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Hermes Agent · April 10, 2026 · 11 min read 27 Days, 7 Releases: Reading Hermes Agent's Public Velocity
Between March 12 and April 8, 2026, Hermes Agent shipped seven versioned releases. I spent a rainy Saturday reading all seven release notes in one sitting. What you see is a project that moves in phases — foundation, breadth, durability, intelligence — each lasting about a week.
Hermes Agent · April 9, 2026 · 10 min read When an AI Diagnoses Its Own Blind Spots: Inside the Hermes Self-Improving Tool-Use Loop
Buried in the v0.8.0 release notes is one of the more quietly wild PRs I have read this year. The title is boring — 'Self-optimized GPT/Codex tool-use guidance via automated behavioral benchmarking.' The thing behind the title is an agent that found its own blind spots and patched them.
Hermes Agent · April 8, 2026 · 10 min read Hermes Agent v0.8.0 — The Intelligence Release
On April 8, 2026, Hermes Agent shipped v0.8.0 with 209 merged PRs. The headline is that the agent patched its own blind spots on GPT and Codex through automated benchmarking. Live model switching, free Gemini access, background task notifications, and a pile of other things that change how you actually use Hermes every day.
Hermes Agent · April 2, 2026 · 8 min read Model Switching Without Lock-In: How Hermes Handles the Provider Zoo
Last summer I signed up for five LLM provider accounts in one month and lost track of which credit card was being charged. Running anything on top of LLMs in 2026 means living with a permanent provider zoo. Here is how Hermes Agent was architected — from day one — to make switching cheap.
Hermes Agent · March 29, 2026 · 9 min read Memory Architecture in Hermes Agent: Honcho and the Pluggable Memory Interface
Hermes Agent has a real memory system — not just a conversation buffer, but a proper long-term memory layer that learns you across sessions and platforms. This post is a walk through how it actually works, why Honcho became the reference implementation, and what the v0.7.0 pluggable memory interface changed.
Hermes Agent · March 25, 2026 · 9 min read Seven Chat Platforms, One Gateway: The Hermes Messaging Architecture
On launch day, Hermes Agent spoke to seven chat platforms from a single process — Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, and Home Assistant. Four weeks later the list is thirteen. Here is what the gateway architecture actually is, and why "one agent, many front doors" is harder than it looks.
Hermes Agent · March 22, 2026 · 8 min read Skills and agentskills.io: How Hermes Grew an Ecosystem in Four Weeks
Hermes Agent shipped on day one with more than seventy skills. Four weeks later there was a real community skills marketplace at agentskills.io. Here is what a "skill" actually is in Hermes, why the architecture lets an ecosystem grow fast, and what the hub looks like today.
Hermes Agent · March 19, 2026 · 8 min read Running Hermes Agent on a $5 VPS: A Practical Guide
A $5-a-month VPS is enough to run a full Hermes Agent gateway reaching seven chat platforms, with room to spare. Here is why the architecture makes that possible, what you actually need, and the half-dozen choices that matter on a small machine.
Hermes Agent · March 15, 2026 · 7 min read Installing Hermes Agent on Your Android Phone with Termux
There is an old Pixel 4a in my desk drawer that used to be dead to me. This week I installed Hermes Agent on it and turned it into an always-on AI assistant I talk to from Telegram. Here is why a phone is actually a good server for this, and what Android changes about how Hermes runs.
Hermes Agent · March 12, 2026 · 6 min read Hermes Agent v0.2.0 — The First Public Release
On March 12, 2026, Nous Research quietly opened the doors on a new project called Hermes Agent. Two weeks later, sixty-three people who had never met had built a working AI assistant together. Here is the story of that release — and what was actually in it.