Hermes Agent v0.10.0 (v2026.4.16)

Release Date: April 16, 2026

The Tool Gateway release — paid Nous Portal subscribers can now use web search, image generation, text-to-speech, and browser automation through their existing subscription with zero additional API keys.

✨ Highlights

• Nous Tool Gateway — Paid Nous Portal subscribers now get automatic access to web search (Firecrawl), image generation (FAL / FLUX 2 Pro), text-to-speech (OpenAI TTS), and browser automation (Browser Use) through their existing subscription. No separate API keys needed — just run hermes model, select Nous Portal, and pick which tools to enable. Per-tool opt-in via use_gateway config, full integration with hermes tools and hermes status, and the runtime correctly prefers the gateway even when direct API keys exist. Replaces the old hidden HERMES_ENABLE_NOUS_MANAGED_TOOLS env var with clean subscription-based detection. (#11206, based on work by @jquesnelle; docs: #11208)

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

This release includes 180+ commits with numerous bug fixes, platform improvements, and reliability enhancements across the agent core, gateway, CLI, and tool system. Full details will be published in the v0.11.0 changelog.

👥 Contributors

• @jquesnelle (emozilla) — Original Tool Gateway implementation (#10799), salvaged and shipped in this release

Full Changelog: v2026.4.13...v2026.4.16

Hermes Agent v0.9.0 (v2026.4.13)

Release Date: April 13, 2026 Since v0.8.0: 487 commits · 269 merged PRs · 167 resolved issues · 493 files changed · 63,281 insertions · 24 contributors

The everywhere release — Hermes goes mobile with Termux/Android, adds iMessage and WeChat, ships Fast Mode for OpenAI and Anthropic, introduces background process monitoring, launches a local web dashboard for managing your agent, and delivers the deepest security hardening pass yet across 16 supported platforms.

✨ Highlights

• Local Web Dashboard — A new browser-based dashboard for managing your Hermes Agent locally. Configure settings, monitor sessions, browse skills, and manage your gateway — all from a clean web interface without touching config files or the terminal. The easiest way to get started with Hermes.

• Fast Mode (/fast) — Priority processing for OpenAI and Anthropic models. Toggle /fast to route through priority queues for significantly lower latency on supported models (GPT-5.4, Codex, Claude). Expands across all OpenAI Priority Processing models and Anthropic's fast tier. (#6875, #6960, #7037)

• iMessage via BlueBubbles — Full iMessage integration through BlueBubbles, bringing Hermes to Apple's messaging ecosystem. Auto-webhook registration, setup wizard integration, and crash resilience. (#6437, #6460, #6494)

• WeChat (Weixin) & WeCom Callback Mode — Native WeChat support via iLink Bot API and a new WeCom callback-mode adapter for self-built enterprise apps. Streaming cursor, media uploads, markdown link handling, and atomic state persistence. Hermes now covers the Chinese messaging ecosystem end-to-end. (#7166, #7943)

• Termux / Android Support — Run Hermes natively on Android via Termux. Adapted install paths, TUI optimizations for mobile screens, voice backend support, and the /image command work on-device. (#6834)

• Background Process Monitoring (watch_patterns) — Set patterns to watch for in background process output and get notified in real-time when they match. Monitor for errors, wait for specific events ("listening on port"), or watch build logs — all without polling. (#7635)

• Native xAI & Xiaomi MiMo Providers — First-class provider support for xAI (Grok) and Xiaomi MiMo, with direct API access, model catalogs, and setup wizard integration. Plus Qwen OAuth with portal request support. (#7372, #7855)

• Pluggable Context Engine — Context management is now a pluggable slot via hermes plugins. Swap in custom context engines that control what the agent sees each turn — filtering, summarization, or domain-specific context injection. (#7464)

• Unified Proxy Support — SOCKS proxy, DISCORD_PROXY, and system proxy auto-detection across all gateway platforms. Hermes behind corporate firewalls just works. (#6814)

• Comprehensive Security Hardening — Path traversal protection in checkpoint manager, shell injection neutralization in sandbox writes, SSRF redirect guards in Slack image uploads, Twilio webhook signature validation (SMS RCE fix), API server auth enforcement, git argument injection prevention, and approval button authorization. (#7933, #7944, #7940, #7151, #7156)

• hermes backup & hermes import — Full backup and restore of your Hermes configuration, sessions, skills, and memory. Migrate between machines or create snapshots before major changes. (#7997)

• 16 Supported Platforms — With BlueBubbles (iMessage) and WeChat joining Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix, Email, SMS, DingTalk, Feishu, WeCom, Mattermost, Home Assistant, and Webhooks, Hermes now runs on 16 messaging platforms out of the box.

• /debug & hermes debug share — New debugging toolkit: /debug slash command across all platforms for quick diagnostics, plus hermes debug share to upload a full debug report to a pastebin for easy sharing when troubleshooting. (#8681)

🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture

Provider & Model Support

• Native xAI (Grok) provider with direct API access and model catalog (#7372)
• Xiaomi MiMo as first-class provider — setup wizard, model catalog, empty response recovery (#7855)
• Qwen OAuth provider with portal request support (#6282)
• Fast Mode — /fast toggle for OpenAI Priority Processing + Anthropic fast tier (#6875, #6960, #7037)
• Structured API error classification for smart failover decisions (#6514)
• Rate limit header capture shown in /usage (#6541)
• API server model name derived from profile name (#6857)
• Custom providers now included in /model listings and resolution (#7088)
• Fallback provider activation on repeated empty responses with user-visible status (#7505)
• OpenRouter variant tags (:free, :extended, :fast) preserved during model switch (#6383)
• Credential exhaustion TTL reduced from 24 hours to 1 hour (#6504)
• OAuth credential lifecycle hardening — stale pool keys, auth.json sync, Codex CLI race fixes (#6874)
• Empty response recovery for reasoning models (MiMo, Qwen, GLM) (#8609)
• MiniMax context lengths, thinking guard, endpoint corrections (#6082, #7126)
• Z.AI endpoint auto-detect via probe and cache (#5763)

Agent Loop & Conversation

• Pluggable context engine slot via hermes plugins (#7464)
• Background process monitoring — watch_patterns for real-time output alerts (#7635)
• Improved context compression — higher limits, tool tracking, degradation warnings, token-budget tail protection (#6395, #6453)
• /compress <focus> — guided compression with a focus topic (#8017)
• Tiered context pressure warnings with gateway dedup (#6411)
• Staged inactivity warning before timeout escalation (#6387)
• Prevent agent from stopping mid-task — compression floor, budget overhaul, activity tracking (#7983)
• Propagate child activity to parent during delegate_task (#7295)
• Truncated streaming tool call detection before execution (#6847)
• Empty response retry (3 attempts with nudge) (#6488)
• Adaptive streaming backoff + cursor strip to prevent message truncation (#7683)
• Compression uses live session model instead of stale persisted config (#8258)
• Strip <thought> tags from Gemma 4 responses (#8562)
• Prevent <think> in prose from suppressing response output (#6968)
• Turn-exit diagnostic logging to agent loop (#6549)
• Scope tool interrupt signal per-thread to prevent cross-session leaks (#7930)

Memory & Sessions

• Hindsight memory plugin — feature parity, setup wizard, config improvements — @nicoloboschi (#6428)
• Honcho — opt-in initOnSessionStart for tools mode — @Kathie-yu (#6995)
• Orphan children instead of cascade-deleting in prune/delete (#6513)
• Doctor command only checks the active memory provider (#6285)

📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)

New Platforms

• BlueBubbles (iMessage) — full adapter with auto-webhook registration, setup wizard, and crash resilience (#6437, #6460, #6494, #7107)
• Weixin (WeChat) — native support via iLink Bot API with streaming, media uploads, markdown links (#7166, #8665)
• WeCom Callback Mode — self-built enterprise app adapter with atomic state persistence (#7943, #7928)

Discord

• Allowed channels whitelist config — @jarvis-phw (#7044)
• Forum channel topic inheritance in thread sessions — @hermes-agent-dhabibi (#6377)
• DISCORD_REPLY_TO_MODE setting (#6333)
• Accept .log attachments, raise document size limit — @kira-ariaki (#6467)
• Decouple readiness from slash sync (#8016)

Slack

• Consolidated Slack improvements — 7 community PRs salvaged into one (#6809)
• Handle assistant thread lifecycle events (#6433)

Matrix

• Migrated from matrix-nio to mautrix-python (#7518)
• SQLite crypto store replacing pickle (fixes E2EE decryption) — @alt-glitch (#7981)
• Cross-signing recovery key verification for E2EE migration (#8282)
• DM mention threads + group chat events for Feishu (#7423)

Gateway Core

• Unified proxy support — SOCKS, DISCORD_PROXY, multi-platform with macOS auto-detection (#6814)
• Inbound text batching for Discord, Matrix, WeCom + adaptive delay (#6979)
• Surface natural mid-turn assistant messages in chat platforms (#7978)
• WSL-aware gateway with smart systemd detection (#7510)
• All missing platforms added to setup wizard (#7949)
• Per-platform tool_progress overrides (#6348)
• Configurable 'still working' notification interval (#8572)
• /model switch persists across messages (#7081)
• /usage shows rate limits, cost, and token details between turns (#7038)
• Drain in-flight work before restart (#7503)
• Don't evict cached agent on failed runs — prevents MCP restart loop (#7539)
• Replace os.environ session state with contextvars (#7454)
• Derive channel directory platforms from enum instead of hardcoded list (#7450)
• Validate image downloads before caching (cross-platform) (#7125)
• Cross-platform webhook delivery for all platforms (#7095)
• Cron Discord thread_id delivery support (#7106)
• Feishu QR-based bot onboarding (#8570)
• Gateway status scoped to active profile (#7951)
• Prevent background process notifications from triggering false pairing requests (#6434)

🖥️ CLI & User Experience

Interactive CLI

• Termux / Android support — adapted install paths, TUI, voice, /image (#6834)
• Native /model picker modal for provider → model selection (#8003)
• Live per-tool elapsed timer restored in TUI spinner (#7359)
• Stacked tool progress scrollback in TUI (#8201)
• Random tips on new session start (CLI + gateway, 279 tips) (#8225, #8237)
• hermes dump — copy-pasteable setup summary for debugging (#6550)
• hermes backup / hermes import — full config backup and restore (#7997)
• WSL environment hint in system prompt (#8285)
• Profile creation UX — seed SOUL.md + credential warning (#8553)
• Shell-aware sudo detection, empty password support (#6517)
• Flush stdin after curses/terminal menus to prevent escape sequence leakage (#7167)
• Handle broken stdin in prompt_toolkit startup (#8560)

Setup & Configuration

• Per-platform display verbosity configuration (#8006)
• Component-separated logging with session context and filtering (#7991)
• network.force_ipv4 config to fix IPv6 timeout issues (#8196)
• Standardize message whitespace and JSON formatting (#7988)
• Rebrand OpenClaw → Hermes during migration (#8210)
• Config.yaml takes priority over env vars for auxiliary settings (#7889)
• Harden setup provider flows + live OpenRouter catalog refresh (#7078)
• Normalize reasoning effort ordering across all surfaces (#6804)
• Remove dead LLM_MODEL env var + migration to clear stale entries (#6543)
• Remove /prompt slash command — prefix expansion footgun (#6752)
• HERMES_HOME_MODE env var to override permissions — @ygd58 (#6993)
• Fall back to default model when model config is empty (#8303)
• Warn when compression model context is too small (#7894)

