YanXbt (@IBuzovskyi)

HERMES AGENT v0.17.0 JUST SHIPPED. "THE REACH RELEASE." 1,475 COMMITS. 800 PRs. 245 CONTRIBUTORS. HERMES NOW REACHES IMESSAGE, RAFT NETWORK, AND CURSOR'S COMPOSER MODEL. the highlights: @NousResearch iMESSAGE WITHOUT A MAC RELAY Photon Spectrum integration ships native iMessage support. no Mac in a closet. no BlueBubbles bridge. hermes photon login → device code auth → done. Hermes lives in the blue bubbles now. ASYNC SUBAGENTS NO LONGER BLOCK YOUR CHAT delegate_task(background=true) dispatches a subagent that runs in the background. returns a handle immediately. you keep working. result re-enters as a new turn when it finishes. long research dives stop blocking your main session. IMAGE EDITING, NOT JUST GENERATION image_generate now edits source images. "make this logo blue." "remove the background." "turn this sketch into a render." works across every supported image provider. same tool, new mode. CURSOR'S COMPOSER MODEL VIA GROK OAUTH grok-composer-2.5-fast is in the xAI model picker. 200k context window. fast coding model behind Cursor. your Grok subscription. Hermes's agent loop. no separate API key needed. AUTOMATION BLUEPRINTS schedule tasks without learning cron syntax. "daily news briefing at 8am" becomes a form. one blueprint definition renders everywhere: dashboard form, CLI slash command, Telegram chat, docs catalog entry. answer questions, not memorize 0 8 * * *. FULL PROFILE BUILDER IN DASHBOARD build a complete Hermes profile from the browser. pick model. choose skills. attach MCPs. no config.yaml editing. plus unified multi-profile view with global switcher. SKILLS HUB BROWSER REHAUL connected hubs (OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, NVIDIA). Featured section. full skill previews before install. security scan on each skill. browsing skills is a real browsing experience now. ATOMIC MEMORY OPERATIONS memory tool gained an operations array. batch add/replace/remove edits applied atomically. the model can free space and add entries in ONE call even when individual adds would overflow the budget. memory updates no longer fail mid-edit. CURATOR STOPPED SPENDING TOKENS BY DEFAULT deterministic skill pruning still runs free. LLM-powered consolidation now opt-in only: curator.consolidate: true to enable. routine background curation costs you zero tokens. WHATSAPP BUSINESS CLOUD API official Meta adapter alongside existing Baileys bridge. no QR-scanning bridge process to keep alive. hosted, first-party WhatsApp channel. TELEGRAM RICH MESSAGES (BOT API 10.1) proper rich formatting. cleaner long-message handling. native markup instead of flattened text. on by default. opt-out available. DESKTOP APP IS NOW A DAILY DRIVER rebindable keyboard shortcuts. native OS notifications. live subagent watch-windows streaming activity. composer model selector with per-model presets. automatic RTL/bidi text. resizable VS Code terminal pane. per-thread composer drafts. install ANY VS Code Marketplace theme. RAFT AGENT NETWORK new bundled adapter connects Hermes to raft. build as an external agent. wake-channel bridge. privacy by contract: wake payloads carry metadata only, never message bodies. SECURE DASHBOARD LOGIN every token-required endpoint returns 401 behind OAuth gate. websocket auth uses served dashboard token. public_url override warnings. exposing your dashboard to the network is safer by default. upgrade: hermes update 300+ issues closed. security round included. hermes-agent ecosystem now at 198K GitHub stars.

HERMES AGENT JUST LAUNCHED A NATIVE DESKTOP APP. macOS. WINDOWS. LINUX. DOWNLOAD, OPEN, START. Hermes Desktop is now in public preview. first demoed at Jensen's GTC keynote. native app with: → side-by-side preview pane → built-in file browser → integrated voice and TTS → image generation built in → multi-model reasoning → same data directory as CLI → switch between Desktop and CLI anytime what your agent can do from the app: → persistent memory across sessions → natural-language cron jobs → isolated subagents with zero-context-cost → browser automation and web search → 27+ messaging platforms from one gateway → 5 sandbox backends with container hardening (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal) open source. MIT license. v0.15.2. download link in the comments. full Hermes setup guide in the article 👇