Announcements, milestones, and updates from the Hermes Agent project.
Patch release. This tag rolls up the 776 PRs merged since v0.22.5 into a stable release for the GitHub release (CLI and installers), the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud. Full curated notes for this window ship with v0.23.0.
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Nous Research demonstrated ElevenLabs sound-effect generation inside Hermes Desktop, with looped playback, one-click variations, and a library of generated sounds.
The new plans combine daily, weekly, and monthly allowances, with an additional monthly limit for some expensive models. The Usage page shows reset times. Continuing with purchased credits is optional; switching from a legacy paid plan cannot be reversed.
Nous Research revamped Hermes Agent subscriptions: each new plan includes a cloud agent, and daily and weekly usage limits replace a single monthly block of credits. Existing subscribers can switch through the Nous Portal billing page.
The Advanced Delegation modes plugin lets the Hermes orchestrator choose a different model or Profile for each subagent from configured routes, matching the delegated task to an appropriate setup.
Nous Research warned on October 25 that official Hermes mobile apps were not yet available in app stores. It cautioned that third-party apps closely copying Hermes branding are typically fraudulent rather than legitimate community projects.
A stable patch rollup of 81 merged PRs adds a simpler Nous device sign-in, pluggable delegation backends, usage-window plan support, and update recovery fixes. Full curated notes are deferred to v0.23.0; bundled desktop installers do not change in this release.
This patch removes Desktop suggestion pills, skips empty plugin dependency prompts, fixes WhatsApp re-pairing after logout, and keeps the approval-mode chip aligned with the active profile. Bundled desktop installers wait for the next bundled release.
A stable patch rollup of about 620 merged PRs adds live MCP progress, plugin-declared OAuth clients, a refreshed classic CLI, plugin update controls, and queued-prompt editing. Full curated notes are deferred to v0.23.0; bundled desktop installers are unchanged.
This is the corrected release intended for v0.22.1, which was built from the wrong commit. It restores gateway startup after reboots and improves long local-model turns. Known issue: sessions that ran under the v0.22.1 gateway cannot be deleted in v0.22.2.
This patch introduced Windows Store and plugin-update fixes, model picker changes, and Korean and Brazilian Portuguese language packs. It was built from the wrong commit and included unreleased gateway work; v0.22.2 is the corrected release.
The Threshold Release brings guided first-launch setup with a free trial model, hosted app connectors, one-click local models, signed desktop packages, and a unified package manager. It also adds a 600-plugin catalog, shared gateway/backend processes, and live subagent controls.
Official source installs now follow tagged stable releases, with a Desktop channel selector and an opt-in main channel. Signed reasoning survives resumed sessions, and GitHub update checks handle authentication and regional firewall errors more clearly.
The first SemVer release from the new stable pipeline rolls up about 2,100 merged PRs for Docker and Hermes Cloud. It hardens dashboard authentication, untrusted Git filters, and email sender checks. Desktop, Termux, and Microsoft Store bundles are unchanged.
Nous Research announced Sign in with ChatGPT for Nous Portal on September 29. Users can log into Portal with ChatGPT to use their plan in Hermes Agent, with visibility and controls in ChatGPT settings. The linking option is under Account Settings > Linked Accounts.
Hermes v0.21.5 packages 460 merged PRs into a stable tag. The update includes expanded Desktop plugin APIs, Simple/Advanced interface modes, a unified Connectors page, French/German/Spanish Desktop UI translations, RTL/LTR text settings, and GPT-6 Sol/Terra/Luna and Claude Opus 5.5 catalog entries. Full curated notes are deferred to v0.22.0.
Hermes v0.21.4 rolls up roughly 1,800 merged PRs for Docker, Hermes Cloud, and hosted deployments. The release window includes a host-wide gateway singleton lock, Desktop reuse of the running backend, unified connector setup, stream-json CLI output, automatic skill loading, bounded session search, and profile, cron, Kanban, and state.db fixes. Full curated notes are deferred to v0.22.0.
