For our Accelerated Business Hackathon with @NVIDIAAI and @stripe, we asked builders to make agents that can earn, spend, and run real operations at any scale. We judged 292 excellent submissions alongside NVIDIA and Stripe, and now have our winners.

Prior to today, tool calls would work in parallel only if all were safe to parallelize. Now you gain big speedups for parallel tool calls so long as any subset are parallelizable. Check it out

The Hermes Desktop app can now discover and connect to your Hermes Cloud agents. Sign in with Nous Portal and any active Cloud instances are auto-discovered.

I made a short video showing how to set up a Hermes agent in this Cloud (spoiler: actually took a bit less than 60 seconds to spin it up). I usually use agents with my local device, but I've found that having one on a VPS can be really useful, especially for automation and cron jobs. You can use wakeAgent or noAgent pre-run scripts to poll a state regularly and then perform a task as needed, without worrying about keeping your device (or gateway) online or sharing resources with your day-to-day work. Everything managed through Nous Portal with easy access to the web dashboard is pretty nice too, take a look!

Hermes Agent can now export your agent sessions, or sets of sessions, into a variety of formats and places. Get full conversations out in HTML, Markdown, JSON and more, or upload entire datasets of your sessions to private @huggingface repos with ease. You also get all the filters to help select with that we added for the session pruning, so you can collect them up by model, date ranges, conversation source (i.e. cronjob or telegram), and much more! `hermes update` and you'll have full control over your data to export, inspect, share, and store however you like!

When it comes to Chess, @viditchess is an absolute legend. Recently, he entered the Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon to see who could build the best agent using Nemotron. Here's what he submitted. Special thanks to @stripe & @NousResearch 🤝

Hy3, the new 295B MoE model from @TencentHunyuan, is now free in Nous Portal for the next two weeks! It is focused on cost-effective agentic use, and particularly strong on coding, tool-calling reliability, reasoning, and 256K long-context tasks.

Big update to managing your past sessions in Hermes Agent. Now you can prune or archive with a huge array of filters to clean up your session DB without losing anything you don't want to lose. Get rid of things based on timeframes, models used, users, the working directory the session was in, and much much more. Just `hermes update` to get access to all the pruning options now.

I made a Hermes Agent slash command cheat sheet a while back. @NousResearch has shipped a ton of new stuff since then, so I tonight, I rebuilt it from scratch. Every official slash command as of 7.4.2026. Bookmark it. Study it. Become a HERMES LEGEND. 🤘

Happy Fourth of July! We want to expand the plugin interface of Hermes Agent so that many developers who have PRs waiting for very long periods can implement stable changes that they can share and publish without having to worry about getting their feature etc merged and want your suggestions on where to expand the interfaces. With plugins, you can implement features, fixes, security layers, whatever you can think, so long as the interface for those plugins exists. If you have ideas for an expanded plugin interface that should be implemented, please reply in the thread of this post! We will see what we can do on that front over the next week!

I'm interested in how you're all running Hermes day to day. drop your setup below, I'm mapping what the community reaches for. I'm mostly curious about: - model: your daily driver, plus MoA or a local model if you run one - memory: built-in, an Obsidian vault, or another layer - interface: TUI, Desktop, or a Messaging gateway - orchestration: kanban, delegate_task, subagents in tmux, /goal - the skills or MCP servers you'd miss if they were gone no setup is too small. I'll gather the common patterns and share them back.

Hermes Agent is built for sovereignty and constructing your AI stack how you want and need it to be. No vendor lockins, no model limitations, and most importantly, your IP is built through the self improvement loop, automatically. Hermes sets you free 🪽

i'm open sourcing UNBROKER: a tool that finds where your personal info is exposed by data brokers and files the removals for you it runs as a skill in Hermes Agent _________ your data is everywhere; hundreds of brokers publish your name, current and old addresses, phone, email, birthday, even your relatives. anyone can find where you live in about ten seconds CCPA, CPRA, GDPR, and a growing number of state laws say a broker has to delete your data if you ask. there's just no easy bulk button. every broker has a different process and many make it intentionally difficult to exercise your right to delete this is the entire business model for companies like DeleteMe, Incogni, EasyOptOuts; they charge you monthly (DeleteMe is $330/yr for a Family plan) to file removals that you can submit yourself for free, and then you're giving a new company the exact data you want to erase so i built one you just run for free. your data never even has to leave your machine if you run a local model _________ how it works: first it builds search vectors from everything: every name, alias, email, phone, and address you've had (brokers might index you under a maiden name or a house you left in 2014, so the naive "current name + current city" approach can miss profiles). then it fans out parallel sub-agents across the broker list, which refreshes from a maintained public source automation is tiered. when it can handle a broker end to end with your settings, it drives a browser through the opt-out form, sends the email, and opens the confirmation link itself. soft CAPTCHAs clear on their own with a real browser. anything only a human can finish comes back to you as a short list at the end the email side doesn't need a stored password and can send opt-outs and open verification links through your own logged-in webmail. you can also wire up SMTP, or keep it manual and just send the drafts it writes it tailors every request to your jurisdiction, filing under the framework that applies where you live: CCPA and CPRA in California, GDPR in the EU and UK, a general right-to-delete request everywhere else. if you're in California it also uses the state's DROP portal, a single request that covers 500+ registered brokers at once it holds as little of your data as it can, and keeps it local. dossiers are encrypted at rest if you want, opaque ids keep your real name out of every filename and log, and nothing leaves your machine unless you opt in brokers sometimes relist you eventually or new ones find your data, so every case is tracked in a ledger and can be re-scanned on a cron schedule so if your data pops back up it files the removal again