The agent that
grows with you

• ▸ *Release Date:** October 22, 2026
• ▸ *Full curated release notes for this window ship with v0.23.0**, which will document everything from v0.22.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.
• ▸ Microsoft Store app: updates through the Store.
• ▸ Desktop app installed from the installer (.exe / .dmg): no change in this release; it updates with the next bundled release.
• ▸ CLI: hermes update, or re-run the installer one-liner.

Hermes Agent v0.22.5

Release Date: October 22, 2026

> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~81 PRs merged since v0.22.4 into a stable release for the GitHub release (CLI and installers), the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud. Full curated notes for this window ship with v0.23.0.

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About this release

Measured at commit bf0203a794a, the window since v0.22.4 contains 231 non-merge commits across 804 changed files (+35,212 / −17,885), 81 merged PRs and 30 closed issues.

Also in the window, undocumented here on purpose: Nous sign-in reworked (every sign-in is the plain device login, the free-tier guest hands over to your account, the result shows who signed in, connectors offer sign-in instead of opening a guest), hermes update holding back a stable release it refuses instead of offering it, Windows hermes update no longer stuck on the old launcher after a Python repin, usage-window plan support (plan gauges, limit cards and model-switch recovery for window-based plans), pluggable delegation backends (route subagents by model map or profile, switchable per session), plugin slash commands that can ask you to pick an option, hermes import-agent, OpenClaw migration, hermes mcp serve and the Singularity backend moving out of core into plugins (setup offers the importer when it finds another agent), Desktop drag-to-pin in the sidebar and one-click plugin installs with tier badges, the Electron 44 upgrade, Pillow 13 and a batch of dependency security bumps, a clear message when a chat's working folder is gone, hermes update recovering paused gateways after a damaged .git, long Claude DirectSDK answers no longer cut off by the stall timer, Desktop group chats showing which bot is working again, and the experimental webhook-mode MCP events client.

Full curated release notes for this window ship with v0.23.0, which will document everything from v0.22.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.

Updating

• Microsoft Store app: updates through the Store.


• Desktop app installed from the installer (.exe / .dmg): no change in this release; it updates with the next bundled release.


• CLI: hermes update, or re-run the installer one-liner.


• Docker / Hermes Cloud: nousresearch/hermes-agent:stable (or :latest).

Full Changelog: [v0.22.4...v0.22.5](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v0.22.4...v0.22.5)

Hermes Agent v0.22.4

Release Date: October 21, 2026

> Patch release. Desktop stops showing suggestion pills above the composer, plus small plugin and dashboard fixes, for the CLI and installer, the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud.

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Fixes

• Desktop no longer shows suggestion pills above the composer. The pills appeared for no clear reason, mostly nudging you to set up MCP servers. They and the helpers that only they used are gone. ([#142559](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/142559))


• Plugins that install nothing skip the dependency consent step. A plugin that declares no dependencies, or whose pyproject.toml installs nothing, now enables without an empty consent prompt. ([#142569](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/142569))


• Dashboard: WhatsApp can be safely re-paired after logging out. ([#142439](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/142439))


• Desktop plugin review: the surface lint no longer flags prototype writes; reviewers check them by hand. ([#142586](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/142586))


• Desktop: the approval-mode chip follows the active profile's mode. ([#142565](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/142565))


• Release builds: the desktop bundle's pre-build check gets enough time to verify archived build inputs when storage is slow. ([#142623](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/142623))

Also new in the plugin catalog: bubblewrap (bwrap terminal backend on Linux), Singularity/Apptainer, mcp-serve (Hermes as an MCP server), agent-importers (hermes import-agent, now with Cursor), inbox and workflow-record from Hermes Labs. Telegram Business moves to the Hermes Labs community tier.

About this release

Measured at commit 4d04303818b, the window since v0.22.3 contains 14 non-merge commits across 82 changed files (+1,475 / −3,022) and 13 merged PRs.

Updating

• Microsoft Store app: updates through the Store.


• Desktop app installed from the installer (.exe / .dmg): no change in this release; it updates with the next bundled release.


• CLI: hermes update, or re-run the installer one-liner.


• Docker / Hermes Cloud: nousresearch/hermes-agent:stable (or :latest).

Full Changelog: [v0.22.3...v0.22.4](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v0.22.3...v0.22.4)

Hermes Agent v0.22.3

Release Date: October 21, 2026

> Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~620 PRs merged since v0.22.2 into a stable release for the CLI and installer, the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud. Full curated notes for this window ship with v0.23.0.

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About this release

Measured at commit 5b147ab036d, the window since v0.22.2 contains 2,911 non-merge commits across 4,206 changed files (+360,278 / −64,308), about 620 merged PRs and 326 closed issues.

Also in the window, undocumented here on purpose: MCP progress notifications streamed as live tool progress, a refreshed classic CLI layout (glyph transcript, status line under the composer, two-line header), OAuth clients that plugins declare and Hermes signs in and refreshes, hermes plugins update offering every available plugin update plus an Update button for git-installed plugins in Desktop, steering and editing a queued prompt from Desktop, a guided subagent model and provider picker in Desktop, a live /loop countdown row in the CLI and TUI, opt-in Telegram DM topic transfer, a post_compaction plugin hook, a capabilities catalog, the Microsoft Store build going live automatically when a release publishes, session auto-prune back to opt-in with a one-time prompt when disk runs low, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt and one-slot DFlash drafts in the local runtime, and dozens of new plugin catalog entries.

Full curated release notes for this window ship with v0.23.0, which will document everything from v0.22.0 onward — highlights, feature areas, and complete contributor credits. Nothing in this window is skipped.

Updating

• Microsoft Store app: updates through the Store.


• Desktop app installed from the installer (.exe / .dmg): no change in this release; it updates with the next bundled release.


• CLI: hermes update, or re-run the installer one-liner.


• Docker / Hermes Cloud: nousresearch/hermes-agent:stable (or :latest).

Full Changelog: [v0.22.2...v0.22.3](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/compare/v0.22.2...v0.22.3)