & MCP\n- **image-to-image / editing** in `image_generate` across all backends; shrink images to provider dimension limit ([#48705](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48705), [#45979](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45979) — @teknium1)\n- MCP: official **Unreal Engine 5.8** MCP server in the catalog; **elicitation handler** so MCP servers can prompt for mid-tool-call confirmation (payment/OAuth) on whichever surface owns the session — CLI/TUI/Telegram/Slack; expose late-connecting MCP tools to the agent between turns (cache-safe); keepalive ping for short-TTL HTTP sessions; block exfil-shaped / suspicious stdio configs before probe; capability-gate `tools/list` so prompt-only servers connect; preserve stdio argv passthrough + Windows env vars ([#48397](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48397), [#49203](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49203), [#49208](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49208), [#49221](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49221), [#46083](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46083), [#44550](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44550), [#44324](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44324) — @teknium1, @lgalabru)\n- Skills: `simplify-code` skill (parallel 3-agent code review & cleanup) + risk-tiered application with Chesterton's Fence; find & diff user-modified bundled skills; optional **payments** skills (Stripe Link, MPP, Projects); CLI-based shop skill; live per-source browse progress ([#41691](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41691), [#49070](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49070), [#48286](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48286), [#31343](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/31343), [#47309](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47309), [#43398](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43398) — @teknium1, @colinwren-stripe)\n- Curator: make skill consolidation opt-in (prune stays default-on) ([#47840](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47840) — @teknium1)\n- Plugins: install from a subdirectory within a repo; accept browser-pasted GitHub URLs in `hermes plugins install`; `session:compress` lifecycle event + `thread_id`/`chat_type` in agent:start/end context ([#42963](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42963), [#33539](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/33539), [#47252](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47252), [#41672](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41672) — @teknium1)\n- Memory/skill **write approval** gate (default off) — boolean `write_approval` replaces the tri-state `write_mode` ([#38199](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38199), [#43354](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43354) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🌐 Fleet, Relay & Automation\n- **Managed scope** — administrator-pinned, user-immutable config & secrets from a root-owned `/etc/hermes` ([#49098](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49098) — @teknium1)\n- **Multiplex all profiles over one gateway process** (opt-in) ([#48273](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48273) — @benbarclay)\n- **Pluggable CronScheduler** + Chronos managed-cron provider (scale-to-zero) ([#48275](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48275) — @benbarclay)\n- **Automation Blueprints** — parameterized automation templates across every surface ([#41309](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41309) — @teknium1)\n- Gateway-Gateway relay (phases 0-3): relay adapter + capability descriptor, connector⇄gateway channel auth + signed-HTTP inbound + enroll CLI, WS-only inbound, managed-boot self-provision client ([#48078](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48078), [#48147](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48147), [#48294](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48294), [#48242](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48242) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🐳 Docker, Nix & Installer\n- s6: detect supervisor directly for gateway restart; register profile gateways without auto-starting; persist desired state; clear stale log locks ([#46290](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46290), [#46266](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46266), [#46292](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46292), [#46289](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46289) — @teknium1)\n- Docker: optimize image size (.dockerignore, drop dev deps, split layers); pre-install matrix deps; supervised gateway uses `--replace`; harden hosted install tree against self-modification ([#38749](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38749), [#42413](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42413), [#47555](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47555), [#47490](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47490) — @teknium1)\n- Nix: cold npm build fixes + auto-fix-lockfiles workflow; hashless npm deps via `importNpmLock`; refresh npmDepsHash after Electron 40.10.2 pin ([#41867](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41867), [#48883](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48883), [#48457](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48457) — @teknium1)\n- Installer: clear unmerged git index before autostash; scope install-method stamp to the code tree ([#45515](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45515), [#48188](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48188) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🔒 Security & Reliability\n- Fail closed on own-policy gateway adapters; fail closed for approval-button auth on Slack/Feishu/Discord when no allowlist is set ([#45634](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45634), [#41226](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41226) — @teknium1)\n- Redact secrets in request debug dumps; withhold host metadata from public status; block exfil-shaped / suspicious MCP stdio configs before probe ([#46637](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46637), [#45642](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45642), [#46083](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46083) — @teknium1)\n- Close shell-escape denylist bypass + fail-closed on missing approval module; scrub operator environment before launching cua-driver MCP; sanitize env for cron job-script subprocesses; bound TodoStore content length/count; scan REST cron prompts for parity with the agent tool ([#40591](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40591), [#48423](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48423), [#49207](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49207), [#41648](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41648), [#41335](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41335) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Bump urllib3 and PyJWT to clear CVEs; Langfuse redacts base64 data URIs instead of truncating into invalid base64 ([#40179](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40179), [#43322](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43322) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🪟 