Announcements, milestones, and updates from the Hermes Agent project.
The latest Hermes release ships an autonomous background Curator that silently keeps your skill library sharp, a substantially upgraded self-improvement loop, four new inference providers, native Microsoft Teams integration, and a 57% reduction in TUI cold start time.
The Hermes Agent repository has crossed 100,000 GitHub stars, making it one of the fastest-growing open-source AI agent projects. Thank you to every contributor, user, and star-giver who made this milestone possible.
v2026.4.16 introduces the Tool Gateway — enabling web search, AI image generation, text-to-speech, and browser automation for Nous Portal subscribers. Hermes can now see, speak, and browse the web on your behalf.
v2026.4.13 adds native support for Android via Termux, extends messaging to iMessage and WeChat, and introduces Fast Mode for OpenAI and Anthropic providers to cut response latency significantly.
Hermes users can now access over 400 models through Nous Portal, including the full Hugging Face model catalog. This release also adds Telegram Private Chat Topics and Nix flake support for reproducible, declarative Hermes installations.
