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Hermes Agent · May 7, 2026 · 8 min read Hermes Agent v0.13.0 — The Tenacity Release
The first time a network blip cost me a Hermes session, I was twenty minutes into a refactor and the agent had built up a map of the codebase in its head that I did not have. Gateway lost connection. Session ended. Map went with it. v0.13.0 — "The Tenacity Release" — shipped on May 7, 2026 with three different answers to the same question: how does an agent finish what it started? A durable multi-agent Kanban with heartbeats and zombie detection. A `/goal` command that locks an agent onto a target across conversation turns. Session durability that survives a gateway restart. Google Chat as the 20th platform, DeepSeek v4 Pro / Grok 4.3 / Owl-Alpha new in the picker, the CLI translated into seven languages.
Hermes Agent · April 30, 2026 · 7 min read Hermes Agent v0.12.0 — The Autonomous Release
I keep a folder of half-finished personal scripts I never quite delete. Most people have one. What broke my version of the loop was a backup tool that surfaced files I had not opened in a year — not deleting, just showing. On April 30, 2026, seven days after v0.11.0 rebuilt the interface, v0.12.0 shipped the first version of that idea I have seen inside an AI agent: an Autonomous Curator that grades, consolidates, and prunes your skill library on a seven-day cron, leaving a markdown report behind. Microsoft Teams (19th platform), Tencent Yuanbao (18th), Spotify, Google Meet, LM Studio first-class, ComfyUI v5 bundled — all share the spotlight with an agent that has learned to clean up after itself.
Hermes Agent · April 23, 2026 · 7 min read Hermes Agent v0.11.0 — The Interface Release
You can tell a tool's age by how much its TUI assumes you do not look at it. The Hermes terminal had been that kind of tool for a year. On April 23, 2026, eight days after v0.10.0, v0.11.0 shipped what the release notes call "the interface release" — a name that sounds underwhelming until you read the changelog. A complete React/Ink rewrite of the TUI runs against a Python JSON-RPC backend; a new pluggable transport architecture takes over the model layer across Anthropic / ChatCompletions / Responses API / Bedrock; five new inference paths land; the plugin surface widens to the point of being a different contract; `/steer` lets you nudge a running agent mid-flight. By the end of v0.11.0, the layer between you and Hermes is a different program from the one you had a week earlier.
Hermes Agent · April 16, 2026 · 5 min read Hermes Agent v0.10.0 — The Nous Tool Gateway
If you have spent time onboarding people onto a self-hosted agent, you have watched the same scene play out in slow motion: sign up, find key, paste, run wizard, tick box — for every single tool. On April 16, 2026, three days after v0.9.0, v0.10.0 took a chunk of that friction off the table. The Nous Tool Gateway lands as a managed pipeline: Nous Portal subscribers get Firecrawl-powered web search, FLUX 2 Pro image generation, OpenAI TTS, and Browser Use automation through their existing subscription — no per-tool keys, no per-tool billing, no per-tool dashboard to babysit.
Hermes Agent · April 13, 2026 · 7 min read Hermes Agent v0.9.0 — The Platform Sprint
The fastest way to tell whether an AI assistant is real is to ask it to text your mother. Until v0.9.0, Hermes Agent could not. On April 13, 2026 — five days after v0.8.0 patched its own brain — v0.9.0 fixed iMessage via BlueBubbles, WeChat through the iLink Bot API, and WeCom callback mode all in the same release, shipped a Local Web Dashboard, a `/fast` priority lane, native Android/Termux, full backup-and-import, and a security hardening pass — across 269 merged PRs in five days.
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.