Windows\n- Dashboard `/chat` tab via ConPTY (`win_pty_bridge`) + tests; resolve PowerShell host instead of bare `powershell` for uv install; resolve `powershell.exe` by absolute path so Desktop install doesn't stall ([#42251](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42251), [#48341](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48341), [#40927](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40927) — @teknium1)\n- Repair stale winget registration + refresh/merge PATH; kill hermes before recreating venv to release `_bcrypt.pyd` lock; read HERMES_HOME from the registry when env is stale; quarantine running `hermes.exe` during update repair ([#44084](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44084), [#45120](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45120), [#46772](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46772), [#40409](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40409) — @teknium1)\n- JOB-breakaway watcher reliability + status --deep probes; handle Windows PTY stdin + detached WS frames; decode subprocess output as UTF-8; confirm-modal on native Windows ([#40909](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40909), [#41953](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41953), [#44328](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44328), [#42419](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42419) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🐛 Notable Bug Fixes\n- Percent-encode non-ascii URL components; sanitize `:` in FTS5 queries so colon searches don't silently return empty ([#41430](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41430), [#40653](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/40653) — @teknium1)\n- Preserve multimodal user content through crash-resilience persist; flatten multimodal content before provider sync; strip MEDIA directives from compressor input ([#47907](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/47907), [#44738](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44738), [#44708](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/44708) — @teknium1)\n- Re-enter retry loop on genuine Nous 429 so the fallback guard runs; scope Nous tags to Nous auxiliary calls; suppress \"Credit access paused\" notice on free models ([#45136](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45136), [#45801](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/45801), [#43669](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43669) — @teknium1)\n- Cron: don't strict-scan script-injected output in no-skills jobs; resolve per-job provider \"custom\" to `providers.custom` instead of codex; repair cron ownership on container restart ([#43223](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43223), [#43505](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43505), [#41976](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/41976) — @teknium1)\n- *(300+ issues closed this window; full per-area fix list is exhaustive — these are the highest-impact.)*\n\n## ↩️ Reverted in this window (not shipping)\n- `html-artifact` skill + sketch/architecture-diagram/concept-diagrams fold ([#48899](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/48899)) — reverted ([#49053](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/49053)); absent on main.\n- Cron per-job profile support reverted ([#43956](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/43956)); a nix patchPhase workaround reverted ([#42151](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/42151)).\n\n## 👥 Contributors\n\nA huge thank-you to everyone who contributed to this release — **245 contributors** across commits, co-author trailers, and salvaged PRs.\n\n### Core\n@teknium1\n\n### Top community contributors (by merged PRs)\n- @OutThisLife — 92 PRs (desktop app maturity (shortcuts, notifications, watch-windows, themes))\n- @kshitijk4poor — 60 PRs (onboarding, model picker, cron env sanitization)\n- @xxxigm — 27 PRs (desktop & gateway fixes)\n- @benbarclay — 23 PRs (gateway multiplex, Chronos cron, dashboard auth)\n- @helix4u — 21 PRs (gateway & installer reliability)\n- @austinpickett — 19 PRs (dashboard & desktop UX)\n- @alt-glitch — 14 PRs (usage-aware credits, Supermemory)\n- @ethernet8023 — 14 PRs (desktop build pipeline & Linux/Windows)\n- @liuhao1024 — 5 PRs (session lifecycle fixes)\n\n### All contributors (alphabetical)\n@0z1-ghb, @0xdany, @0xneobyte, @0xyg3n, @1960697431, @895252509, @achaljhawar, @Adolanium, @AhmetArif0, @AIalliAI,\n@aimable100, @AJ, @ak2k, @alarcritty, @AlchemistChaos, @aldoeliacim, @alelpoan, @AlexanderBFoley,\n@alfred-smith-0, @ali-nld, @alt-glitch, @am423, @ameobius, @AMIK-coorporations, @annguyenNous, @ArcanePivot,\n@ARegalado1, @asdlem, @ashishpatel26, @austinpickett, @banditburai, @barronlroth, @Bartok9, @basilalshukaili,\n@bbednarski9, @bcsmith528, @benbarclay, @benegessarit, @benfrank241, @bionicbutterfly13, @BlackishGreen33,\n@blut-agent, @bmoore210, @bpasquini, @briandevans, @BROCCOLO1D, @capt-marbles, @ccook1963, @Cdddo, @channkim,\n@ChasLui, @chimpera, @chromalinx, @CiarasClaws, @claytonchew, @cnfi, @colinwren-stripe, @cresslank,\n@cyb0rgk1tty, @dangelo352, @davidgut1982, @deaneeth, @definitelynotguru, @Diyoncrz18, @draix, @dschnurbusch,\n@Dusk1e, @dusterbloom, @ehz0ah, @emozilla, @enesilhaydin, @Erosika, @ethernet8023, @Evisolpxe, @firefly,\n@flooryyyy, @flyinhigh, @foras910521-lab, @Frowtek, @ft-ioxcs, @fyzanshaik, @Ganesh0690, @gauravsaxena1997,\n@giladbau, @glesperance, @GodsBoy, @goku94123, @H-Ali13381, @HaozheZhang6, @haran2001, @harshitAgr, @hbentel,\n@helix4u, @HeLLGURD, @Hermes, @huangxun375-stack, @iamlukethedev, @ianculling, @IAvecilla, @iborazzi,\n@infinitycrew39, @islam666, @ITheEqualizer, @itsflownium, @Jaaneek, @james47kjv, @jeeves-assistant,\n@jeffrobodie-glitch, @JezzaHehn, @jiangkoumo, @jimjsong, @JimLiu, @JimStenstrom, @jmsunseri, @JoaoMarcos44,\n@joel611, @JoelJJohnson, @joerj123, @johnjacobkenny, @jooray, @joshuadow, @jplew, @justinbao19, @Justlrnal4,\n@Kailigithub, @kamonspecial, @kdunn926, @Kenmege, @Kewe63, @kmccammon, @konsisumer, @kristianvast,\n@kshitijk4poor, @kyssta-exe, @l37525778-coder, @LaPhilosophie, @leo4226, @LeonSGP43, @liuhao1024, @Llugaes,\n@loongfay, @loongzhao, @lsaether, @m4dni5, @manishbyatroy, @MaxFreedomPollard, @maxmilian, @maxtrigify,\n@mnajafian-nv, @mohamedorigami-jpg, @mollusk, @MrDiamondBallz, @mssteuer, @mvanhorn, @naqerl, @Nea74,\n@necoweb3, @nepenth, @nicoloboschi, @NormallyGaussian, @OmarB97, @omegazheng, @OndrejDrapalik, @OutThisLife,\n@oxngon, @OYLFLMH, @Paperclip, @paulb26, @pengyuyanITYU, @PhilipAD, @pinguarmy, @plcunha, @ProgramCaiCai,\n@psionic73, @qin-ctx, @qingshan89, @Que0x, @qWaitCrypto, @r266-tech, @randomsnowflake, @rbrtbn, @rewbs,\n@rio-jeong, @Rivuza, @rob-maron, @rodboev, @ruangraung, @RyTsYdUp, @Sahil-SS9, @salesondemandio, @sanidhyasin,\n@sarvesh1327, @sdyckjq-lab, @shannonsands, @SHL0MS, @simpolism, @sitkarev, @skyc1e, @skylarbpayne, @SNooZyy2,\n@Spaceman-Spiffy, @srojk34, @sweetcornna, @synapsesx, @Tamaz-sujashvili, @tangtaizong666, @temalo, @tfournet,\n@thedavidweng, @TheGardenGallery, @tim404x, @tomekpanek, @Tranquil-Flow, @tt-a1i, @tuancookiez-hub,\n@underthestars-zhy, @Veritas-7, @victor-kyriazakos, @wesleysimplicio, @WolframRavenwolf, @WompaJango, @x1erra,\n@xiaoxinova, @xtymac, @xushibo, @XVVH, @xxchan, @xxxigm, @xy200303, @y0shua1ee, @yanxue06, @yatesjalex,\n@YLChen-007, @yoniebans, @youjunxiaji, @yubingz, @zakame, @zapabob, @zccyman, @zimigit2020, @ziwon, @zwcf5200,\n@zxcasongs.