Hermes Agent has had some MASSIVE updates the last month NOBODY is talking about - Bot mode - Local AI mode - Improved subagents - Hermes HUD and much more It's the most powerful open source agent ever In this video I cover EVERY new change and how to get the most out of them

Hermes Agent is basically getting its own htop. 🪽 Coming soon: hermes monitor One live dashboard showing: - active Hermes sessions - gateways + backends - Kanban workers - delegated agents - helper processes - CPU + memory usage Across your profiles and installs. If you run Hermes like I do, this is going to be ridiculously useful.

Hermes Agent’s Kanban just got a MASSIVE UI upgrade. 🪽 And this is way more than a fresh coat of paint. - New two-column task view - Comments, Activity, Runs + Worker Logs in one clean feed - Dependencies show actual linked tasks - Full Markdown rendering - Cleaner properties, spacing + controls It’s starting to feel less like an “AI feature” and more like an actual command center for autonomous work. @NousResearch absolutely cooked on this one. Watch this. 👇

Hermes has a killer command for those “wait, what if we tried this instead?” moments. 🔥 It’s called /branch. It copies your conversation so you can explore a completely different direction with the context you’ve already built, instead of explaining everything again. › Planning a campaign? Explore a different target audience without mixing both approaches into the same discussion. › Researching a topic? Take an interesting side question into its own conversation instead of burying your main research. › Planning a trip? Explore a cheaper itinerary while keeping the original trip discussion intact. For example, send: /branch alternative-campaign Then continue in the branch: “What would this campaign look like for a completely different audience?” And it just got more useful in messaging apps. In supported Discord, Telegram, Slack and Matrix chats, the branch now opens in its own thread. Your original chat stays on the original conversation. In the CLI and chats without thread support, it switches you into the copy instead.

Hermes Agent is getting MUCH deeper macOS integration. 🪽 Coming soon to the MCP catalog: -- Apple Mail -- Apple Notes -- Apple Numbers -- Apple Photos And these aren't just read-only toys. Hermes can search your mail, reply to messages, create and update notes, work with Numbers spreadsheets, search your Photos library and more. All running locally through your Mac. hermes mcp install apple-notes Done. This is EXACTLY the kind of agent integration I want. PR:

Hermes desktop users now can watch bot’s screens while they work and take the control over when needed. “Watching how someone else works is one of the most joyful states for a human being” I need to teach them “testing” 👀

Hermes Agent is adding persistent identities for images across a session. 🪽 Every image you attach gets a session-wide identity: Image #1# Image #2# Image #3# But here's the important part: Hermes sees those SAME labels. Upload a pile of screenshots and later tell it: “Find the problem in Image #4#.” “Compare #2# and #6#.” “Go back to Image #1#.” No more guessing which damn image the agent thinks you're talking about. Small feature. BIG quality-of-life improvement. 🔥

Hermes can now have its own desktop. 🔥 If your Hermes agent runs on Linux, Bot Screen gives it a separate desktop where it can use the browser, terminal and apps without taking over yours. You can watch it work live. Need to handle a login, 2FA or CAPTCHA? Take control yourself, finish the step, hand the screen back and let Hermes keep going. This is a seriously cool upgrade for anyone running remote or always-on Hermes agents. @tonbistudio breaks it down for us 👀

Hermes Desktop now has a mode for when you don’t need the whole control room. Simple Mode strips the interface back to the conversation without taking away what Hermes can actually do. It tucks away the terminal, files, review panes, status bar, technical tool output and other developer machinery. Switch back to Advanced and your full workspace returns exactly as you left it. The Layout Editor goes a lot deeper than Simple vs Advanced too: → Default, Basic, Focus, Terminal deck and Quad layouts → Build your own custom grid → Split, merge and resize zones → Drag panes between zones → Save your own layouts as reusable templates Clean when you want it. Full cockpit when you don’t.

Hermes Wingtips #79#: `agent[.]disabled_toolsets` Hermes Agent picks its tools per platform: the CLI, Telegram, Discord and the rest each keep their own list of toolsets, set in `hermes tools`. this key is one list above all of them. a toolset named here is removed everywhere at once, on the CLI and on every gateway platform. it is applied after the per-platform lists. `web` takes web_search and web_extract out of every session. `memory` removes the memory tools and also drops the memory guidance from the prompt.