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Hermes Agent v0.20.0 introduces grounded citations that link every research claim to a specific source and passage, plus a fact-checking mode that categorizes claims as confirmed, unverified, or contradicted.
Hermes Wingtips #41 introduces `hermes approvals suggest`, a command that mines past approvals to propose allowlist suggestions for recurring commands, letting users pick what to auto-approve while keeping manual control.
A community member benchmarked seven self-hostable memory providers for Hermes Agent, testing each with 71,060 conversation turns and 3,750 questions about changing facts; full results and GitHub repo are in the thread.
Teknium announces that Hermes Agent now supports the portable plugins standard adopted by major AI players, enabling compatibility with MCPs and Skills while retaining native plugin extensions.
Actual, a local inference stack with low CPU impact, now natively supports Hermes Agent by NousResearch, letting users leverage personal inference capacity from anywhere.
Hermes Agent v0.20.0 'The Herald' released with conversational voice and barge-in, grounded citations with fact-checking, outbound webhooks, desktop platform features, A2A protocol support, and major performance improvements.
The tweet suggests that running DeepSeek v4 Flash through the Hermes agent yields better output files than any other harness tested.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is highlighted for its extremely low cost when used in Hermes Agent, completing a prompt in 32 minutes for just $0.07, making it highly affordable for sustained use.
Hermes Agent now integrates with Buzz, Block's open-source, self-hostable Nostr-based workspace, enabling humans and AI agents to collaborate in shared channels. The integration offers three deployment modes: Buzz Desktop managed runtime, a relay bridge via ACP, and a native Hermes Gateway platform.
Oh-my-hermes (OMH) is a tool that enhances Hermes Agent with a stronger operating layer, adding planning, research, creation, coding handoffs, operations, and project memory with explicit evidence boundaries. It is open-source and installable with a single command.
oh-my-hermes is an all-in-one suite for Hermes Agent that adds memory management, coding orchestration, wiki building, and more, simplifying agent workflows and reducing the need for multiple plugins.
NousResearch announces a credential firewall for Docker sandboxes in Hermes Agent, using stand-in tokens and a local proxy to keep real keys secure, so tokens from a compromised sandbox are useless.
NousResearch released Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (Quicksilver release) with a changelog.
Niall Dabit explains a mental model for cloud agents as infinitely cloned laptop environments accessible via HTTP, and describes an experiment using a fork of Hermes Agent with DevinAI for automated fork maintenance.
Vertu's Alphafold luxury foldable phone, starting at $6,880, features an AI agent called Hermes Agent for executive tasks like document analysis, workflow automation, and travel planning. While the hardware is premium, the AI performance is tested against its value proposition.
This is a detailed tutorial on how to build an X/Twitter trending post monitoring tool using Grok CLI and Hermes Agent, from installing dependencies to writing scripts, configuring scheduled tasks, and finally pushing notifications via Telegram.
Note that Hermes Agent's web search defaults to the Nous Portal free tier (500 requests/month). Alternatives: DDGS (free, unlimited), SearXNG (self-hosted), Tavily/Exa (1000/month with full page reading), Brave (2000/month). Recommended combo: search with DDGS, read pages with Tavily, configure via ~/.hermes/config.yaml.
A thread recommending five essential community repositories for Hermes Agent, covering built-in skills, stealth browsing, GUI workspace, one-command setup, and payment security, with advice on what to skip.
The Blender MCP has been added to the Hermes Agent MCP Catalog, enabling easy activation and installation via a single command for AI-assisted 3D modeling.
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent, is finalizing a new funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, raising at least $75 million from investors including Robot Ventures and USV.