\n\n---\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.6.5...v2026.6.19](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.6.5...v2026.6.19)\n","publishedAt":"2026-06-19T19:39:06.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.808Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.6.19","media":[],"coverageCount":0},{"id":"rel_vLO2JfyrFo-Mb0_p6lhiO","version":"v2026.6.5","type":"feature","title":"Hermes Agent v0.16.0 (2026.6.5) — The Surface Release","summary":"# Hermes Agent v0.16.0 (v2026.6.5)\n\n**Release Date:** June 5, 2026\n**Since v0.15.2:** 874 commits · 542 merged PRs · 1,962 files changed · 205,216 ins...","titleGenerated":null,"titleShort":null,"breaking":"unknown","importance":null,"content":"# Hermes Agent v0.16.0 (v2026.6.5)\n\n**Release Date:** June 5, 2026\n**Since v0.15.2:** 874 commits · 542 merged PRs · 1,962 files changed · 205,216 insertions · 46,217 deletions · 399 issues closed (2 P0, 62 P1, 16 security-tagged) · 170 community contributors (including co-authors)\n\n> **The Surface Release.** Hermes meets you wherever you work. A brand-new native desktop app — built across 100 PRs and 159 commits in a single week — gives you Hermes as a real macOS/Linux/Windows application: one-click install, in-app self-update, drag-and-drop files into chat, an inline model picker in the status bar, concurrent multi-profile sessions, a full Simplified Chinese translation, and the ability to connect to a remote Hermes gateway over OAuth or username/password. Alongside it, the web dashboard grew a full browser-based administration panel (MCP catalog, messaging channels, credentials, webhooks, memory, pluggable OIDC / username-password login), and first-time setup got a \"Quick Setup via Nous Portal\" path that gets you from install to first message in seconds. The default skill set was trimmed to what you actually need, NVIDIA/skills joined the trusted Skills Hub taps, the model picker is now fuzzy-searchable everywhere (desktop, web, TUI, CLI), and `/undo` finally lets you take back the last N turns. 2 P0 and 62 P1 closures ride along, plus a security round (CVE-2026-48710 Starlette pin, SSRF off-loop hardening, subprocess credential stripping).\n\n---\n\n## ✨ Highlights\n\n- **Hermes Desktop — a real native app, not a terminal wrapper** — This is the headline. There's now a `apps/desktop/` Electron application that installs like any other desktop app on macOS, Linux, and Windows, updates itself in place from inside the app, and gives you a polished GUI for everything Hermes does. You get a proper chat window with streaming, a session list you can archive and search, drag-and-drop files anywhere in the chat area, clipboard image paste, a Cmd+K command palette, and a model picker right in the status bar. If you've been telling friends \"it's a CLI agent\" and watching their eyes glaze over — now you can just send them an installer. None of this existed a week ago. ([#20059](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/20059), [#35607](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35607), [#37099](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37099), [#37379](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37379), [#38631](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38631) — @OutThisLife, @jquesnelle, @ethernet8023, @austinpickett, @benbarclay)\n\n- **Run the desktop app against a remote Hermes — sign in with OAuth or username/password** — The desktop app doesn't have to run Hermes locally. Point it at a remote Hermes gateway (your homelab, a hosted box, a teammate's server) and it connects over a secure WebSocket, authenticating with OAuth or a username/password login — no fiddling with `--insecure` flags or hand-copied session tokens. Each profile can target its own remote host, and you can run concurrent sessions across multiple profiles in one window with cross-profile `@session` links. The practical version: your laptop runs a thin GUI, the heavy agent runs wherever your API keys and compute live. ([#37888](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37888), [#38851](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38851), [#39330](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39330), [#39778](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39778) — @benbarclay, @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n\n- **The web dashboard is now a full admin panel — configure everything from the browser** — The dashboard grew from \"view your sessions\" into a complete administration surface. There's a Channels page that sets up every gateway messaging platform (Telegram, Discord, Slack, etc.) from the browser, an admin panel for the MCP catalog with enable/disable toggles, credential management, webhook and hook creation, memory configuration, gateway controls, and a System page with check-before-update and one-click Debug Share. You no longer have to SSH in and edit `config.yaml` to wire up a new messaging channel or MCP server — it's all point-and-click now. ([#36704](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36704), [#36736](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36736), [#37211](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37211), [#38205](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38205), [#38600](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38600) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Hermes Desktop speaks Simplified Chinese — full 简体中文 in the chat GUI** — The desktop app now ships a complete Simplified Chinese (简体中文) translation across every UI surface — the chat window itself, sidebar, settings, command center, cron, messaging, profiles, skills, agents, the lot. English stays the default; switch language in Appearance settings and the choice persists to your config (`display.language`). It's built on a proper typed i18n layer, so adding more languages from here is straightforward. ([#38241](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38241) — @JimLiu)\n\n- **Leaner default skill set — Hermes ships only what you actually need** — The bundled skill set got a deliberate trim. Skills that were redundant or dead are gone (`spotify` — superseded by the native Spotify plugin's 7 tools; `linear` — superseded by `hermes mcp install linear`; `kanban-codex-lane`, `debugging-hermes-tui-commands`, a stale `domain` orphan, and several empty category markers). Heavier or niche skills moved from bundled to optional (the Baoyu creative set, `dspy`, `subagent-driven-development`, `minecraft-modpack-server`, `pokemon-player`, `hermes-s6-container-supervision`) — still one `hermes skills install` away, just not loaded by default. And a new `environments:` relevance gate keeps context-specific skills (kanban, docker/s6) out of the skills index for users who'll never use them, while still loading them on explicit request. The result: a smaller, sharper default skill list, less noise in the picker, and a lighter prompt. The curator can now prune unused **built-in** skills too (not just agent-created ones), with usage tracked for every skill. ([#39028](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39028), [#36701](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36701), [#36228](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36228) — @teknium1)\n\n- **NVIDIA/skills