Hermes v0.21.3 fixes remote Desktop and Cloud sign-in sessions expiring during concurrent token refreshes, moves refresh work off the event loop, and stops long-lived processes leaking duplicate state.db writer handles. The stable tag packages 338 merged PRs; full curated notes for the wider release window are deferred to v0.22.0.
The v0.21.2 state.db Patch Release fixes session-store lock contention, false database-corruption reports, FTS failure isolation, malformed-row crashes, and cross-profile database access. It also rolls up four days of post-v0.21.1 stability work.
Hermes v0.21.0 adds a built-in society of named desktop bots and group chats, persistent cron memory, live subagent steering, a unified MCP command center, and direct agent control of the desktop browser.
Hermes v0.20.0 introduces real-time conversational voice with barge-in and on-device wake words, A2A v1.0, signed outbound webhooks, grounded citations with fact-checking, and a Desktop platform for live-preview artifacts and plugins.
v0.19.1 packages more than 1,000 merged PRs into a stable release for Docker images, hosted deployments, and fresh installs, with broad gateway, voice, desktop, and installer reliability work.
Hermes v0.19.0 cuts first-turn time-to-first-token by about 80%, speeds up Desktop and TUI streaming, adds terminal and Desktop subscription management, makes smart command approvals the default, integrates Bitwarden and 1Password secret sources, and makes subagent and message delivery durable across restarts.
A same-day follow-up to v0.18.1 moves the WhatsApp Baileys bridge dependency from a pinned Git commit to its published npm release. Tagged Hermes Docker builds can now install this dependency reliably.
This infrastructure-focused patch rolls the post-v0.18.0 stability work into a tagged release for Docker images, hosted deployments, and PyPI installs, including installer, dashboard, gateway, WhatsApp, MCP, and provider fixes.
Hermes v0.18.0 closes every tracked P0 and P1 at release time and adds first-class Mixture-of-Agents models, completion contracts and verification evidence for /goal, /learn and /journey, background fan-out, coding Projects in Desktop, and scale-to-zero gateway coordination.
v0.17.0 adds iMessage through Photon, the Raft agent network, background subagents, image editing, automation blueprints, an expanded Hermes Desktop, a browser-based profile builder, a rebuilt Skills Hub, and a more capable memory tool.
Hermes now ships a native desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows with one-click install, in-app self-update, drag-and-drop chat files, an inline model picker, concurrent profiles, Simplified Chinese UI, remote gateway sign-in, a fuller web admin panel, Quick Setup through Nous Portal, NVIDIA/skills as a trusted tap, fuzzy model search, and /undo.
Rather than repeating every Desktop launch article, this selected external report captures the broader press angle: Hermes Desktop is available as a public preview on macOS, Windows, and Linux, with persistent memory, natural-language task planning, multi-channel operation, web search, image generation, speech, and sandboxed execution backends.
The v0.15.1 patch fixes the loopback dashboard 401 reload storm, makes Docker dashboard insecure mode an explicit opt-in, restores Skills page source/category pills, and improves MCP bare-command resolution inside Docker containers.
The Velocity Release refactors run_agent.py into focused agent modules, turns Kanban into a multi-agent platform, cuts cold-start and per-turn overhead, rebuilds session_search to be fast and free, adds promptware defenses, skill bundles, new image providers, a Nous-approved MCP catalog, OpenHands orchestration, ntfy messaging, and deep xAI support.
Hermes adds SuperGrok OAuth with a 1M-context Grok path, an OpenAI-compatible local proxy for OAuth-backed providers, first-class X search, end-to-end Microsoft Teams support, lighter installs, PyPI packaging, faster browser CDP calls, LINE and SimpleX Chat, Windows beta support, new optional skills, and Hugging Face as a trusted skills tap.
The Tenacity Release adds durable multi-agent Kanban, persistent /goal tracking, Checkpoints v2, gateway auto-resume, no_agent cron watchdog mode, stronger security defaults, Google Chat as another platform, provider plugins, and seven new i18n locales.
The 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 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.
MarkTechPost covered Hermes Agent as an open-source autonomous system built to address memory decay and environmental isolation, highlighting skill documents, persistent workspace access, and local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, and Modal execution backends.
