Hermes Agent August Review
August started with v0.20.0, The Herald Release, and ended with v0.21.0, The Pantheon Release
2,868 PRs merged in one calendar month
I track this project every day, and even I had to double-check that number
That is more than 92 merged PRs every single day.
Between them came six patch releases, an 844 PR week, and 146 merges on August 31 alone.
Here is what defined the month:
Hermes found its voice
Real-time voice, barge-in, on-device wake words, grounded citations, signed webhooks, and A2A support all landed with Herald.
Hermes could speak naturally, verify its claims, connect with other agents, and push events directly into your systems.
Agent profiles became a real team
Bot Mode turned profiles into named agents with their own role, model, memory, skills, tools, avatar, and persistent chat.
Bots can message each other through hermes peer, work across different gateways, join group chats, and hand tasks to specialists.
This is where multi-agent stopped feeling like plumbing and started feeling like a team.
Cron jobs started remembering
Scheduled agents gained persistent memory, continuity between runs, durable notepads, and delivery directly into Bot Chats.
Monitor mode can even skip the model completely when nothing has changed, saving tokens and avoiding repetitive alerts.
Subagents became manageable
Hermes can now list, watch, steer, and stop background agents while they work.
You can inspect live progress, redirect a task mid-run, preserve partial results, validate outputs, and track delegation costs.
Spawning subagents was already useful.
Actually managing them changes everything.
MCP and browser automation matured
Desktop gained a proper MCP command center with imports, health checks, usage visibility, and install links.
Hermes can also control the browser inside Desktop, use Browser Use as its default backend, run Lightpanda locally, and work through a consent-gated copy of your real browser profile.
The foundation got stronger
August also brought:
• Keyless web search for fresh installs
• Better instruction and memory protection
• Deeper secret redaction
• OS keychain encryption
• Safer Windows command approvals
• More model providers and catalog options
• Six infrastructure patches for Docker, hosted, and fresh installs
August was the month Hermes stopped feeling like an agent with integrations
It started feeling like an operating system for a team of agents
Herald gave Hermes a voice, evidence, and connections
Pantheon gave its agents identities, memory, communication, and coordination
2,868 merged PRs
2 major releases
6 patch releases
The pace is ridiculous
The team and community behind it are even more impressive
Can’t wait to see what September will bring
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Daily Memecoin Recap - August 31
multiple 8 fig runners daily
Runner Of The Day
$boner -> $8m to $80m (10x)
- paired with $HIMS (telehealth) on robinhood
GoPro
$marketplier -> hit $3.9m
- youtuber markiplier put 30% of his net worth in go pro
- Go Pro stock up 100% including after hours
- plenty of influencers buying including
@ShaneStoffer
Liquidity On Robinhood
$up -> $44m to $593m (13x), dex w tokenized stocks
- made $180k on fees today
- 4th revenue generating protocol on robinhood
AI Trading Agent
$pickles -> hit $2.7m
- on robinhood
Donkey Killed By Cops
solana:EEpng77ZPn9FbgbT4xsRjwuxNCcMBYq3HTwEscyTpump -> hit $6.3m
Robinhood Launchpads
ethereum:0x07f5b6823751c2e2cd4560f28af75ff887102241 -> hit $442m, all time high’s daily
$hookr -> hit $20.7m, robinhood launchpad
solana:H1m95xHQiVwx39tkZGYDo8Bvyp1QJX8sVzYiPLtqPooL -> hit $3.6m
Stock Paired Memes
$ai -> hit $170m, paired with $nvidia - on robinhood
$moo -> hit $19.3m, paired with $mu
$spacehood -> hit $18.4m, paired with $spcx
$au -> hit $7m, paired with $TSM - au/tsm
$qc -> hit $5.2m, paired with $QUBT - low cap stock
$quant -> hit $4.8m, paired with $spy
$orbio -> hit $2.6m, paired with $nvidia
solana:HcRLc9VDgjLeK154xDawfb1dmVJ98DoSqcwTHGqiDeJR -> hit $2.2m, paired with $zec
Utility
solana:92LKNLj4aU9sjUKkgH5mQCuQTPSr42HwF2QrdWDApump -> hit $83m
$index -> hit $44m
$arrow -> hit $14.8m
clan-tech:native -> hit $9.2m
$two -> hit $7.5m
$otc -> hit $5.2m
$vlr -> hit $4.7m
$denar -> hit $3.1m, borrow against your stocks
More Cooks
$rabbit -> hit $10m
solana:EVgwa5CHBVwk6sCTa4QJrVXYBKngZhYqh2a2ZGDApump -> hit $7m, solana:CTuw8xEE15hKi2yB9n8CoLDq8ZhBLVbh8ydcuN11pump beta
$pongo -> hit $5.8m, dog meme on robinhood
$home -> hit $5.7m
solana:7TBkWkqohDZEoCAh1ykErGKyZzgFUEjxTv75xQeAvTeP -> hit $5m
$flork -> hit $2.4m
$hachi -> hit $2.3m
solana:97PVGU2DzFqsAWaYU17ZBqGvQFmkqtdMywYBNPAfy8vy -> hit $1.7m
$robincat -> hit $1.3m,
@robinhoodapp releasing something new - TBD
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Salt Lake City Police released bodycam from the August 31 officer-involved shooting of Dallas Clint Fowers, 37. The call came in at 8:30 p.m. to the Burger King at 575 East 400 South after a man hit a car and was screaming in the street.
Officers found him near the drive-through three minutes later and ordered him to sit down. He refused, then brandished a knife at officers and ignored repeated commands to drop it. An officer fired a Taser with four probes. It did nothing.
Fowers ran east toward 600 East, went around a patrol car, and kept the knife out as he entered an occupied parking lot near Café Zupas. Affidavit paperwork says people were in his path. Two officers fired and struck him.
He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No officers or bystanders were hurt. Fowers was later charged with assault on a police officer and related counts. Unified Police Protocol Team 2 is investigating.
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