is now a built-in trusted skills tap** — `NVIDIA/skills` joins OpenAI, Anthropic, and HuggingFace as a default trusted tap in the Skills Hub — discoverable, browsable, searchable, and auto-updating through the same pipeline. NVIDIA's verified skills for CUDA-X, AIQ, cuOpt and the rest of their product stack are one install away, with real category labels from the repo's `skills.sh.json` sidecar. ([#34333](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34333) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Quick Setup via Nous Portal — from install to first message in seconds** — First-time setup was thinned down to two clear paths: Quick Setup (sign in with Nous Portal, get a model picker, start chatting immediately) or Full Setup (the detailed wizard for power users). `hermes portal` is now the human-readable alias that runs the full quick-setup Nous flow. The first-run menu explains the difference inline so newcomers aren't guessing. The goal: a brand-new user shouldn't need to read docs to send their first message. ([#35723](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35723), [#36227](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36227), [#38449](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38449), [#38465](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38465) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n\n- **Fuzzy model picker, everywhere — type a few letters, find your model** — The model picker now does fuzzy search across the desktop app, web dashboard, TUI, and CLI. Type \"v4fl\" and `deepseek-v4-flash` surfaces; multi-endpoint providers are grouped under one row instead of cluttering the list with duplicates, and each row carries a description so you know what you're picking. The catalog refreshes hourly instead of daily, so new models show up the same day they launch. New this window: `deepseek-v4-flash`, `MiniMax-M3` with 1M context, `qwen3.7-plus`. ([#36928](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36928), [#35227](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35227), [#35756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35756), [#35659](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35659), [#36214](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36214) — @kshitijk4poor, @teknium1)\n\n- **`/undo [N]` — take back the last N turns** — Said the wrong thing, or sent the agent down a bad path? `/undo` backs up N user turns, prefills your last message so you can edit and resend, and soft-deletes the turns in between. It works in the CLI, the TUI, and across messaging platforms (Telegram, Discord, etc.) with full parity. Closes a long-standing request ([#21910](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/21910)). ([#36229](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36229), [#36699](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36699) — @teknium1)\n\n- **Choose your default interface — `cli` or `tui`** — You can now set whether `hermes chat` drops you into the classic CLI or the Ink TUI by default, with a `--cli` flag to override per-invocation. The TUI also got a single unified `/model` command and a Sessions overlay for switching between live sessions. Use the interface you actually like. ([#37782](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37782), [#37112](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37112) — @OutThisLife)\n\n---\n\n## 🖥️ Hermes Desktop App (NEW)\n\n### Install & lifecycle\n- macOS desktop install + in-app self-update; rebuild-and-relaunch cleanly on macOS ([#35607](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35607), [#36198](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36198), [#38296](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38296) — @OutThisLife)\n- macOS installer renamed to \"Hermes\" and turned into a launcher ([#37516](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37516) — @OutThisLife)\n- Build desktop in its own `desktop` stage on macOS/Linux instead of silently skipping; content-hash build stamp, `--build-only` / `--force-build` flags ([#36134](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36134) — @OutThisLife, [#37597](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37597) — @ethernet8023)\n- Boot-failure recovery + live API-key validation; cancellable install; recover from corrupt cached Electron download ([#35864](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35864), [#37379](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37379), [#39032](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39032) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Windows: recover from corrupt Electron cache in bootstrap install; stop racing our own backend during in-app update ([#39465](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39465), [#39828](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39828) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- Linux: configure Electron sandbox helper; detect linux arm64 binary; disable GPU acceleration on remote displays to stop flicker ([#37691](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37691), [#38594](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38594), [#37932](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37932) — @ethernet8023, @OutThisLife)\n- Require Node ≥20.19/22.12 for the desktop build; zero eslint/typecheck debt + prettier pass ([#38255](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38255), [#39100](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39100) — @OutThisLife)\n\n### Remote-gateway & multi-profile\n- Connect to OAuth-gated remote gateways; username/password login for remote gateways; per-profile remote gateway hosts ([#37888](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37888), [#38851](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38851), [#39778](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39778) — @benbarclay, @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- Concurrent multi-profile sessions, cross-profile `@session` links; re-mint OAuth WS ticket on gateway reconnect; gate OAuth remote connect on AT-or-RT ([#39330](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39330), [#38886](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38886), [#39464](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39464) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1, @benbarclay)\n- Offer remote sign-in on a gated-gateway boot failure; validate live WebSocket in remote gateway test ([#39402](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39402), [#39511](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39511) — @teknium1)\n\n### Chat UX & settings\n- Drop files anywhere in the chat area; clipboard image paste with dedupe; attachments on Enter, IME composition handling ([#36262](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36262), [#38306](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38306), [#38677](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38677) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Background needs-input indicator, clarify redesign, Cmd+K palette & UI consistency pass; inline model picker in the status bar; YOLO toggle in the status bar (TUI