🔧 Tool System

Environments & Execution

• Unified spawn-per-call execution layer for environments (#6343)
• Unified file sync with mtime tracking, deletion, and transactional state (#7087)
• Persistent sandbox envs survive between turns (#6412)
• Bulk file sync via tar pipe for SSH/Modal backends — @alt-glitch (#8014)
• Daytona — bulk upload, config bridge, silent disk cap (#7538)
• Foreground timeout cap to prevent session deadlocks (#7082)
• Guard invalid command values (#6417)

MCP

• hermes mcp add --env and --preset support (#7970)
• Combine content and structuredContent when both present (#7118)
• MCP tool name deconfliction fixes (#7654)

Browser

• Browser hardening — dead code removal, caching, scroll perf, security, thread safety (#7354)
• /browser connect auto-launch uses dedicated Chrome profile dir (#6821)
• Reap orphaned browser sessions on startup (#7931)

Voice & Vision

• Voxtral TTS provider (Mistral AI) (#7653)
• TTS speed support for Edge TTS, OpenAI TTS, MiniMax (#8666)
• Vision auto-resize for oversized images, raise limit to 20 MB, retry-on-failure (#7883, #7902)
• STT provider-model mismatch fix (whisper-1 vs faster-whisper) (#7113)

Other Tools

• hermes dump command for setup summary (#6550)
• TODO store enforces ID uniqueness during replace operations (#7986)
• List all available toolsets in delegate_task schema description (#8231)
• API server: tool progress as custom SSE event to prevent model corruption (#7500)
• API server: share one Docker container across all conversations (#7127)

🧩 Skills Ecosystem

• Centralized skills index + tree cache — eliminates rate-limit failures on install (#8575)
• More aggressive skill loading instructions in system prompt (v3) (#8209, #8286)
• Google Workspace skill migrated to GWS CLI backend (#6788)
• Creative divergence strategies skill — @SHL0MS (#6882)
• Creative ideation — constraint-driven project generation — @SHL0MS (#7555)
• Parallelize skills browse/search to prevent hanging (#7301)
• Read name from SKILL.md frontmatter in skills_sync (#7623)

🔒 Security & Reliability

Security Hardening

• Twilio webhook signature validation — SMS RCE fix (#7933)
• Shell injection neutralization in _write_to_sandbox via path quoting (#7940)
• Git argument injection and path traversal prevention in checkpoint manager (#7944)
• SSRF redirect bypass in Slack image uploads + base.py cache helpers (#7151)
• Path traversal, credential gate, DANGEROUS_PATTERNS gaps (#7156)
• API bind guard — enforce API_SERVER_KEY for non-loopback binding (#7455)
• Approval button authorization — require auth for session continuation — @Cafexss (#6930)
• Path boundary enforcement in skill manager operations (#7156)
• DingTalk/API webhook URL origin validation, header injection rejection (#7455)

Reliability

• Contextual error diagnostics for invalid API responses (#8565)
• Prevent 400 format errors from triggering compression loop on Codex (#6751)
• Don't halve context_length on output-cap-too-large errors — @KUSH42 (#6664)
• Recover primary client on OpenAI transport errors (#7108)
• Credential pool rotation on billing-classified 400s (#7112)
• Auto-increase stream read timeout for local LLM providers (#6967)
• Fall back to default certs when CA bundle path doesn't exist (#7352)
• Disambiguate usage-limit patterns in error classifier — @sprmn24 (#6836)
• Harden cron script timeout and provider recovery (#7079)
• Gateway interrupt detection resilient to monitor task failures (#8208)
• Prevent unwanted session auto-reset after graceful gateway restarts (#8299)
• Prevent duplicate update prompt spam in gateway watcher (#8343)
• Deduplicate reasoning items in Responses API input (#7946)

Infrastructure

• Multi-arch Docker image — amd64 + arm64 (#6124)
• Docker runs as non-root user with virtualenv — @benbarclay contributing (#8226)
• Use uv for Docker dependency resolution to fix resolution-too-deep (#6965)
• Container-aware Nix CLI — auto-route into managed container — @alt-glitch (#7543)
• Nix shared-state permission model for interactive CLI users — @alt-glitch (#6796)
• Per-profile subprocess HOME isolation (#7357)
• Profile paths fixed in Docker — profiles go to mounted volume (#7170)
• CIDocker container gateway pathway hardened (#8614)
• Enable unbuffered stdout for live Docker logs (#6749)
• Install procps in Docker image — @HiddenPuppy (#7032)
• Shallow git clone for faster installation — @sosyz (#8396)
• hermes update always reset on stash conflict (#7010)
• Write update exit code before gateway restart (cgroup kill race) (#8288)
• Nix: setupSecrets optional, tirith runtime dep — @devorun, @ethernet8023 (#6261, #6721)
• launchd stop uses bootout so KeepAlive doesn't respawn (#7119)

🐛 Notable Bug Fixes

• FIXFix: /model switch not persisting across gateway messages (#7081)
• FIXFix: session-scoped gateway model overrides ignored — @Hygaard (#7662)
• FIXFix: compaction model context length ignoring config — 3 related issues (#8258, #8107)
• FIXFix: OpenCode.ai context window resolved to 128K instead of 1M (#6472)
• FIXFix: Codex fallback auth-store lookup — @cherifya (#6462)
• FIXFix: duplicate completion notifications when process killed (#7124)
• FIXFix: agent daemon thread prevents orphan CLI processes on tab close (#8557)
• FIXFix: stale image attachment on text paste and voice input (#7077)
• FIXFix: DM thread session seeding causing cross-thread contamination (#7084)
• FIXFix: OpenClaw migration shows dry-run preview before executing (#6769)
• FIXFix: auth errors misclassified as retryable — @kuishou68 (#7027)
• FIXFix: Copilot-Integration-Id header missing (#7083)
• FIXFix: ACP session capabilities — @luyao618 (#6985)
• FIXFix: ACP PromptResponse usage from top-level fields (#7086)
• FIXFix: several failing/flaky tests on main — @dsocolobsky (#6777)
• FIXFix: backup marker filenames — @sprmn24 (#8600)
• FIXFix: NoneType in fast_mode check — @0xbyt4 (#7350)
• FIXFix: missing imports in uninstall.py — @JiayuuWang (#7034)

📚 Documentation

• Platform adapter developer guide + WeCom Callback docs (#7969)
• Cron troubleshooting guide (#7122)
• Streaming timeout auto-detection for local LLMs (#6990)
• Tool-use enforcement documentation expanded (#7984)
• BlueBubbles pairing instructions (#6548)
• Telegram proxy support section (#6348)
• hermes dump and hermes logs CLI reference (#6552)
• tool_progress_overrides configuration reference (#6364)
• Compression model context length warning docs (#7879)

👥 Contributors

269 merged PRs from 24 contributors across 487 commits.

Community Contributors

• @alt-glitch (6 PRs) — Nix container-aware CLI, shared-state permissions, Matrix SQLite crypto store, bulk SSH/Modal file sync, Matrix mautrix compat
• @SHL0MS (2 PRs) — Creative divergence strategies skill, creative ideation skill
• @sprmn24 (2 PRs) — Error classifier disambiguation, backup marker fix
• @nicoloboschi — Hindsight memory plugin feature parity
• @Hygaard — Session-scoped gateway model override fix
• @jarvis-phw — Discord allowed_channels whitelist
• @Kathie-yu — Honcho initOnSessionStart for tools mode
• @hermes-agent-dhabibi — Discord forum channel topic inheritance
• @kira-ariaki — Discord .log attachments and size limit
• @cherifya — Codex fallback auth-store lookup
• @Cafexss — Security: auth for session continuation
• @KUSH42 — Compaction context_length fix
• @kuishou68 — Auth error retryable classification fix
• @luyao618 — ACP session capabilities
• @ygd58 — HERMES_HOME_MODE env var override
• @0xbyt4 — Fast mode NoneType fix
• @JiayuuWang — CLI uninstall import fix
• @HiddenPuppy — Docker procps installation
• @dsocolobsky — Test suite fixes
• @benbarclay — Docker image tag simplification
• @sosyz — Shallow git clone for faster install
• @devorun — Nix setupSecrets optional
• @ethernet8023 — Nix tirith runtime dep

Full Changelog: v2026.4.8...v2026.4.13

Hermes Agent v0.8.0 (v2026.4.8)

Release Date: April 8, 2026

The intelligence release — background task auto-notifications, free MiMo v2 Pro on Nous Portal, live model switching across all platforms, self-optimized GPT/Codex guidance, native Google AI Studio, smart inactivity timeouts, approval buttons, MCP OAuth 2.1, and 209 merged PRs with 82 resolved issues.

✨ Highlights

• Background Process Auto-Notifications (notify_on_complete) — Background tasks can now automatically notify the agent when they finish. Start a long-running process (AI model training, test suites, deployments, builds) and the agent gets notified on completion — no polling needed. The agent can keep working on other things and pick up results when they land. (#5779)

• Free Xiaomi MiMo v2 Pro on Nous Portal — Nous Portal now supports the free-tier Xiaomi MiMo v2 Pro model for auxiliary tasks (compression, vision, summarization), with free-tier model gating and pricing display in model selection. (#6018, #5880)

• Live Model Switching (/model Command) — Switch models and providers mid-session from CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, or any gateway platform. Aggregator-aware resolution keeps you on OpenRouter/Nous when possible, with automatic cross-provider fallback when needed. Interactive model pickers on Telegram and Discord with inline buttons. (#5181, #5742)

• Self-Optimized GPT/Codex Tool-Use Guidance — The agent diagnosed and patched 5 failure modes in GPT and Codex tool calling through automated behavioral benchmarking, dramatically improving reliability on OpenAI models. Includes execution discipline guidance and thinking-only prefill continuation for structured reasoning. (#6120, #5414, #5931)

• Google AI Studio (Gemini) Native Provider — Direct access to Gemini models through Google's AI Studio API. Includes automatic models.dev registry integration for real-time context length detection across any provider. (#5577)

• Inactivity-Based Agent Timeouts — Gateway and cron timeouts now track actual tool activity instead of wall-clock time. Long-running tasks that are actively working will never be killed — only truly idle agents time out. (#5389, #5440)

• Approval Buttons on Slack & Telegram — Dangerous command approval via native platform buttons instead of typing /approve. Slack gets thread context preservation; Telegram gets emoji reactions for approval status. (#5890, #5975)

• MCP OAuth 2.1 PKCE + OSV Malware Scanning — Full standards-compliant OAuth for MCP server authentication, plus automatic malware scanning of MCP extension packages via the OSV vulnerability database. (#5420, #5305)

• Centralized Logging & Config Validation — Structured logging to ~/.hermes/logs/ (agent.log + errors.log) with the hermes logs command for tailing and filtering. Config structure validation catches malformed YAML at startup before it causes cryptic failures. (#5430, #5426)

• Plugin System Expansion — Plugins can now register CLI subcommands, receive request-scoped API hooks with correlation IDs, prompt for required env vars during install, and hook into session lifecycle events (finalize/reset). (#5295, #5427, #5470, #6129)

• Matrix Tier 1 & Platform Hardening — Matrix gets reactions, read receipts, rich formatting, and room management. Discord adds channel controls and ignored channels. Signal gets full MEDIA: tag delivery. Mattermost gets file attachments. Comprehensive reliability fixes across all platforms. (#5275, #5975, #5602)

• Security Hardening Pass — Consolidated SSRF protections, timing attack mitigations, tar traversal prevention, credential leakage guards, cron path traversal hardening, and cross-session isolation. Terminal workdir sanitization across all backends. (#5944, #5613, #5629)

🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture

Provider & Model Support

• Native Google AI Studio (Gemini) provider with models.dev integration for automatic context length detection (#5577)
• /model command — full provider+model system overhaul — live switching across CLI and all gateway platforms with aggregator-aware resolution (#5181)
• Interactive model picker for Telegram and Discord — inline button-based model selection (#5742)
• Nous Portal free-tier model gating with pricing display in model selection (#5880)
• Model pricing display for OpenRouter and Nous Portal providers (#5416)
• xAI (Grok) prompt caching via x-grok-conv-id header (#5604)
• Grok added to tool-use enforcement models for direct xAI usage (#5595)
• MiniMax TTS provider (speech-2.8) (#4963)
• Non-agentic model warning — warns users when loading Hermes LLM models not designed for tool use (#5378)
• Ollama Cloud auth, /model switch persistence, and alias tab completion (#5269)
• Preserve dots in OpenCode Go model names (minimax-m2.7, glm-4.5, kimi-k2.5) (#5597)
• MiniMax models 404 fix — strip /v1 from Anthropic base URL for OpenCode Go (#4918)
• Provider credential reset windows honored in pooled failover (#5188)
• OAuth token sync between credential pool and credentials file (#4981)
• Stale OAuth credentials no longer block OpenRouter users on auto-detect (#5746)
• Codex OAuth credential pool disconnect + expired token import fix (#5681)
• Codex pool entry sync from ~/.codex/auth.json on exhaustion — @GratefulDave (#5610)
• Auxiliary client payment fallback — retry with next provider on 402 (#5599)
• Auxiliary client resolves named custom providers and 'main' alias (#5978)
• Use mimo-v2-pro for non-vision auxiliary tasks on Nous free tier (#6018)
• Vision auto-detection tries main provider first (#6041)
• Provider re-ordering and Quick Install — @austinpickett (#4664)
• Nous OAuth access_token no longer used as inference API key — @SHL0MS (#5564)
• HERMES_PORTAL_BASE_URL env var respected during Nous login — @benbarclay (#5745)
• Env var overrides for Nous portal/inference URLs (#5419)
• Z.AI endpoint auto-detect via probe and cache (#5763)
• MiniMax context lengths, model catalog, thinking guard, aux model, and config base_url corrections (#6082)
• Community provider/model resolution fixes — salvaged 4 community PRs + MiniMax aux URL (#5983)

Agent Loop & Conversation

• Self-optimized GPT/Codex tool-use guidance via automated behavioral benchmarking — agent self-diagnosed and patched 5 failure modes (#6120)
• GPT/Codex execution discipline guidance in system prompts (#5414)
• Thinking-only prefill continuation for structured reasoning responses (#5931)
• Accept reasoning-only responses without retries — set content to "(empty)" instead of infinite retry (#5278)
• Jittered retry backoff — exponential backoff with jitter for API retries (#6048)
• Smart thinking block signature management — preserve and manage Anthropic thinking signatures across turns (#6112)
• Coerce tool call arguments to match JSON Schema types — fixes models that send strings instead of numbers/booleans (#5265)
• Save oversized tool results to file instead of destructive truncation (#5210)
• Sandbox-aware tool result persistence (#6085)
• Streaming fallback improved after edit failures (#6110)
• Codex empty-output gaps covered in fallback + normalizer + auxiliary client (#5724, #5730, #5734)
• Codex stream output backfill from output_item.done events (#5689)
• Stream consumer creates new message after tool boundaries (#5739)
• Codex validation aligned with normalization for empty stream output (#5940)
• Bridge tool-calls in copilot-acp adapter (#5460)
• Filter transcript-only roles from chat-completions payload (#4880)
• Context compaction failures fixed on temperature-restricted models — @MadKangYu (#5608)
• Sanitize tool_calls for all strict APIs (Fireworks, Mistral, etc.) — @lumethegreat (#5183)

Memory & Sessions

• Supermemory memory provider — new memory plugin with multi-container, search_mode, identity template, and env var override (#5737, #5933)
• Shared thread sessions by default — multi-user thread support across gateway platforms (#5391)
• Subagent sessions linked to parent and hidden from session list (#5309)
• Profile-scoped memory isolation and clone support (#4845)
• Thread gateway user_id to memory plugins for per-user scoping (#5895)
• Honcho plugin drift overhaul + plugin CLI registration system (#5295)
• Honcho holographic prompt and trust score rendering preserved (#4872)
• Honcho doctor fix — use recall_mode instead of memory_mode — @techguysimon (#5645)
• RetainDB — API routes, write queue, dialectic, agent model, file tools fixes (#5461)
• Hindsight memory plugin overhaul + memory setup wizard fixes (#5094)
• mem0 API v2 compat, prefetch context fencing, secret redaction (#5423)
• mem0 env vars merged with mem0.json instead of either/or (#4939)
• Clean user message used for all memory provider operations (#4940)
• Silent memory flush failure on /new and /resume fixed — @ryanautomated (#5640)
• OpenViking atexit safety net for session commit (#5664)
• OpenViking tenant-scoping headers for multi-tenant servers (#4936)
• ByteRover brv query runs synchronously before LLM call (#4831)

📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)

Gateway Core

• Inactivity-based agent timeout — replaces wall-clock timeout with smart activity tracking; long-running active tasks never killed (#5389)
• Approval buttons for Slack & Telegram + Slack thread context preservation (#5890)
• Live-stream /update output + forward interactive prompts to user (#5180)
• Infinite timeout support + periodic notifications + actionable error messages (#4959)
• Duplicate message prevention — gateway dedup + partial stream guard (#4878)
• Webhook delivery_info persistence + full session id in /status (#5942)
• Tool preview truncation respects tool_preview_length in all/new progress modes (#5937)
• Short preview truncation restored for all/new tool progress modes (#4935)
• Update-pending state written atomically to prevent corruption (#4923)
• Approval session key isolated per turn (#4884)
• Active-session guard bypass for /approve, /deny, /stop, /new (#4926, #5765)
• Typing indicator paused during approval waits (#5893)
• Caption check uses exact line-by-line match instead of substring (all platforms) (#5939)
• MEDIA: tags stripped from streamed gateway messages (#5152)
• MEDIA: tags extracted from cron delivery before sending (#5598)
• Profile-aware service units + voice transcription cleanup (#5972)
• Thread-safe PairingStore with atomic writes — @CharlieKerfoot (#5656)
• Sanitize media URLs in base platform logs — @WAXLYY (#5631)
• Reduce Telegram fallback IP activation log noise — @MadKangYu (#5615)
• Cron static method wrappers to prevent self-binding (#5299)
• Stale 'hermes login' replaced with 'hermes auth' + credential removal re-seeding fix (#5670)

Telegram

• Group topics skill binding for supergroup forum topics (#4886)
• Emoji reactions for approval status and notifications (#5975)
• Duplicate message delivery prevented on send timeout (#5153)
• Command names sanitized to strip invalid characters (#5596)
• Per-platform disabled skills respected in Telegram menu and gateway dispatch (#4799)
• /approve and /deny routed through running-agent guard (#4798)

Discord

• Channel controls — ignored_channels and no_thread_channels config options (#5975)
• Skills registered as native slash commands via shared gateway logic (#5603)
• /approve, /deny, /queue, /background, /btw registered as native slash commands (#4800, #5477)
• Unnecessary members intent removed on startup + token lock leak fix (#5302)

Slack

• Thread engagement — auto-respond in bot-started and mentioned threads (#5897)
• mrkdwn in edit_message + thread replies without @mentions (#5733)

Matrix

• Tier 1 feature parity — reactions, read receipts, rich formatting, room management (#5275)
• MATRIX_REQUIRE_MENTION and MATRIX_AUTO_THREAD support (#5106)
• Comprehensive reliability — encrypted media, auth recovery, cron E2EE, Synapse compat (#5271)
• CJK input, E2EE, and reconnect fixes (#5665)

Signal

• Full MEDIA: tag delivery — send_image_file, send_voice, and send_video implemented (#5602)

Mattermost

• File attachments — set message type to DOCUMENT when post has file attachments — @nericervin (#5609)

Feishu

• Interactive card approval buttons (#6043)
• Reconnect and ACL fixes (#5665)

Webhooks

• {__raw__} template token and thread_id passthrough for forum topics (#5662)

🖥️ CLI & User Experience

Interactive CLI

• Defer response content until reasoning block completes (#5773)
• Ghost status-bar lines cleared on terminal resize (#4960)
• Normalise \r\n and \r line endings in pasted text (#4849)
• ChatConsole errors, curses scroll, skin-aware banner, git state banner fixes (#5974)
• Native Windows image paste support (#5917)
• --yolo and other flags no longer silently dropped when placed before 'chat' subcommand (#5145)

Setup & Configuration

• Config structure validation — detect malformed YAML at startup with actionable error messages (#5426)
• Centralized logging to ~/.hermes/logs/ — agent.log (INFO+), errors.log (WARNING+) with hermes logs command (#5430)
• Docs links added to setup wizard sections (#5283)
• Doctor diagnostics — sync provider checks, config migration, WAL and mem0 diagnostics (#5077)
• Timeout debug logging and user-facing diagnostics improved (#5370)
• Reasoning effort unified to config.yaml only (#6118)
• Permanent command allowlist loaded on startup (#5076)
• hermes auth remove now clears env-seeded credentials permanently (#5285)
• Bundled skills synced to all profiles during update (#5795)
• hermes update no longer kills freshly-restarted gateway service (#5448)
• Subprocess.run() timeouts added to all gateway CLI commands (#5424)
• Actionable error message when Codex refresh token is reused — @tymrtn (#5612)
• Google-workspace skill scripts can now run directly — @xinbenlv (#5624)

Cron System

• Inactivity-based cron timeout — replaces wall-clock; active tasks run indefinitely (#5440)
• Pre-run script injection for data collection and change detection (#5082)
• Delivery failure tracking in job status (#6042)
• Delivery guidance in cron prompts — stops send_message thrashing (#5444)
• MEDIA files delivered as native platform attachments (#5921)
• [SILENT] suppression works anywhere in response — @auspic7 (#5654)
• Cron path traversal hardening (#5147)

🔧 Tool System

Terminal & Execution

• Execute_code on remote backends — code execution now works on Docker, SSH, Modal, and other remote terminal backends (#5088)
• Exit code context for common CLI tools in terminal results — helps agent understand what went wrong (#5144)
• Progressive subdirectory hint discovery — agent learns project structure as it navigates (#5291)
• notify_on_complete for background processes — get notified when long-running tasks finish (#5779)
• Docker env config — explicit container environment variables via docker_env config (#4738)
• Approval metadata included in terminal tool results (#5141)
• Workdir parameter sanitized in terminal tool across all backends (#5629)
• Detached process crash recovery state corrected (#6101)
• Agent-browser paths with spaces preserved — @Vasanthdev2004 (#6077)
• Portable base64 encoding for image reading on macOS — @CharlieKerfoot (#5657)

Browser

• Switch managed browser provider from Browserbase to Browser Use — @benbarclay (#5750)
• Firecrawl cloud browser provider — @alt-glitch (#5628)
• JS evaluation via browser_console expression parameter (#5303)
• Windows browser fixes (#5665)

MCP

• MCP OAuth 2.1 PKCE — full standards-compliant OAuth client support (#5420)
• OSV malware check for MCP extension packages (#5305)
• Prefer structuredContent over text + no_mcp sentinel (#5979)
• Unknown toolsets warning suppressed for MCP server names (#5279)

Web & Files

• .zip document support + auto-mount cache dirs into remote backends (#4846)
• Redact query secrets in send_message errors — @WAXLYY (#5650)

Delegation

• Credential pool sharing + workspace path hints for subagents (#5748)

ACP (VS Code / Zed / JetBrains)

