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Nous Research Ships Bot Mode: Hermes Agent Becomes a Multi-Bot Workspace With Named Bot Teammates If you have wanted one agent workspace where several assistants can join the same conversation, Nous Research just moved that idea forward. The lab behind the Hermes model family has released Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, turning the open-source autonomous … Read more

3,650 commits, 1,400 merged pull requests, and 647 contributors later, Hermes ships real-time voice you can interrupt, citations you can verify, and agents that talk to each other Hermes Agent v0.20.0, codenamed The Herald Release, shipped on August 3, 2026, as tag v2026.8.3. The numbers alone tell you this is no routine update. Roughly 3,650 … Read more

The Quicksilver Release introduces 0.9-second cold starts, live reasoning streams, smart approvals, crash recovery, improved secret management, and support for the latest AI models—making Hermes Agent faster, safer, and more capable than ever. You receive Your AI Assistant Just Got 80% Faster: Inside Hermes Agent v0.19.0 “The Quicksilver Release” and You wait four seconds. Then … Read more

A same-day patch replaces a fragile Git dependency with the official Baileys npm release, improving reliability for tagged releases, Docker images, and PyPI installations. You receive WhatsApp Bridge Fixed: Hermes Agent Drops Emergency Patch v0.18.2 Just Hours After Previous Release and Your Docker build failed again. You’re staring at the terminal, watching git/npm resolution errors … Read more

Discover how Hermes Agent’s new Mixture of Agents system combines multiple frontier AI models into a single collaborative workflow that can deliver stronger reasoning, better reliability, and more flexible AI assistance. You know the frustration. You open Claude for deep reasoning, switch to GPT for coding, then hop over to DeepSeek for technical analysis. Three … Read more

What if your AI stopped guessing and actually knew when the work was done? Not when it ran out of tokens. Not when it got tired of generating text. But when the task actually met your standards. On July 1, 2026, at precisely 20:08 UTC, NousResearch released Hermes Agent v0.18.0 to answer that question definitively. … Read more

What If Your AI Actually Managed Itself? You know that frustration. You’re in the middle of a complex workflow, and your AI assistant just… stops. Waiting. Frozen while it processes some tedious subtask you wish it would handle quietly in the background. Here’s the thing. The team at Nous Research just dropped Hermes Agent v0.17.0 … Read more