parity) ([#38631](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38631), [#37738](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37738), [#38517](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38517) — @OutThisLife)\n- Session-list overhaul, session hygiene/archive, media streaming + connecting overlay; search sessions by id (SQL-bounded) ([#37379](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37379), [#37099](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37099), [#39062](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39062) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1)\n- Dedicated Providers settings + polished Accounts/API-keys UX; consolidate skills + tools management into one pane; move model management into Settings ([#38551](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38551) — @austinpickett, [#37310](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37310), [#37330](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37330) — @jquesnelle)\n- Render approval/sudo/secret prompts so tools stop silently timing out; surface skill & quick-command slash commands in the palette; first-class xAI Grok OAuth provider in the launcher ([#38578](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38578), [#38531](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38531), [#37697](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37697) — @teknium1, @OutThisLife)\n- \"Choose provider later\" skip on first-run onboarding; onboarding can configure a local/custom endpoint without an API key; custom zoom shortcuts ([#39483](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39483), [#38572](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38572), [#37894](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37894) — @teknium1, @ethernet8023)\n- macOS helper microphone entitlement; scroll-jump fixes (native anchoring, at-rest jump, wheel-up snap-back); thinking block stays open mid-streaming ([#37745](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37745) — @xxxigm, [#37866](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37866), [#38221](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38221), [#38809](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38809) — @OutThisLife, @teknium1, @stremtec)\n- GUI quality-of-life triage batch; salvaged AhmetArif0 desktop/dashboard fixes; rename session via `session.title` RPC so `/title` works ([#37536](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37536) — @austinpickett, [#39070](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39070), [#39410](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39410) — @teknium1, @benbarclay)\n- `hermes debug share` / `/debug` / `hermes logs` now include `desktop.log` ([#38203](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38203) — @teknium1)\n- **Simplified Chinese (简体中文) translation** across every desktop UI surface — typed i18n layer, switch in Appearance settings, persisted via `display.language` (English remains default) ([#38241](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38241) — @JimLiu)\n- Full multi-profile support over one global-remote dashboard; remote-profile sessions are first-class (resume, read, rename/archive/delete); new chats honor their profile in global-remote mode ([#39921](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39921), [#39894](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39894), [#39993](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39993) — @OutThisLife)\n\n## 📊 Web Dashboard\n\n### Administration panel (NEW)\n- Full administration panel — MCP catalog with enable/disable toggles, pairing, webhooks, credentials, memory, gateway, hook creation, system settings ([#36704](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36704), [#36736](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36736) — @teknium1)\n- Channels page — set up every gateway messaging channel from the browser ([#37211](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37211) — @teknium1)\n- System page: check-before-update flow + Debug Share ([#38205](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38205), [#38600](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38600) — @teknium1)\n- nous-blue theme, bulk sessions, schedule picker; enriched profiles dashboard + de-dupe channel env vars; configurable terminal background via theme ([#37383](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37383), [#37872](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37872) — @austinpickett, [#37156](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37156) — @teknium1)\n- Always enable embedded chat; remove dashboard `--tui` flag ([#38591](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38591) — @benbarclay)\n\n### Auth\n- Pluggable username/password login (Option B); generic self-hosted OIDC provider + multi-provider verify fix; `hermes dashboard register` for self-hosted OAuth client ([#38819](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38819) — @benbarclay, [#38917](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38917), [#38802](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38802) — @teknium1)\n- Rotate dashboard sessions via refresh token; share `/api/*` public allowlist between legacy and OAuth gates; drop `/api/*` paths from OAuth `next=` round trip ([#37247](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37247), [#34254](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34254), [#36244](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36244) — @benbarclay)\n- Chat tab works in gated (OAuth) mode; trust non-web WS origins on OAuth-gated binds after ticket auth; authenticate server-spawned PTY child WS; sanction plugin WS/upload auth via SDK helpers ([#34793](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34793), [#37870](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37870), [#37972](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37972), [#38549](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38549) — @teknium1, @benbarclay, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Allow desktop websocket origins on remote binds ([#37747](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37747) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture\n\n### Provider & model support\n- New models: `deepseek-v4-flash` (+ trimmed variants, maker-grouped curated lists), `MiniMax-M3` with 1M context on native minimax providers, `qwen3.7-plus` (Nous + OpenRouter), `gemini-3.5-flash` to Gemini OAuth + API-key pickers ([#35659](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35659), [#36214](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36214), [#39409](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39409), [#37046](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37046) — @teknium1)\n- Model picker: fuzzy search across WebUI/TUI/CLI; group multi-endpoint providers under one row; refresh provider descriptions + describe grouped rows; refresh catalog hourly; stop routing OpenAI selection to OpenRouter ([#36928](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36928) — @kshitijk4poor, [#35227](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35227), [#35773](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35773), [#35756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35756), [#37175](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37175))\n- Always