• Aggregate ACP improvements — auth compat, protocol fixes, command ads, delegation, SSE events (#5292)

🧩 Skills Ecosystem

Skills System

• Skill config interface — skills can declare required config.yaml settings, prompted during setup, injected at load time (#5635)
• Plugin CLI registration system — plugins register their own CLI subcommands without touching main.py (#5295)
• Request-scoped API hooks with tool call correlation IDs for plugins (#5427)
• Session lifecycle hooks — on_session_finalize and on_session_reset for CLI + gateway (#6129)
• Prompt for required env vars during plugin install — @kshitijk4poor (#5470)
• Plugin name validation — reject names that resolve to plugins root (#5368)
• pre_llm_call plugin context moved to user message to preserve prompt cache (#5146)

New & Updated Skills

• popular-web-designs — 54 production website design systems (#5194)
• p5js creative coding — @SHL0MS (#5600)
• manim-video — mathematical and technical animations — @SHL0MS (#4930)
• llm-wiki — Karpathy's LLM Wiki skill (#5635)
• gitnexus-explorer — codebase indexing and knowledge serving (#5208)
• research-paper-writing — AI-Scientist & GPT-Researcher patterns — @SHL0MS (#5421)
• blogwatcher updated to JulienTant's fork (#5759)
• claude-code skill comprehensive rewrite v2.0 + v2.2 (#5155, #5158)
• Code verification skills consolidated into one (#4854)
• Manim CE reference docs expanded — geometry, animations, LaTeX — @leotrs (#5791)
• Manim-video references — design thinking, updaters, paper explainer, decorations, production quality — @SHL0MS (#5588, #5408)

🔒 Security & Reliability

Security Hardening

• Consolidated security — SSRF protections, timing attack mitigations, tar traversal prevention, credential leakage guards (#5944)
• Cross-session isolation + cron path traversal hardening (#5613)
• Workdir parameter sanitized in terminal tool across all backends (#5629)
• Approval 'once' session escalation prevented + cron delivery platform validation (#5280)
• Profile-scoped Google Workspace OAuth tokens protected (#4910)

Reliability

• Aggressive worktree and branch cleanup to prevent accumulation (#6134)
• O(n²) catastrophic backtracking in redact regex fixed — 100x improvement on large outputs (#4962)
• Runtime stability fixes across core, web, delegate, and browser tools (#4843)
• API server streaming fix + conversation history support (#5977)
• OpenViking API endpoint paths and response parsing corrected (#5078)

🐛 Notable Bug Fixes

• 9 community bugfixes salvaged — gateway, cron, deps, macOS launchd in one batch (#5288)
• Batch core bug fixes — model config, session reset, alias fallback, launchctl, delegation, atomic writes (#5630)
• Batch gateway/platform fixes — matrix E2EE, CJK input, Windows browser, Feishu reconnect + ACL (#5665)
• Stale test skips removed, regex backtracking, file search bug, and test flakiness (#4969)
• Nix flake — read version, regen uv.lock, add hermes_logging — @alt-glitch (#5651)
• Lowercase variable redaction regression tests (#5185)

🧪 Testing

• 57 failing CI tests repaired across 14 files (#5823)
• Test suite re-architecture + CI failure fixes — @alt-glitch (#5946)
• Codebase-wide lint cleanup — unused imports, dead code, and inefficient patterns (#5821)
• browser_close tool removed — auto-cleanup handles it (#5792)

📚 Documentation

• Comprehensive documentation audit — fix stale info, expand thin pages, add depth (#5393)
• 40+ discrepancies fixed between documentation and codebase (#5818)
• 13 features documented from last week's PRs (#5815)
• Guides section overhaul — fix existing + add 3 new tutorials (#5735)
• Salvaged 4 docs PRs — docker setup, post-update validation, local LLM guide, signal-cli install (#5727)
• Discord configuration reference (#5386)
• Community FAQ entries for common workflows and troubleshooting (#4797)
• WSL2 networking guide for local model servers (#5616)
• Honcho CLI reference + plugin CLI registration docs (#5308)
• Obsidian Headless setup for servers in llm-wiki (#5660)
• Hermes Mod visual skin editor added to skins page (#6095)

👥 Contributors

Core

• @teknium1 — 179 PRs

Top Community Contributors

• @SHL0MS (7 PRs) — p5js creative coding skill, manim-video skill + 5 reference expansions, research-paper-writing, Nous OAuth fix, manim font fix
• @alt-glitch (3 PRs) — Firecrawl cloud browser provider, test re-architecture + CI fixes, Nix flake fixes
• @benbarclay (2 PRs) — Browser Use managed provider switch, Nous portal base URL fix
• @CharlieKerfoot (2 PRs) — macOS portable base64 encoding, thread-safe PairingStore
• @WAXLYY (2 PRs) — send_message secret redaction, gateway media URL sanitization
• @MadKangYu (2 PRs) — Telegram log noise reduction, context compaction fix for temperature-restricted models

All Contributors

@alt-glitch, @austinpickett, @auspic7, @benbarclay, @CharlieKerfoot, @GratefulDave, @kshitijk4poor, @leotrs, @lumethegreat, @MadKangYu, @nericervin, @ryanautomated, @SHL0MS, @techguysimon, @tymrtn, @Vasanthdev2004, @WAXLYY, @xinbenlv

Full Changelog: v2026.4.3...v2026.4.8

Hermes Agent v0.7.0 (v2026.4.3)

Release Date: April 3, 2026

The resilience release — pluggable memory providers, credential pool rotation, Camofox anti-detection browser, inline diff previews, gateway hardening across race conditions and approval routing, and deep security fixes across 168 PRs and 46 resolved issues.

✨ Highlights

• Pluggable Memory Provider Interface — Memory is now an extensible plugin system. Third-party memory backends (Honcho, vector stores, custom DBs) implement a simple provider ABC and register via the plugin system. Built-in memory is the default provider. Honcho integration restored to full parity as the reference plugin with profile-scoped host/peer resolution. (#4623, #4616, #4355)

• Same-Provider Credential Pools — Configure multiple API keys for the same provider with automatic rotation. Thread-safe least_used strategy distributes load across keys, and 401 failures trigger automatic rotation to the next credential. Set up via the setup wizard or credential_pool config. (#4188, #4300, #4361)

• Camofox Anti-Detection Browser Backend — New local browser backend using Camoufox for stealth browsing. Persistent sessions with VNC URL discovery for visual debugging, configurable SSRF bypass for local backends, auto-install via hermes tools. (#4008, #4419, #4292)

• Inline Diff Previews — File write and patch operations now show inline diffs in the tool activity feed, giving you visual confirmation of what changed before the agent moves on. (#4411, #4423)

• API Server Session Continuity & Tool Streaming — The API server (Open WebUI integration) now streams tool progress events in real-time and supports X-Hermes-Session-Id headers for persistent sessions across requests. Sessions persist to the shared SessionDB. (#4092, #4478, #4802)

• ACP: Client-Provided MCP Servers — Editor integrations (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains) can now register their own MCP servers, which Hermes picks up as additional agent tools. Your editor's MCP ecosystem flows directly into the agent. (#4705)

• Gateway Hardening — Major stability pass across race conditions, photo media delivery, flood control, stuck sessions, approval routing, and compression death spirals. The gateway is substantially more reliable in production. (#4727, #4750, #4798, #4557)

• Security: Secret Exfiltration Blocking — Browser URLs and LLM responses are now scanned for secret patterns, blocking exfiltration attempts via URL encoding, base64, or prompt injection. Credential directory protections expanded to .docker, .azure, .config/gh. Execute_code sandbox output is redacted. (#4483, #4360, #4305, #4327)

🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture

Provider & Model Support

• Same-provider credential pools — configure multiple API keys with automatic least_used rotation and 401 failover (#4188, #4300)
• Credential pool preserved through smart routing — pool state survives fallback provider switches and defers eager fallback on 429 (#4361)
• Per-turn primary runtime restoration — after fallback provider use, the agent automatically restores the primary provider on the next turn with transport recovery (#4624)
• developer role for GPT-5 and Codex models — uses OpenAI's recommended system message role for newer models (#4498)
• Google model operational guidance — Gemini and Gemma models get provider-specific prompting guidance (#4641)
• Anthropic long-context tier 429 handling — automatically reduces context to 200k when hitting tier limits (#4747)
• URL-based auth for third-party Anthropic endpoints + CI test fixes (#4148)
• Bearer auth for MiniMax Anthropic endpoints (#4028)
• Fireworks context length detection (#4158)
• Standard DashScope international endpoint for Alibaba provider (#4133, closes #3912)
• Custom providers context_length honored in hygiene compression (#4085)
• Non-sk-ant keys treated as regular API keys, not OAuth tokens (#4093)
• Claude-sonnet-4.6 added to OpenRouter and Nous model lists (#4157)
• Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview added to model lists (#4376)
• MiniMax M2.7 added to hermes model picker and OpenCode (#4208)
• Auto-detect models from server probe in custom endpoint setup (#4218)
• Config.yaml single source of truth for endpoint URLs — no more env var vs config.yaml conflicts (#4165)
• Setup wizard no longer overwrites custom endpoint config (#4180, closes #4172)
• Unified setup wizard provider selection with hermes model — single code path for both flows (#4200)
• Root-level provider config no longer overrides model.provider (#4329)
• Rate-limit pairing rejection messages to prevent spam (#4081)

Agent Loop & Conversation

• Preserve Anthropic thinking block signatures across tool-use turns (#4626)
• Classify think-only empty responses before retrying — prevents infinite retry loops on models that produce thinking blocks without content (#4645)
• Prevent compression death spiral from API disconnects — stops the loop where compression triggers, fails, compresses again (#4750, closes #2153)
• Persist compressed context to gateway session after mid-run compression (#4095)
• Context-exceeded error messages now include actionable guidance (#4155, closes #4061)
• Strip orphaned think/reasoning tags from user-facing responses (#4311, closes #4285)
• Harden Codex responses preflight and stream error handling (#4313)
• Deterministic call_id fallbacks instead of random UUIDs for prompt cache consistency (#3991)
• Context pressure warning spam prevented after compression (#4012)
• AsyncOpenAI created lazily in trajectory compressor to avoid closed event loop errors (#4013)

Memory & Sessions

• Pluggable memory provider interface — ABC-based plugin system for custom memory backends with profile isolation (#4623)
• Honcho full integration parity restored as reference memory provider plugin (#4355) — @erosika
• Honcho profile-scoped host and peer resolution (#4616)
• Memory flush state persisted to prevent redundant re-flushes on gateway restart (#4481)
• Memory provider tools routed through sequential execution path (#4803)
• Honcho config written to instance-local path for profile isolation (#4037)
• API server sessions persist to shared SessionDB (#4802)
• Token usage persisted for non-CLI sessions (#4627)
• Quote dotted terms in FTS5 queries — fixes session search for terms containing dots (#4549)

📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)

Gateway Core

• Race condition fixes — photo media loss, flood control, stuck sessions, and STT config issues resolved in one hardening pass (#4727)
• Approval routing through running-agent guard — /approve and /deny now route correctly when the agent is blocked waiting for approval instead of being swallowed as interrupts (#4798, #4557, closes #4542)
• Resume agent after /approve — tool result is no longer lost when executing blocked commands (#4418)
• DM thread sessions seeded with parent transcript to preserve context (#4559)
• Skill-aware slash commands — gateway dynamically registers installed skills as slash commands with paginated /commands list and Telegram 100-command cap (#3934, #4005, #4006, #4010, #4023)
• Per-platform disabled skills respected in Telegram menu and gateway dispatch (#4799)
• Remove user-facing compression warnings — cleaner message flow (#4139)
• -v/-q flags wired to stderr logging for gateway service (#4474)
• HERMES_HOME remapped to target user in system service unit (#4456)
• Honor default for invalid bool-like config values (#4029)
• setsid instead of systemd-run for /update command to avoid systemd permission issues (#4104, closes #4017)
• 'Initializing agent...' shown on first message for better UX (#4086)
• Allow running gateway service as root for LXC/container environments (#4732)

