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Bot Mode — your agents become a society, built in — Bot Mode is now a bundled, default-on part of the desktop app: every agent profile gets a name, a deterministic avatar face (with randomize/lock controls), and a place in a shared roster. Create Discord-style group chats where multiple bots and you talk in one room, @-mention any bot from the composer, and give rooms names and pictures. Before, "multi-agent" meant plumbing; now it looks like a chat app full of coworkers. (#87886, #88243, #89386, #96726 — @teknium1, @OutThisLife, @dokterdok)
hermes peer— bot-to-bot DMs between your agents — Any Hermes agent can now message any other by handle, across profiles and gateways, from the CLI or from inside a conversation. Ask your research bot to hand findings to your coding bot and get the reply back where you can read it. Replies land in each agent's canonical Bot Chat, so conversations between agents are durable and inspectable, not fire-and-forget. (#88725, #88178, #91487 — @teknium1)Cron jobs that remember — Scheduled jobs stopped being goldfish. Cron agents now load and update persistent memory like every other agent,
continuity=truecarries each run's output into the next (so a monitor can dedupe against what it already reported), every job gets a durable notepad scratchpad, monitor-mode jobs skip the LLM entirely when nothing changed, and cron output can land in a bot's canonical Bot Chat — where the bot actually responds. Your 9am briefing job now knows what it told you yesterday. (#91447, #80774, #81139, #81138, #91487 — @teknium1, @smwbev)Steer your subagents while they run —
delegate_taskgained live orchestration: list running children, steer one mid-flight with a course correction, or stop it early and keep the partial result. Add optional JSON-schema validation on child outputs, per-delegation cost surfaced in results, and raised defaults (250 iterations, 10 concurrent children) — delegation went from fire-and-pray to actually managed parallel work. (#85232, #81144, #81142, #86506, #86745 — @teknium1)The MCP command center — MCP servers and the catalog merged into one coherent desktop page with drag-in "paste anything" import, background health checks that nudge you to re-auth before a tool call fails, a fleet cost/usage overlay showing schema token estimates and 30-day usage per server, and
hermes://deep links that install an MCP server with explicit confirmation. Managing twenty MCP servers used to be config-file archaeology; now it's a dashboard. (#87525, #87572, #87576, #87579, #87581 — @teknium1)A CLI power wave — Ctrl+P opens a fuzzy command palette, the
/modelpicker filters as you type,/statusshows reasoning mode, pending approvals, and context usage, and the status bar can display live cache-hit %, latency, and tokens/sec with per-field toggles. Plus: a global emergency stop, session pin/unpin, rotating task-oriented composer placeholders — and Ghostty-level terminal pets, because a companion should have a companion. (#90730, #90717, #90745, #98250, #98282, #97666 — @teknium1, and salvaged community work)The agent drives the desktop's browser — The in-app browser stopped being a window the agent could only look at: Hermes now navigates, clicks, and reads it directly, and pages can be popped out to your system browser with full link context menus. Ask it to walk a docs site or debug a web app and watch it happen inside your own app. (#90197, #89366 — @OutThisLife, @ethernet8023)
Six new providers and a model catalog wave — Meta Model API (Muse Spark) arrives as a built-in provider, alongside CommandCode, Tencent TokenPlan, Nebius Token Factory, Ramp Router, and Actual Computer. The catalogs picked up GLM-5.3-Flash, qwen3.8-max/flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, MiniMax M3 free, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning — and
model_overrideslets you patch any model's context window or pricing yourself without waiting on a release. (#88565, #88308, #97917, #97916, #97915, #85560 — @teknium1 and community)Security hardening across the board — Protected agent-instruction files (AGENTS.md, skills, memory stores) now always require write approval so a prompt-injected agent can't quietly rewrite its own standing orders. A deep redaction sweep closed secret-leak gaps across terminal errors,