show Nous Tool Gateway backends, login on select; surface the Nous free tool pool (entitlement + setup prompt); route FAL video gen through managed Nous gateway ([#35792](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35792) — @teknium1, [#36153](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36153), [#33259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/33259) — @alt-glitch)\n- Persist mid-session model switch to database; recover model on post-interrupt recovery turn ([#35256](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35256), [#35381](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35381) — @teknium1)\n- Credential pool: `STATUS_DEAD` for terminal OAuth failures; isolate custom provider picker credentials ([#34412](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34412), [#34810](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34810) — @teknium1)\n- Disable Nous Portal legacy session-key inference fallback — JWT-only ([#34508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34508) — @kshitijk4poor)\n\n### Agent loop, prompt & tools\n- `/undo [N]` — backs up N user turns with prefill + soft-delete (CLI/TUI + messaging-platform parity) ([#36229](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36229), [#36699](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36699) — @teknium1)\n- Progressive tool disclosure for MCP and plugin tools (scoped); embedder environment-hint hook for the system prompt; universal task-completion guidance + local Python toolchain probe ([#34493](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34493), [#34574](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34574), [#34340](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34340) — @teknium1)\n- Uncap delegation `max_spawn_depth` (floor 1, no ceiling); broaden Hermes self-knowledge pointer to docs + skill; `hermes prompt-size` diagnostic ([#39772](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39772), [#38538](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38538), [#35276](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35276) — @teknium1)\n- `perf(read_file)`: compact line-number gutter — ~14% fewer tokens per read (now the only format) ([#35368](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35368), [#35532](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35532) — @teknium1)\n- Resolve agent cwd from `TERMINAL_CWD` via one reader; align prefill messages key handling; resume relaunches in the session's original working directory ([#35028](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35028) — @banditburai, [#38760](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38760) — @helix4u, [#38562](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38562) — @teknium1)\n- Prevent session-id fork from concurrent compressions; observer telemetry hooks + NeMo-Relay plugin (gated tool emit) ([#34351](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34351), [#38232](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38232) — @teknium1)\n\n### Sessions, state & memory\n- `perf(state)`: merge FTS5 segments on VACUUM + `hermes sessions optimize`; keep `/branch` sessions visible after parent reopen; survive missing FTS5 runtimes ([#34596](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34596), [#39214](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39214) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor, [#35452](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35452) — @helix4u)\n- Honcho: make startup fail open; harden self-hosted setup paths ([#24847](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/24847) — @stephenschoettler, [#35170](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35170) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- Supermemory: session-level ingest + kebab aliases ([#38756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38756) — @alt-glitch)\n\n## 🧩 Multi-Agent (Kanban) & Skills\n\n### Kanban\n- `goal_mode` cards run workers in a `/goal` loop; file attachments on tasks; attach images referenced in task bodies to worker vision ([#35710](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35710), [#35395](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35395), [#34210](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34210) — @teknium1)\n- `default_assignee` fallback + per-profile concurrency cap; `POST /runs/{run_id}/terminate` endpoint; gate notifier watcher on `dispatch_in_gateway` ([#34244](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34244), [#34449](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34449), [#37174](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37174) — @teknium1)\n- CLI dispatch config passthrough + humanizer skill swap ([#34337](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34337) — @teknium1)\n\n### Skills\n- **Leaner default skill set** ([#39028](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39028) — @teknium1):\n  - Removed (redundant / dead): `spotify` (→ Spotify plugin's 7 native tools), `linear` (→ `hermes mcp install linear`), `kanban-codex-lane`, `debugging-hermes-tui-commands`, stale `domain` orphan, empty category markers (`diagramming`, `gifs`, `inference-sh`, `mlops/training`, `mlops/vector-databases`)\n  - Bundled → optional: `baoyu-article-illustrator`, `baoyu-comic`, `creative-ideation`, `pixel-art`, `dspy`, `subagent-driven-development`, `minecraft-modpack-server`, `pokemon-player`, `hermes-s6-container-supervision`\n  - Consolidated: `webhook-subscriptions` + `native-mcp` folded into the `hermes-agent` skill as on-demand references; `writing-plans` merged into `plan` (v2.0.0)\n  - New `environments:` frontmatter relevance gate (`kanban` / `docker` / `s6`) — context-specific skills stop appearing in the index for users who won't use them, still load on explicit request\n- Curator can now prune unused **built-in** skills (not just agent-created), with usage tracked for every skill ([#36701](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36701) — @teknium1)\n- Blank-slate skills — `install --no-skills` + opt-out/opt-in for the default profile ([#36228](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36228) — @teknium1)\n- **NVIDIA/skills trusted tap** — `NVIDIA/skills` is now a default trusted Skills Hub tap alongside OpenAI/Anthropic/HuggingFace; `skills.sh.json` sidecar gives taps real category labels ([#34333](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34333) — @teknium1)\n- Skills Hub: fix browse cap, add source links + copy buttons + category cleanup ([#37143](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37143) — @teknium1)\n- New optional skills: `grok` (xAI Grok Build CLI), `antigravity-cli` operator (under autonomous-ai-agents) ([#34582](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34582), [#34583](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34583), [#34604](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34604) — @teknium1)\n\n## 📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)\n\n- Structured stream-event protocol + Telegram draft formatting parity; per-platform streaming defaults (Telegram on, Discord off) + dashboard toggles; surface gateway streaming block in `DEFAULT_CONFIG` ([#37250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37250), [#37303](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37303), [#37285](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37285) — @teknium1)\n- Discord