Telegram

• 32-char limit on command names with collision avoidance (#4211)
• Priority order enforced in menu — core > plugins > skills (#4023)
• Capped at 50 commands — API rejects above ~60 (#4006)
• Skip empty/whitespace text to prevent 400 errors (#4388)
• E2E gateway tests added (#4497) — @pefontana

Discord

• Button-based approval UI — register /approve and /deny slash commands with interactive button prompts (#4800)
• Configurable reactions — discord.reactions config option to disable message processing reactions (#4199)
• Skip reactions and auto-threading for unauthorized users (#4387)

Slack

• Reply in thread — slack.reply_in_thread config option for threaded responses (#4643, closes #2662)

WhatsApp

• Enforce require_mention in group chats (#4730)

Webhook

• Platform support fixes — skip home channel prompt, disable tool progress for webhook adapters (#4660)

Matrix

• E2EE decryption hardening — request missing keys, auto-trust devices, retry buffered events (#4083)

🖥️ CLI & User Experience

New Slash Commands

• /yolo — toggle dangerous command approvals on/off for the session (#3990)
• /btw — ephemeral side questions that don't affect the main conversation context (#4161)
• /profile — show active profile info without leaving the chat session (#4027)

Interactive CLI

• Inline diff previews for write and patch operations in the tool activity feed (#4411, #4423)
• TUI pinned to bottom on startup — no more large blank spaces between response and input (#4412, #4359, closes #4398, #4421)
• /history and /resume now surface recent sessions directly instead of requiring search (#4728)
• Cache tokens shown in /insights overview so total adds up (#4428)
• --max-turns CLI flag for hermes chat to limit agent iterations (#4314)
• Detect dragged file paths instead of treating them as slash commands (#4533) — @rolme
• Allow empty strings and falsy values in config set (#4310, closes #4277)
• Voice mode in WSL when PulseAudio bridge is configured (#4317)
• Respect NO_COLOR env var and TERM=dumb for accessibility (#4079, closes #4066) — @SHL0MS
• Correct shell reload instruction for macOS/zsh users (#4025)
• Zero exit code on successful quiet mode queries (#4613, closes #4601) — @devorun
• on_session_end hook fires on interrupted exits (#4159)
• Profile list display reads model.default key correctly (#4160)
• Browser and TTS shown in reconfigure menu (#4041)
• Web backend priority detection simplified (#4036)

Setup & Configuration

• Allowed_users preserved during setup and quiet unconfigured provider warnings (#4551) — @kshitijk4poor
• Save API key to model config for custom endpoints (#4202, closes #4182)
• Claude Code credentials gated behind explicit Hermes config in wizard trigger (#4210)
• Atomic writes in save_config_value to prevent config loss on interrupt (#4298, #4320)
• Scopes field written to Claude Code credentials on token refresh (#4126)

Update System

• Fork detection and upstream sync in hermes update (#4744)
• Preserve working optional extras when one extra fails during update (#4550)
• Handle conflicted git index during hermes update (#4735)
• Avoid launchd restart race on macOS (#4736)
• Missing subprocess.run() timeouts added to doctor and status commands (#4009)

🔧 Tool System

Browser

• Camofox anti-detection browser backend — local stealth browsing with auto-install via hermes tools (#4008)
• Persistent Camofox sessions with VNC URL discovery for visual debugging (#4419)
• Skip SSRF check for local backends (Camofox, headless Chromium) (#4292)
• Configurable SSRF check via browser.allow_private_urls (#4198) — @nils010485
• CAMOFOX_PORT=9377 added to Docker commands (#4340)

File Operations

• Inline diff previews on write and patch actions (#4411, #4423)
• Stale file detection on write and patch — warns when file was modified externally since last read (#4345)
• Staleness timestamp refreshed after writes (#4390)
• Size guard, dedup, and device blocking on read_file (#4315)

MCP

• Stability fix pack — reload timeout, shutdown cleanup, event loop handler, OAuth non-blocking (#4757, closes #4462, #2537)

ACP (Editor Integration)

• Client-provided MCP servers registered as agent tools — editors pass their MCP servers to Hermes (#4705)

Skills System

• Size limits for agent writes and fuzzy matching for skill patch — prevents oversized skill writes and improves edit reliability (#4414)
• Validate hub bundle paths before install — blocks path traversal in skill bundles (#3986)
• Unified hermes-agent and hermes-agent-setup into single skill (#4332)
• Skill metadata type check in extract_skill_conditions (#4479)

New/Updated Skills

• research-paper-writing — full end-to-end research pipeline (replaced ml-paper-writing) (#4654) — @SHL0MS
• ascii-video — text readability techniques and external layout oracle (#4054) — @SHL0MS
• youtube-transcript updated for youtube-transcript-api v1.x (#4455) — @el-analista
• Skills browse and search page added to documentation site (#4500) — @IAvecilla

🔒 Security & Reliability

Security Hardening

• Block secret exfiltration via browser URLs and LLM responses — scans for secret patterns in URL encoding, base64, and prompt injection vectors (#4483)
• Redact secrets from execute_code sandbox output (#4360)
• Protect .docker, .azure, .config/gh credential directories from read/write via file tools and terminal (#4305, #4327) — @memosr
• GitHub OAuth token patterns added to redaction + snapshot redact flag (#4295)
• Reject private and loopback IPs in Telegram DoH fallback (#4129)
• Reject path traversal in credential file registration (#4316)
• Validate tar archive member paths on profile import — blocks zip-slip attacks (#4318)
• Exclude auth.json and .env from profile exports (#4475)

Reliability

• Prevent compression death spiral from API disconnects (#4750, closes #2153)
• Handle is_closed as method in OpenAI SDK — prevents false positive client closure detection (#4416, closes #4377)
• Exclude matrix from [all] extras — python-olm is upstream-broken, prevents install failures (#4615, closes #4178)
• OpenCode model routing repaired (#4508)
• Docker container image optimized (#4034) — @bcross

Windows & Cross-Platform

• Voice mode in WSL with PulseAudio bridge (#4317)
• Homebrew packaging preparation (#4099)
• CI fork conditionals to prevent workflow failures on forks (#4107)

🐛 Notable Bug Fixes

• Gateway approval blocked agent thread — approval now blocks the agent thread like CLI does, preventing tool result loss (#4557, closes #4542)
• Compression death spiral from API disconnects — detected and halted instead of looping (#4750, closes #2153)
• Anthropic thinking blocks lost across tool-use turns (#4626)
• Profile model config ignored with -p flag — model.model now promoted to model.default correctly (#4160, closes #4486)
• CLI blank space between response and input area (#4412, #4359, closes #4398)
• Dragged file paths treated as slash commands instead of file references (#4533) — @rolme
• Orphaned </think> tags leaking into user-facing responses (#4311, closes #4285)
• OpenAI SDK is_closed is a method not property — false positive client closure (#4416, closes #4377)
• MCP OAuth server could block Hermes startup instead of degrading gracefully (#4757, closes #4462)
• MCP event loop closed on shutdown with HTTP servers (#4757, closes #2537)
• Alibaba provider hardcoded to wrong endpoint (#4133, closes #3912)
• Slack reply_in_thread missing config option (#4643, closes #2662)
• Quiet mode exit code — successful -q queries no longer exit nonzero (#4613, closes #4601)
• Mobile sidebar shows only close button due to backdrop-filter issue in docs site (#4207) — @xsmyile
• Config restore reverted by stale-branch squash merge — _config_version fixed (#4440)

🧪 Testing

• Telegram gateway E2E tests — full integration test suite for the Telegram adapter (#4497) — @pefontana
• 11 real test failures fixed plus sys.modules cascade poisoner resolved (#4570)
• 7 CI failures resolved across hooks, plugins, and skill tests (#3936)
• Codex 401 refresh tests updated for CI compatibility (#4166)
• Stale OPENAI_BASE_URL test fixed (#4217)

📚 Documentation

• Comprehensive documentation audit — 9 HIGH and 20+ MEDIUM gaps fixed across 21 files (#4087)
• Site navigation restructured — features and platforms promoted to top-level (#4116)
• Tool progress streaming documented for API server and Open WebUI (#4138)
• Telegram webhook mode documentation (#4089)
• Local LLM provider guides — comprehensive setup guides with context length warnings (#4294)
• WhatsApp allowlist behavior clarified with WHATSAPP_ALLOW_ALL_USERS documentation (#4293)
• Slack configuration options — new config section in Slack docs (#4644)
• Terminal backends section expanded + docs build fixes (#4016)
• Adding-providers guide updated for unified setup flow (#4201)
• ACP Zed config fixed (#4743)
• Community FAQ entries for common workflows and troubleshooting (#4797)
• Skills browse and search page on docs site (#4500) — @IAvecilla

👥 Contributors

Core

• @teknium1 — 135 commits across all subsystems

Top Community Contributors

• @kshitijk4poor — 13 commits: preserve allowed_users during setup (#4551), and various fixes
• @erosika — 12 commits: Honcho full integration parity restored as memory provider plugin (#4355)
• @pefontana — 9 commits: Telegram gateway E2E test suite (#4497)
• @bcross — 5 commits: Docker container image optimization (#4034)
• @SHL0MS — 4 commits: NO_COLOR/TERM=dumb support (#4079), ascii-video skill updates (#4054), research-paper-writing skill (#4654)

All Contributors

@0xbyt4, @arasovic, @Bartok9, @bcross, @binhnt92, @camden-lowrance, @curtitoo, @Dakota, @Dave Tist, @Dean Kerr, @devorun, @dieutx, @Dilee, @el-analista, @erosika, @Gutslabs, @IAvecilla, @Jack, @Johannnnn506, @kshitijk4poor, @Laura Batalha, @Leegenux, @Lume, @MacroAnarchy, @maymuneth, @memosr, @NexVeridian, @Nick, @nils010485, @pefontana, @Penov, @rolme, @SHL0MS, @txchen, @xsmyile

Issues Resolved from Community

@acsezen (#2537), @arasovic (#4285), @camden-lowrance (#4462), @devorun (#4601), @eloklam (#4486), @HenkDz (#3719), @hypotyposis (#2153), @kazamak (#4178), @lstep (#4366), @Mark-Lok (#4542), @NoJster (#4421), @patp (#2662), @pr0n (#4601), @saulmc (#4377), @SHL0MS (#4060, #4061, #4066, #4172, #4277), @Z-Mackintosh (#4398)

Full Changelog: v2026.3.30...v2026.4.3

Hermes Agent v0.6.0 (v2026.3.30)

Release Date: March 30, 2026

The multi-instance release — Profiles for running isolated agent instances, MCP server mode, Docker container, fallback provider chains, two new messaging platforms (Feishu/Lark and WeCom), Telegram webhook mode, Slack multi-workspace OAuth, 95 PRs and 16 resolved issues in 2 days.