.envfile reads, checkpoints, and ACP logs; the approval system learned Windows destructive commands; and macOS permission grants finally survive updates via a stable TCC signing identity. (#81152, #80965, #84428, #95091 — @teknium1 and community)🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture
Providers & Models
model_overridesconfig — patch context windows, pricing, or capabilities for any model without waiting on a release (#85560).Agent Loop & Reliability
response_formatfor Anthropic wires and retry when a provider rejects structured output (#89589 — @ethernet8023).clarifyasks multiple independent questions in one call — one form instead of a chain of round-trips (#89467 — @ethernet8023).Sessions & State
_db_persistedstamped at row load time (#92539 — @kshitijk4poor).📱 Messaging Platforms (Gateway)
🖥️ Desktop App
🖥️ CLI & TUI
hermes approval-check— dry-run approval verdicts for a command without running it (#81137).🔧 Tool System & MCP
🧩 Skills Ecosystem
⏰ Cron, Delegation & Multi-Agent
📊 Observability
🔒 Security & Reliability
.envreads redacted via file-read detection (#80964); terminal exception results + ACP stderr (#81675, #81686); SSH target logging (#88232).hermes desktop --setup-tcc-identity(#95091).🏗️ Infrastructure, CI & Packaging
🐛 Notable Bug Fixes
↩️ Reverted in this window (not shipping)
👥 Contributors
Core Team (Nous Research)
Top Community Contributors (by merged PR count)
All Contributors
Huge thanks to every one of the 760+ people who contributed code, co-authored fixes, or had their work salvaged into this release:
@03farren, @0xarkstar, @0xGr1mm, @0xWhiteMage, @100yenadmin, @1052326311, @29206394, @2ndNatureAI, @3Nya3,
@3x3xX3N0N, @404Dealer, @4adwentures, @5Hyeons, @686f6c61, @69k4xmdfm2-blip, @6ylqq, @75day, @a-espinoza,
@A-Snegin, @a-yeyang, @a0000001, @A2chitect, @abitme, @abundantbeing, @acewong7, @acgh213, @adamcap926,
@addelh, @adikpb, @Adolanium, @adurham, @adybag14-cyber, @afourniernv, @ag9920, @ahmadalzaro1, @Ahmett101,
@ai-ag2026, @AIalliAI, @aider4ryder, @Ailirag, @Aintworth, @airo7, @AiwendilInTheWoods, @akivavh, @AL-ZiLLA,
@Al3xand3r1987, @albertodepaola, @aldoeliacim, @aleksclark, @AlexanderPrendota, @alexdev03, @AlexFucuson9,
@AlexGabbia, @AlexMnrs, @algf, @Allecpu, @allin2, @alt-glitch, @amanning3390, @andrexibiza, @andyst-dev,
@angel12, @angeon922-collab, @Angriff36, @aniruddhaadak80, @annguyenNous, @anuvratrastogi, @Aoshi-Dev,
@appletechie, @arccat-114, @arcimun, @ArthurFranckPat, @aryaxo, @asdasdadhj, @ashah360, @AshuJoshi, @asimons81,
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@Christopher-Schulze, @chukirk-svg, @cicav, @citizendev9c, @cj52973, @clarkvines, @ClintonEmok, @clyu168,
@cmoiccool, @codexbt, @coe0718, @Cossackx, @coygeek, @crazyhulk, @CrazyWillBear, @criptogus, @cryptoyasenka,
@ctaylor86, @cvillarroel2, @cxxCoolStar, @cycorld, @dagbs, @damadorPL, @DanBennettUK, @DanDo385,
@DannyFengTianYu, @Dannyzen, @danspicytaco, @dante32683, @darko-mesaros, @daromaj, @david-bartos-phrase,
@davidgut1982, @DavidMetcalfe, @davidneyravyr, @daxro, @dcdexhome, @deacon-botdoctor, @deadczarvc, @deaneeth,
@DECRUX9812, @deepeet-git, @deniqlab, @DeseretSaint, @dhanesh, @Dhruv7201, @dhruvkej9, @digitalbase,
@DmytroVolodymyrson, @dokterdok, @Dolverin, @dombejar, @doncazper, @dougatbuck, @douxy1994, @dpersek, @dplush,
@Drexuxux, @drissman, @dromai, @dtownsel, @duclucky, @Dudeman456, @Dusk1e, @dvbaecker, @e-macgregor,
@EAbaracus, @eaglezzz0522-cloud, @Eapwrk, @easyvibecoding, @echoes666, @egilewski, @ehz0ah, @ekinnee, @ekzhang,
@elbukott1, @elisam0, @elphamale, @ElSnacko, @embwl0x, @emozilla, @EMT5320, @EndeavorYen, @Enough1122,
@enwaiax, @epeterpanz, @EpicIsTheOne, @eric-senyao, @ernst-bablick, @Eros-ITA, @erosika, @ethernet8023,
@etzelvon, @EvanProgramming, @EvenXieWF, @explainanalyze, @f-trycua, @fanfan343, @fangliquanflq, @fattchris,
@felix-windsor, @Finn763, @flaviovargasbrandao, @Fly-onlyone, @flyingdoubleG, @forkercat,
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@fukutake1207, @fyzanshaik, @GarlicGo, @Gateton, @georgell-ceo, @gfriesen1, @gigabyte22, @gigashad,...
View the full release notes at https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.31.