voice-channel mixer — ambient idle bed + verbal acks that overlap TTS; explain `/voice` usage when toggled bare ([#39659](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39659), [#39766](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39766) — @teknium1)\n- Handle Feishu meeting invitations; bluebubbles group mention gating; matrix bang-command aliases; matrix fail-closed approval reaction auth ([#39040](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39040), [#37091](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37091), [#38175](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38175) — @teknium1, @alt-glitch, [#34567](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34567))\n- Clean service restart flow; close ResponseStore + dispose unowned adapter on reconnect failure; weixin `asyncio.wait_for` timeouts ([#36188](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36188) — @helix4u, [#37679](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37679) — @Fearvox, [#35117](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35117) — @banditburai)\n\n## 🖥️ CLI, TUI & Setup\n\n- Configurable default interface (cli vs tui) + `--cli` flag; TUI single `/model` command + unified Sessions overlay; nudge toward `/agents` dashboard when delegation starts ([#37782](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37782), [#37112](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37112) — @OutThisLife, [#34704](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34704) — @kshitijk4poor)\n- Thin out setup — Quick Setup via Nous Portal + Full Setup defaults; explain Quick vs Full inline; `hermes portal` human-readable Portal onboarding alias + full quick-setup Nous flow ([#35723](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35723), [#36227](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36227), [#38449](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38449), [#38465](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38465) — @teknium1, @kshitijk4poor)\n- Set process title to `hermes` in ps/top/htop; warn on unsupported pip installs + fix stale update-check cache ([#35143](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35143), [#34846](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34846) — @teknium1)\n- TUI perf: stop slow/dead MCP servers from freezing startup; stop eager MCP discovery from blocking agent-capable startup; stop persisting full tool output in trail lines (silent OOM) ([#35273](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35273), [#35397](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35397), [#38224](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38224) — @teknium1)\n- TUI fixes: auto-recover session on unexpected gateway death; reassemble split SGR mouse sequences; preserve UTF-8 in PowerShell clipboard; reset terminal input modes on exit; `/save` snapshots under Hermes home ([#35893](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35893), [#38564](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38564) — @OutThisLife, [#35222](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35222) — @teknium1, [#36864](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36864) — @maxmilian, [#38251](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38251) — @austinpickett)\n- Setup model/provider pickers migrated off `simple_term_menu` to curses (ESC + ghost-row fixes); default browser/TTS picker to free local backend, not paid Nous ([#35806](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35806), [#37800](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37800) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🔧 Tool System & Installer\n\n- `single managed-uv path`, delete fts5 installer escalation; installer commit pinning opt-in (default branch-follow); shallow clones ([#37660](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37660) — @ethernet8023, [#37123](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37123) — @jquesnelle, [#39423](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39423) — @ethernet8023)\n- `ensure_uv()` survives the update boundary (no first-run crash); harden venv rebuild + verify core deps after install; require managed marker before destructive clean; stash/restore by default for non-interactive updates ([#39780](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39780) — @OutThisLife, [#38887](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38887), [#39568](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39568), [#39645](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39645) — @teknium1, @helix4u)\n- MCP: stop reporting false OAuth success when no token was obtained; vision honors `model.supports_vision` in `vision_analyze` + `browser_vision`; MiniMax t2a_v2 TTS `raise_for_status` ([#34807](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34807), [#34562](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34562), [#39057](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39057) — @teknium1)\n- yuanbao: cache resolved media resources by resourceId ([#34474](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34474) — @teknium1)\n\n## 🐳 Docker & Deployment\n\n- Container reuse + bounded-sync cleanup + orphan reaper; auto-join Docker socket group for docker-in-docker backend; boot non-root containers (skip s6-setuidgid drop when already unprivileged) ([#33645](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/33645), [#34407](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34407) — @benbarclay, [#34837](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34837) — @IAvecilla)\n- Skip unnecessary boot chown when volume ownership matches remapped UID; seed `gateway_state.json` from `HERMES_GATEWAY_BOOTSTRAP_STATE` on first boot; tag containers with hermes-agent labels for identification ([#35027](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35027) — @Foldblade, [#37896](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37896) — @benbarclay)\n- Point TUI launcher at prebuilt bundle via `HERMES_TUI_DIR`; consolidate node/nix workspace lockfile + update all consumers ([#37923](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37923), [#36171](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/36171) — @benbarclay, @ethernet8023)\n\n## 🔒 Security & Reliability\n\n- **CVE-2026-48710 (Starlette BadHost)** — pin patched Starlette ≥1.0.1 ([#35118](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35118) — @teknium1)\n- Run URL SSRF checks off the event loop in async paths; strip Bedrock inference bearer token from subprocess env; add `bws_cache.json` to file-safety read guard; neutralize file paths in mutation-verifier footer ([#39046](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39046), [#34498](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34498), [#34421](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34421), [#35684](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35684) — @teknium1)\n- Restore approval/sudo context in `execute_code` + guard entry points; add docker restart/stop/kill to `DANGEROUS_PATTERNS`; sanitize invisible unicode in vetted skill content; deepcopy tools before in-place xAI mutation ([#34497](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34497), [#33438](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/33438) — @teknium1, @Sarbai, [#37245](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37245), [#34416](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34416))\n- Sandbox-mirror soft guard for writes to per-task `.hermes` mirrors; honcho fail-open on startup ([#32213](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/32213) — @briandevans, [#24847](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/24847) — @stephenschoettler)\n\n## 🐛 Notable Bug Fixes\n\n- **399 issues closed** this window (2 P0, 62 P1, 16 security-tagged, 262 bug-labeled).