✨ Highlights

• Profiles — Multi-Instance Hermes — Run multiple isolated Hermes instances from the same installation. Each profile gets its own config, memory, sessions, skills, and gateway service. Create with hermes profile create, switch with hermes -p <name>, export/import for sharing. Full token-lock isolation prevents two profiles from using the same bot credential. (#3681)

• MCP Server Mode — Expose Hermes conversations and sessions to any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, etc.) via hermes mcp serve. Browse conversations, read messages, search across sessions, and manage attachments — all through the Model Context Protocol. Supports both stdio and Streamable HTTP transports. (#3795)

• Docker Container — Official Dockerfile for running Hermes Agent in a container. Supports both CLI and gateway modes with volume-mounted config. (#3668, closes #850)

• Ordered Fallback Provider Chain — Configure multiple inference providers with automatic failover. When your primary provider returns errors or is unreachable, Hermes automatically tries the next provider in the chain. Configure via fallback_providers in config.yaml. (#3813, closes #1734)

• Feishu/Lark Platform Support — Full gateway adapter for Feishu (飞书) and Lark with event subscriptions, message cards, group chat, image/file attachments, and interactive card callbacks. (#3799, #3817, closes #1788)

• WeCom (Enterprise WeChat) Platform Support — New gateway adapter for WeCom (企业微信) with text/image/voice messages, group chats, and callback verification. (#3847)

• Slack Multi-Workspace OAuth — Connect a single Hermes gateway to multiple Slack workspaces via OAuth token file. Each workspace gets its own bot token, resolved dynamically per incoming event. (#3903)

• Telegram Webhook Mode & Group Controls — Run the Telegram adapter in webhook mode as an alternative to polling — faster response times and better for production deployments behind a reverse proxy. New group mention gating controls when the bot responds: always, only when @mentioned, or via regex triggers. (#3880, #3870)

• Exa Search Backend — Add Exa as an alternative web search and content extraction backend alongside Firecrawl and DuckDuckGo. Set EXA_API_KEY and configure as preferred backend. (#3648)

• Skills & Credentials on Remote Backends — Mount skill directories and credential files into Modal and Docker containers, so remote terminal sessions have access to the same skills and secrets as local execution. (#3890, #3671, closes #3665, #3433)

🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture

Provider & Model Support

• Ordered fallback provider chain — automatic failover across multiple configured providers (#3813)
• Fix api_mode on provider switch — switching providers via hermes model now correctly clears stale api_mode instead of hardcoding chat_completions, fixing 404s for providers with Anthropic-compatible endpoints (#3726, #3857, closes #3685)
• Stop silent OpenRouter fallback — when no provider is configured, Hermes now raises a clear error instead of silently routing to OpenRouter (#3807, #3862)
• Gemini 3.1 preview models — added to OpenRouter and Nous Portal catalogs (#3803, closes #3753)
• Gemini direct API context length — full context length resolution for direct Google AI endpoints (#3876)
• gpt-5.4-mini added to Codex fallback catalog (#3855)
• Curated model lists preferred over live API probe when the probe returns fewer models (#3856, #3867)
• User-friendly 429 rate limit messages with Retry-After countdown (#3809)
• Auxiliary client placeholder key for local servers without auth requirements (#3842)
• INFO-level logging for auxiliary provider resolution (#3866)

Agent Loop & Conversation

• Subagent status reporting — reports completed status when summary exists instead of generic failure (#3829)
• Session log file updated during compression — prevents stale file references after context compression (#3835)
• Omit empty tools param — sends no tools parameter when empty instead of None, fixing compatibility with strict providers (#3820)

Profiles & Multi-Instance

• Profiles system — hermes profile create/list/switch/delete/export/import/rename. Each profile gets isolated HERMES_HOME, gateway service, CLI wrapper. Token locks prevent credential collisions. Tab completion for profile names. (#3681)
• Profile-aware display paths — all user-facing ~/.hermes paths replaced with display_hermes_home() to show the correct profile directory (#3623)
• Lazy display_hermes_home imports — prevents ImportError during hermes update when modules cache stale bytecode (#3776)
• HERMES_HOME for protected paths — .env write-deny path now respects HERMES_HOME instead of hardcoded ~/.hermes (#3840)

📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)

New Platforms

• Feishu/Lark — Full adapter with event subscriptions, message cards, group chat, image/file attachments, interactive card callbacks (#3799, #3817)
• WeCom (Enterprise WeChat) — Text/image/voice messages, group chats, callback verification (#3847)

Telegram

• Webhook mode — run as webhook endpoint instead of polling for production deployments (#3880)
• Group mention gating & regex triggers — configurable bot response behavior in groups: always, @mention-only, or regex-matched (#3870)
• Gracefully handle deleted reply targets — no more crashes when the message being replied to was deleted (#3858, closes #3229)

Discord

• Message processing reactions — adds a reaction emoji while processing and removes it when done, giving visual feedback in channels (#3871)
• DISCORD_IGNORE_NO_MENTION — skip messages that @mention other users/bots but not Hermes (#3640)
• Clean up deferred "thinking..." — properly removes the "thinking..." indicator after slash commands complete (#3674, closes #3595)

Slack

• Multi-workspace OAuth — connect to multiple Slack workspaces from a single gateway via OAuth token file (#3903)

WhatsApp

• Persistent aiohttp session — reuse HTTP sessions across requests instead of creating new ones per message (#3818)
• LID↔phone alias resolution — correctly match Linked ID and phone number formats in allowlists (#3830)
• Skip reply prefix in bot mode — cleaner message formatting when running as a WhatsApp bot (#3931)

Matrix

• Native voice messages via MSC3245 — send voice messages as proper Matrix voice events instead of file attachments (#3877)

Mattermost

• Configurable mention behavior — respond to messages without requiring @mention (#3664)

Signal

• URL-encode phone numbers and correct attachment RPC parameter — fixes delivery failures with certain phone number formats (#3670) — @kshitijk4poor

Email

• Close SMTP/IMAP connections on failure — prevents connection leaks during error scenarios (#3804)

Gateway Core

• Atomic config writes — use atomic file writes for config.yaml to prevent data loss during crashes (#3800)
• Home channel env overrides — apply environment variable overrides for home channels consistently (#3796, #3808)
• Replace print() with logger — BasePlatformAdapter now uses proper logging instead of print statements (#3669)
• Cron delivery labels — resolve human-friendly delivery labels via channel directory (#3860, closes #1945)
• Cron [SILENT] tightening — prevent agents from prefixing reports with [SILENT] to suppress delivery (#3901)
• Background task media delivery and vision download timeout fixes (#3919)
• Boot-md hook — example built-in hook to run a BOOT.md file on gateway startup (#3733)

🖥️ CLI & User Experience

Interactive CLI

• Configurable tool preview length — show full file paths by default instead of truncating at 40 chars (#3841)
• Tool token context display — hermes tools checklist now shows estimated token cost per toolset (#3805)
• /bg spinner TUI fix — route background task spinner through the TUI widget to prevent status bar collision (#3643)
• Prevent status bar wrapping into duplicate rows (#3883) — @kshitijk4poor
• Handle closed stdout ValueError in safe print paths — fixes crashes when stdout is closed during gateway thread shutdown (#3843, closes #3534)
• Remove input() from /tools disable — eliminates freeze in terminal when disabling tools (#3918)
• TTY guard for interactive CLI commands — prevent CPU spin when launched without a terminal (#3933)
• Argparse entrypoint — use argparse in the top-level launcher for cleaner error handling (#3874)
• Lazy-initialized tools show yellow in banner instead of red, reducing false alarm about "missing" tools (#3822)
• Honcho tools shown in banner when configured (#3810)

Setup & Configuration

• Auto-install matrix-nio during hermes setup when Matrix is selected (#3802, #3873)
• Session export stdout support — export sessions to stdout with - for piping (#3641, closes #3609)
• Configurable approval timeouts — set how long dangerous command approval prompts wait before auto-denying (#3886, closes #3765)
• Clear pycache during update — prevents stale bytecode ImportError after hermes update (#3819)

🔧 Tool System

MCP

• MCP Server Mode — hermes mcp serve exposes conversations, sessions, and attachments to MCP clients via stdio or Streamable HTTP (#3795)
• Dynamic tool discovery — respond to notifications/tools/list_changed events to pick up new tools from MCP servers without reconnecting (#3812)
• Non-deprecated HTTP transport — switched from sse_client to streamable_http_client (#3646)

Web Tools

• Exa search backend — alternative to Firecrawl and DuckDuckGo for web search and extraction (#3648)

Browser

• Guard against None LLM responses in browser snapshot and vision tools (#3642)

Terminal & Remote Backends

• Mount skill directories into Modal and Docker containers (#3890)
• Mount credential files into remote backends with mtime+size caching (#3671)
• Preserve partial output when commands time out instead of losing everything (#3868)
• Stop marking persisted env vars as missing on remote backends (#3650)

Audio

• .aac format support in transcription tool (#3865, closes #1963)
• Audio download retry — retry logic for cache_audio_from_url matching the existing image download pattern (#3401) — @binhnt92

Vision

• Reject non-image files and enforce website-only policy for vision analysis (#3845)

Tool Schema

• Ensure name field always present in tool definitions, fixing KeyError: 'name' crashes (#3811, closes #3729)

ACP (Editor Integration)

• Complete session management surface for VS Code/Zed/JetBrains clients — proper task lifecycle, cancel support, session persistence (#3675)

🧩 Skills & Plugins

Skills System

• External skill directories — configure additional skill directories via skills.external_dirs in config.yaml (#3678)
• Category path traversal blocked — prevents ../ attacks in skill category names (#3844)
• parallel-cli moved to optional-skills — reduces default skill footprint (#3673) — @kshitijk4poor

New Skills

• memento-flashcards — spaced repetition flashcard system (#3827)
• songwriting-and-ai-music — songwriting craft and AI music generation prompts (#3834)
• SiYuan Note — integration with SiYuan note-taking app (#3742)
• Scrapling — web scraping skill using Scrapling library (#3742)
• one-three-one-rule — communication framework skill (#3797)

Plugin System

• Plugin enable/disable commands — hermes plugins enable/disable <name> for managing plugin state without removing them (#3747)
• Plugin message injection — plugins can now inject messages into the conversation stream on behalf of the user via ctx.inject_message() (#3778) — @winglian
• Honcho self-hosted support — allow local Honcho instances without requiring an API key (#3644)

🔒 Security & Reliability

Security Hardening

• Hardened dangerous command detection — expanded pattern matching for risky shell commands and added file tool path guards for sensitive locations (/etc/, /boot/, docker.sock) (#3872)
• Sensitive path write checks in approval system — catch writes to system config files through file tools, not just terminal (#3859)
• Secret redaction expansion — now covers ElevenLabs, Tavily, and Exa API keys (#3920)
• Vision file rejection — reject non-image files passed to vision analysis to prevent information disclosure (#3845)
• Category path traversal blocking — prevent directory traversal in skill category names (#3844)

Reliability

• Atomic config.yaml writes — prevent data loss during gateway crashes (#3800)
• Clear pycache on update — prevent stale bytecode from causing ImportError after updates (#3819)
• Lazy imports for update safety — prevent ImportError chains during hermes update when modules reference new functions (#3776)
• Restore terminalbench2 from patch corruption — recovered file damaged by patch tool's secret redaction (#3801)
• Terminal timeout preserves partial output — no more lost command output on timeout (#3868)

🐛 Notable Bug Fixes

• OpenClaw migration model config overwrite — migration no longer overwrites model config dict with a string (#3924) — @0xbyt4
• OpenClaw migration expanded — covers full data footprint including sessions, cron, memory (#3869)
• Telegram deleted reply targets — gracefully handle replies to deleted messages instead of crashing (#3858)
• Discord "thinking..." persistence — properly cleans up deferred response indicators (#3674)
• WhatsApp LID↔phone aliases — fixes allowlist matching failures with Linked ID format (#3830)
• Signal URL-encoded phone numbers — fixes delivery failures with certain formats (#3670)
• Email connection leaks — properly close SMTP/IMAP connections on error (#3804)
• _safe_print ValueError — no more gateway thread crashes on closed stdout (#3843)
• Tool schema KeyError 'name' — ensure name field always present in tool definitions (#3811)
• api_mode stale on provider switch — correctly clear when switching providers via hermes model (#3857)

🧪 Testing

• Resolved 10+ CI failures across hooks, tiktoken, plugins, and skill tests (#3848, #3721, #3936)

📚 Documentation

• Comprehensive OpenClaw migration guide — step-by-step guide for migrating from OpenClaw/Claw3D to Hermes Agent (#3864, #3900)
• Credential file passthrough docs — document how to forward credential files and env vars to remote backends (#3677)
• DuckDuckGo requirements clarified — note runtime dependency on duckduckgo-search package (#3680)
• Skills catalog updated — added red-teaming category and optional skills listing (#3745)
• Feishu docs MDX fix — escape angle-bracket URLs that break Docusaurus build (#3902)

👥 Contributors

Core

• @teknium1 — 90 PRs across all subsystems

Community Contributors

• @kshitijk4poor — 3 PRs: Signal phone number fix (#3670), parallel-cli to optional-skills (#3673), status bar wrapping fix (#3883)
• @winglian — 1 PR: Plugin message injection interface (#3778)
• @binhnt92 — 1 PR: Audio download retry logic (#3401)
• @0xbyt4 — 1 PR: OpenClaw migration model config fix (#3924)

Issues Resolved from Community

@Material-Scientist (#850), @hanxu98121 (#1734), @penwyp (#1788), @dan-and (#1945), @AdrianScott (#1963), @clawdbot47 (#3229), @alanfwilliams (#3404), @kentimsit (#3433), @hayka-pacha (#3534), @primmer (#3595), @dagelf (#3609), @HenkDz (#3685), @tmdgusya (#3729), @TypQxQ (#3753), @acsezen (#3765)

Full Changelog: v2026.3.28...v2026.3.30

Hermes Agent v0.2.0 (v2026.3.12)

Release Date: March 12, 2026

First tagged release since v0.1.0 (the initial pre-public foundation). In just over two weeks, Hermes Agent went from a small internal project to a full-featured AI agent platform — thanks to an explosion of community contributions. This release covers 216 merged pull requests from 63 contributors, resolving 119 issues.

✨ Highlights

• Multi-Platform Messaging Gateway — Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Email (IMAP/SMTP), and Home Assistant platforms with unified session management, media attachments, and per-platform tool configuration.

• MCP (Model Context Protocol) Client — Native MCP support with stdio and HTTP transports, reconnection, resource/prompt discovery, and sampling (server-initiated LLM requests). (#291 — @0xbyt4, #301, #753)

• Skills Ecosystem — 70+ bundled and optional skills across 15+ categories with a Skills Hub for community discovery, per-platform enable/disable, conditional activation based on tool availability, and prerequisite validation. (#743 — @teyrebaz33, #785 — @teyrebaz33)

• Centralized Provider Router — Unified call_llm()/async_call_llm() API replaces scattered provider logic across vision, summarization, compression, and trajectory saving. All auxiliary consumers route through a single code path with automatic credential resolution. (#1003)

• ACP Server — VS Code, Zed, and JetBrains editor integration via the Agent Communication Protocol standard. (#949)

• CLI Skin/Theme Engine — Data-driven visual customization: banners, spinners, colors, branding. 7 built-in skins + custom YAML skins.

• Git Worktree Isolation — hermes -w launches isolated agent sessions in git worktrees for safe parallel work on the same repo. (#654)

• Filesystem Checkpoints & Rollback — Automatic snapshots before destructive operations with /rollback to restore. (#824)

• 3,289 Tests — From near-zero test coverage to a comprehensive test suite covering agent, gateway, tools, cron, and CLI.

🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture

Provider & Model Support

• Centralized provider router with resolve_provider_client() + call_llm() API (#1003)
• Nous Portal as first-class provider in setup (#644)
• OpenAI Codex (Responses API) with ChatGPT subscription support (#43) — @grp06
• Codex OAuth vision support + multimodal content adapter
• Validate /model against live API instead of hardcoded lists
• Self-hosted Firecrawl support (#460) — @caentzminger
• Kimi Code API support (#635) — @christomitov
• MiniMax model ID update (#473) — @tars90percent
• OpenRouter provider routing configuration (provider_preferences)
• Nous credential refresh on 401 errors (#571, #269) — @rewbs
• z.ai/GLM, Kimi/Moonshot, MiniMax, Azure OpenAI as first-class providers
• Unified /model and /provider into single view

Agent Loop & Conversation

• Simple fallback model for provider resilience (#740)
• Shared iteration budget across parent + subagent delegation
• Iteration budget pressure via tool result injection
• Configurable subagent provider/model with full credential resolution
• Handle 413 payload-too-large via compression instead of aborting (#153) — @tekelala
• Retry with rebuilt payload after compression (#616) — @tripledoublev
• Auto-compress pathologically large gateway sessions (#628)
• Tool call repair middleware — auto-lowercase and invalid tool handler
• Reasoning effort configuration and /reasoning command (#921)
• Detect and block file re-read/search loops after context compression (#705) — @0xbyt4

Session & Memory

• Session naming with unique titles, auto-lineage, rich listing, and resume by name (#720)
• Interactive session browser with search filtering (#733)
• Display previous messages when resuming a session (#734)
• Honcho AI-native cross-session user modeling (#38) — @erosika
• Proactive async memory flush on session expiry
• Smart context length probing with persistent caching + banner display
• /resume command for switching to named sessions in gateway
• Session reset policy for messaging platforms

📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)

Telegram

• Native file attachments: send_document + send_video
• Document file processing for PDF, text, and Office files — @tekelala
• Forum topic session isolation (#766) — @spanishflu-est1918
• Browser screenshot sharing via MEDIA: protocol (#657)
• Location support for find-nearby skill
• TTS voice message accumulation fix (#176) — @Bartok9
• Improved error handling and logging (#763) — @aydnOktay
• Italic regex newline fix + 43 format tests (#204) — @0xbyt4

Discord

• Channel topic included in session context (#248) — @Bartok9
• DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS config for bot message filtering (#758)
• Document and video support (#784)
• Improved error handling and logging (#761) — @aydnOktay

Slack

• App_mention 404 fix + document/video support (#784)
• Structured logging replacing print statements — @aydnOktay

WhatsApp

• Native media sending — images, videos, documents (#292) — @satelerd
• Multi-user session isolation (#75) — @satelerd
• Cross-platform port cleanup replacing Linux-only fuser (#433) — @Farukest
• DM interrupt key mismatch fix (#350) — @Farukest

Signal

• Full Signal messenger gateway via signal-cli-rest-api (#405)
• Media URL support in message events (#871)

Email (IMAP/SMTP)

• New email gateway platform — @0xbyt4

Home Assistant

• REST tools + WebSocket gateway integration (#184) — @0xbyt4
• Service discovery and enhanced setup
• Toolset mapping fix (#538) — @Himess

Gateway Core

• Expose subagent tool calls and thinking to users (#186) — @cutepawss
• Configurable background process watcher notifications (#840)
• edit_message() for Telegram/Discord/Slack with fallback
• /compress, /usage, /update slash commands
• Eliminated 3x SQLite message duplication in gateway sessions (#873)
• Stabilize system prompt across gateway turns for cache hits (#754)
• MCP server shutdown on gateway exit (#796) — @0xbyt4
• Pass session_db to AIAgent, fixing session_search error (#108) — @Bartok9
• Persist transcript changes in /retry, /undo; fix /reset attribute (#217) — @Farukest
• UTF-8 encoding fix preventing Windows crashes (#369) — @ch3ronsa

🖥️ CLI & User Experience

Interactive CLI

• Data-driven skin/theme engine — 7 built-in skins (default, ares, mono, slate, poseidon, sisyphus, charizard) + custom YAML skins
• /personality command with custom personality + disable support (#773) — @teyrebaz33
• User-defined quick commands that bypass the agent loop (#746) — @teyrebaz33
• /reasoning command for effort level and display toggle (#921)
• /verbose slash command to toggle debug at runtime (#94) — @cesareth
• /insights command — usage analytics, cost estimation & activity patterns (#552)
• /background command for managing background processes
• /help formatting with command categories
• Bell-on-complete — terminal bell when agent finishes (#738)
• Up/down arrow history navigation
• Clipboard image paste (Alt+V / Ctrl+V)
• Loading indicators for slow slash commands (#882)
• Spinner flickering fix under patch_stdout (#91) — @0xbyt4
• --quiet/-Q flag for programmatic single-query mode
• --fuck-it-ship-it flag to bypass all approval prompts (#724) — @dmahan93
• Tools summary flag (#767) — @luisv-1
• Terminal blinking fix on SSH (#284) — @ygd58
• Multi-line paste detection fix (#84) — @0xbyt4

Setup & Configuration

• Modular setup wizard with section subcommands and tool-first UX
• Container resource configuration prompts
• Backend validation for required binaries
• Config migration system (currently v7)
• API keys properly routed to .env instead of config.yaml (#469) — @ygd58
• Atomic write for .env to prevent API key loss on crash (#954)
• hermes tools — per-platform tool enable/disable with curses UI
• hermes doctor for health checks across all configured providers
• hermes update with auto-restart for gateway service
• Show update-available notice in CLI banner
• Multiple named custom providers
• Shell config detection improvement for PATH setup (#317) — @mehmetkr-31
• Consistent HERMES_HOME and .env path resolution (#51, #48) — @deankerr
• CIDocker backend fix on macOS + subagent auth for Nous Portal (#46) — @rsavitt

🔧 Tool System

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

• Native MCP client with stdio + HTTP transports (#291 — @0xbyt4, #301)
• Sampling support — server-initiated LLM requests (#753)
• Resource and prompt discovery
• Automatic reconnection and security hardening
• Banner integration, /reload-mcp command
• hermes tools UI integration

Browser

• Local browser backend — zero-cost headless Chromium (no Browserbase needed)
• Console/errors tool, annotated screenshots, auto-recording, dogfood QA skill (#745)
• Screenshot sharing via MEDIA: on all messaging platforms (#657)

Terminal & Execution

• execute_code sandbox with json_parse, shell_quote, retry helpers
• CIDocker: custom volume mounts (#158) — @Indelwin
• Daytona cloud sandbox backend (#451) — @rovle
• SSH backend fix (#59) — @deankerr
• Shell noise filtering and login shell execution for environment consistency
• Head+tail truncation for execute_code stdout overflow
• Configurable background process notification modes

File Operations

• Filesystem checkpoints and /rollback command (#824)
• Structured tool result hints (next-action guidance) for patch and search_files (#722)
• CIDocker volumes passed to sandbox container config (#687) — @manuelschipper

🧩 Skills Ecosystem

Skills System

• Per-platform skill enable/disable (#743) — @teyrebaz33
• Conditional skill activation based on tool availability (#785) — @teyrebaz33
• Skill prerequisites — hide skills with unmet dependencies (#659) — @kshitijk4poor
• Optional skills — shipped but not activated by default
• hermes skills browse — paginated hub browsing
• Skills sub-category organization
• Platform-conditional skill loading
• Atomic skill file writes (#551) — @aydnOktay
• Skills sync data loss prevention (#563) — @0xbyt4
• Dynamic skill slash commands for CLI and gateway

New Skills (selected)