\n- Desktop: keep in-flight new chats from vanishing on refresh; Stop button actually interrupts when a turn is queued; stop background session messages bleeding into the active transcript; slash/@ completion menu navigable & Esc-dismissable; IME Enter no longer splits messages ([#37908](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37908) — @OutThisLife, [#37948](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37948), [#37975](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37975), [#37937](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37937) — @kshitijk4poor, [#38333](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38333) — @stremtec)\n- Update: stop stash/restore from clobbering desktop source on managed clones; don't fail desktop rebuild/skills sync on mid-rebuild venv; export launcher virtualenv to uv ([#38542](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38542), [#38885](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38885), [#35224](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35224) — @teknium1)\n- Voice: honor `PIPEWIRE_REMOTE` in PortAudio fallback; allow `/voice` over SSH when a sound server is reachable; restore mistralai (2.4.8 clean, ban lifted) ([#33473](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/33473) — @Dusk1e, [#35719](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/35719), [#34841](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/34841) — @teknium1)\n\n## 📚 Documentation\n\n- New Desktop App guide + remote-backend sections (session token, `--tui` requirement, username/password connect, dashboard/gateway prerequisites) ([#37457](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37457), [#38144](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38144), [#38180](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38180), [#38534](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/38534), [#39128](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39128) — @teknium1)\n- Dashboard auth-provider suitability + registration across dashboard/Docker/Desktop; network egress isolation guide for Docker ([#39633](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39633) — @benbarclay, [#26385](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/26385) — @Manzela)\n\n---\n\n![Hermes Agent v0.16.0 — The Surface Release](https://v3b.fal.media/files/b/0a9d248f/AyRBEKS8C4o6HZNF6KjbD_M2U5y4wY.png)\n\n## 👥 Contributors\n\nA huge thank-you to the **170 community contributors** (including co-authors) who shipped work in this release.\n\n### Core\n- @teknium1\n\n### Top community contributors (by merged-PR count)\n- **@OutThisLife** (52) — built the desktop app end to end: install, self-update, remote-gateway connect, multi-profile sessions, chat UX, status-bar model picker\n- **@benbarclay** (44) — Docker hardening, dashboard auth (OIDC, username/password, refresh-token rotation), desktop OAuth remote connect\n- **@kshitijk4poor** (29) — fuzzy model picker, setup/portal onboarding, desktop completion-menu & Stop-button fixes, honcho hardening\n- **@ethernet8023** (18) — desktop build pipeline (content-hash stamp, build flags), Linux/arm64 desktop support, managed-uv consolidation\n- **@austinpickett** (8) — dashboard nous-blue theme + bulk sessions, desktop Providers settings, GUI QoL triage\n- **@alt-glitch** (7) — Nous tool-pool entitlement surfacing, FAL video-gen managed gateway, supermemory session ingest, matrix aliases\n- **@helix4u** (6) — gateway service-restart flow, update destructive-clean guard, config prefill alignment\n- **@jquesnelle** (4) — installer commit-pinning opt-in, desktop skills/tools + model-management consolidation\n- **@JimLiu** — full Simplified Chinese (简体中文) desktop translation + typed i18n layer\n\n### All Contributors\n\n@0xharryriddle, @a1245582339, @adybag14-cyber, @AhmetArif0, @alaamohanad169-ship-it, @alelpoan, @alt-glitch,\n@Aman113114-IITD, @amathxbt, @aminvakil, @annguyenNous, @aqilaziz, @Archerouyang, @ashishpatel26, @asimons81,\n@austinpickett, @banditburai, @baofuen, @Bartok9, @bbednarski9, @beardthelion, @bedirhancode, @benbarclay,\n@benfrank241, @blackpilledsoftware-prog, @bluefishs, @brian-doherty, @briancl2, @briandevans, @BROCCOLO1D,\n@caojiguang, @CharZhou, @counterposition, @coygeek, @CryptoByz, @davetist, @davidgut1982, @dchenk, @dirtyren,\n@donovan-yohan, @dparikh79, @dskwe, @Dusk1e, @dvir-pashut, @EloquentBrush0x, @emozilla, @ErnestHysa, @Erosika,\n@ethernet8023, @f3rs3n, @faisfamilytravel, @Fearvox, @ferminquant, @fesalfayed, @firefly, @flooryyyy,\n@Foldblade, @Frowtek, @gbarany, @Glucksberg, @GodsBoy, @haran2001, @harjothkhara, @HashClawAI, @hayka-pacha,\n@helix4u, @HeLLGURD, @Hinotoi-agent, @hllqkb, @IAvecilla, @inchargeautomation-lab, @Interstellar-code, @isair,\n@ITheEqualizer, @jeffrobodie-glitch, @JezzaHehn, @JimLiu, @Julientalbot, @julio-cloudvisor, @karmeleon,\n@Kenmege, @Kewe63, @Kolektori, @konsisumer, @kshitijk4poor, @kurobaryo, @kweiner, @kyssta-exe, @Kyzcreig,\n@LengR, @leonardsellem, @LeonSGP43, @libre-7, @liuboacean, @liuhao1024, @loongzhao, @luyao618, @MaheshtheDev,\n@Manzela, @mathijsvandenhurk, @MattMaximo, @maxcz79, @maxmilian, @Moikapy, @MustafaKara7, @nateGeorge,\n@nepenth, @nielskaspers, @ninjmnky, @octavioturra, @OCWC22, @ohMyJason, @ousiaresearch, @outsourc-e,\n@OutThisLife, @Pluviobyte, @polnikale, @pxdsgnco, @Que0x, @r266-tech, @redpiggy-cyber, @rewbs, @rexdotsh,\n@rob-maron, @SaguaroDev, @sahibzada-allahyar, @Sarbai, @sarvesh1327, @scubamount, @SeaXen, @seppegadeyne,\n@shannonsands, @SHL0MS, @SimoKiihamaki, @SiTaggart, @solaitken, @sprmn24, @stephenschoettler, @steveonjava,\n@stremtec, @Subway2023, @sweetcornna, @Sylw3ster, @ThyFriendlyFox, @tillfalko, @tmchow, @TonyPepeBear,\n@Tranquil-Flow, @truenorth-lj, @tuancookiez-hub, @Twanislas, @tymrtn, @uzunkuyruk, @ViewWay, @VinciZhu,\n@vinoth12940, @vladkvlchk, @vynxevainglory-ai, @WadydX, @wenchengxucool, @whyhkzk, @worlldz, @Wysie, @x1am1,\n@xxxigm, @ygd58, @youngstar-eth, @zapabob, @zhaoleibd, @Zyrixtrex\n\n---\n\n**Full Changelog**: [v2026.5.29.2...v2026.6.5](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v2026.5.29.2...v2026.6.5)\n","publishedAt":"2026-06-06T00:55:58.000Z","fetchedAt":"2026-10-07T00:48:26.808Z","url":"https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.6.5","media":[{"type":"image","url":"https://v3b.fal.media/files/b/0a9d248f/AyRBEKS8C4o6HZNF6KjbD_M2U5y4wY.png","alt":"Hermes Agent v0.16.0 — The Surface Release","r2Key":"releases/9d23d5f43acc2e8efe138856111b52333a54e4ff5fad3e711ad8f525c61c7cf6.png","r2Url":"https://media.releases.sh/releases/9d23d5f43acc2e8efe138856111b52333a54e4ff5fad3e711ad8f525c61c7cf6.png"}],"coverageCount":0}],"pagination":{"nextCursor":"2026-06-06T00:55:58.000Z|2026-10-07T00:48:26.808Z|rel_vLO2JfyrFo-Mb0_p6lhiO","limit":20},"summaries":{"rolling":null,"monthly":[]}}