• ASCII Art — pyfiglet (571 fonts), cowsay, image-to-ascii (#209) — @0xbyt4
• ASCII Video — Full production pipeline (#854) — @SHL0MS
• DuckDuckGo Search — Firecrawl fallback (#267) — @gamedevCloudy; DDGS API expansion (#598) — @areu01or00
• Solana Blockchain — Wallet balances, USD pricing, token names (#212) — @gizdusum
• AgentMail — Agent-owned email inboxes (#330) — @teyrebaz33
• Polymarket — Prediction market data (read-only) (#629)
• OpenClaw Migration — Official migration tool (#570) — @unmodeled-tyler
• Domain Intelligence — Passive recon: subdomains, SSL, WHOIS, DNS (#136) — @FurkanL0
• Superpowers — Software development skills (#137) — @kaos35
• Hermes-Atropos — RL environment development skill (#815)
• Plus: arXiv search, OCR/documents, Excalidraw diagrams, YouTube transcripts, GIF search, Pokémon player, Minecraft modpack server, OpenHue (Philips Hue), Google Workspace, Notion, PowerPoint, Obsidian, find-nearby, and 40+ MLOps skills

🔒 Security & Reliability

Security Hardening

• Path traversal fix in skill_view — prevented reading arbitrary files (#220) — @Farukest
• Shell injection prevention in sudo password piping (#65) — @leonsgithub
• Dangerous command detection: multiline bypass fix (#233) — @Farukest; tee/process substitution patterns (#280) — @dogiladeveloper
• Symlink boundary check fix in skills_guard (#386) — @Farukest
• Symlink bypass fix in write deny list on macOS (#61) — @0xbyt4
• Multi-word prompt injection bypass prevention (#192) — @0xbyt4
• Cron prompt injection scanner bypass fix (#63) — @0xbyt4
• Enforce 0600/0700 file permissions on sensitive files (#757)
• .env file permissions restricted to owner-only (#529) — @Himess
• --force flag properly blocked from overriding dangerous verdicts (#388) — @Farukest
• FTS5 query sanitization + DB connection leak fix (#565) — @0xbyt4
• Expand secret redaction patterns + config toggle to disable
• In-memory permanent allowlist to prevent data leak (#600) — @alireza78a

Atomic Writes (data loss prevention)

• sessions.json (#611) — @alireza78a
• Cron jobs (#146) — @alireza78a
• .env config (#954)
• Process checkpoints (#298) — @aydnOktay
• Batch runner (#297) — @aydnOktay
• Skill files (#551) — @aydnOktay

Reliability

• Guard all print() against OSError for systemd/headless environments (#963)
• Reset all retry counters at start of run_conversation (#607) — @0xbyt4
• Return deny on approval callback timeout instead of None (#603) — @0xbyt4
• FIXFix None message content crashes across codebase (#277)
• FIXFix context overrun crash with local LLM backends (#403) — @ch3ronsa
• Prevent _flush_sentinel from leaking to external APIs (#227) — @Farukest
• Prevent conversation_history mutation in callers (#229) — @Farukest
• FIXFix systemd restart loop (#614) — @voidborne-d
• Close file handles and sockets to prevent fd leaks (#568 — @alireza78a, #296 — @alireza78a, #709 — @memosr)
• Prevent data loss in clipboard PNG conversion (#602) — @0xbyt4
• Eliminate shell noise from terminal output (#293) — @0xbyt4
• Timezone-aware now() for prompt, cron, and execute_code (#309) — @areu01or00

Windows Compatibility

• Guard POSIX-only process functions (#219) — @Farukest
• Windows native support via Git Bash + ZIP-based update fallback
• pywinpty for PTY support (#457) — @shitcoinsherpa
• Explicit UTF-8 encoding on all config/data file I/O (#458) — @shitcoinsherpa
• Windows-compatible path handling (#354, #390) — @Farukest
• Regex-based search output parsing for drive-letter paths (#533) — @Himess
• Auth store file lock for Windows (#455) — @shitcoinsherpa

🐛 Notable Bug Fixes

• FIXFix DeepSeek V3 tool call parser silently dropping multi-line JSON arguments (#444) — @PercyDikec
• FIXFix gateway transcript losing 1 message per turn due to offset mismatch (#395) — @PercyDikec
• FIXFix /retry command silently discarding the agent's final response (#441) — @PercyDikec
• FIXFix max-iterations retry returning empty string after think-block stripping (#438) — @PercyDikec
• FIXFix max-iterations retry using hardcoded max_tokens (#436) — @Farukest
• FIXFix Codex status dict key mismatch (#448) and visibility filter (#446) — @PercyDikec
• Strip <think> blocks from final user-facing responses (#174) — @Bartok9
• FIXFix <think> block regex stripping visible content when model discusses tags literally (#786)
• FIXFix Mistral 422 errors from leftover finish_reason in assistant messages (#253) — @Sertug17
• FIXFix OPENROUTER_API_KEY resolution order across all code paths (#295) — @0xbyt4
• FIXFix OPENAI_BASE_URL API key priority (#420) — @manuelschipper
• FIXFix Anthropic "prompt is too long" 400 error not detected as context length error (#813)
• FIXFix SQLite session transcript accumulating duplicate messages — 3-4x token inflation (#860)
• FIXFix setup wizard skipping API key prompts on first install (#748)
• FIXFix setup wizard showing OpenRouter model list for Nous Portal (#575) — @PercyDikec
• FIXFix provider selection not persisting when switching via hermes model (#881)
• FIXFix Docker backend failing when docker not in PATH on macOS (#889)
• FIXFix ClawHub Skills Hub adapter for API endpoint changes (#286) — @BP602
• FIXFix Honcho auto-enable when API key is present (#243) — @Bartok9
• FIXFix duplicate 'skills' subparser crash on Python 3.11+ (#898)
• FIXFix memory tool entry parsing when content contains section sign (#162) — @aydnOktay
• FIXFix piped install silently aborting when interactive prompts fail (#72) — @cutepawss
• FIXFix false positives in recursive delete detection (#68) — @cutepawss
• FIXFix Ruff lint warnings across codebase (#608) — @JackTheGit
• FIXFix Anthropic native base URL fail-fast (#173) — @adavyas
• FIXFix install.sh creating ~/.hermes before moving Node.js directory (#53) — @JoshuaMart
• FIXFix SystemExit traceback during atexit cleanup on Ctrl+C (#55) — @bierlingm
• Restore missing MIT license file (#620) — @stablegenius49

🧪 Testing

• 3,289 tests across agent, gateway, tools, cron, and CLI
• Parallelized test suite with pytest-xdist (#802) — @OutThisLife
• Unit tests batch 1: 8 core modules (#60) — @0xbyt4
• Unit tests batch 2: 8 more modules (#62) — @0xbyt4
• Unit tests batch 3: 8 untested modules (#191) — @0xbyt4
• Unit tests batch 4: 5 security/logic-critical modules (#193) — @0xbyt4
• AIAgent (run_agent.py) unit tests (#67) — @0xbyt4
• Trajectory compressor tests (#203) — @0xbyt4
• Clarify tool tests (#121) — @Bartok9
• Telegram format tests — 43 tests for italic/bold/code rendering (#204) — @0xbyt4
• Vision tools type hints + 42 tests (#792)
• Compressor tool-call boundary regression tests (#648) — @intertwine
• TESTTest structure reorganization (#34) — @0xbyt4
• Shell noise elimination + fix 36 test failures (#293) — @0xbyt4

🔬 RL & Evaluation Environments

• WebResearchEnv — Multi-step web research RL environment (#434) — @jackx707
• Modal sandbox concurrency limits to avoid deadlocks (#621) — @voteblake
• Hermes-atropos-environments bundled skill (#815)
• Local vLLM instance support for evaluation — @dmahan93
• YC-Bench long-horizon agent benchmark environment
• OpenThoughts-TBLite evaluation environment and scripts

📚 Documentation

• Full documentation website (Docusaurus) with 37+ pages
• Comprehensive platform setup guides for Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Email
• AGENTS.md — development guide for AI coding assistants
• CONTRIBUTING.md (#117) — @Bartok9
• Slash commands reference (#142) — @Bartok9
• Comprehensive AGENTS.md accuracy audit (#732)
• Skin/theme system documentation
• MCP documentation and examples
• DOCSDocs accuracy audit — 35+ corrections
• Documentation typo fixes (#825, #439) — @JackTheGit
• CLI config precedence and terminology standardization (#166, #167, #168) — @Jr-kenny
• Telegram token regex documentation (#713) — @VolodymyrBg

👥 Contributors

Thank you to the 63 contributors who made this release possible! In just over two weeks, the Hermes Agent community came together to ship an extraordinary amount of work.

Core

• @teknium1 — 43 PRs: Project lead, core architecture, provider router, sessions, skills, CLI, documentation

Top Community Contributors

• @0xbyt4 — 40 PRs: MCP client, Home Assistant, security fixes (symlink, prompt injection, cron), extensive test coverage (6 batches), ascii-art skill, shell noise elimination, skills sync, Telegram formatting, and dozens more
• @Farukest — 16 PRs: Security hardening (path traversal, dangerous command detection, symlink boundary), Windows compatibility (POSIX guards, path handling), WhatsApp fixes, max-iterations retry, gateway fixes
• @aydnOktay — 11 PRs: Atomic writes (process checkpoints, batch runner, skill files), error handling improvements across Telegram, Discord, code execution, transcription, TTS, and skills
• @Bartok9 — 9 PRs: CONTRIBUTING.md, slash commands reference, Discord channel topics, think-block stripping, TTS fix, Honcho fix, session count fix, clarify tests
• @PercyDikec — 7 PRs: DeepSeek V3 parser fix, /retry response discard, gateway transcript offset, Codex status/visibility, max-iterations retry, setup wizard fix
• @teyrebaz33 — 5 PRs: Skills enable/disable system, quick commands, personality customization, conditional skill activation
• @alireza78a — 5 PRs: Atomic writes (cron, sessions), fd leak prevention, security allowlist, code execution socket cleanup
• @shitcoinsherpa — 3 PRs: Windows support (pywinpty, UTF-8 encoding, auth store lock)
• @Himess — 3 PRs: Cron/HomeAssistant/Daytona fix, Windows drive-letter parsing, .env permissions
• @satelerd — 2 PRs: WhatsApp native media, multi-user session isolation
• @rovle — 1 PR: Daytona cloud sandbox backend (4 commits)
• @erosika — 1 PR: Honcho AI-native memory integration
• @dmahan93 — 1 PR: --fuck-it-ship-it flag + RL environment work
• @SHL0MS — 1 PR: ASCII video skill

All Contributors

@0xbyt4, @BP602, @Bartok9, @Farukest, @FurkanL0, @Himess, @Indelwin, @JackTheGit, @JoshuaMart, @Jr-kenny, @OutThisLife, @PercyDikec, @SHL0MS, @Sertug17, @VencentSoliman, @VolodymyrBg, @adavyas, @alireza78a, @areu01or00, @aydnOktay, @batuhankocyigit, @bierlingm, @caentzminger, @cesareth, @ch3ronsa, @christomitov, @cutepawss, @deankerr, @dmahan93, @dogiladeveloper, @dragonkhoi, @erosika, @gamedevCloudy, @gizdusum, @grp06, @intertwine, @jackx707, @jdblackstar, @johnh4098, @kaos35, @kshitijk4poor, @leonsgithub, @luisv-1, @manuelschipper, @mehmetkr-31, @memosr, @PeterFile, @rewbs, @rovle, @rsavitt, @satelerd, @spanishflu-est1918, @stablegenius49, @tars90percent, @tekelala, @teknium1, @teyrebaz33, @tripledoublev, @unmodeled-tyler, @voidborne-d, @voteblake, @ygd58

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